Tracey still recovering. One trip to busselton hospital. All good now.
Category Archives: Life
Life
A day not off
It’s funny how a day can work out.
I didn’t plan to have a day at work. But it ended up happening.
One of the most productive days I’ve had in a while. Echo’s reported. Rosters written. And all from going to work, while telling everyone I was having the day off.
New Server
Ok,
A complete rebuild of the server. Running on Lion now, which isn’t trivial. No support for MySql, so it has to been installed manually.
And poor virtual host support – have bought VirtualHostX, which does the job well.
Now I just need to rebuild the whole thing, although the blog entries are here, which is a start.
Michael
K.D. Lang
Wet concert.
Our reward for the hard work of last month, and last week especially.
Pity for the weather
Strong fail
I need this one for work.
Twitter on the iPhone 4S
I loved this one:
The last time I saw this much disappointment with a keynote event was at the iPad launch.
Its as dry as it gets.
Michael
iSad
Steve Jobs – I will miss you.
Cost of solar
Just to follow up from a discussion on friday…
The article notes that the 2009 average cost in the US is 6.1 to 18.1 cents per kilowatt hour. It was on this basis that they say that IF power gets down to 15 c per kwh it would be competitive.
What about the cost of electricity in Australia?
Well, according to wikipedia, which may not be accurate but I have no reason to doubt it, its 3-5 cents per kwh.
So whilst solar will become cost competitive with coal in the more expensive parts of the US, in five years, possibly, its going to be quite a while before it competes with either the cheaper parts of the US or most of Australia.
Don’t get me wrong – I’m a big believer in renewable power as being the only long term plan that looks viable – but it will only happen with either:
a. Major government initiatives (eg., subsidies & taxes)
b. Major rises in the cost of extracting coal
If we wait for option b, then the economy is going to be in a bad way by the time it happens.
Michael
Stuck at work
Stuck at work.
Social life not progressing this evening.
Tea and Toast. Forget the coffee.
Having a good weekend.
Small incident with the coffee maker – I could have sworn it was the sort that you put on the stove.
Turns out it was somewhat more of an electric version, with lots of plastic underneath. Highly flammable plastic…
Michael