Congratulations Karl for Winning Competition and Changing Name
So Karl - who works with me doing super awesome design and illustration action - has just won the Salomon Snowboards design competition.
Only problem is, they seem to think his name is Jo Higgins.
Huh?
I’m sure this will be resolved, and that Karl will get his 1500 euros. I’ve told him he’s buying a Wii.
Updated: Here’s the designs, on Karl’s Deviantart page, posted months ago…
I’m sick.
Lick Ten Stones.
Rainer’s Quote of the Day
“myspace is the writing on the toilet wall of the internet”
Rebuttal of crazy US Senator’s Anti-Evolution Drivel
I haven’t been able to read “BoingBoing”:http://boingboing.net for quite a while. Good to get back in with some fun stuff. First on the list “this fantastic rebuttal”:http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/coyne07/coyne07_index.html of an ignorant US Senator’s anti-evolution, anti-science waffling.
Virgin Mobile Australia 3G on Laptop via Bluetooth
I just recently signed up with Virgin because their mobile data rate is extremely competitive - $10/month for 1GB data. I had no luck connecting my laptop via Bluetooth so I eventually called up Virgin support to ask for the required settings. The friendly support lady told me that it’s “not possible” to use the phone as a modem. This page seems to hold a solution, update when I have it working.
Update: It works! Took me a while, and I had some help from the guy who made the original post on whirlpool.net.au, the magic setting was not having anything in the username and password box.
Coda! Web Development Superstar from Panic
The guys who do everyone’s favourite Mac FTP client Transmit have just released Coda, which is an all in one, super awesome looking, everything-doer. Well that’s what they say anyway. I’m going to give it a go, and at only US$89 for a copy, I really hope it lives up to their hype!
The stupidest thing I have ever seen on the internet
I was trying to buy tickets for Ed Byrne last night after the comedy festival Gala. There must have been loads of people hitting the site as well as the “finding tickets” page kept timing out. Then I saw the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen on the internet:
The box office is closed. Please try again tommorrow.
THE INTERNET IS CLOSED, WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW FOR MORE INTERNETS
Integrating WordpressMU with bbPress
I’m doing some coolness which involves a new community site, Wordpress and bbPress, all holding hands and skipping through a field of daisies. here are instructions on how to achieve such a thing.
Ikea aren’t selling the Jerker anymore shock horror buscrash
So Cal has just moved house and needs a desk. I suggested a Jerker, and went to get him a link from the Ikea site.
… and couldn’t find a link.
So I talked to the helpful online chat assistant person, and it turns out that it’s not on the site because they don’t sell it anymore!
This is terrible news. They’re replacing it with the Fredrik, but this doesn’t seem to have the same awesome form factor and customizableness as the Jerker.
Pour some out for the Jerker people.
[tags]ikea, jerker, work[/tags]
Learning C in OSX Terminal
I’ve just started a new intro to C programming uni course, and I’ve decided to complete it on my Macbook, as the subject will continue while I’m on tour and I don’t want to clutter up my performance PC with developer tools. I’ve been able to get things compiled in OSX Terminal, but was having trouble running the .out files which are made by c++ compiler. This page has the solution: rather than typing “a.out” I needed to show that it’s in the current directory, so “./a.out” worked.
Baby Tiiiiiiiiime!
Briebs and Dan have just gone to the hospital to extract my second nephew or first niece. Whoo!