Today I am giving Emacs + Spacemacs a try. What is Spacemacs? you may ask. A good question. it could be described (innacurately) as just a text editor , others think it a way of life but for me it really is just a convoluted text editor unless I decide to figure out how to use org-mode (don't ask, I don't know). I...

Just as the English have Corfu, the Australians have Bali. I am here with my little family having a short holiday in Seminyak. It is the Indonesian Wet season which we as desert dwellers are finding very novel. A lovely painting by Kiem Liane While out walking the other day I saw a poster advertising Feliz Eye Art...

The forces of Mordor cleverly used the Palantíri before war broke out. I stumbled across @AirplaneFactsWithMax a while ago. In his reels he talks about aircraft facts and somehow ties them into Tolkiens' Lord of the Rings lore. I found it pretty funny. I took a break from social media after Chrissy. I find all the...

Alan's buddhas after his house and yard were cleared. Since the fire the house has slowly been caving in on itself. Alan and his wife, who he lovingly referred to always as, "The Bride" had lived there happily for 30 years. A Demolition Team arrived last week and began scooping Alan's broken house and wonderfully...

a sketch I did today of a bloke called Damian at the Broken Hill Art Exchange We got back into Broken Hill last week and are back to work tomorrow. Having a few days at home has been great. I have often noticed flyers in town for a figure drawing group at the Broken Hill Art Exchange . After last months Wellbeing...

Yesterday we got home from 12 days on the coast. It has been hot and dry while we were away. A dust storm had left the cracked old swimming pool with an orange tidemark. Many of our plants had turned crispy with lack of water and burning heat. The dog and cat survived but both seemed relieved to see us. I watered my...

Getting a lukewarm, weak, milky coffee this morning. Seagull was unimpressed by the washed out surf, crap coffee and no chippies It is Boxing Day morning here in Australia. Our Boambee Bay apartment has a mild undertone of prawns and the loudly raucous birds ouside are letting us know the sun is already blazing....

There's nowt as queer as folk Back in the mid-80's when I was young and impressionable, a relic told me "gay people are unnatural and disgusting". I think the relic was concerned I might 'catch gay' from listening to David Bowie and reading Bruce Chatwin. Michael, my boss at work was gay and unlike the relic he...

I had heard of Nick Drake and today I saw that the charming Mackenzie Crook has published a book called, " If Nick Drake Came To My House ". I will have to get to the book later. This morning I listened to Nick Drakes albums, they are beautiful. In my usual obsessive details-orientated way I downloaded all three the...

My brain is getting a good workout but I think my body needs to catch up Enough is enough. I think I have resolved the Markdown sitch and the rsync probs. It's not even close to what I want it to be - but it's a start. Enough, for now at least. ... Permalink

So many gotchas. This is as bad as home DIY. OK, so the 'make publish' command was running with the system python when called via SSH The solution I hit on was to specify the VENV path in the Makefile, let's see if it works... Here is a list if it works: cows turtles dog cat fish ... Permalink

Lazy Sunday Afternoon, a theme on this blog Sunday afternoon in Broken Hill. I am sat on the sun-faded green sofa. The dog for company watching the kids on the basketball court across the street. Having a beer. It's been an oddly overcast day with uniform grey cloud covering the sky. Behind the cloud the implacable...