Nathan Hurst's home page
A Picture of me and my circle signature
I am currently doing a PhD in Constraint systems with Kim Marriott. My major interests are sleeping, HCI, music, number theory, etc... Most of my computing is done from my PowerBook G3 Pismo running Linux/GNU.
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| Xerochrysum(Bracteantha) bracteata, or paper daisy, is an everlasting from almost everywhere in Australia. It grows in open woodland, on the sides of roads and in lots of people's gardens. This species has just been renamed again! (If this picture comes out with a white background then your browser doesn't support pngs properly. Get galeon or Mozilla, Chimera or Phoenix.) |
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I am an avid tea drinker(which I drink black), my favourite teas are:
- Plain tea(no added flavour)
- English breakfast
- Lapsang Souchong
- Pu-erh
- Irish breakfast
- Japanese Kokeicha
- Black Adder(liquorice)
Current excitements:
- "The thing that really scares me is that by the time I'm that old, the latest technology will have become counter-intuitive to me, and I'll end up saying stupid things like, "My nanobots aren't replicating" when, in fact, any 15-year-old can tell they clearly are." -- Fratz (630746)
- In preparation for moving circle to gtk-2 I've ported the text demo from the gtk+2.0 tarball to python-gtk2.
- Been reading Harry Potter recently, here's my recipe for Butterbeer.
- Four people have asked me about rainwater tanks. Here's my Rainwater tank HOWTO.
- New seedling table.
- Here's a fun experiment, The Zen TV Experiment. I've long felt that TV is somehow a way of reducing my creativity and zest for life, and the nice thing about the internet is there is always someone to present your opinion as truth... :)
- A short tutorial on sodipodi
- Christmas cheer:
They know when you run Windows
They know when you use Word
They treat a loyal customer
Like a lying, thieving turd.
- Several people have told me that they've had trouble working out my email address. njh works with most server names. hawthorn.csse.monash.edu.au is a suitable mail server name.
- One sort of cicada turns on at 21.9°C and goes off at 21.7°C. It requires the temperature to be significantly higher than that during the day though.
- What do you think of my new book stylesheet? The ring binding is done entirely within the stylesheet. (Choose the book style from the view menu to see it turned on :) Unfortunately, it seems to tickle a bug in mozilla.
- Pictures from my working holiday in Seattle and Paris
- Servos with a PIC
- Ok, put up a page on my cameras.
- Quote of the, ah, time period: "Linux users think they can topple the Windows empire because ethically, Free Software has a more solid foundation than Microsoft. But they seem to ignore the fact that this means nothing because most users have no ethics."—Jace of Fuse!
- Valenti's VCR speech
- It turns out that the department is only charged for incoming traffic, so I've turned externally referenced pictures back on (I only have to pay for the acks, which are between 3 and 10% for the size of the traffic in the other direction. Still, please ask me before you use my pictures. For a start, I like to know what they're being used for!
- Figured out interrupts.
- Timetable is significantly simpler now :)
- The department is cracking down on excessive bandwidth use, and I've been looking to see what forms of traffic hawthorn gets the most of. One significant cost is people using pictures off the website by simply refering to the original on hawthorn. This is unreasonable, and I consider it bandwidth theft. If you want to use a picture for something please email me and we'll work out something.
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- First successful PIC program.
- Started on my pic-tricks page.
- Trip to Germany pictures bearly nearly nearly done...
- Lynne gave me a great book on Stylidiums for my birthday!
- My Eremophila is flowering beautifully
- Wonderful news! Olympus has repaired my camera free of charge. Turns out it was a broken wire inside the case (well, that's what the form says :). So only Apple is in my sin bin now :)
- Two companies to avoid for future: Apple and Olympus. My Airport Base station(basestation) died from a poorly designed power supply. Apple 'care' refused to help me, citing lack of warranty on the device. Not sure about product law, but it seems to me that if something has a design flaw then it should be the companies job to make sure that it is fixed. As they won't do anything about it, I figure I can at least vent steam here and warn other people of this gotcha.
- My Olympus C700 camera died today(20020726) when the battery went flat.
- Trip to Germany pictures nearly nearly done...
- I've written up a little note on Getting a FASTPCI-4037 working. I bought one of these from DSE, and neither the internal notes, nor the company website gave any useful information about the card. I was going to return it, but I decided to have a play around first.
- Photos from out skiing trip to lakemountain
- Photos from the terrestrial group's outing to Grantville.
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- I got an email today(20020605) from Thuon Chen regarding my picture of a housefly. Turns out that it is probably a blowfly(phylum Arthropoda, (Hexapoda), class Insecta, order Diptera, family Calliphoridae) rather than a house fly(family Muscidae). I didn't know there was a difference, but there you have it!
- People have asked for my Make talk.
- My experimental Sphagnum bog is now on the web.
- Got a new digital camera - it's an olympus C700 - Verra nice.
- Trip to Germany pictures nearly done...
- A program to extract data from the PL60 solar charge controller.
- Gratiuitous circle plug, a decentralised chat program and file sharing thingy that I've been helping with.
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| Caleana major is a cute orchid from gariwerd. It is called the flying duck orchid for an obvious reason. |
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- Photos from the family trip to bright.
- Photos from our trip to falls creek.
- A new version of my DT24 driver is available. This fixes the DMA problems in the previous version.
- New front lawn pictures from 20011122
- Photos from our recent trip to the grampians
- Lynne took a nice picture of the recent lightning storm.
- Lynne has put up a page of some nice shots taken at tooradin recently.
- After telling all my Multimedia students that a web timetable is a good idea, I've put mine up.
- Back from Queensland, should have some pictures up on the web soon!
- Here's a write up on a digital water level sensor.
- Our front door was witness to a serious accident.
- Tigert helped me get the sleep working on Nudibranch. It is Verra Nice!
- I have partially developed a new system for home automation control.
- Ken and I have developed a fully solid state digital water level meter.
- I've retired from freshmeat as I have too much other stuff on my plate.
- An online db of my fungi pictures
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- Happy snaps from my otways trip.
- My guide to cat moving(Sadly, this cat is no more :( Perhaps he got offended at this page?)
- Just got my logitech optical mouse - very smooth...
- My macro photography section is getting underway.
- Nudibranch has had a replacement SIMM put in - the last one was
generating random bit related errors.
- While Nudibranch is away, I have been reading a good book on category theory.
- My plans for a new fome dragon
- New pictures from my trip up sydney way.
- I've put up my pictures from FOME's annual dinner.
- I went to the first day of the S11 protests
- I got a mention in The Age :-)
- Woo hoo, my airport finally talks to the base station. I used BenH's airport module, and set the base station to DHCP + NAT.
- I just got some programmable radio tuner cards to play with
- My trip to and from the adelaide hills
- Some pictures taken on a trip to the Bass bush with my girlfriend Lynne.
- My sunset pictures.
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I like to chat with my friends from korner. Many of the korner people are also involved with FOME(mirror). I was the Treasurer and Keeper of Mathoms.
I have a number of hobbies, interests and pastimes; when I feel the urge, I write about them in the various entries below:
