Colin Charles Agenda

In this month’s PDN, Paul Buckley, vice-president executive art director at Penguin books, states: “When he’s using stock, he tends to go first to Photoeye and Flickr.” I wonder if they uphold the Creative Commons licensing.

I’ve posted some sets and new photos in general:

• Sng & Susan’s Wedding & Reception in Malaysia. You might find the Getting Married collection to be useful, as it chronicles their pre-wedding photography as well.
• One Buck Short at Jam Asia’s re-opening
• My annual Christmas Party 2006. Some interesting OLPC photos are there too.
• Arthur’s Birthday BBQ

Technorati Tags: photography, wedding, one buck short, concert, christmas, birthday, bbq

I always knew that the built-in iSight on the MacBook Pro will come in handy. That, and the fact that Photo Booth is installed probably makes it all the more worthwhile. (i.e. I found out its first use, in a long, long time)

Sue-Anne in sepia

For a party at hand, all I can say is, its fun. Look at what I managed to grab at Sng’s birthday party the other day? Or should I say, what most of the guests managed to grab themselves, and I just happily uploaded…

So there, Photo Booth is a great little application for a party. The iSight works in Linux these days, but we lack a funky time-waster like Photo Booth. And no, I don’t think anyone should bother wasting their efforts on it either - there are more important things to conquer.

Technorati Tags: isight, party, photobooth

play. food. code.
Maybe it isn’t 42. There’s been an insane number of uploads in the last couple of days to Flickr for me… fast upload speeds help. Boy do I dread going back to 256kbps uploads on Optus.

So the last few days have been randomly fun. I’ve been to Fry’s several times to grab random bits and bobs. Things I don’t need, but now have. Hung out with Mikal and Stewart quite a bit, which is always fun. Had lots to drink, and have gotten some work done!

All that aside, today was reserved mostly for our CEO’s house party. It was highly fun, there was drink, great food, and even song!

Stewart by the bar

There was Foster’s beer! Haha. Go Australian export beer. And Morgan was caught having some. I got to meet so many MySQLers its going to be hard to remember them all. I’m sure by the time the UC is over, all will be well.

Kaj, my boss. I like this “portrait” of him quite well

Anyways, a picture tells a thousand words, so view the MySQL Staff Party 2006 photoset.

Caught The Shawshank Redemption. Visited the ACMI for the White Noise digital art exhibition. The Melbourne Flickr group is realistically going to have an exhibition, and I’m taking part in organising. Highly exciting. Clubbed too. Fun last weekend.

Melbourne Spring Fashion Festival 2005 is on all this week. I endeavour to visit it regularly pending free time. It was so exciting I shelled out money for a 1GB Sandisk UltraII CF card too. Conclusion is I need a faster zoom, definitely. Caught The Skeleton Key, on Tuesday, which was interesting - not too scary, and with weird hoodo crap. New Orleans pre-disaster was depicted. For it post-disaster, I suggest Jacob Appelbaum’s weblog.

Spent most of the rest of the week at the Motorola Melbourne Spring Fashion Week. In-between managed to write the Fedora Community Marketing Contacts manifesto. Initial comments seem good, but I clearly want to improve on it this coming week. Last few days saw me getting terribly tired and sick (aching bones, strained muscles) - I think gym visits in the morning at 6.30am and doing all the stuff I do daily (photographing models) is probably not a good idea. Saturday was eat ribs, drink beer, and watch the Gladiator. Oh, and bits to be proud about: Software Freedom Day in Malaysia gave away the IOSN LiveCD running Ubuntu as well as with the premiers and so on. Yum Yum.

Dinner last night was curry fish head with Anne in Box Hill. I highly recommend going to this restaurant (its a Chinese one, serving good Indian curry fish head!). Played with NetNewsWire Lite and realised its really all I need as a Liferea replacement, minus pinning an interesting article (looks like I’ll be needing some Tomboy like application to keep useful blog snippets). Seems all good feedreaders handle OPML quite well (import/export). The weather Dashboard widget needs to be set to “Melbourne, Australia(VIC)” to replace GNOME’s weather report (I still actually like the report that the applet provides, I wonder if there’s a way to con OS X into giving me those details). As for a X-Chat replacement, there’s always Colloquy - its notifications with Growl, and the “person has possibly replied” is a nice feature. I also played with Screen Spanning Doctor on my current iBook, and am pleased to see it works (radeon7500). From the forums, the radeon9550 should also work in the event that I decide to get a 12″ iBook G4. Exporting the Evolution address book is easy - select all, save as vcards, then import into Address Book. Syncs well with my Palm as well. And the talking clock at the top of the hour is just oh so sexy. Need to scroll using Terminal.app + screen + irssi? The magic is in Shift+Fn+PgUp! Another problem solved.

So, err, yeah, apparently trying to get a date for a ball via blog doesn’t work too well. Caught Wedding Crashers - funny as anything, but the ending spoilt it all (or am I just Mr. Cynical?). Selemat Merdeka, all Malaysians, anywhere and everywhere.

Fedora

• Fedora Marketing Schedule - publically view what we’re up to.
• meeting minutes - particularly interesting stuff about Community Marketing Contacts, and how we need a Fedora Marketing Kit. This includes slide templates, and what not. My old BrainDump might help.
• Attending a FESCO meeting today in spite of horrible need to sleep. Joyous topics of getting contributors to not actually sit on the CVS commits list, unless they’re into review, as well as contacting by private email, a committer.
• FUDCon London 2005 happens on the 6th of October, in the UK. Its a one day event, register for it now! Look at the schedule, and the two keynotes (Michael Tiemann and Alan Cox), already make it worthwhile. I can promise a lot of fun, so go.
• The 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 kernel hates me. Well, apparently, not only me. ibm_acpi is borked, so my battery status is gone and I keep on getting errors:
  ACPI-0145: *** Error: Invalid owner_id: 00
  ACPI-0105: *** Error: Could not allocate new owner_id (32 max), AE_OWNER_ID_LIMIT
  ACPI-0509: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.BAT0._BST] (Node c16dcb00), AE_OWNER_ID_LIMIT

So apparently, Monash has a Photography Club in Caulfield, and they’re having an exhibition at the Airport Lounge, at the Clayton Campus. 2nd-17th September are the dates for the exhibition, and the only reason I know about this is because they wanted to use some of my A Walk in Melbourne shots. Oh, and Edition 5 of the MYOSS Mag is out - the horrors of editing!

So in my increased frustration, I was editing a JPG in The GIMP on Linux (doing selective color, and retouching bits of it), when it bombed with the OOM killer (earlier today, it was Firefox, while I was typing a blog entry). Needless to say, I was far from impressed. What shocked me is that MacGIMP costs money! Maybe its time to get used to paying for software. Gimp Shop looks like a cool alternative, or it looks like I’m building The GIMP just as well.

In my quest to find a Carbon-ized Emacs, I started building my own. Seems going to the mac/ directory, and just doing ./make-package –self-contained will build it ready for deployment; but it fails gloriously for me. Manual building, and moving Emacs.app to Applications works, however. Now to find a Liferea replacement, and maybe I’ll start cleanly with Thunderbird - Evolution might have pooped itself from the various moves from x86->ppc32->x86_64->ppc32->x86.

“A true connoiseur finds alcoholic bliss in a simple cup of tea” –Chinese saying. Good quote to keep around. In other notes, went on a little city trip yesterday, and realise my iPod 3G only lasts a measly 7 hours. I never faced this in long flights because I carry a Belkin Backup Battery Pack (20 hours on 4AAs), but now it’d seem I might need it on long days out as well :( iPod Shuffles give 12 hours while the Mini gives 18 hours - now I’m tempted to get the latter, just for day trips… I also caught Freddy vs. Jason - gruesome.

A reflecting Langham, on the Yarra

Today, out of the blue, Wanz decided we needed to visit the beach. So a bunch of us (Arthur, Audrey, Josh, Sng, Susan, James, Michelle) decided to head to Brighton Beach. If that wasn’t enough, with little bits of sport nearby, we headed to St. Kilda for more fun (i.e. ice cream eating). So officially, Sunday became the day of visiting beaches - spring’s here, and the 20C days are excellent. Winds were crazy, though. And my camera’s sensor is dirty :(

So Jack has a BugZappers report from the last triage we had. We get goodies too! Pleasurable to note the next bug day is Friday, 19th August 2005 - so do rock up if you can (I plan on staying on till quite late Friday night, UTC+10, and then heading out for some fun at night); #fedora-triage on freenode. Fedora marketing (#fedora-mktg) is having a meeting soon as well - the list is steaming on with discussion, which is great.

No, the worst wasn’t over when it came to doing the UNDP LiveCD. First there was no sound from the Flash content… esd and alsa conflicts. ISO required 500+MB for an rsync, so had to workaround that; and no, xdelta was not the workaround - it was just as useless. Fix that, and then there’s no text being displayed (for majority of the content). Feeling this was font dependant, fixed that. Now I sincerely hope, I’ve had the last of the incredible updates to that. Note to self: Flash content is evil.

<kaeru> argh.. I'm going to do a bytee
...
<kaeru> that's why I need to pick up my 8cell batt
<kaeru> and you all will be hearing me stuck at some airport

So it seems thats what they call it now… I wish not the torture of being stuck at airports, missing flights, and what ever else could go wrong to anyone out there. And in the last 3 weeks, we’ve had 6 plane “crashes”, so lets hope for safe travel for everyone. And kaeru tells me he sent it (livecd) to the CD duplicators, so yay.

To celebrate, I took a walk in Melbourne.