May 1, 2008

Reading: Nasrin Alavi - We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs

nasrin alavi - we are iran

April 29, 2008

生日快乐!!! happy 4rd birthday supernaut

Oops … 我忘了… I forgot… My blog's 4th birthday was almost three weeks ago on the 7th of April. I...

April 8, 2008

ftp blah…

I have no idea why none of my FTP applications are able to run LIST -a while using Internode's wireless...

March 15, 2008

… return

I was up till quite late last night methodically going through installing all of my add-ons, plugins, bits and pieces...

February 12, 2008

monadologie - self-referentiality

Just because I've continually forgotten to do this… I'm blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New...

February 1, 2008

monadologie day 28 & 29

This week has mostly involved me being in the studio and not so much time at the Centre. It was...

January 27, 2008

more feeds and things … and blogrolls

A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs...

January 10, 2008

feeds and things …

Every so often someone asks, "How do you read so much stuff every day?" and rather than shatter their illusions...

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December 17, 2007

Reading: Vernor Vinge - Rainbows End

vernor vinge - rainbows end

December 14, 2007

when i decompiled the source code of my feed reader it said, satan satan satan!!!

Obviously, I thought it was funny… (Later on I felt a sense of dread…) 666 satanic feed reader

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December 12, 2007

monadologie - a start

I'm now in residence at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing where I'll be for much of summer working...

December 11, 2007

Reading: Charles Stross – Jennifer Morgue

charles stross - the jennifer morgue

October 14, 2007

reading: william gibson – spook country

william gibson - spook country

August 8, 2007

danceminute

I used to be fairly prompt in getting enthusiastic here about new blogs, adding them to the spiraling list to...

April 30, 2007

.... . .-.. .--. / -. --- / .. -. - . .-. -. . -

Not that five days of continual rain has anything to do with it, but I've had no access to the...

April 23, 2007

new photography in guangzhou

All month I've been meaning to blog this, but attack of laziness and other things to keep me occupied meant...

April 7, 2007

生日快乐!!! happy 3rd birthday supernaut

Waah! Three years of blogging. How did that happen? Funny it seems more of something to celebrate than my human...

April 3, 2007

blog holiday

I'm taking a short holiday from blogging. I've been writing almost constantly for the last couple of weeks, and most...

March 31, 2007

comments are open … -ish

Does it look like I'm avoiding doing real work today, with a monster funding application due on Monday, what do...

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March 29, 2007

just some blabbing about coding

During my rather pitiful self-help attempt at getting comments working, that quite possibly soon will be after a couple of...

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March 28, 2007

comments … help … geekery

I've been planning on turning on comments again for a while, but there is the issue of a sacrificed goat...

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March 27, 2007

poor excuse for absence of blog

Most of this week will involve occasionally staring at the housing commission flats a couple of streets north of here...

March 22, 2007

three new categories

Finally I have added some new categories that have been eating at me like some rapacious tropical parasite. It a...

March 21, 2007

anna in space

My darling Anna, whom I first met at DanceWEB in Vienna 2003 and spent a few weeks post-inferno enjoying the...

March 12, 2007

doing stuff to me

Though it lingers in the caches of myriad anonymous server farms, I've deleted half of francesdath.info for good. My first...

March 8, 2007

1111101000

Twenty posts ago was my 1000th post. Celebration. Unfortunately the absinthe was only chocolate and the cheap sex was a...

February 25, 2007

a bit of a test

I spent the morning upgrading my blog software to Movable Type 3.34, possibly a stupid move but it seemed like...

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February 24, 2007

it's all about 冯三七 … i mean feng37 … i mean john

A couple of weeks ago, John Kennedy - also known as contemporary Chinese poetry translator Feng37 - thought that getting...

February 11, 2007

1000

A while ago I taught myself to count to 1023 using only ten fingers, in binary. I thought that was...

February 10, 2007

an excuse

The last two weeks since I returned from Adelaide have been trying, and without wanting to spend too much time...

January 31, 2007

supernaut #3 bug list

A couple of days ago, someone asked me why the search function wasn't working here. The answer is Spam. Dreamhost...

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January 11, 2007

yeah … i know

I go away from the internet for two days, and what happens? The world goes mental. Apple's (no longer Apple...

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January 3, 2007

supernaut #3 blinks in the numinous light

Having spent the last few days playing around with a new design, I thought I'd preview it now. supernaut...

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December 30, 2006

supernaut … i whore for art #3

I haven't been blogging lately because I feel rather awkward with littering the internet with my private life, and I...

