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… especially when you don’t have to walk past the cabinet offering Canon 50D bodies for $399.

My long suffering 350D has given me some hilariously reliable service and has some great bumps and scratches on it, but seeing that price today really sold me on upgrading it. I did actually walk away, going away for exactly two and a half hours before rushing back to secure a shiny new-ish toy.

My (new) precious… marks around the flash are just finger-dust.

Here’s the list:

• Mareeba
• Murgon
• Culburra Beach
• Yerongpilly
• Carina
• Springwood
• Burleigh Waters
• Burleigh Heads
• Mt Gravatt
• Clayfield

Not a huge list, but a list nonetheless 😀

I was driving to the Werribee Open Plains Zoo and I saw this sign. It was at the entrance to a farm, and the road looked fairly long, so .. yeah. Legit I suppose.

A little further down the road, there was this. That’s definitely not a 30k road, unless you do a few laps!

Now that’s just silly. I blame the fact that I was lost and slightly high on excitement from surviving shopping in Werribee (is it as stabby as it seems?) but this definitely isn’t 10 km long.

It seems when I’m working too quickly and swapping between Chrome and vim I’ve hit Cmd+R and done something horrible. I get a “E388: couldn’t find definition” error when trying to use the (mainly) left arrow key to move around.

A quick fix was found on a twitter post about the issue, and all you need to do is type:

Then hit enter. It’ll probably prompt you to hit enter again after a bit of screen-flashy.

Blah blah journal incoming.

So I figured that driving to the pool was a silly idea, it’s only about 7km according to Google maps! Then again, there’s the whole “I haven’t ridden my bike since before I was sick” thing. Suffice to say, braving Old Cleveland road at 4pm wasn’t the most fun idea… especially with the amount of storm debris that was laying around. It seems that most of that 7km is uphill on the way to the pool, ugh.

I was attempting to reconfigure one of our Shark devices this morning and couldn’t use the web interface - RADIUS authentication had been half-configured, setting it to lock things down but with no way to allow me to reconfigure things (even with the admin account) After a little swearing I realised I could SSH into the Shark and reconfigure it that way.

It’s a fairly standard Fedora 10 build, with the Pilot software installed in /opt/local/pilot

My amnesiac 350d lost its date as usual and I accidentally set the date to 2012 instead of 2013, making the EXIF data and filenames all wrong when importing them through Dropbox’s file import.

Rather than going through and doing it one by one I figured scripting it would work. One-liners were breaking bash’s ability to play nice so I had to make a little file, and here it is.

Basically:

That’s what they say, just do it or get out. In this case the editor. I don’t have a clue what I’m supposed to be writing, but I’ve said to myself that I’m going to write more so I should actually do it once in a while.

Cabin fever, I guess you could call it - I’ve been sick for over two weeks now. Went to work for half a day the friday before last, it’s now two Sunday’s later. I feel a bit better now, but that’s how I felt that Friday morning. The wind’s going absolutely mental outside, some was-cyclone is hovering around and causing all sorts of crazy posts on FaceBook.

Just like in many situations throughout life, communication is the key. If you’re intending to do anything at all in a carpark, it’s generally best to indicate your intentions. A tonne and a half of steel and squish isn’t something you want to surprise someone with!

Flailing your arms, yelling, honking and flashing your lights are sure-fire ways of communicating poorly. Yelling’s only going to make your passengers cringe, unless you’re right next to each other and everyone has their windows down. The other, more visual methods are alright for attracting attention, but other than that you’re generally just adding confusion.