Earlier this morning, Colonel posted a sample chapter of our as-yet-unwritten Middle of Nowhere Self-Help Book. Completely independently, I had decided to post the first part of a new online serial entitled The Adventures of P.K. Shaw Being a Middle of Nowhere Production, it is severly bizzare and is no-doubt going to induce fear and [...]
We love our TV here in the Middle of Nowhere cave. Some of our favourite programmes in particular seem to be ones that the networks cancel – two which I can readily think of being Firefly and Futurama. Today I read in the news, that Futurama is being revived by Comedy Central! As Prof. Farnsworth [...]
Warning: Nerdy Material Ahead Yesterday morning, it was cold and foggy. The type of morning to sit inside by the fire. By 1 PM it was still foggy – something I’ve not seen before here. I decided to try out the shiny new Windows Vista and use my brand spanking new DVD burner (which supports [...]
Daylight savings is one of those things which sounds like a good idea – in theory. In reality, at least in Australia, it’s become an absolute pain in the arse. History of DST Historically, the idea of daylight savings time was invented during World War I – and not by the British as most people [...]
19 February 2006 – 9:10 am
After a suspenseful wait, I hereby present the third and final part of my NZ trip report. Read Part One, and Part Two.
7 February 2006 – 3:27 pm
This is part two of my NZ trip report from January 2006. You can read part one here. Enjoy!
4 February 2006 – 12:01 pm
Kia Ora, This is the second of two MON Productions NZ trip reports. As Colonel (Matt) mentioned earlier, we both travelled to NZ completely independently of each other. Not only did we travel to the same country, we also visited many of the same places. Since I was in NZ for about a month, this [...]
28 January 2006 – 10:54 am
Just a quick note: I’ve got some photos from LCA2006 over on Flickr for your consumption! Enjoy! http://www.flickr.com/photos/monproductions/
28 January 2006 – 10:26 am
Friday – the second last day of LCA2006. The keynote today was Damien Conway – of Perl fame talking about Perl 6. I can certainly see why he is such a popular speaker. His comparisons of why Perl is better than Java were excellent and certainly added alot of life to the presentation. I’ll definately [...]
27 January 2006 – 12:21 pm
Today I attended the OpenLayers Seminar, the Building Rich Web Applications with PHP5 by Rasmus Lerdorf himself and the Google BOF session. OpenLayers looks cool but isn’t quite up to the level where it will challenge the maps API’s offered by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Speaking of Yahoo! Maps, Rasmus Lerdorf talked about using Yahoo! [...]