ElePHPant Haven

Stop Worrying About It!

Simon Welsh — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:50:41 +1300

From the Word for Today:

When worry comes knocking on your door, stop it on the doorstep or it will move in and take up residence. 'Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you' (1 Peter 5:7 NIV). God cares about the things that worry you and prey upon your thoughts. He cares about them more than you do. Not one nagging, aching, worrisome, gut-wrenching, blood-pressure-raising thought escapes His notice. Because 'you are his personal concern', He watches over you day and night. What qualifies as a worry? Anything that robs you of joy, anything you can't change, anything you're not responsible for, anything you're unable to control, anything that torments you, anything that keeps you awake when you should be asleep. All of that 'stuff' needs to be transferred from your worry list to your prayer list. The Bible says, 'Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God's peace...' (Philippians 4:6-7 NLT). Give each worry, one by one, to God. The more you practise doing this, the more exciting your walk with Him will become. You'll be amazed at how easily He handles things that overwhelm you. Remind yourself that He's able to handle it, willing to handle it, and waiting for you to give it to Him. 'Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you.' Those who live worry free are those who keep casting their burdens on the Lord until it becomes as natural to them as breathing!

http://www.thevine.co.nz/word/archive/2010/03/17

Sheep!

Simon Welsh — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:43:15 +1300

Google Chrome

Simon Welsh — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:48:40 +1300

I have now been using Chrome for roughly a day. I notice very little differences in speed/layout from Safari (isn't WebKit great?) but the browser itself has some problems that mean I can not use it as my main, or even secondary, browser.

As such, once I've posted this, I will be switching back to Safari.

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Stop bugging me about hooking up with Sarah

Simon Welsh — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:24:11 +1300

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Simon's life

Larry — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:16:09 +1300

So, I'm trying to kinda sort out some stuff in my life. Due to personal limitations and an inability for my brain to coherently go through the sorts of stuff I want to in my head, I'm writing them down and making it public. This describes it better.

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Spam protection

Larry — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:55:58 +1300

So, I've finally switched from the MathsSpam question to reCAPTCHA. Now you just need to be able to read, rather than doing complex addition up to 10 + 10 in your head/with a calculator.

Also, I'll be announcing something that's big for me soonish. I don't expect much of you to care about it though.

Winrar!

Simon Welsh — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:42:26 +1300

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

There's details somewhere, with more information getting added as Bernard figures it out.

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Christmas

Simon Welsh — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:49:38 +1300

Garfield and Pooky have it figured out.

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Flash without a kernel panic!

Simon Welsh — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:38:00 +1300

Finally!

Oops

Simon Welsh — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:08:00 +1300

I did a really big boo-boo. Like, a really massive one. It was bad. Luckily I had a 2 day old backup so not all was lost.

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Mmm, love

Simon Welsh — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +1300

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Home playoff!

Simon Welsh — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:18:00 +1300

Straight from the mouth of the yomcat:

The Phoenix won tonight, so they are going to finish 4th. That means there is a home playoff on the 21st (that's next Sunday). Huge game.
I'll be buying tickets on Monday, so I need to know numbers by then. Tickets are $35 for an adult, and $20 for child/student/old bugger. Tell me by email, phone, in person, however. I'll make a big list on my blackboard.
Oh, don't be too greedy. I can only get 24...

If you want to come but don't want to tell Michael, I can pass the request on.

And (from the Stuff home page):

Not completely stupid

Simon Welsh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:38:17 +1300

Turns out NZQA thinks I'm not completely stupid :)

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Cutting Edge 2010

Simon Welsh — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:15:00 +1300

Cutting Edge happened and, in the words of Caleb, was awesome. I can only share a few of the photos I took publicly due to privacy laws, so have a picture of some moths that looked way cooler in person than in this photo:

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Testimony

Simon Welsh — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:28:52 +1300

At Cutting Edge, every leader had to give a testimony to the assembled masses. In typical fashion, I write some notes, read them sometimes and made more up. I feel like sharing with the internets as well.

