The software I use to manage my photos is awesome; everything essentially sits in a single folder with no special naming, and the photos have “tags” (like Alex, Footscray, Kebabbage, Engrish, Moustache) associated with them. No need to organise photos by their single most prominent trait; you can slap on as many tags as you like.
Finding photos is simple; you just work out what tags are relevant and then form a search query out of them: get me all photos taken within Balwyn featuring my two sisters, myself and a wheel of Brie—but no possums. If you’ve been prudent with your tagging when you add photos, this works perfectly every time.
I wish the same could be done for music.
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March 20, 2009 • Posted in Technology
This is the second time I’ve been on a train at Camberwell and the driver has opened the doors on the wrong side of the train. The thought process that must take place in the driver’s head during the entire transaction befuddles me.
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November 2, 2008 • Posted in Stupidity, Ventilation
Have you upgraded your Debian installation from Etch to Lenny? I have. Are you somewhat surprised to find things breaking because the apache-perl binary has disappeared? I was.
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October 28, 2008 • Posted in Technology
EdgeCurve.com runs a semi-regular game where a photo is posted and people compete to submit the funniest caption for it. Take a look at the archives to get an idea of the pictures and captions submitted in the past.
At some point it was decided that archived entries should feature a banner ad between their photos and their captions. I don’t think these ads were ever expected to trump the user-submitted captions in awesomeness though.
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June 22, 2008 • Posted in Hilarity
The other day I discovered just how much of other people’s junk we have lying around at the DP desk, and I figured we needed to do something about it. When I got home that day, creativity struck and this was the result:
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May 15, 2008 • Posted in Creativity
I’d successfully avoided succumbing to the MySpace hype for years now, but curiosity finally has the better of me—217,957,982 people had signed up for a MySpace account before I gave in, and surely they can’t all be wrong.
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July 25, 2007 • Posted in Journalling
After being so impressed with the quality and usability of Ubuntu v6.06 (Dapper Drake), I was downloading v6.10 (Edgy Eft) the moment it was available and I immediately installed it on the two computers here. Having always experienced badness when upgrading OSes I elected to perform a clean install, and in doing so I avoided much of the grief that many others have copped (a simple Google search will give you more information on that).
I like being able to use the newer versions of things like Eclipse and Ratpoison, but my Edgy experience has otherwise been quite average. Here are the gripes that are fresh on my mind:
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November 19, 2006 • Posted in Technology, Ventilation
And what a short and sweet hunt it was, spanning a total of roughly 60 hours between me writing my first application and being accepted for a job. (This figure does not include the weeks I spent procrastinating.)
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November 18, 2006 • Posted in Happenings
I’ve come to really enjoy Java over the past few weeks. I recently discovered the Java Collections Framework (JCF)—
—and if you love Perl’s arrays and hashes (or Python’s lists and dictionaries) as much as I do, you’ll surely fall hard for the JCF like I did. One thing that I wish I realised earlier though: TreeSets can’t contain two items where item1.compareTo(item2) == 0, even if !item1.equals(item2). So watch out there or you’ll be chasing your tail for hours like I was.
I’ve also discovered that I really like Java GUI programming. Our Software Engineering 1B assignment requires us to code a decent batch of GUIs and custom controls:
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September 27, 2006 • Posted in Creativity, Technology
But I was quite amused all the same.
On my way in to uni today the computerised woman on the train said her usual thing: ‘Now arriving at Jolimont.’ What made it interesting today however was how this caused the five-year-old near my seat to react. With a big beaming smile, he exclaimed: ‘Yaaayyy! It’s Goldilocks!’
Oh, good times… I guess you had to be there. People always hear what they want to, I guess…
September 16, 2006 • Posted in Hilarity
