February 2008

Well, my baby pigeons now look like fully grown-up regular pigeons. About two weeks after the last photo I posted, the baby pigeons had lost most of their down and shortly after that were confident enough to hop out of my tomato box down onto the deck.

Just got back from Cirque Ici, one of the performances in the arts festival – really good.

Changing the homedir for a hidden user account (eg. ‘postgres’ on my system) on Mac OS X is a bit less obvious than it is on Linux; you use the Directory Services utility instead of directly editing a file like /etc/passwd.

It's WWII, and you've got a Lockheed aircraft factory in Burbank, California, which is looking distinctly bombable. How do you hide it? You make a fake town on the roof – complete with houses, streets, and trees.

So, it turns out if you're travelling via Dubai and you have a tiny speck of cannabis on the bottom of your shoe – we're talking 0.003g here, such as you might get walking any random place – you can not only be arrested, you've got a great chance of getting put in jail for four years. Oh, and poppy seeds from a bread roll? That's a jailing too. Melatonin, you too. Now, watch and be amazed as I never, ever, EVER, fly Emirates through their hub.

Dammit… A mis-directed skype add/chat informs me there is now another Will Bryant in NZ – recently moved from the UK to Auckland. Knew I should have trademarked it or sumfink :).

I'm away for the weekend at Kiwi Foo Camp (a geek/media/politics/law/making/web/hanging out meetup) in Warkworth, out of Auckland.