My notes were:

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Leaving

Simon Welsh — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:23:00 +1300

I'm leaving All Saints for an undetermined amount of time. Lets put this down to burnout for now.

Also, to the one person that actively talks to me, thanks and you're awesome.

The sun

Simon Welsh — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:54:33 +1300

Is trying to kill me.

Camp

Simon Welsh — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:46:00 +1300

I'm currently winging my way back from camp. It was great fun and there was even girls there (not just the normal girl).

Such a pity that it's the last camp I get to attend as a student. I mean, someone needs to provide wifi.

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Socialising

Simon Welsh — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:34:00 +1300

If you invite me to something and spend the majority of the time talking about what you did with someone else that has no bearing on me, or talking to someone else about what you plan to do that excludes me, don't expect me to enjoy the occasion, have fun or want to be present at a repeat of the event.

Try actually including me if you invite me somewhere.

Privacy

Simon Welsh — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:29:51 +1300

Man, Slashdot's actually got some decent commenters. Another quote from there, this time in relation to an article on the NZ Police's new MITM powers:

I always think that privacy went out the window for a large percentage of the population (though more for young people) once they realised they could exchange privacy for attention or the illusion of getting attention on sites like Facebook.

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CATS

Simon Welsh — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:53:00 +1300

It's been so long I'd forgotten completely about this.

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New Year's resolution

Simon Welsh — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:04:00 +1300

Once again AppleGeeks comes out with a great comic. This time about new year's resolutions and the hilarity of them.

I'm not even going to pretend to make that one.

More walking

Simon Welsh — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:27:00 +1300

Ripped straight from my Flickr description (currently the only photos in that set) of the photos: Four of us went walking up the hill behind Jville/Broadmeadows/Ngaio (um, the geotagging was from a cell tower so isn't that great. Look at the maps) (Mt Kaukau, I think (so what, I can't spell it and can't be bothered googling for it)). I only had my iPhone, so the photos have had some fiddling with in iPhoto to make them look better.

EDIT: I found 5 more pictures that were hiding halfway between Larry and iPhoto. They have now been added to the aforementioned (and linked) set.

I attempt to take one of Sarah, though iPhoto isn't the best at fiddling around, so the result is you can kinda make out her outline:

I might get around to attacking it in FireWorks, which should have a better result.

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I'm on a Mac (I'm on a Boat parody)

Simon Welsh — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:30:00 +1300

Contains Mac love. May not be suitable for Linus' or Bill's bed partners.

Kittens

Simon Welsh — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:19:00 +1300

This wasn't uploaded that I could find, probably to save space or I fail at looking. Now that I've got lots more, up it comes!

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Comments and 4chan

Simon Welsh — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:44:00 +1300

A rather insightful (for once) extract from slashdot:

Or more simply, as the number of users approaches infinity, the comment quality approaches 4chan.

I guess my blog will be safe from that happening for a very long time :D

New pet

Simon Welsh — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:57:00 +1300

So, I got a new pet for Christmas from Esther. I'm currently looking for name suggestions.

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Keyboards

Simon Welsh — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:19:20 +1300

For those that have seen me using my laptop within the last 54 weeks, you'll probably notice that I had two keyboards for some strange reason. That reason happens to be due to this:

That's the connector between the keyboard and trackpad. There's a blurry closeup as well:

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Some advice

Simon Welsh — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:16:16 +1300

This advice comes from the power above that is my boss.

(Pat)
stay away from those girls
no good for your career
absitence is the way to go for you mate
Cam had sex and look at what happened to him
lost all his coding skill
its a bit like maturbation will make you go blind
except girls will make you lose your hacking mojo

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Three years

Simon Welsh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:28:00 +1300

Just like last year, but one more year has passed.

Comment updates and stuff!

Simon Welsh — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:48:00 +1300

Comments now have an email field. At the moment this is only used to grab a gravatar to display with your comment, but will soon be expanded to allow you to receive email updates and stuff like that. I don't it's compulsory yet, though I should change that.

