Some simple observations on the Wrest Point hotel… The room is nice, but nothing fancy. The in room internet is free, but doesn’t work. Most importantly, the breakfast place in the hotel plays Weird Al while you’re eating.
Month: January 2009
Introducing the online MythTV book
When parts of the first edition of the MythTV book became out of date, I decided to take the book online and ask others to help me improve it and bring it up to date. There is a blog for announcements, at http://mythtvbook.com/blog and if you’re interested in helping out, please visit the Help Wanted…
Travelling to Hobart today
After some initial uncertainty because of the economy, I am travelling to Hobart today for linux.conf.au 2009. I’m speaking at the MythTV mini-conf about MythNetTV, as well as a new MythTV book I have been working on for a while. It will be good to get there, although I wont manage that until about 10pm…
The Compleat Bolo
I read this book on flights. This book is a collection of several Bolo short stories, as well as two longer stories. This was a pretty common technique it seems with early science fiction, and it works ok here as long as you remember that the chapters are unlinked short stories. In fact, several of…
Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow
I read this anthology as a child, but when I found a copy on ebay that was cheap I couldn’t resist. This is a collection of short stories focusing on what war might be like in the future. It’s a good read, although a couple of the stories are out of place compared with the…
Calculating a SSH host key with paramiko
I needed to compare a host key from something other than a known_hosts file with what paramiko reports as part of the SSH connection today. If you must know, the host keys for these machines are retrieved a XMLRPC API… It turned out to be a lot easier than I thought. Here’s how I produced…
Bio of a Space Tyrant: Refugee
I’m not really sure what I think about this book. Its well written, and very readable, but depressing. The book starts with a sexual assault, and then moves on to describe what its like to be the minimum wage labor in a space colony. The short answer — its not much fun. Worse than that,…