Visiting Cornwall and Mrs Dalloway

Hanging out with Mum, Dad and Hanna was a real highlight of our trip deep into Cornwall over the weekend, as well as getting to know Morten a bit more. It was good to get a glimpse of some of the things Hannah is drawn to. Visiting St. Michael's Mount and the Minack Theatre were wonderful experiences, but it was the company of loved ones which made the five hour journeys too and from London more than worthwhile. The Minack Theatre was amazing! It really needs to be seen to be believed; best in person, but here's a Flickr slideshow ... more

Tolerance v. Acceptance

I drafted this a week or so ago but didn't hit the publish button because I have a fear of making myself look stupid by talking about stuff I know nearly nothing about. I hope that doesn't happen. I've just been reading another exquisitely written post1 over at scepticlawyer about World Youth Day 2008 and the Government's heavy handed, unnecessary and damaging anticipatory laws which, in my opinion, affect civil liberties severely and negatively. Wow, that's a lot of adjectives. I wanted to highlight what was labelled as an aside. I’ve come to the conclusion that the width of liberal ... more

Rebuilding/Renewing Social Norms

I've just been reading about the nanny state over at skepticlawyer1. In her post, Helen (who I've just discovered has a Wikipedia entry) included a video by Drew Carey about how the US Government, or it's many state Governments, have a particular penchant for banning things. Much like the Australian Governments of recent times. Although I wouldn't agree with everything in the Drew Carey video being 'un-banned', it does make a great point. Helen has made the even better point that the law entering the fray where social norms used to do the job quite nicely is not the best ... more

WP-Footnotes 3.2: Release Notes

This week saw the long awaited release of an update to the WP-Footnotes plugin for WordPress. WP-Footnotes is to easily add footnotes or sidenotes or a bibliograpy, etc. to any post using a simple mark-up which degrades (kind of) gracefully in the event that for some horrifying reason this plugin no longer works. These notes actually cover releases 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 which all happened in quick succession. What's been fixed Some invalid mark up was being generated. Hopefully not anymore. The notorious 'a' bug (I really hope). What's been improved Add two new styles of footnotes: Repeated symbol, and ... more

Using Quicksilver to start or stop internet sharing in OS X Tiger

skip to the interesting bit At work I connect my laptop to the network using old-school cat5 cables because there is no wireless available. However, at home I use wireless. Every morning when I get to work I open my MacBook Pro and go to the System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet to start sharing the internet using AirPort because I like to scrobble the morning's tracks from my iPod Touch before I open iTunes and tuck into the rest of the day's music. It's just part of my morning routine. This only has to happen because when I get ... more