25 October, 2006

We’ve been in our new house for a month now and so far so good. Starting to settle in nicely and I am stoked with the new found freedom to dig a hole anywhere I feel like and set up gardens the way I want them. It’s the simple things that make life good. We have planted a few trees and the vege gardens are starting to grow…though the soil is going to take a while to build up. All good fun.

We have had a few tags placed on our property, most of which were pretty average so I decided to start recording and evaluating them. The flip side of this is that my interest in graffiti has been renewed. I have discovered the Graphics department at school has a couple of unused airbrushes so I’ve hauled these out to have a go. If nothing else it gets me away from computers for a while.

I have finally sorted out a decent system on my computer that involves a dual boot of Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) which has allowed me to play decent games while sticking with Linux for everything else. Hot on the heels of this set up I have been playing with Motion (a webcam motion detection tool) and getting it to record a video of the days proceedings down our driveway. This is always fascinating…today we watched a guy come and clean graffiti off the fence. I was pretty chuffed to get it working as it’s a command line tool and I had to sort out a bash script for concatenating lots of small video files into one big one. Not bad for a designer/teacher/gardener.