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Moved!

Simon Welsh — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:29:00 +1300

If you can see this, it means your DNS cache has successfully been updated and you can now see my blog on its funky new VPS, kindly hosted by RimuHosting. There might still be some teething problems, but the MX records seem to be working fine, so notify me about any problems.

Very soon I will have time to actually work on the code base for this blog, so it should be undergoing a nice overhaul which you may or may not notice :)

Moving

Larry — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:04 +1300

I've won $100 worth of hosting credits with RimuHosting, so I'll be moving from this shared host to a VPS. I haven't felt this excited since we won :D

So there may be a point in the not to distance future where your DNS cache will need flushing or you'll get old content. At the start, that'll probably be the only noticeable change, apart from a possible speed increase. However, I'll be able to have my live and dev code sync (I haven't updated the sapphire framework on here since just after 2.3.3 got released, I think) so I'll be able to work on my planned updates then push them with a lot more ease :)

Off we go!

Simon Welsh — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:37:18 +1300

Have a sucky Flash version

They'll shoot, he'll save. It's Mark Paston!

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Compiling

Simon Welsh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:39:00 +1300

As some of you may know, I have this shirt, which is based off this comic. That particular comic is in this book, with an additional sketch that I really want on my shirt:

How To Use An Apostrophe

Simon Welsh — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:01:00 +1300

Shameless ripped from http://apostrophe.me/

Created by The Oatmeal

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Tweetle

Simon Welsh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:09:24 +1300

A Wordle from my tweets!

UE

Simon Welsh — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:14:00 +1300

It's 0014 on Monday. I have just finished my reading log. The Level 2 English unit standard one. The one I needed to do to get my 4 reading credits for UE.

This means that I should now be able to get UE as well as have my party this afternoon/evening. YAY!

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Musing

Simon Welsh — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:22:00 +1300

I've been doing some musing lately, (if you don't know what musing is, Sarah defines muse over in this post) ending with me deciding that I really need to fix the text size in the tinyMCE editor so I can stop squinting. Aaah, that's better.

This musing has helped learn a few tidbits about stuff.

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Cookies

Simon Welsh — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:45:34 +1300

I made some cookies. They are om nom nom nom nom and green. Mmmmm, cookies!

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Ball photos

Simon Welsh — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:00:00 +1300

Most of the photos from my ball should now be available for viewing here. This were taken by Kilvington, so I have no idea what license they're released under. Not my works, blah-blah-blah.

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The Valley Song

Simon Welsh — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:45:00 +1300

You have led me
to the sadness.
I have carried this pain
On a back bruised,
nearly broken.
I'm crying out to You.

I will sing of Your mercy
that leads me through valleys of sorrow
to rivers of joy

When death,
like a gypsy,
comes to steal what I love,
I will still
look to the heavens
I will still seek Your face.
But I fear
You aren't listening
because there are no words,
just the stillness,
and the hunger
for a faith that assures.

I will sing of Your mercy
that leads me through valleys of sorrow
to rivers of joy. 2x

Alleluia 4x

While we wait
for our resuce
with our eyes tightly shut,
face to the ground,
using our hands
to cover the fatal cut.
Though the pain is an ocean,
tossing us around around around,
You have calmed greater waters.
Higher mountains have come down.

I will sing of Your mercy
that leads me through valleys of sorrow
to rivers of joy.
yeah

Alleluia 4x

I will sing of Your mercy
that leads me through valleys of sorrow to rivers of joy. 2x

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Rigging a http://stuff.co.nz/ poll

Simon Welsh — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +1300

I am disappointed in Stuff. Their poll lacks any server-side validation, with the only validation being a simple jQuery cookie check. (This post might end up getting a little technical for those of you that don't care. Script kiddies that copy this: you need to get out more. Leave your mother's basement already.)

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Energy screen

Simon Welsh — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:56:00 +1200

Energy drinks + screen == way too hard to see.

