At least on its northern and southern borders anyway, with Queens Park Pizza Cafe to the north along Darley road, Arthur's Pizza, in The Spot, to the south. I only made this not-too-significant geographical realisation after collecting takeaway pizza from both places over the course of last weekend. What was more puzzling however was the realisation I hadn't ... Read full entry

The plan today had been to tap into some hot spots (sorted) and do a little content production here on the UNSW campus. Instead I was somehow caught up in a psychology lecture and have just managed to make my escape. Currently supping coffee at Bluestone Cafe. You learn something everyday, ... Read full entry

A quick public service announcement here, since I am seeing a lot of search queries from people seeking information about road closures in Sydney in relation to this week's World Youth Day (WYD) event (which is actually a SIX day event by the way). For full, and hopefully regularly updated, details regarding actual road closures please bookmark the RTA's WYD traffic information page. There's quite a ... Read full entry

Tomorrow, Saturday 7 June, marks the first anniversary of disassociated's migration to the WordPress CMS. It's been quite a ride, which incredibly, almost saw disassociated behave like a blog (though I still prefer to call it a website) for a time. Three posts made (thanks Kurt :) the front page of Digg (subsequently melting down disassociated's erstwhile web server), there was a ... Read full entry

Pioneer spacecraft mystery may be laid to rest The mystery surrounding the unexplained course deviations of deep space probes Pioneers 10 and 11, currently somewhere in the vicinity of the Solar System's Kuiper Belt may have been solved. Slava Turyshev, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has spent the last two years studying data from the probes, which were launched in the 1970s, and concluded that uneven heat build up ... Read full entry

Better Feed Reading While you're reading this, what am I doing? Going through all my RSS feeds most likely. Just today I was thinking about how to manage it all, when I saw this post by Tim Bray, suggesting a solution close to what I'd thought about. For years, Dave Winer has been preaching the virtues of the "River of News" approach to feed-reading: let it all ... Read full entry

The contact form I had provided for readers to send me messages has not always been 100 per cent reliable so I have switched to an email based system. If you used the contact form to send me a message, and have heard nothing back, chances are I never saw your message in the first place. If I could trouble you to try again I would be most appreciative. Also disassociated.com's ... Read full entry

According to one of my sources, an upgrade of the fine WordPress CMS was due for release on March 10. March 10 has pretty much passed on all points of the globe by now, and so far Wordpress 2.5 remains elusive... Oh well. I had been working on a small tweak to disassociated (just a few changes here and there) which I was going to roll out when I ... Read full entry

By the time the WP timestamp serves this post, all DNS redirects should have kicked in, and required nameserver changes should have propagated "across the whole Internet", and disassociated.com.au should be back. Go there and come right back here. :) I first registered the name in 1997, hence disassociated's tag-line "dissecting the {SubSet} culture since 1997". w00t!

Only because it's the weekend: Air Poo... Quite possibly the most essential MacBook Air "accessory"?