I love vendors

They are always sending you useful items

Dilemma

Faced with not enough caramello ice-cream, Tim and I had to resort to the "diet" ice-cream and let my lovely wife have the "non-diet" ice-cream.

We felt really ripped off.

Fantastic

The Rudd government is adding a tax to pre-mix "lolly-water" drinks.

Personally, I don't have an issue with this approach. People who consume said drinks should be forced to pay $100/drink, they are tossers anyway.

Resolving binge drinking problem

OK, so their has been a lot of press coverage of the "drinking" epidemic sweeping across the country. Rather than the usual solutions, which involve the errosion of citizens rights, restricting access to alcohol and other such draconian measures, I would like to suggest a new novel approach.

Why not mix a sedative in with the alcohol?

That way, when you have too much to drink, you don't get violent, you get sleepy. No more drunken violence and social mischief, rather delicate members of the public will be tip-toeing through a sea of slumbering drunks. No more pub fights, people will instead be cuddled up in the corner enjoying each others body warmth.

What about drink driving? It will be a thing of the past. People will instead be asleep in their cars where they left them, probably collecting parking fines.

An extra side benefit for the drinker, aside from good nights sleep without the tossing and turning, is the ability to sleep right through the hang-over period. If the brewers get the dose right, people will sleep right through that nasty period about 8am in the morning and emerge bright as a button around 4pm. Hooray I say.

I mean, really.

Murray White Water Festival

Photos are starting to emerge from the Murray White Water Festival

http://lavash.smugmug.com/gallery/3368390

http://lavash.smugmug.com/gallery/3375357

http://eudedude.smugmug.com/gallery/3375682

Thanks Danny and Daniel for the photos.

Thanks to the organisers for a great event.

OK, you want swap over NFS?

here you have it...

mount -t nfs -o rw,udp,async,rsize=4096,wsize=4096 server:/swaps /mnt
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swap bs=1024k count=1024
mkfs.ext2 /mnt/swap mount -o loop /mnt/swap /swap
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap/swapfile bs=1024k count=1000
mkswap /swap/swapfile
swapon /swap/swapfile

and there you have it. Swap over NFS :)

Paradise in 1000 pictures

A few of us have taken to surfing in Indonesia. See the photos of the past two trips:

Indospective Kayak Surfari 2006

Indospective Kayak Surfari 2007

Sure, there are heaps of photos to wade through. So, some of my favorites

Kuta reef, Bali

Lacerations, Nusa Lembongan

Batukaras, West Java

and perhaps one of the best kayak surf photos I've seen

Lacerations, Nusa Lembongan