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ThinkGeek wishes

Simon Welsh — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:42:00 +1200

I've updated my ThinkGeek wishlist (removing a fifth of the items, fixing sizes and stuff) and have split it in two. Shirts and non-shirts. Just a small collection of what I would like, mainly because I'm too lazy to go through their stock and add more wants to them.

Ageing

Simon Welsh — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +1200

The countdown timer says it all.

So, I've aged another year. Do I expect my problems to be solved for some great purpose? Nope.

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Burkina Faso

Simon Welsh — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:53:00 +1200

For the majority of you that are unlikely to know anything about Burkina Faso, it is a country in Western Africa with a population of roughly 15.8 million people.

Through TEAR Fund, I am currently sponsoring a young girl named Alice whom lives in Venemtenga, roughly 15 km southeast of the capital Ougadougou.

This region of Western Africa is currently experiencing a relatively large (compared to normal) rainfall. VOA News is reporting a 300 mm downfall in one day, with the yearly average of 1,2000 mm. Most people would agree that receiving a quarter of your average rainfall in a day, with more rain coming, is not that great.

This downpour has caused widespread flooding, resulting in 7 deaths, the displacement of 150,000 people, structural damage to most of the infrastructure still recovering from the 2007 floods and the closure of Burkina Faso's major hospital. The government has declared a state of emergency and water-borne diseases are beginning to spread more rapidly.

56 of the child development centres run by Compassion have been affected by the flooding and many of the sponsored children have lost their homes and possessions.

TEAR Fund is asking for prayer for God’s mercy on those affected by the flooding and that He will protect the children and their families from disease; as well as prayer for government leaders and Compassion staff as they address the overwhelming needs of so many flood victims.

untitled

Simon Welsh — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:18:00 +1200

Looks what I found

Simon Welsh — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:42:00 +1200

Aren't they so awesomely cute and cuddly and stuff?

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Tech support

Simon Welsh — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:08:00 +1200

xkcd has provided a nice flowchart explaining how tech support works.

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The secret

Simon Welsh — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:29:00 +1200

Snoopy has found the secret to a good life.

Finally some media

Simon Welsh — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:04:00 +1200

Congratulations to either the Herald or TVNZ (whoever posted it first) on finally posting something about the NZOI. The articles are here and here respectively. Congrats go to Jamie and Boris for getting and medals and to Jamie for doing better than all the aussies.

Home

Simon Welsh — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:02:00 +1200

I'm home again. A write up may be coming and photos will be going to Flickr when I get around to it.

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Alone

Simon Welsh — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:02:00 +1200

Since I wasn't told we were leaving for the Aqua Park (some big water theme park thingy. Kinda like Splash Planet, I guess), I spent the entire afternoon alone. I wouldn't have been alone, but Blumpy and Sergey were sleeping on my bed. Or were pretending to anyway. Spending that much time alone, able to do whatever I felt like doing (gosh!) without being distracted was remarkably refreshing. I should try to plan more times when I can be alone with my thoughts. The break from trying to interact with people was also nice.

Birthday wishes

Simon Welsh — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:04:00 +1200

So, I've left the country and my birthday is coming up, and at the time of writing this (um, now. Lots before you'll see this) people seem to be making lists of what they want. So it's my turn :)

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Off again!

Simon Welsh — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:12:00 +1200

So, I should now have left Wellington. My trip's here for those that want to see where I should kinda be. I'll still be able to be texted, emailed, skyped, AIMed, GTalked and tweeted at. I may even be on IRC some of the time. Which means I'll have Larry and will have Mail, Skype, iChat, Twitterrific and maybe X-Chat Aqua open. This is all assuming that there's someway to plug my laptop into internets. If I've left the country, don't expect replies at reasonable times for anything. Texts aren't likely to get replied to at all until I get back, unless I really feel like it.

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Running away

Simon Welsh — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:22:00 +1200

So I'm either leaving soon or have already left. Hopefully these maps show you about where I am. The centred marker is either where I am or where I should be in-transit to. The red line is going there, the blue line is coming back.

