...lp me work at my computer, but it didn’t. So ''now'' is spring-cleaning; ''then'' was not.
...r a few days, so took it back. It was a journey for me, a journey from all-I-need-is-a-bit-more-Money-And-Stuff to remembering that it’s people and th
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...th article on this topic at the moment, and I’ll post it soon, but for now I just want to mention a couple of things.
...they’re going to ask me to drive with them up to the far-away data-centre. I will, of course, refuse.
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...ng of pre-WikiCon has gone well, in a Wikimedian way: a slow start because I'm on WA time, and a bit of the usual sticking the camera out the hotel wind
...quipment (I still want to try to do some old-school mapping for OSM!), and then onwards for morning coffee at the GOMA cafe to watch the ibises and the riv
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I have lately been attempting to move some of the stuff that I host on my VPS to a more long-term, cheaper, and 'archival' platform.
For this, I figure a static HTML website combined with hosting images on Wikimedia Comm
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...I want to get back to the workbench, and I want to '''blog''' about what I do there.
...e days — but can’t do so without yearning for the other. It rips me apart. I just wonder whether the divide is less consuming from one side or the other
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...IBM, and I have achieved it, albeit with some detractions. The most major: I’m reading IBM Red Books. Next: this is no quiet parlor with a comfy armch
...turning to the server that also sits on my desk, and in this way (I guess) I am learning…
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''In which I bring my desk back to school to finish finishing it and then get it assessed.''
...our or so — and an a day such as today it’s quite a pleasure. Not often do I feel like smiling at motorists (in their stinking, noisy vehicles) but when
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...rite]] words about what I'm working on, and post [[photographs]] of things I've seen.
I'm a [[Programming|Software Engineer]] at the [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundati
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The AlphabeticalZürich project is a pretty ambitious project: I want to take at least one picture in every street of Zürich, in alphabetic
I want to capture the interesting, the whimsy, the pretty for every street of
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...n they do; I float off into a daydream of how I should prefer to live; and I rant against others’ uncaring attitude towards wooden chopping boards and
...housemates, the landlords, circumstance, whoever, whatever—to do things as I should like to.
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In July 2004 I made the decision to completely stop travelling in all cars.
...ecome more geographically limited, I have never felt such personal feedom. I am, every day, more committed to this endeavour.
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...h a place. A comment such as “
I feel very at home here, in this place that
I have made.” tells us nothing of what it actually ''is like'' for this mak
<blockquote>“Might
I,” quavered Mary, “might
I have a bit of earth?”
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So here I am, back in the office, and bored again.
...emember why). A thing to own only if one never wished to move house again, I think.
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...en as now it was the view that I had been waiting for on the walk — before I could get out my notebook to write.
...on. For some reason, I didn’t feel like stopping, let alone writing, until I’d had this first glimpse of the ocean, Garden Island, and the untouched h
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