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Loads of photos
The trouble with the cheap, mega capacity memory cards you get these days is that I have less incentive to process them all. I've got a gig in my little pocket camera, and 2 gigs in the big one. This one is the pub quiz we sometimes do, and Simon Stewart dropped in.
Scott and Katie just visited for a quick weekend.
Todd and Pete just celebrated their five years together, so we had lunch at The Warren View with them and a few mates. Congratulations!
We went to the Surry Hills Festival a while back, then got sick of paying $6 for Tooheys New (ugh!) and retired to Mr Mary's in Redfern for a boozy afternoon.
I went to the Reunion Rave on Saturday night. It was fun catching up with all the old rave buddies, listening to old classics. Main observation of the evening: my hasn't everyone's skin improved?
Finally, Holly's been cooking up a storm!
09 Jun 2008 13:20 [category: /me] #
Malcolm Middleton: fantastic gig
Holly and I went to see Malcolm Middleton, formerly of Arab Strap at the Hopetoun last night. Brilliant gig! As well as the miserable Scot, the two support bands were excellent, which is refreshing as "Special Guests" are often lousy.
First up were PapavsPretty, a bunch of 17 year olds with amazing talent. Their cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart was excellent, and kids playing a Yamaha DX7 that's older than them is quite amusing.
Second was Sui Zhen, a woman with a voice somewhat like the woman from Lamb. Delicate but playful songs. Quite enjoyed it.
In between sets we got talking to a couple of Belfast lads. Metal fan Mick of the cliched name looked a lot like Hank Von Helvete from Turbonegro, though I didn't point out that they're a Norwegian gay metal band.
Finally out came the miserable Scot. Brilliant, as always. He's a genius with an acoustic guitar, and the Prozac clearly isn't working.
The photo? From the dunnies at the Hopetoun. I was amused while I took a piss, anyway.
09 May 2008 17:01 [category: /music] #
Postcodes in electoral divisions
This is just to notify geeks out there that this data exists. I'm sure this will be of real interest to someone out there, perhaps someone building a mySociety for Australia.
The federal parliament's parliamentary library just published a paper called Postcodes in electoral divisions, and describes the postcodes in federal electoral divisions and the percentage of that postcode that is within a division. Very handy stuff, for a very narrow group of users.
The copyright statement at the end is probably boilerplate, because it certainly doesn't match up with the publication of such a useful dataset, paid for by the public.
PS: It's well worth signing up to library feeds as there's a wealth of useful stuff issued by this organisation. I've particularly appreciated the bills digests, which explain the purpose of bills before parliament in quite neutral language.
