Author Archives: devslashtux

I’m the Webmaster and Code Monkey at MON Productions – I’m also responsible for some of the scripts and stories featured on the site.

In the real world, I’m – oddly enough – a web-designer/user experience architect.

LCA2006 Day One

At the first full day of LCA2006 the first round of tutorials and seminars took place. I attended the Open Source Graphic Design tutorial – without a laptop unfortunately. It was quite interesting, but for someone already trained and experienced in Adobe Photoshop, The GIMP isn’t quite the same, but it’s slowly getting there – [...]

New Zealand and linux.conf.au

Kia Ora! Greetings from Aotearoa! Otherwise known in English as New Zealand. This is a land with incredible scenery, sheep and an uncontrollable urge to jump from high places. I’ve been here since the 9th of January and only now can I be bothered to make a blog post about it. The fact that I [...]

Happy New Year

2005 has come to a close and 2006 has arrived. It’s a MON NYE Experience! With photos from Sydney Harbour!

2005 Draws to a Close

The end-of-year MON get-together has come to an end. Exclusive pictures and interviews!!

Relying on Wikipedia

Is the accuracy of Wikipedia a concern or is the lack of proper research in todays society the real problem?

Tis the Season to go Mad

Well, its coming up on that time of the year again – shopping centres are playing carols, fake plastic trees are sprouting from everywhere. Yes, the arrival of that dreaded time: Christmas. Not that Christmas is bad, its a good excuse to see family and have a nice relaxing day with a BBQ or five. [...]

Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Wererabbit is the first film I’ve decided to turn my blogging energies to. I’ve been a fan of W&G since I first saw “The Wrong Trousers” on TV – and it remains my favourite W&G film. When I left the cinema I had a feeling of emptyness. The [...]

The Chore of Blogging

It turns out that blogging is really difficult. Trying to avoid making posts about frivolous things contributes to the difficulty. Trying to think of something relevant to post – not just a one line “I ate a sandwich today” style post – is actually a surprisingly difficult task. News stories seem like a logical place [...]

No More “Doof Doof!”

A certain white, shiny device is annoying me… I can’t sit on a train without hearing multiple peoples “doof doof” music being played at high volume through little white headphones. This post isn’t really about iPods (the white headphones are just the obvious thing to blame) – or any other mobile music player – just [...]

A Slight Mishap

One MySQL Issue, Two Servers and 15,000MB…