Ugh, Saturday morning and I'm awake with a
hangover. Finished work at 17:00 yesterday and took a taxi into
Civic to meet some
ISOC-AU folks at
P. J. O'Reilly's for an end-of-week drink. Bloody noisy and smokey, that
pub. I had three or four
halves of fine
Cascade Pale Ale, when Gemma joined us. I was so proud to introduce her to my geeky friends as "a Unix user" (hehe, she's upgraded her little iBook to Mac OS X lately). Geeks left, we stayed for more beer, then retired to our
local,
Filthy McFadden's in
Kingston, where we had another couple. Hrm. At this point it seemed like the best idea in the world to pick up two bottles of wine and four new-release DVDs...
The coffee tastes
goooood. Black
Illy espresso from my stove-top
Atomic...
Today we vote in the world's first electronic election, here for the state legislature (well, we aren't actually a
state, rather a
territory, and to be honest I don't really understand the difference -- Canberrans are fiercely proud of their Australian Capital Territory). The election is being run as a parallel electronic and paper poll, with all of the electronic code running as
open source on
Debian Linux. Gemma has just gone out to get
The Canberra Times so we can plan our voting (we use the complex but exceedingly modern and fair
Hare Clark system, but in my current pained state that is best left for another
wup. Think I'll take some photos of us voting electronically today, seems like a good event to record. Wonder if we can
C! an extra-good candidate...
Oh cool, I just remembered. I got a new phone, finally. I've been carrying around this sorry excuse for a modern cellphone, a Motorola Piece of Crap, for 10 months now. I have never hated an item of personal electronics quite as viciously as I hated that phone. So I finally gave in and swapped it for a sleek new
Ericsson T29s which is a joy to have. The interface has matured so well since my last Ericsson, I'm amazed. It's a little flippy thing, sort of silvery, with deep purple features. It has five games (Tetris, a
Qix clone, and three other things I don't really like). I couldn't help it while I was shopping, so I also got a
DECT Ericsson wireless phone for home too (
It was on special, honey, honest!), which is also extremely cool. Today I must punch all our
Rolodex numbers into it's memory and retire the dead-tree format household number listing.