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Sergey's ageing!

Simon Welsh — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:30:00 +1200

So, it's been a year since I got my second elephant, Sergey. He's still just as cute as when I got him :)

Work antics

Simon Welsh — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:04:00 +1200

A bus lane through my heart

Simon Welsh — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:48:00 +1200

Game theory has won at love

Simon Welsh — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:47:00 +1200

Computer science has finally come up with the way to win at love.

mmm, face

Simon Welsh — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:44:00 +1200

My face used to look so much better. Then I had a wash.

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Simon Welsh — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:05:00 +1200

Including tips on weight loss, being a better person, science and surviving as a clown.

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I have done this...

Simon Welsh — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:13:00 +1200

Many times.

Are you sure you want to do that?

Simon Welsh — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:18:00 +1200

I'm reading through all the strings in the Safari 4 binary, trying to find a hidden preference to turn off the awesome bar ripoff that my location bar's changed to. I saw an interesting string that looked like it appeared in a 'Are you sure?' type of sheet or dialogue box. So I made it show up, which was really easy.

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'Skeeterpellant

Simon Welsh — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:00:00 +1200

Ha! You're sucky browser can't play this! Upgrade to something that can, like Safari

How well do you know me?

Simon Welsh — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:10:00 +1200

So Facebook's app thingy failed. What a surprise.

So I'm moving the quiz.

Current results:

yomcat
Mother and Andrew Barnes
Andrew Walbran
Sarah Bennett
Matthew Bayliss and Esther Welsh

Um, either answer in a comment or email me or something.

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Just alerting you

Simon Welsh — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:47:00 +1200

TelecomNZ fail

Simon Welsh — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:07:00 +1200

Photo's will be up here soon - http://www.flickr.com/photo...

They really should stop failing in that way. @vodafoneNZ hasn't failed like that and has been tweeting for lots longer :)

Jung Test

Simon Welsh — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:52:00 +1200

Sarah got us doing the jung test again.

Introverted (I) 80% Extroverted (E) 20%
Sensing (S) 52.5% Intuitive (N) 47.5%
Thinking (T) 75.86% Feeling (F) 24.14%
Perceiving (P) 87.1% Judging (J) 12.9%

So ISTP, just. Supposedly the second best type. So close to awesomeness! GAH!

Epic fail

Simon Welsh — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:25:00 +1200

Giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.

So where's the RSS feed? How is my world supposed to be more open if I have to visit your stupid site just to see what's happening? Nothing else I use does that. Why should you be an exception?

#epicfail

Make Wellington a Fair Trade City

Simon Welsh — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:57:00 +1200

There's currently an ePetition being run over on the council site about making Wellington a Fair Trade City.

Copy and pasted for greater justice:

The five steps to becoming a fair trade city are:

1.Wellington City Council passes a resolution.
2. Fair Trade products are relatively available in retail and catering outlets.
3. Local workplaces and community groups support Fair Trade and use the products.
4. Raise awareness of Fair Trade
5. A Fair Trade steering group formed

Linky for signage: linkage!

On a side note, does anyone know where I can get some decent fair trade chocolate? I know Sarah was selling some awhile ago (water tank fund-raising?), but I don't think she's still selling them.

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Apple memorabilia sale

Simon Welsh — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:20:00 +1200

Someone who has been collecting Apple memorabilia for the last 25 years is being forced to sell them to raise moneys. So go buy them and stuff.

Anxiety

Simon Welsh — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:56:00 +1200

Sarah posted these in #aioc (originally from QC (if you want to know, Google it))

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Screens

Simon Welsh — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:32:00 +1200

Whiteboard proof

Simon Welsh — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:31:00 +1300

Yay for whiteboards!

I'm going!

Simon Welsh — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:55:00 +1300

I just got told that I've made the NZOI team that will be travelling to the IOI in August.

