The Architecture Centrum Amsterdam (ARCAM) (a.k.a Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam) is an odd looking building. Originally built in 1997 to be part of the nearby NEMO science centre, in 2003 it had a “blob” wrapped around it.
The opportunity has come up for me to escape Dunedin, and go a long way away for an indefinite time. So, I’m jumping on the idea, and planning on moving to the Netherlands, Deventer specifically, to work for Topicus. I’ll have a 6-month contract with them to start with, that is evaluated after 3 months… Read More: Returning to Europe (hopefully) »
I realised that I’d forgotten to mention this here, so now I’ll amend that.In July/August, I’ll be spending five weeks in Europe. I leave NZ on the 13th of July, and get back on the 22nd of August.It’s just for a holiday, so should be a fairly cruisy time. And I miss out on some… Read More: Going to Europe »
Yesterday I got back from a bit of a holiday in Auckland. The purpose of the trip was to go to Kiwi Foo Camp (a.k.a. Baa Camp). It is a gathering of 150 people with creative interests in various, generally technology related, things. It’s aim is to be a way for all these people to… Read More: Kiwi Foo Camp 08 »
I’m in need of a bit of a holiday, so I’ve booked myself to head up north for a bit over a week. I fly in to Auckland on Friday the 24th of August, on the 25th I’m going to see Psyche, and then on the 28th spend the day bussing down to Wellington. This… Read More: Travelling up north »
Today was apparently the hottest day Sydney has seen so far this summer. As someone who finds 25 degrees uncomfortably warm, the 35-40 degrees we had today was a bit much. It didn’t help that most of what I was doing involved walking from Pyrmont (where I am right now) to The Rocks, and back… Read More: National icons as consumables »
(Jono Bacon) Jokosher is aimed at being an audio production tool for Gnome, to replace things like Cubase. Jono is of Lugradio fame, and spent some time complaining about the lack of good audio mixing and editing tools on Linux, so the community got Jokosher started. It’s looking quite good, and hopefully a near final… Read More: Gnome miniconf: Jokosher »
(John Stowers) John’s showing off a program called Conduit. It’s a really interesting looking application that is used to move data from one application to another (or visa-versa). The kinds of things that a looks like it can do at this stage is synchronising a folder of pictures, and flickr, or Tomboy synchronising notes onto… Read More: Gnome miniconf: Synchronization and GNOME »
I’m currently sitting listening to Keith Packard talk. He’s good at it. He’s discussing all the new developments in X.org. As always, it’s looking quite good. Finally, things like dual-head and plugging extra monitors into laptops will just work automatically. Apparently, it’ll no longer be actually possible to do it from xorg.conf, instead it’ll all… Read More: Debian Miniconf: Keith Packard’s talk on ‘stuff’ »
A few days back I posted this, where I mentioned the lack of wireless access at Christchurch airport. Today, I got a reply saying that they’ll be doing something about that. I’m pleasantly surprised that a company like that (I always think of airports as kinda staid and conservative, that may not actually be the… Read More: Good feedback »