Author Archives: Leefe
100 on MySpace
My profile clocker over to 100 years and MySpace didn’t blowup. I’m a little disappointed. I was looking forward to sparks, or at least something strange displaying where the number of years should. And all you get is the following: … Continue reading
Dora the lead paint explorer
Dora is recalled from exploring. Sesame Street is no longer giggling. Barney is facing extinction. Mattel is recalling 83 models of Fisher-Price toys. In Australian the product recall is estimated at 43,000 and in the USA at nearly 1,000,000. An … Continue reading
Privacy concerns with MySpace
When entering information in MySpace you are given the option to hide some things, but they break their option and show the info in other places. And it turns out that MySpace are ageist. Hide your dob? MySpace gives you … Continue reading
Y, sometimes, X doesn’t mark the spot
Been having trouble getting X Windows forwarding to work from my Mac. It used to work, but hasn’t worked for a bit. Turns out that from Mac OS X 10.4 stuff was changed and the ssh ‘-X’ flag doesn’t work … Continue reading
Innerwest’s lights punched out by Energy Australia
Last night a number of suburbs had their light turned off at a quarter to five. And not by choice. It appears that some Energy Australia workers were ‘tinkering with’ the network in St Peters and ‘a fault occurred’ causing … Continue reading
Sexy in space
New space suits are being designed by MIT. Described as being reminiscent of Barbarella, they are figure hugging and use “‘mechanical counterpressure’ rather than gas to maintain Earth-like conditions for astronauts”. Professor Dava Newman is working on ‘BioSuits’ that will … Continue reading
A night on King St Newtown
Photo of a crescent moon hanging over King St Church St intersection in Newtown.
Sydney freezes
Yesterday was cold in Sydney, today was even colder, if only by 1 degree. Today was the coldest day Sydney has seen in 21 years, with a temperature of 3.7 degrees C at 6:45am. Sydney has coldest July day in … Continue reading
Night settles on Enmore Park
Photo from Enmore Park as night settles on the horizon. Using the huge tree in the park at the centrepiece with silhouettes of clouds over head.