Deep beneath the irradiated ash-wastes of the West Coast, the heavily fortified Vault of El-Segundo stood as one of the two geographically distinct sanctuaries safeguarding the global network's soul, alongside its twin in Culpeper. Plumes of acrid cyber-cense billowed from censers carried by augmented acolytes, filling the subterranean corridors with the holy scent of burning flux. This was the…
Over the previous 3 days I've thrown a fresh plastic discs, frisbees if you will. I finished 4th in the amateur over 40 division in the Tasmanian Open Disc Golf competition. I played well for the 2nd and 3rd rounds of the tournament. I'd prefer to continue working on repressing the memories of the opening round. I have a practice basket in my backyard and I've spent enough time making that…
Over the last few months I've been dealing with a nerve issue in my left shoulder. There were a bunch of things that led to this, too many pull ups, not enough push ups, bad ergonomics at my work desk, and the thing that triggered the pain the most; sim racing. The fact is that my body is adapting to the fact that I've lost ~20kg over the last 18 months and am trying to be an active 43 year old…
The disc golf hobby really dug it's claws in. I play in the local social league that runs once a month and have been lucky enough to be battling for the handicap honours. The bit of structured competition has really raised my enjoyment as it's given me some goals to work on. The first is simply to beat my handicap each outing, something that I've managed to do most months. The more specific things…
When you clip your finger nails is a pretty good time to do all those "seldom but required" tasks that you've been putting off. I've come to realise that unless I build a habit that is daily, I struggle to continue with it. This blog is a prime example. When I was in the habit of posting most days it was a vibrant way for me to exercise the skills around maintaining a blog. When I aimed to update…
Last year while visiting family in Ballarat and taking the kids to the playground we drove past the Victoria Park Disc Golf Course . I spotted the baskets and somehow registered what they were and googled to find more information about the course. Of course this triggered something in the google algo and I then started to get disc golf content showing up in my youtube. After watching a few…
So it's been close to two and a half years since I could be bothered to click the "new post" button here. Some of the cause of this has been busy with far more important things like family, purchasing and moving into a new house, doing DIY projects around said new house, working my day job, sim racing, working on projects related to sim racing, board gaming, and frankly... not feeling like I've…
2018 is done and dusted and I've spent some time over the last couple of weeks pondering things that I want to achieve in 2019. I turn 40 in May and I want to have shed the spare tyre I've been building up on my waistline. I'm cutting down on my caloric intake and getting back into the habit of intermittent fasting, aiming for two days a week where I don't eat for 36 hours. I also need to improve…
Had a spare moment to myself today and was trying to recall some tid bit and realised that the easiest place to dig it up was actually on my own site; fuzzyslogic.com — imagine my shock when I loaded the page to find that the latest content was from 4 months ago... The whole point of the system I'd rigged up is that the site would magically contain all the content I'd posted on my other sites,…
I'm once again tinkering with the way fuzzyslogic.com works. My latest grand idea is centered around two wonderful python projects; a static site generator called Nikola and an excellent replacement for my beloved Yahoo Pipes! called Riko . This post is just a test to see if my new system can ingest content from blogger. More updates once I have edged closer to something worthy of showing the…
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. Leon Bambrick aka @secretGeek
2015 was a pretty big year for myself and my little tribe. We moved back to Australia after living in the US for 3 years, this time settling in Hobart, Tasmania. Another new city (and state) for all of us, but it quickly felt like home. As much as I'll miss being an hours drive from one of the world's best skydiving dropzones, I'm very happy to be back in my home country. Looking back on 2015 it…
I've kicked fuzzyslogic.com back into some kind of life; essentially hacking together a very simple replacement for the fairly complex system I had in place previously. I actually feel pretty proud of what I've got running as a replacement for the old Yahoo Pipes! version of the backend for the site. At some stage in the near future I'll post a more detailed explanation of it over on my Fuzzy's…
I built the current version of fuzzyslogic.com with the idea that it had to be able to handle the fact that internet services come and go. I made it simple for me to switch from one hosting provider to another and be able to add and remove the collection of content from sites and services as they came and went. These features have worked wonderfully; when I moved to the US I switched from an…
Already a month into 2015 and I haven't really found the time or inclination to do any kind of 2014 wrap up post. I think mostly this is because last year was epic for a whole bunch of reasons which are completely unlike any I've included in a previous year wrap post. Normally I talk about games, movies and tv shows. I sprinkle in some stuff about technology and news. Last year I became a Dad.…
You can find out what topics Google thinks you're interested in via this link . Here's mine: Action & Adventure Films Android Apps Android OS Antivirus & Malware Arts & Entertainment Audio Equipment Banking Blu-Ray Players & Recorders Bollywood & South Asian Film Business & Industrial Business & Productivity Software Cable & Satellite Providers Camcorders Camera & Photo Equipment Cameras Cameras &…
Insight not incite. Just a thought.
I listen to audio books and podcasts using a SanDisk Sansa , I prefer this over using my mobile phone for a few reasons. The main ones are: battery life; the sansa lasts weeks with out a recharge it clips onto my collar and I use a very short set of headphones I use the Juice podcast receiver application to download and manage my podcast subscriptions. I have it rigged up to download new podcasts…
I had a few issues while attempting to upgrade my laptop from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. If your harddrive is encrypted with something like TrueCrypt, you'll have to decode it, apply the upgrade and then re-encode it. A batch file script I use to sync podcasts between my PC and mp3 player had once gone a little nuts and written some files to my system reserved partition. This meant that there…
I've posted previously about how I was very late to the smart phone "revolution" and as my experience of living with an Android device in my pocket has continued I thought I'd give a little update. As quick Too Long; Didn't Read update, here the 5 key reasons I'd continued using an old nokia handset while the waves of the smartphone sea crashed around me: I'm at a computer for around 12 hours a…
I'm just finishing off moving all my web sites and related things from one VPS host to another. The new host had customized the message of the day on the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS image which I had installed. It had helpful links to support and what not, things that are only actually helpful the first time I logged in. As I went through the process of removing all this I had to learn about the update-motd…
I love hyper-v. I especially love hyper-v running on windows server 2012 in a failover cluster configuration. It truly is a wonderful environment to administer windows servers. With this said, the error logging leaves a lot to be desired. I've just spent the better part of two days trying to work out why live migration of servers between cluster nodes wasn't working. The error message which…