Photos of 2010: Sunset in Glenelg

With no hotels available in the city itself – I spent a weeks work in Adelaide staying in Glenelg.  Glenelg is great – it makes me think of a family friendly St Kilda.  And the views at sunset are magical.

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Photos of 2010: Cow by the River

We were camping in Apollo Bay before embarking on the Great Ocean Walk.  When we woke up in the morning we were amazed to see a herd of cows grazing 10 metres from out tent – across a small stream.

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Django Errors with Dreamhost

I was just setting up a Django environment on Dreamhost – and couldn’t work out what was going on.  Every time I tried to reach the admin page – I got an Internal Server Error 500 message.  Not very helpful. First step was to check the Apache Error log.  From my home directory it was:  …

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Excuses for a blogging hiatus: WOT Summary

So much for frequent updates on here.  I’ve been pretty flat-out with work, which is a good excuse and on top of that I’ve been working on a fun little side project. For those who haven’t read it, the Wheel of Time series is an epic (in length as well as style) series of books …

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Back in Melb for a bit – and fighting comment spam!

So I’m in Melbourne this week running a TSM training course. Always enjoyable – although the fact that the course in using TSM 5.5 and they probably want to learn 6.1 might throw up some issues.. We might try scrapping the lab guide completely and just doing it DIY.. 4 students – so we should …

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Canberra Fun

Just returned from a quick trip to our Nation’s capital.  I realised it’s been almost 3 years since I was first there – scary thought.  Enjoyable time though – I like being able to get in somewhere and fix their problems (and find and fix one’s they didn’t realise they had).  Makes the job more …

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