overwatering » Uncategorized http://www.overwatering.org/blog Random musings on fish, books and occasionally programming. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:18:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 A Drunken Taxonomy http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2009/11/a-drunken-taxonomy/ http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2009/11/a-drunken-taxonomy/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:49:07 +0000 giles http://www.overwatering.org/blog/?p=327 Australia in all its cultural majesty has co-opted yet another foreign tradition: hallowe’en. An ancient pagan European tradition celebrating the movement of dark forces through the night. The Americans took it first: a party for children. And now Australia has added our spin: alcohol and lots of it.

No need to thank us; we’re pretty proud of what we can offer.

Walking home through my neighbourhood last night, I was confused. How do I describe what I’m seeing? So: a drunken taxonomy:

When drunk X becomes:

  • Yuppies: self-important and obnoxious.
  • Teenagers: loud and obnoxious.
  • Footy fans (any code): violent and obnoxious.

This year hallowe’en was popular with the teenagers with a little bit of footy fan thrown in. And who were they actually? Australian.

]]> http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2009/11/a-drunken-taxonomy/feed/ 0 Bear With Me… http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2007/11/bear-with-me/ http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2007/11/bear-with-me/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:59:00 +0000 giles http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2007/11/bear-with-me/ Now that I’m using some proper tools for my blog editing I’m going back through my old posts making sure the formatting and HTML are correct. In particular, I’ve turned off the Blogger setting to do magic with line breaks, and instead I’m manually inserting <br/>’s where I want them to be.

This is better for my general OCD nature regarding all forms of code I write, and I hope my blog will look a bit better too. Please bear with me as all my posts slowly get cleaned up…

Oh, and if there are any other Mac Emacs users out there who are interested in my little tool, send me an email and I’ll try to arrange to share it.

]]> http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2007/11/bear-with-me/feed/ 0