Monthly Archives: August 2009

Starcraft II, LANs and FOSS

August 24, 2009 – 20:18

By now it’s common knowledge amongst Starcraft fans awaiting the release of Starcraft II that offline LAN support has been officially dropped from the game, citing warm fuzzy reasons like better-integrated community interaction or something which equally fails to hide the fact that they’re worried about things like Hamachi and piracy at LANs causing them [...]

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On Doing It Wrong

August 19, 2009 – 18:28

I’m not one to give up on a bad idea if I think I have half a chance of making it work for a while. So it was that today I fixed my dipole with a new questionable strain relief design (click for larger version): Yes indeedy. So far it hasn’t broken. Reception on 80m [...]

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RD Weekend 2009

August 16, 2009 – 22:28

A few hours ago I finished the Remembrance Day Contest for this year, working in the VHF phone section. Not that I knew that I would be until yesterday. It started with a beautiful Saturday. The weather in Hobart was nicer than it has been for months and refusing to stay inside, I went outside [...]

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Twitter And Politics Don’t Mix

August 10, 2009 – 20:09

Twitter received some major news coverage for its fanatical userbase following the recent Iran election. The tone of the media reports is more or less that of wonder. It seems to be a common theme to assume that social networking is completely useless, then make a news story about it when it is useful. Add [...]

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Gah, Fanboys

August 5, 2009 – 18:47

I would like to put an uncomfortable spotlight on those computer geeks who think that they’re cool because they use some particular piece of software. I have some authority to talk about those kind of people because I’ve been one before, but I hope that I’ve since grown out of such trivial rubbish. One common [...]

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