28th September 2005, 05:57 pm
One of the dogs has an injured leg so instead of going for a jog this morning we went for a walk around the acres. Sitting a little less than a kilometre from the house is the “little dam”. Thanks to the recent rain it has some water in it at the moment so the dogs insist on their morning paddle. And there, not far from the dam’s edge was a small, solitary, terrestrial orchid - a Caladenia. The first one sighted this season - Spring is here.
I’ll have to pay it a visit with my macro lens this weekend and record the event for my photoblog (assuming that nothing’s eaten it by then of course).
Update: now photographed and published.
25th September 2005, 02:26 pm
Some weeks ago I upgraded my Mac Powerbook from Panther (10.3.9) to Tiger (10.4.2). As I am wont to do at times, I switched to use native (ie supplied by Apple) applications. I started using Safari as my browser, Mail as my mail application, and Terminal to pop up shells on the various Unix/Linux/FreeBSD boxes that I use.
I don’t have any problems with any of the above Apple-supplied applications; they all do an good job. But, given that I use my Powerbook for the better part of 14 hours each day, I had come to appreciate, or even reply upon, many of the features of the applications that I had previously been using. So, just today, I reverted to Firefox, Thunderbird and iTerm as my respective browser, email client and terminal application of choice.
Along the way I auditioned Camino, Shiira and Opera as replacement browsers, but as good as they were they didn’t have the edge afforded me by Firefox which lets me browse in the manner in which I want to browse. I use four extensions written for Firefox - they make a difference for me:
So, Firefox is fit for purpose. My purpose. Your purpose will probably be different. “Horses for courses“.
24th September 2005, 04:36 pm
I see many bloggers apologise if they don’t blog on a regular basis, or are going away for a few days. Personally, I trust that people use aggregators to pull content to them when there is content to see. The fact that I’ve not posted anything on this blog for a month is not a major issue for me.
A major project at work (replacing 9 PABXs supporting 5000 handsets) tended to take the edge off any spare time. This project was 18 months in the making and will still take a few weeks to wrap up all the small leftover issues.
Next, a wireless network rollout, then a campus network upgrade. Life is never dull.
