http://godot.unisa.edu.au/bilby The ramblings of a small-time Information Systems academic. Sat, 13 May 2006 13:14:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 I haven’t been posting much here, as one can tell, but we’re still progressing. I keep meaning to post, but with all the work I’m doing (I’m somewhat overloaded at the moment) I feel horribly guilty whenever I even consider doing something not work related. Neverthless, the garboards - the ... http://godot.unisa.edu.au/bilby/index.php?p=57 Well, my sister appears to have had one, anyway. A baby, that is. They gave me all the stats that I’m supposed to ask about, but the only meaningful ones were “girl” and “Elizabeth". The others were all these weight and meaurement things. And thus I now have three nieces. A ... http://godot.unisa.edu.au/bilby/index.php?p=56 Interesting - I just had an automatic upgrade to Firefox 1.5.0.1, and now everything is broken. I’m not overly impressed. Some pages consistantly won’t load, images won’t appear, CSS files (such as the one for the ABC News site) won’t load, and gMail will only work with JavaScript turned off. I’m ... http://godot.unisa.edu.au/bilby/index.php?p=55 Uni’s been keeping me busy for a while - I’ve been desperately trying to keep up with work, and thus I’ve let this slide for a bit. But this isn’t to say that we haven’t been working on the boat. We have, after all, finally reached the planking stage, and ... http://godot.unisa.edu.au/bilby/index.php?p=54 Scarfing! At last! Finally, it was time to get the timber ready for planking the hull. Scarfing has been the step which we’ve been the most anxious about (other than building the mast, and we’re still hoping that we know what we’re doing by then). Because the boat is longer ... http://godot.unisa.edu.au/bilby/index.php?p=53 We had another couple of good days on the boat in the last three weeks or so. The first, day 11, was the first time we stuck one “boat bit” on to another “boat bit". More specifically, we glued the keelson onto the apron and the transom. This first picture ... http://godot.unisa.edu.au/bilby/index.php?p=52 The claimed 10th planet in our solar system, which has the formal name of “2003 UB313″, now has the informal title of “Xena". This is cool. But nowhere near as cool as reports that it also has a moon called “Gabrielle". From the ABC News article: “Having a moon is just ... http://godot.unisa.edu.au/bilby/index.php?p=51 Based on some excellent advice, I’m off to look at hand planes tonight. http://godot.unisa.edu.au/bilby/index.php?p=50 And thus we hit double figures. I was wondering today about how I’ll feel when we hit triple figures - it certainly isn’t inconceivable that we may still be going after two years. Mostly because a “day” rarely means a full eight hours, and normally refers to two or three ... http://godot.unisa.edu.au/bilby/index.php?p=49 Much to report! I spent a couple of hours just playing with 3D primatives (triangles and rectangles) until I felt I had the hang of them, then moved on to playing with the rotation function. I’m pretty happy - I honestly feel like I can do something now. I then ... http://godot.unisa.edu.au/bilby/index.php?p=48