I saw the film clip to an old Pearl Jam song today: And he hit me with a surprise left; my jaw left hurtin’… dropped wide open It was over ten years ago that I first heard that song: lots has changed since then. The obvious – I’ve finished school; and two degrees; I’m married; …
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making coffee in the office
making coffee in the office Originally uploaded by cafedave. This makes the third workplace out of four full-time, post-uni workplaces that have bought coffee machines while I’ve been there.
New Apple Announcements
Somewhere around 4am local time, Steve Jobs announced a number of different Apple products: Mac mini; a ‘headless’ mac G4 a little larger than a stack of CDs, and weighing a little over a kilo (about $AUD799 – BYO screen, keyboard, and mouse). ipodshuffle: a screenless ipod with in 512MB and 1GB sizes that use …
back from refurbishment
Welcome back to the obligatory new-year redesign of cafedave.net. Apologies to those of you who have missed the site in the few days that it was offline: I wanted to transfer from Blogger to movable type, so that I can finally add comments to the site, and I also wanted to make some changes to …
Media Consumption in review.
Last year, I read 35 books (including 5 Harry Potter books), watched 30 movies on the "big screen", and a further 44 movies on DVD, TV or Video, and I finished 3 Playstation 2 games. I still haven’t made much progress on the books that I had started-but-not-finished at the end of last year, although …
all is quiet
Finally finished the work that threatened to completely disrupt my tranquility on new year’s eve. After all these years, you would think I’d have learned not to underestimate the amount of time that it will take to put a programming task together. Clearly, I’ve learned nothing. This year was begun with kel and I standing …
sermon three
biblical history Made it through preaching my third sermon ever tonight: quite well received, especially this diagram of biblical history as it relates to Psalm 137. Managed to make the whole experience even more challenging by leading the service too – drifted into autopilot, though, and ended up finishing the service a little too quickly: …
merry christmas
christmas_decoration Hard to believe people lack better things to do on Christmas Eve, but to anyone reading this, I hope you have a great Christmas. This year marks the start of some Christmas traditions for kel and I. Thanks to some shopping on her part, we now have a six-foot-high christmas tree, and the first …
meme spreading
Courtesy of snail: list 26 items, one for each letter based on the autocomplete function of your address bar. Thus: a – amazon – bookseller b – blogger – blogging tool c – cafedave – me d – dark horizons – oceans 12 interview e – exploding dog – comic f – flickr – photo …
the tangled web we weave
One of the inevitable elements of being in relationships is conflict. When you put people together – even two people – for a length of time, sooner or later the people will offend each other in some way. Perhaps only one person will be offended, perhaps both. The way that the conflict is handled is …