#2 – Have a getaway work place in short waking distance such as a café, library or park.

Previous to my recent move, I was in a Suburban wasteland, with no alternative places to sit and work. Being stuck at home with little outside contact, sometimes for days, made it very easy to get into mental [...]

New app? Update to an app? With Panic input?

Either way, the prelude to the release of whatever-it-is, has some great pixel animations. Worth checking out: IconFactory.com

One of the many LOL moments – Guy walking out of a Portable Toilet:

Over the last week, I’ve had a Black MacBook on loan from Apple to run some app tests. It was nice to be able to live with one for a week as well, and get a feel for it. Here are my stream-of-thought points.

Good:

    Nice size and weight  – feels bit less of a commitment [...]

Today, Rachael, My girlfriend, looked up Couriers Please

“Australia Wide Delivery Network” stated their advertisement.

So She phones them to get a package sent from Melbourne to Tasmania and the lady on the phone says:

“Oh we don’t send to Tasmania”

Okaaaaayyyy. Nice one guys.

There is now a weekly tequp in Melbourne, Australia. Every Wednesday, 3pm @ Joe’s Garage, 366 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

See’ya there!

This Wordpress Admin UI overhaul plugin is hot: WP Tiger Admin. Highly recommended

A new medical paper was released recently:

PLASQ:  probe-level allele-specific quantitation

From: http://www.bepress.com/harvardbiostat/paper44/

as Adrian (plasqer in Switzerland) put it, “we finally have a catchy slogan!”

From a brief untrained reading, it seems to be a classification method of cells to aid tracking of mutations which lead to cancer. Or I could be completely wrong.

BumpTop looks attractive and interesting. Scalability is the obvious issue… look forward to further work in this area.

Video of it in action:


The badd-ass hip hop remix yo:


Merlin Mann at 43Folders comments on it here

(see how I put 2 D’s in bad? Yeah, I’m cool)

Heading to sydney for a couple of nights Tomorrow. Friday, 2pm, I’ll be giving a talk about plasq, and how we collaborate globally to create software.

Feature Presentation – Developing on the Mac

Wish me luck

It is great working from home, and wouldn’t have it any other way…. but… Working from home the last few years, I’ve learnt, sometimes the hardway™, that you need to take special measures to make sure you remain sane and happy.

In an attempt to perhaps help others, and even more of a hope to start [...]