hot:
iTunes
vmware on a machine with 1Gb of RAM
gdesklets
Hayao Miyazaki
Sydney weather
not:
thunderstorms that reboot computers and hang Ethernet switches
printers
dumb text-mode web browsers
conflicting apt dependencies
Sydney weather
Airport security
I have taken up knitting. As if I don’t already have enough to procrastinate with. Anyhow, I now have a nice dirty blue scarf. And am working on a tie.
And I have found that it does seem to be quite a geek-y thing to do… there are oodles of web pages about it around, and my 340 project team has asked me to teach them… possibly we need to decide that if Thursdays is coding night, Wednesdays is knitting night, or something.
Oh, and it’s also good for boring lectures. Easier to half-pay attention to the lecture over knitting than over a good book…
Trans-Siberian Railway: A Classic Overland Route (Lonely Planet Classic Overland Routes S.) by Simon Richmond
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Discworld Almanac for the Common Year 2005 by Terry Pratchett
Leonardo\’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies by Ben Shneiderman
That'd Be Right: A Fairly True History of Modern Australia
Shrek 3 - Der Dritte
The Design of Future Things
The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications (Human Factors & Ergonomics)
Technology and the Future
