From a wall at work :
p piano (soft) – the neighbors have complained
f forte (loud) – the neighbors are out
crescendo – testing the neighbors’ tolerance level
ff – to hell with the neighbors
pp – the neighbors are at the door
dim – thick
obbligato – being forced to practice
rit (or rall) – coming up to the bit you [...]

We have a dishwasher. It’s sad. I used to spend half an hour or more at the sink every night, then ages on the weekend catching up on all the pots and pans that didn’t get done during the week. Now I have a dishwasher, it all goes in there and I [...]

There be not enough pirates around here lately! Here’s a CNN article about the Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s flagship sunk off the coast of North Carolina. You can learn more about pirates, and the Queen Anne’s Revenge, at a site made by students of Rochedale State School in Queensland.
Yarr, and it’s a fine [...]

I had just noticed yesterday how much food we seem to throw out. Any vegetable waste we now compost, to feed our rather neglected vege patch. That should be reasonably conscience clean I think. When we cook we often aim for twice as much as we need, and freeze the other half for another [...]

Setting up Cricket to start doing proper network monitoring at work, I came across this gem in the docs :
We found that the more we customized the MRTG config file, the larger and more unwieldy it got. We found that we were making mistakes due to the complexity, and then we wrote scripts to write [...]

The football poll is over, Aussie Rules beat Rugby League 4 goals to 3 tries. Soccer scored 2, but since you only get one point for a goal in Soccer, the corrected scores are 24, 18 and 2 (I generously assumed a conversion for Rugby League). Also see the comments for Mark’s insight!
This [...]

We saw Conan the Bubbleman on telly the other day. He does some really incredible stuff with bubbles. Like really amazingly huge ones, with chains of other ones inside, or just plain awesomely large ones.
He does stage shows, school shows, and also dance party visuals. You can see some more pics like [...]

Funny thing about alcohol. In moderation, as with anything, it can be a pleasant part of any social gathering. If you have too much, you get agro, morose, or comatose. Plus yo cant typ.
One of the effects of alcohol is that it makes you feel brave, aka Dutch courage. If you are like me, [...]

How do you know how much to charge for freelance work? Anil Dash says :
1. Slap the client in face.
2. Tell the client your hourly rate. If the person looked more shocked, horrified, offended, hurt, saddened, or wounded by the slap in the face, then you are still pricing yourself too low.

Assuming you have some lying around (we do, why don’t you?) grab your 3D glasses and go be amazed by the 3D Microscopy of Wim Van Egmond. Also, be a little creeped out by the 3D spiders, ehhhhh.