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April 8th, 2013
 | 02:59 pm - A question of time ...
So, most of Australia has now come off DST, and I think the UK went forward to summer time last week. That led me to a question :
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 | 02:50 pm - Going for a stroll ...
Bub is walking ! And awake more of the day now, so we're considering having some wheels for him that are a bit lighter and easier to transport than the pram. Any suggestions for strollers ?
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April 2nd, 2013
 | 11:26 pm - Random stats ...
Something I was idly pondering while riding to work today :
Places I have worked over the years :
1991-1996 - University, 10,000ish employees
1998 - Contracting company, less than 10 employees, but contracting for :
1998-2004 - Financial institution A, 40,000 or so employees.
2005-2008 - Financial institution B, about 250,000 employees.
2009-2012 - Financial institution A, 40,000+
2012-now - Consulting company, 120,000+ employees. (and still doing work for Fin. inst. A)
... so I've never really worked in an actual small business (or even medium).
Hmmm ...
(on the one hand, I suspect my JOAT tendencies would be more useful in a smaller place; on the other hand, not sure the money would match up with "market rates" and all that ... )
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March 31st, 2013
| 01:14 pm - LJ-versary ...
10 years on LJ !
I'm vaguely surprised that it's lasted this long :)
(for extra irony, I'm cross-posting this from Dreamwidth)
Anyway - 1045 entries, 2804 comments posted, 2756 comments received.
In other news - Bub has taken unaided steps a number of times in the last few days. Guess we can say he's walking now !
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Current Mood:  calm
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March 23rd, 2013
| 06:58 pm - 1 year !
Guess who turned 1 today !
... I can't believe it's been a whole year already. Time just flies !
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March 14th, 2013
| 10:09 pm - Social Interlude
Originally posted by  rwrylsin at Social InterludeNot long until Bub's first birthday.
David is probably entering a fencing comp on the actual day, and we're feeling too worn out to do anything much, so the vague plan at the moment is:
Sunday 24th March
Visitors welcome at our house, 2pm-5pm
Cake served probably around 3pm, depending on the nap schedule for the day.
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February 28th, 2013
| 11:13 pm - This should be possible ... right ?
It seems simple - I want to play music quietly while heading off to sleep, and loudly in the morning, preferably all from my iPod. [1]
There's an alarm mode, which lets me pick a playlist to start up with, and a sleep timer, but I can't see an easy way to adjust the volume of one or the other to meet the requirement.
Any suggestions ?
[1] Many years ago, I used to do this using a timer switch, a dual tape-deck and a CD player - before sleep, I'd put deck 2 in record mode, then pause it - then I could play a CD and adjust the recording volume to quieten it. The timer would turn everything off after a while. In the morning, it would turn everything on at a suitable time, and the tape-deck could be set to automatically start playing from deck 1 - and this was playing at full volume, so could be suitable for waking me up (I can sleep through surprisingly loud music, though - I once had a nap while at a rave).
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 | 10:51 pm - Almost ...
Every winter, sometime around July, there's a cold, windy and damp week where I ride to work once or twice and think "now why didn't I do more riding in summer ? When it's warm, and I get to ride home in daylight, and probably won't get rained on and even if I do, it'll be warm".
This year, I managed to do more riding in the summer, particularly in February. In fact, I worked from home on four days, rode to work on 15, and only took the train once, on Tuesday this week.
I was trying to make it a train-free month, but the pouring rain on Tuesday morning persuaded me otherwise - at my current office, if my cycling gear gets wet on the morning ride, there's no good way to dry it in time for the evening ride, and cold, wet cycling gear that's been hanging around in a bag all day is extremely unpleasant to put on.
I may try to make March train-free as well, with one WFH day each week, and plenty of riding, but Autumn is just around the corner, and I wouldn't want to bet on too much more dry and warm weather to ride in. And then the end of the month will roll around and DST will end, and it'll be back to long sleeves and riding home in the dark and waiting for October to come back again ...
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February 20th, 2013
 | 10:37 pm - Ummm ...
Recorded for ... ummm ... posterity ?
open -a /Applications/Preview.app/ $( identify $( file $( find . -type f -mtime -7h ) |
grep image | awk -F: '{print $1}' ) | sort -k3,3n | cut -d'[' -f 1 | tail -45 )
... translation: "Open, using the Preview application, the largest (by X dimension) 45 images among those found anywhere under the current directory, among those modified in the last 7 hours".
(I'm running it from the Firefox Cache directory, ~/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/profile_name/Cache)
There's probably a better way to do it ... almost certainly suitable one-liners in Perl/Ruby/Python could be found. But this worked for me :)
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February 15th, 2013
 | 11:01 pm - Remember when all the cool kids did memes on LJ ?
This comes via shadesong :
What I would do if $N dropped into my lap in some legal non-taxable (or post-tax) way:
$10: Keep it in my wallet, most likely.
$100: Spend it on books, or maybe Lego, or maybe Bub.
$1000: Put it in our bank account (mortgage offset) and decide what to do with it (maybe some work around the house).
$10,000: Put most in the bank account, consider new bike or laptop or books or Lego or Bub stuff or stuff for the fencing club.
$100,000: Pay a chunk off the mortgage, maybe keep a bit for house improvements etc. Also consider seeding a permanent venue for the fencing club and serious advertising to boost membership.
$1,000,000: Kill the mortgage ! And plenty left over for serious home improvements (I've been thinking that it would be cool to have a proper observatory dome on the roof :-) ), and to invest a chunk in a safe/reasonable investment (which would probably mean an investment property).
This is the first level that could bring major lifestyle changes - I could change jobs to something a bit more interesting than the IT side of the financial industry, rwrylsin would be able to do more fencing work (especially if I was able to work from home most of the time).
$10,000,000 (and above): All of the above, and I'd never need to work again. I imagine we'd work on a permanent home for the fencing club, regular travel to see family and friends in Oz and overseas, and hanging around and enjoying ourselves.
(I sometimes think about this while riding to and from work (good thinking time, when the traffic isn't trying to squish me), and figure $2-3m would do the trick quite nicely.)
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