Our kids seem to have the Christmas thing under control — I remember waking my folks up at 5am to open presents, but our kids let us sleep in today until nearly 8:30am. They liked their presents heaps, so if you got something for them, well done. I’ll put some pictures online later when I…
Category: Christmas
I like Christmas
I spent some time this morning wrapping the presets for the kids. They get two Christmases you see — the one in Australian, and then another smaller one when they get to the US. Now, it might be the nostalgia speaking, or the fact that I haven’t seen my family in nearly a month, but…
Sick Twinkle Tux
Herm. Twinkle Tux just had one of it’s transformers fail. I’m not sure if it was because of temperature (it was a warm day and I had left Twinkle Tux on all day as I got slack), or if it was just due to fail. Luckily I had a hot spare, so Twinkle Tux is…
The making of Twinkle Tux
This page documents how I built a penguin out of fairy lights… Tux is the official mascot of the Linux operating system, to which I have made various contributions over the years. Tux was originally drawn by Larry Ewing, and looks something like: The goal was to turn this into something which worked well with…
The making of Twinkle Tux
As a hobbyist Linux kernel hacker, it struck me as obvious that the first thing I should make is a Tux made out of fairy lights. Tux is the official Linux mascot. There’s a page documenting how I made Twinkle Tux if you’re interested.