A fork appears in the road...

This blog is closing down.

[Pause for gasps and murmurs].

Dry your eyes internet. I would not leave you out in the cold like that!

I am splitting this blog into two blogs. Like a primordial amoeba. What was one is now two.

Blog #1:

http://randomibis.blogspot.com/

Bookmark or subscribe to this for my pointless photos, sporadic musings and occasional half-hearted music review.

Blog #2:

http://simonbaird.blogspot.com/

Bookmark or subscribe to this for posts about programming, code snippets and other geek stuff.
(Ps, sorry about the recycled content. Just needed something to kick start things over there).

Now you must choose. The left path or the right. Or you could follow both, like some kind of bad Harry Potter plot device. (Or you could find a bus and get the hell out of here).

Now, if you please, I would like to take a moment to fondly remember...

"it's my blog"

http://glosoli.blogspot.com/

13 Sep, 2005 - 22 Nov, 2010

And don't forget, you can come back any time to browse the archives and relive some of those sweet memories. (I know that's what I will be doing).

andy samberg is good

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/snl-digital-short-what-was-that/1259995/

this is especially worth a look if you like arcade fire

(sorry if the link doesn't work...)

garden upgrade

my saturday night

(i have this on repeat) http://stereogum.com/583011/sufjan-plays-fallon/video/

cut the rope, 300 stars

4/24 is REALLY HARD
super cool game btw

do you guys know about die antwoord?

kind of like a next level south african ali-g

perhaps boing boing get credit for introducing them to the world. at that point no-one really knew they were "fake"

http://boingboing.net/2010/02/01/afrikaans-rap-rave-d.html

here is an awesome yolandi halloween costume...

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/halloween/2010/yo-landi-vier.html

hamrbl - a cute haml hack to let you write ruby with python-esque whitespace

Did you ever wish your code looked more like your haml?

Did you ever wonder what ruby would be like with python style significant whitespace?

Without further ado, I present hamrbl.rb

Surprisingly the syntax highlighting works fine in vim and github. :)

Disclaimer: just for fun... this is (almost certainly) a gross misuse of the wonderful haml

include_and_extend method for ruby, experiments with modules

As a followup to this post and inspired again by this wycats post, here is some more experimentation with extend and include in ruby, culminating in an include_and_extend method, (which I'm not suggesting is a particularly good idea), but it does work...

video test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sPJvyQWSIc&t=2m15s

(it's kyu. i skipped you ahead to the part where they start rocking out on the floor tom)

dawn

bridge

hdr test

hdr test

...in which i live blog the joanna newsom tour date announcement on triple j

• 4th march tivoli, brisbane
• 9th march, sydney
• 15th march, melbourne

(on sale friday morning)

Update:
More details here.

likin new grill'd

(ramen closed sundays)

Kyü update

Well after listening to the album and seeing them live at the Old Museum, here is my update. Moments of genius. Not quite as good overall as I might have imagined after hearing Pixiphony for the first time. Live, there was some magic. The girls have some undeniable talent and a unique sound. It will be great to see what they are doing in five years as their songwriting matures.

Some links:

http://www.thevine.com.au/music/live-reviews/live-review-_-kyu,-brisbane-201020101104.aspx

http://passengerside.net/2010/11/02/kyu-album-launch-at-old-museum/
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/gallery/19605/1/Kyu