Diary of an Emacs tragic

Diary of an Emacs tragic

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  • 400Gb hard drives!

    I was amazed to discover that you can now buy 0.4Tb hard disk drives. How much longer before we start measuring hard disk drives by the terabyte?

    September 26, 2004
  • Italian Sausages

    Yesterday we ventured to Haberfield. For those in the dark, Haberfield is the real little Italy of Sydney. I know you can find all the glitzy expensive Italian restaurants in Leichard, but real Italians do their shopping in Haberfield. My original plan was to get up early and head down there on my own or…

    September 26, 2004
  • Tomatoes

    I’m not sure where I got this desire from, but since we got back from over seas, I have had the urge to grow tomatoes on our balcony. So today, we went to the hardware shop and bought the necessary equipment and a grafted tomato plant. Apparantly, the grafted ones are much better. It’s a…

    September 26, 2004
  • Lantern is still broken

    Last night I tried to start up the lantern to show Ed, but once the blow torch was going, and heating up the vaporiser, the cracks in the glass just started to get bigger. I didn’t think it was safe to proceed so I turned off the blowtorch. I’ll be going to the lantern supply…

    September 22, 2004
  • Working pressure lantern

    This is a photo of the lantern working.

    September 21, 2004
  • Post travel depression

    Since we got back, Maissa and I have been wandering around in this kind of post travel depression. I’m not quite sure why we are both feeling it. Maybe it’s a kind of culture shock? or maybe its a combination of jet lag and having to face going back to work and getting back into…

    September 20, 2004
  • I broke my new toy already

    As night fell tonight, I was looking forward to having another go with the pressure lantern. This time, I wanted to try the slow light method, which is supposed to be a little more gentle, and requires less pumping. Basicaly, you fill this special resevoir with metho and light it and let it burn out,…

    September 19, 2004
  • Further reading on pressure lanterns

    This is a cool bit of history about the development of pressure lanterns.

    September 19, 2004
  • My new toy

    When we were in Syria, I saw pressure lanterns for sale and I realised that that is what I needed to make my life complete. So I asked around and they seemed to be going for around AU$20. Maissa was a little surprised that I wanted but insisted I wait until we get back to…

    September 18, 2004
  • Back to life, back to reality

    Got back last night after a fairly grueling flight back. At the moment, I’m finding it hard to come down to reality. I woke up at about 6:30 this morning, made coffee (it was good to finaly have my own coffee again) and sat on the couch wonderng how we are going to get ourselves…

    September 18, 2004
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