We’ve been away for a few days as Donna took me away to Gippsland to visit the old gold mining town of Walhalla for my birthday. We also took a trip up to Aberfeldy, which had over 1,000 people, 2 hotels and a school there at its peak, but now has about 7 houses in total left in occupation.
Photos later, when I’ve got them off the camera, but here’s a site with photos of what you can find if you *really* know what you’re looking for..
The BBC is reporting that a feature on Titan could be a lake, though, of course, scientists are being careful to not rule out other possibilities. New Scientist also has an article.
NASA has a time lapse image of it and associated clouds.
KDE DOT News has an article on the release of QT4 which includes a link to an Ogg-Theora (open source) version of their silly music video to go with the launch..
In other news, we’ve just switched our ADSL provider from TPG to get a 1.5Mb/s connection for $10 more than TPG were charging us for a 512 package, and we’ve still got static IP and unlimited downloads..
Now my brain is fried after a 14 hour round trip to Sydney to do a talk there..
Which OS are You? Found via Geoff Arnolds blog. For me it says:
The Government of Sudan is clamping down on those who publicise the appalling level of abuse in Darfur (PDF document) by arresting two MSF staffers, one of whom is the head of MSF‘s mission in the Sudan.
Back in the spring (that’s September/October for you northern hemisphere lot) we bought some small Jerusalem Artichoke plants from a garden that was open as part of the Australian Open Garden Scheme and we proceded to plant them in our back garden.
Over the summer we had a number of large (6+ foot), sunflower like plants appear (not suprising as they’re not artichokes and are, in fact, part of the sunflower family) and eventually some nice yellow flowers appeared, looking like the following ones from this web site.
Now they’ve died back and Donna has dug up 4 of the plants and harvested a complete kitchen sink full of tubers for us to eat, so we’re going to eating these lovely veggies for some time to come I reckon. 🙂
We roasted a tray full of them tonight, with just a sprinkle of salt, along with some grilled lamb and steamed leeks and they were absolutely wonderful!
I’ve now put a small selection of photos up in the photo gallery from our trip to the UK this year! They’re not great quality, being done with my camera phone which had a bit of a smudged lense. 🙂
A quick example, this is Donna on the beach at Towyn..
Originally found via this story on Rich Boakes website. There’s more info at Search Engine Lowdown. Hopefully it’ll have broader coverage than Google Maps.
Google screenshot below:
Jabber Australia have put together a nice little guide to configuring iChat to use Jabber for the new version in Tiger
Jabber.org have linked to an article at Instant Messaging Planet about the fact that Tiger supports Jabber both on the client and server side of iChat.