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Astrophotography with Mac OS X - Reprise

So, N years later, how is that going? It was going pretty well, but then there was a pandemic with lock-downs and curfews, which rather restricted access to dark skies.The obvious fix was to obtain access to dark skies, by way of a holiday house in the Wimmera.

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A large bright oddly shaped galaxy with a dark dust band across it

Shiny Newness

After quite a long time of hosting drupals for clients, I've finally succumbed and set one up for myself.

On the todo list are fixing up the theme, fixing tiny-mce integration and adding my gallery in here, so it can magically show the image of the day and stuff like that.

OSDC

Last year I properly attended my first Open Source Developers Conference, and this year's - held in Brisbane from November 26 to 29 - is coming up fast.

I'm planning to attend again this year and if you have any developers doing open source work or doing any open source work yourself, I can heartily recommend going. OSDC is a great place to pick up tick and trips and find out how to use your favourite tools and languages in unexpected new ways.

The theme for this year's conference is "Success in Development & Business".

linux.conf.au programme

Well then, after a nearly false start two weeks ago, we now have a programme for linux.conf.au 2008! Before we publicise it, we need to of course notify speakers, which means it's still hush-hush completely secret confidential we can't reveal any details publically.

However, we can provide you with a sneak preview:

 

Programme