Early july

I have ordered a Gitzo tripod. It will be black, small and made of carbon fibre. It makes me too cool for school

Whilst cruising on the net for a tripod I finally found one of the hard disks on a stick which I could order. I have wanted a hard disk that acts like a digital wallet. What I have ordered is the 10 gig mindStor unit

Having a device like this should make travel with a digital camera a synch. It goes a long way to replacing the Iomega Click drive that got stolen.

12th July

Headed off for a walk on Wilson's Prom. Three days with a pack should be fun. See Wilson's Prom piece for more details.

I saw a wombat in the wild for the first time.

16th july

James and I are ready to ask the boys if we can host in the Aconex rack. We have a price and the price is looking good. Now all we have to do is ensure hosting for a resonable price and we are in business.

I am trying for a cool web site name. I was going to be called Cordivace but no one knows what the crow/rook family is. High Pass Filter I thought was cool but turns out to already be a Melbourne band. Will have to think of something.

21st July

I am ohmslaw.org I like it because it is the subtle geek joke. Ohms Law is the law govering the relationship between Resistance Amperage and Voltage. The tag line makes the joke funny. I have melded the raven into the logo surrounded by the greek letter Omega which is the symbol for resistance.

22nd July

We have a box on order. A clone in a beige box. We have rack space courtesy of Aconex (my employer) and are almost in the hosting business.

24th July

The box is here. James is configuring it. The software is coming along a treat and we are planning a launch on the weekend.

James site www.thirdglance.com is looking sensational. I have yet to get my site looking nearly so competent having a raft of things to do to complete the pGal Framework.

28th July

Launch day. We put www.thirdglance.com and ohmslaw.org on the web. We went to global where our boxes are hosted and soon had the box on the web and talking.

James has done a fine job of setting it all up and it really took longer to find a crash cart with a working monitor than it did to get it all hooked up.

We are live!

30th July

James has placed references to pGal, ... well his site www.thirdglance.com on photonet and the complaints have rolled in. Seems I used a JavaScript trick that works only in some versions of IE. Lucky for me today I work at MMG where there are Macs and every form of browser known to human kind and certain browsers that never should have been and I have fixed everything.

Maybe not everything but certainly what counts in pGal.

I am more amazed than ever how cool it is. I can put up a few pictures or other content really easily. Now all I have to do is sort out the licenceing and the last few bugs of which I am sure a few exist and we are ready for open source land.

And how prosiac that Meg lees has taken her bat and ball and stomped off saying I will keep the bastards honest even if it means that I don't do what I said. Which of course begs the question if you are going to be a dishonest ( and therefor a bastrad) how are you going to keep anyone honest.

But hell its your seat you got it by fair means or foul, go girl, you keep it. Even if some of those means involve people voting for the party not the woman. You earned the seat dammit and its yours, no mater what undertakings you gave.

Give me an honest politician and I will give you a hard working cat.

Today I brought cheese, Edam, olives, nasty ewes milk feta and other olives marrintated in things and stuffed with anchovies and thoes odd little red squares. And I brought rich red steak and I ate it.