This year's IOI is being held in Bulgaria. More information can be found at http://ioi2009.org/

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Expected Downtime

Simon Welsh — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:02:00 +1300

Outage Notification for simon.geek.nz

One of the Mesh|net shared hosting web servers is moving to a new data centre location and a new IP address. This will affect your account with the user name simon hosting simon.geek.nz setup on 2006 Mar 17 21:25

There will be an expected outage to all web, email and other services on your domain from approx 06:00 - 08:30 NZDT Sunday March 22, 2009. We will monitor the situation, and endeavour to keep any unavailability to a minimum. Sorry about the late notice!

Thanks for choosing Mesh|net hosting services.

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Blumpy's getting old

Simon Welsh — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +1300

So, it's been a year since I got my first elephant, Blumpy. He's still just as cuddly as when I got him :)

Natalie's poem

Simon Welsh — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:25:00 +1300

This time for Natalie.

I should put in a disclaimer, or an explanation, but can't be bothered.

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Blocked blog

Simon Welsh — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:53:00 +1300

Turns out that the school proxy doesn't like that post. So it's blocks my blag cause it might contain offensive material.

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WhatPulse Fix

Simon Welsh — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:48:00 +1300

I've fixed the WhatPulse widgets so that they no longer make the site epic fail when WhatPulse is down.

Warm and Fuzzy

Simon Welsh — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:20:00 +1300

I'm starting to be like Hawk more and more.

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Star Wars by moosebutter

Simon Welsh — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:23:00 +1300

I think that this is awesome enough to be blogged, and this blog is all about me. So it gets blogged. :) Natalie originally posted it over on her blog. I now own it (and you should get it too)

Thanks Natalie :)

Not enough work

Simon Welsh — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:15:00 +1300

It's even harder if you're an asshole that pronounces <> brackets.

Moss going to miss World Cup openers

Simon Welsh — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:05:00 +1300

Glen Moss' World Cup dream is in tatters after football's governing body Fifa handed the All Whites goalkeeper a four-match ban for swearing at the referee in last November's international against Fiji.

This means that he'll miss the last two qualifiers at the end of this year, and the first two games of the 2010 World Cup (which we'll be going to. We're going to win those two final qualifiers). As then ban resulted from misconduct in a World Cup qualifier, it only applies to World Cup matches. So he can still play for the All Whites and the tards, just not for the All Whites in a World Cup match, until his ban is finished. Which means Paston will be keeping for those four games. He'll also be keeping for the Phoenix, cause Mossy turned traitor. (Smeltz is just whipped)

More information is available here.

Awesome Huggies

Simon Welsh — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:29:00 +1300

An acrostic poem all about her awesomeness :)

H is for Humongous amounts of awesomeness
U is for Unbelievably awesome
G is for Genii are in awe of her awesomeness
G is for Getting even awesomer
I is for Immune to not being awesome
E is for Everyone wants to be as awesome as her
S is for Surely is the most awesome

Thingy

Simon Welsh — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:45:00 +1300

So, I've done some thinking. Most people are aware that stuff is a technical word. Used to describe things and stuff. I think 'thingy' should be classified in the same way. It's used to describe things and stuff just like stuff is.

Thus I'm now making thingy a technical word used for describing things. And stuff. And thingys.

Go us

Simon — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:25:00 +1300

So, that horrible law has been delayed a month, and, if no agreement is reached between the ISPs and RIANZ (I think that's the main two parties involved), it'll be suspended.

Good to see that the internet community can have a such a big impact :)

Blackout

Simon Welsh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:25:00 +1300

Simon is blacked out: Stand up against "Guilt Upon Accusation" for New Zealand http://creativefreedom.org.nz/blackout.html

Don't forget to sign the petition. Blacking out is all good, but the petition is more likely to matter.

I've also blacked out my blog on every load. If you don't like it and don't have a login account for my blog, disable JavaScript. If you don't want to do that, tough. The cause is worthy.

1234567890

Simon — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:31:30 +1300

Is now. Funky isn't it?

