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Category Archives: life
LCA2012: “Android is Not vi – User Experience for Geeks”
Paris Buttfield-Addison and I co-presented a talk at Linux.conf.au in Ballarat recently. The topic was on designing mobile apps that don’t suck on Android. The talk was pretty well received, the audience attentive and engaged (as evidenced by the fact … Continue reading
Linux.conf.au 2012
Miniconf: organised Talk: accepted Attendance: confirmed Accommodation: booked Ferry crossing: reserved See you in January, Ballarat!
Google Reader obit.
Google Reader’s just announced that they’re turning off reader sharing progressively from today. I wrote the following in my share stream a few moments ago, and realised that this was massively counterproductive — it will probably disappear in a few … Continue reading
Time Flies! (Adventures in the San Francisco Bay Area, part 1)
… When you’re completely distracted by all manner of things! So, as promised, here are a bunch of pretty photos of the things that I’ve done whilst here: Wandered around San Francisco, looking at the awesome architecture… Had fantastic … Continue reading
Movements
And once again in the flurry of action that occurs during and after LCA, I have completely neglected to update my blog. So since then, I’ve been doing various bits of development work for my benevolent mad scientist overlords at … Continue reading
LCA2011 Starts Here!
Oh hey, I appear to be in Brisbane! Linux.conf.au 2011 starts tomorrow, which means that today is the fun day of hanging around at the conference accommodation and watching the comings and goings of LCA people, and registering for the … Continue reading
BSc(Hons) Graduation mk.3
On Monday, I had the wonderful opportunity to walk through my third graduation ceremony for what is effectively the same degree! So a bit on how that happened, maybe? Well, I completed my Bachelor of Science with Honours degree in … Continue reading
30 Days of Geek: 15 – A geek experience that changed your life.
So the original topic for this was “Earliest geek experience”. I really couldn’t identify with that one, so I’m going to do something completely different. I’m sorry if this one’s a bit heavy, but it needs to be written. I’d … Continue reading
30 Days of Geek: 14 – Favourite Computer Conference
Oh. You probably won’t be surprised to hear this one, but the answer is Linux.conf.au the Australasian Free and Open Source Software Conference. I’ve been attending since Melbourne 2008, and have since “been” to Hobart in 2009 and travelled to … Continue reading
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30 Days of Geek: 13 – How did you become such a geek? Career? Personal interest?
I can’t remember not having the traits that I described on day 1, so I guess that means that it’s a combination of personal interest and lifelong obsession. Not much that can be said here