http://blog.droiby.net Where the right and left brains meet Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:45:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. [from "Still Alive", Portal] Given the date and content of the previous post, I thought the title of this one is somewhat appropriate... Anyway, in the five months since that post, Joyce and I got married, went to New ... http://blog.droiby.net/2009/07/27/still-alive/ It's kinda funny how time really flies when you're having fun (or in my case, having a looming unmoveable deadline that's quickly approaching).  I just realised that the last post that I put up was in November last year, even though I can distinctly remember writing it not too long ... http://blog.droiby.net/2009/02/22/a-quick-update/ I didn't go house hunting on Saturday... decided to go through my entire 17 GB backlog of photos in one huge sitting and do the whole cull/post-process thing.  After many hours of gimping, and several thousand photos later, I emerged relatively unscathed with the following galleries: Grace and Chris' Wedding MKC 2008 Melbourne ... http://blog.droiby.net/2008/11/20/backlog/ Things have been pretty busy since the last post -- wedding planning has stepped up a notch (i.e. we're actually doing something now), and I'm still pretty much spending every Saturday popping into assorted open-house inspections. Anyway, I never thought I'd come across one of these, but for one of the ... http://blog.droiby.net/2008/11/01/gonzalez-disclosure/ I recently came across this article that outlined an experiment performed by the Psychology Department of North Carolina State University. In a nutshell, the participants were asked to watch something that mimiced loading of medical websites, and were asked questions about these sites.  Thrown in for good measure were some fake ... http://blog.droiby.net/2008/09/24/popups-a-psychology-experiment/ Wow I haven't written in such a long time. Wedding stuff is going well, it's funny how photography was the first thing we discussed! We've got the deposit down for the venues (St. John's Anglican Cathedral in Parramatta, Regal Restaurant), the 'all-important' wedding gown (Maggie Sotero, it was on sale! ... http://blog.droiby.net/2008/09/04/long-time-no-writewedding-update/ Well, it looks like the date for the wedding is set -- March 28th, 2009.  I guess we should start making some efforts preparing for the big day, since there's only eight-ish months left... Anyway, Joyce and I recently met up with the minister who will be conducting the ceremony.  He ... http://blog.droiby.net/2008/07/06/speak-now-or-forever-hold-your-peace/ I wonder how much attention transit officers pay when examining tickets.  I got approached by one this evening on my way home from work -- he asked that I show him my ticket, and I gladly obliged.  I pulled out my ticket and showed it to him, he looked at ... http://blog.droiby.net/2008/05/23/revenue-protection/ http://blog.droiby.net/2008/05/12/156/ Software patents -- there's plenty of debate as to whether they're actually useful or not. For most people, they probably don't care since it doesn't affect them (well, not directly anyway). In fact, I'd hazard a guess that most people in my industry probably won't give much of a ... http://blog.droiby.net/2008/03/05/software-patents/