1231:30 NZDT (UTC+13)

Save Manners Mall

Simon Welsh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:32:00 +1300

The Wellington City Council has proposed turning Manners Mall into a bus lane. Something to do with easing traffic flow or something. Which hasn't seemed to be a problem at the times I've been down there grabbing a feed. Or doing something else, like going somewhere.

The new layout after the bypass still confuses me (shows how much I use it), so sign the ePetition and help save me more confusion, and stop the displacement of the emos and goths that do their stuff there.

So

Larry — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:02:00 +1300

Have you improved your sole recently?

Hotlinks

Simon Welsh — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:14:00 +1300

I've noticed a spike in requests to certain assets I host with external referers (yes, it's spelt that way. Google it with you want to know why), which has dramatically increased my data usage. Which might end up with this domain being suspended for the rest of the cycle. I wouldn't like that. Thus I have enabled hotlink protection. If your domain would like to hotlink from me, send me an email, and I may enable your domain to link to my files.

If you want me to give you the files, I'm going to need SSH access, unless the files are small enough to email. The MP3s I host aren't.

Parachute

Simon Welsh — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:11:00 +1300

We hope you sweat on it all weekend long - Late 80s Mercedes

You're so dramatic, you kiwis - Family Force 5

And then we set rat traps out. You've got to eat, right? - Family Force 5

Throw better this time, woman - A Punter

I've been married 16 times before and, I'd be keen for just one more but I'm, pretty sure that I'm running out of cousins - Julia Grace

My husband left me with tinea. It's lasted twice as long as my marriage ever did - Julia Grace

Everybody knows that Michael Jackson knows that you can't go touching 12 year olds - Simple Day

Moshing with Jo at the back of Deluxe on the 'worship' night was also great fun :)

GHOP, Mk II

Simon Welsh — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:01:00 +1300

So, about this time last year, the GHOP was wrapping up (I came second for SilverStripe). Leslie just announce to the GHOP discussion list that the GHOP will be running again at the end of this year. Which is good for me, as I'll still be eligible to partake in it. Though there's unlikely to be a Matt to bug into checking my tasks this year. Maybe Andy or Will instead?

New ArticlePage

Simon Welsh — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:53:00 +1300

The partition map on my external HDD had something funky happen to it, so I lost my Time Machine partition. I am currently waiting for it to be added back, and, hopefully, still have all my backups. Though Disk Utility is taking its time, so I don't think it's going to successfully add the partition. Not good. I want Ludicrous Speed back.

Windows 7 (NT 6.1) installation fails. It can't find itself when I boot from it via FireWire. When I boot it from an internal DVD drive, I get a nice prompt telling me to select DVD-boot type, but the keyboard doesn't work, so I can't give it any input. Fail.

I've returned from the NZOI 2009 training camp. I'm in the short list for the team that'll travel to the IOI later this year. I'm going to put some work in this time.

I can't be bothered naming this post. So you get the tasty default one.

30 years

Simon Welsh — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:14:00 +1300

In 30 years, 32 bit time stamps will epoch fail.

If this happens to you, you really need to upgrade.

Stupid mouse

Simon Welsh — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:07:00 +1300

I have problems with the connection between my internal keyboard and trackpad and whatever it is that they're connected to. It made Growl messages (thanks to HardwareGrowler) like:

appear.

So I went and bought myself a shiny new Apple Wireless Keyboard and a horrible M$ branded wireless mouse. That stupid mouse has already gone through two sets of batteries. The standard, budget ones it came with and some shiny, silver ones I got when those died. Compared to my keyboard which is still running fine off the three shiny silver ones Apple gave me.

Means I'm posting this just with a keyboard, so I have no idea if I'll be able to stick in the image. I'll try though. And stupid TinyMCE seems to like stealing my tabs, making it even harder to tab off onto the button I need to use to insert an image. BAH!

The keyboard isn't extended, and doesn't have the keypad as fn of some other keys, so I can't use mouse keys either.

At least I can still do most things with a keyboard, but having a mouse makes it so much easier, especially getting out of this content field.

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