The Thoughts and Feelings of a Melbourne Person
Sigh, our 12 year drought continues ever onwards..
With 12 mm for the month, Melbourne has recorded it driest September since records began in 1855. The previous driest was September 1907 when 13.4 mm of rain fell. Historically September is one of Melbourne’s wetter months averaging 57.9 mm.
Looks like we’re also set to record 12 consecutive [...]
Oops..
At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome.
The Wikipedia page [...]
When I lived in Wales, or visited my folks after I’d left, I’d always end up hearing Bob Humphreys on the BBC talking about the rugby. He was a familiar sight and sound and so it was sad to hear that he’s died at the age of 56 of lung cancer. The WRU [...]
From the Washington Post:
Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed. Also, officials may share copies of the laptop’s contents with other agencies and [...]
This is pretty damn cool:
It was announced at the Firefix Plus summit today that Firefox will include native Theora and Vorbis support for the HTML 5 media elements. So and will support those codecs built into Firefox itself. [...] The backend has been committed to the main Mozilla source code and is enabled [...]
So yesterday the release version of KDE 4.1 came out and I’m up and running with it. Very nice!
It’s also fixed at least two of the problems I had with the release candidate, listed below, which is nice!
Konqueror locks up when you’re using Request Tracker (RT) and try and either reply or comment on [...]
OK, so it was a torpedo test on a decomissioned ship in an exercise near Hawaii, but it’s a great headline..
For those looking for the joint assessment by the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO that’s all over the news at the moment, you can find it on the MAFF website. There is also a web page listed for the data and analysis in the report, but it’s not working yet (I guess [...]
From todays Weekly Water Update:
Storages are now 29.6% full (524,546 million litres) compared with 31.5% (558,019 million litres) for the same period last year. This is the first time in 2008 that storages have dipped below 2007 levels and coincides with a one-in-30 year storm in late June 2007, when reservoirs saw some of their [...]
No, I’m not joking!
According to the United Nations, 2008 is the International Year of the Potato, and it even has its own website - http://www.potato2008.org/. The BBC News website has a rather nice photo gallery on potatoes at the moment.
Perhaps they could have Mike Oldfield’s Tuber-lal Bells as the signature tune ?
