http://acherion.com/blog A few miscellaneous ramblings of a BMW-loving, Amiga-nostalgic, Mac-using PHP developer from Australia Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:00:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=180 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=180#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:33:26 +0000 geo http://acherion.com/blog/?p=180 I got a package in the mail today, delivered courtesy of Australia Post, naturally.  I had ordered a number plate that originated from Holland, and it was extremely well packed, complete with a packing slip professionally attached to the clearly-labelled ‘FRAGILE’ wrapping material.  The word ‘FRAGILE’ appeared in two other languages, and covered the entire [...] ]]> http://acherion.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=180 3 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=179 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=179#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:05:19 +0000 geo http://acherion.com/blog/?p=179 So as I sit here, waiting ever so patiently for my replacement Mac Mini, I was thinking of another name for it, something that was more suitable for the little bugger.  I will now not christen it Anaptysium as I had mentioned in my previous blog post, but it will now be called (when I [...] ]]> http://acherion.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=179 0 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=167 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=167#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:33:27 +0000 geo http://acherion.com/blog/?p=167 UPDATE: Unfortunately, the Mac Mini that was delivered to me had a problem of not being able to boot up correctly. After a couple of days of trying to make the machine work, I had called Apple Australia Customer Technical Support, and after the standard “try this, try that” routine the machine was declared [...] ]]> http://acherion.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=167 0 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=166 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=166#comments Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:16:17 +0000 geo http://acherion.com/blog/?p=166 Just to let you all know that I have added more pics of the ol’ girl to my My Car page. ]]> http://acherion.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=166 0 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=162 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=162#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:15:51 +0000 geo http://acherion.com/blog/?p=162 Very well done. ]]> http://acherion.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=162 0 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=161 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=161#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:31:52 +0000 geo http://acherion.com/blog/?p=161 I have removed the Captcha plugin for Wordpress called “Cryptographp” because of some fatal errors / bugs in the PHP used to generate the images as of late. I guess an update with Wordpress must’ve broken it. Apologies to anyone out there who was trying to post a reply in my blog — [...] ]]> http://acherion.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=161 0 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=148 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=148#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:34:05 +0000 geo http://acherion.com/blog/?p=148 Hey everyone, just wanted to post some pics of my “new” Mac. It’s a Mac SE/30 with 8MB RAM and an 80MB hard drive. It’s got a bit of a tan but she’s a solid machine. I’m planning to put a network card in to put it on the network, and maybe [...] ]]> http://acherion.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=148 1 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=147 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=147#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:19:15 +0000 geo http://acherion.com/blog/?p=147 ]]> http://acherion.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=147 0 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=146 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=146#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:01:03 +0000 geo http://acherion.com/blog/?p=146 I have recently landed a new job at a company called Digital Dogma, based in St Kilda in Melbourne. I’m pretty excited about this new position, as it brings me into a new direction and offer me challenges that I hopefully will savour. However, after having 2 interviews with the company and discussed [...] ]]> http://acherion.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=146 0 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=145 http://acherion.com/blog/?p=145#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:13:24 +0000 geo http://acherion.com/blog/?p=145 Dyson (the vacuum manufacturer) have developed and prototyped a new, revolutionary air hand dryer for public restrooms. Very cool idea and implementation — check out the review by Rich Demuro. ]]> http://acherion.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=145 0