Church fund raisers
Selling ring tones for popular hymns is such and obvious fund raiser that I'm a little upset that I didn't think of it. [tags:] [icbm: work]
Photo tour of the abandoned Russian embassy in Thailand
Via Boing Boing. A really quite interesting tour of an abandoned Russian embassy. Makes you wonder what they needed to remove from all the walls. Was it the Russians who did the removing, or the Americans? [tags: russian embassy] [icbm: work]
Fined for speeding in the ACT recently?
Did you check it was your car? [tags: speeding fine computer error] [icbm: home]
Electric shadows has a RSS feed!
I'm impressed that I've found a cinema in Canberra with an RSS feed for the movies they're currently showing. That's cool. [tags: movies cinema canberra] [icbm: home]
Linux drivers for the Earthmate USB GPS
Are here in case I need them again... [tags: gps earthmate linux] [icbm: home]
ICM532 webcam support for Linux
An original project was superseded by another project which had some interesting links to information on the camera. Compare and contrast with a NetBSD driver for the same camera. This specification might also come in handy. (This ICM532 is one of the cameras I'm playing with at University at the moment) [tags: webcam linux icm532] [icbm: home]
IT in churches
Robert Scoble went on a tour of an IT centric church. The church IT manager commented on the tour too. [tags: church IT] [icbm: home]
Second day, and already behind
Herm. I'm having a go at helping Jeremy review his book. Partially because of timezone differences and partially because of giving a talk on my Blosxom blogging engine at a users group last night I'm already a little behind. Time to knuckle down and do some serious reading me thinks. [tags:]
Tipping Point: Gaetan Dugas, the AIDS patient zero
Page 21 of The Tipping Point mentions Gaetan Dugas, the so-called AIDS patient zero: "...the French-Canadian flight attendant, who claimed to have 2,500 sexual partners in North America, and who was linked to at least 40 of the earliest cases of AIDS in California and New York..." Assuming this time line of the AIDS epidemic is to be believed, I'm surprised that the transition from monkey to human happened in 1930 (ish). That's about four decades earlier than I had assumed. I might follow that thread a little more in a separate post. AIDS was a traumatic experience as a child growing up in the very late 1970s, and through out the 1980s. I definitely remember being a quite scared 10 year old when the grim reaper advert campaign came to air. It rather sounds to me like Gaetan has some fairly serious psychological problems. Now, I'm not judgemental of the fact that he liked to shag people, but surely there is a reasonable limit that should be imposed on the number of partners you should have at any one time, even without imposing my Christian perspective on it all. Perhaps I'm also tainted by having grown up in a…
Essex secret bunker
Note to self: if I ever find myself in Essex, I should go along and see the Essex secret bunker, which was a nuclear disaster emergency control center. I discovered it watching the history channel this morning, and it looks quite interesting. But wait... The plot thickens... There seems to be a web site for another such bunker at Kelvedon Hatch, but the site for the one at Essex seems to be defunct, which is a shame. Apparently there are no plans to reopen it at this time. And then there is the bunker in Scotland. And one at a place called Hack Green. I am so going next time I am in the UK...