I was down in Canberra giving a training course during the week, and was meeting a friend for a beer after work at O'Malley's in Civic.
Half an hour early, so I ducked into a newsagent and picked up a copy of Desktop:. Flicking through, came across another my friend Matt's byline. Turns out he's been writing for the mag for a little while already!
Sent him an SMS to congratulate him on writing for a cool mag, too.
Reasons why this long weekend sucked:
Kathleen is watching a Kylie Kwong DVD she bought at JB in Chatswood - the one where Ocker Kyles goes to China to 'discover her roots'. So far, her criticisms are:
It's a very trying experience for Kathleen. And very amusing for me.
Ok, this is pretty techy so if you're not interested, skip over.
A patch I contributed to the Linux kernel got accepted for 2.6.25. The patch basically fixes the input for a USB Playstation adapter which I bought in Japan.
While it's not up there with some of the other amazing technical contributions from people much much smarter than me, it's still my little piece of glory ;)
The details can be found in the kernel ChangeLog:
commit c9bde7ad39e61424619b6bd7dd6984606b3b6489
It now joins my other technical achievements: user interface improvements to a PSX emulator and a re-design of an application to use arcade games on Linux.
Tech bit over now, now returning to normally scheduled writing.
An alzheimer's hospital in Germany has a fake bus stop at the front, to deter patients from leaving and trying to catch the bus home. The bus stop looks real enough, but no bus ever stops there.
"It sounds funny," said Old Lions Chairman Franz-Josef Goebel, "but it helps. Our members are 84 years-old on average. Their short-term memory hardly works at all, but the long-term memory is still active. They know the green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go home." The result is that errant patients now wait for their trip home at the bus stop, before quickly forgetting why they were there in the first place.
"We will approach them and say that the bus is coming later today and invite them in to the home for a coffee," said Mr Neureither. "Five minutes later they have completely forgotten they wanted to leave."
My wife always accuses me of having a memory like a goldfish. I hope that I never get this bad, though.
Things are a little bit 'meh' at work at the moment. I feel I'm in a bit of a mental slump at the moment, so its been hard getting the motivation to do anything, let alone write something interesting, at the end of the day. And Kathleen's been ultra-busy with work as well.
andrewandkathleen was meant to be a place to chuck our photos and diaries of our time in Japan. Since then it's transformed into a way of letting our friends and family know what we've been up to!
We've been together since high school, married since 2005. We've travelled and lived in different cities and different countries and are now trying to work out whether we're settling down or having a rest!