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December 21, 2006

techno…blah…ti, or the meaninglessness of social networks

A while ago, I ditched a slew of social networking vampires that had ceased to have any relevance to me...

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December 19, 2006

burning churches - the spirit of christmas

rrraaaaghgghghgghhhhh!!!! etc. Sunday afternoon, plusplus destruction of language followed by the invention of the Hexadecimal Kickdrum (successor to the Double...

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December 3, 2006

link whoring

There isn't an even semi-adequate system for sorting all my links to other blogs, and on top of that failure...

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December 2, 2006

some stuff i read this week

Lazy Saturday afternoon post-dragging myself out of bed and thinking of going climbing pretty soon, but first a random trawl...

yeah, that's what i think too

MySpace. What a desolate crevasse of meaninglessness, fake pseudo-friends, lowest-common-denominators in every realm of human imagination and obscenely poor coding...

November 22, 2006

blaargh …

I've been sick the last couple of days. I swear this city is trying to kill me, I mean I...

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October 30, 2006

some new blogs

About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting "contemporary dance" Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I...

October 28, 2006

new categories of choreography

I've been scratching around this evening making some new categories for here. The original and still intended idea is to...

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October 20, 2006

yes i feel shame

I know you come here and every day I let you down, like a poor lover who just can't stop...

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October 1, 2006

stuff i read today

Having dragged myself out of bed at the rather late hour of 1030 and still working my way through a...

September 25, 2006

长沙刁民 changsha rogue

One of my favourite means of getting around Guangzhou since I first got over my terror of speeding death under...

September 22, 2006

i don't want excuses i want blog

I'm in Adelaide at the moment for something I'll write about more soon. One of myriad things I don't have...

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September 15, 2006

miscellaneous rubbish for a friday

Martha Graham. Evil despot of the Modern Dance universe. Shame she didn't die sooner. The ImpulsTanz Juice newsletter quotes her...

September 7, 2006

insanity...

These four days until Sunday night I have pretty much no time to do important stuff like eat chocolate and...

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September 2, 2006

what i read today

For a while I kept a del.ic.ious account (last updated almost two months ago). I also used to have one...

August 24, 2006

gypsy wood: 'most vain' for class of 2000

Gypsy danced for me in extermination all of two years ago, and has been begging me for a DVD of...

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August 23, 2006

asian blog awards 2006

I have no idea who nominated me for the Asian Blog Awards 2006, but I'm quite flattered; and quite amused...

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July 14, 2006

we are the robot ballet army

Where the drowning tide first flows in the eventual robotic obliteration of humanity seems to be in the most visceral...

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July 12, 2006

吴皓 hao wu released

Read all about it on Free Hao Wu. China: Wu Hao released Filed under: About Hao Wu, News, Nina's blog...

June 23, 2006

dreamhost kills supernaut

DreamHost, who have been hosting my websites this year, had a major problem with their DNS servers. The practical result...

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May 22, 2006

i can't stop hacking my system

It is a real drag getting around the China Firewall. Well, not really if I bothered to take my internet...

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May 16, 2006

岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD - byte-aftermath

Paul and Emile left last night after a fine dinner with everyone at 1920, the German café on 沿江路 Yanjiang...

April 28, 2006

pretty good privacy

I thoroughly recommend reading this article on PGP, the introduction to PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid, then...

April 22, 2006

referrer hell

Being quite committed to wasting time, I like to read my referrer logs. Actually, I've found some pretty cool websites...

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April 19, 2006

zeroballet becomes francesdath ...

... lack of punctuation persists. A couple of weeks ago, I lost zeroballet.info. I've had that domain since the dawn...

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April 15, 2006

zeroballet is dead

I was trying to send emails a couple of days ago, and found a big black hole where www.zeroballet.info had...

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April 8, 2006

a couple of anniversaries i forgot...

I'm really not one for anniversaries, and have even forgotten my birthday a couple of times, but feeling the need...

March 24, 2006

the laziest site ever coded

My original and very first website, zeroballet has been hanging around since early 2002. Kinda embarrassing. It's very complicated layers...

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March 23, 2006

more blogs for compulsive clickers

Obviously I collect blogs the way philatelists collect small rectangles of perforated paper, and one day a mint-condition first-edition of...

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March 17, 2006

eeeeeee!!! blog!!!!

I was going to write a whole bunch of stuff about a whole pile of stuff, lots of exciting Guangzhou...

February 27, 2006

guangzhou art and blogs

A few days ago a friend of mine who used to work at Park19 emailed me with a link to...

February 26, 2006

linking to stuff - an ode to blogrolls

Since I started using NetNewsWire to read all my blogs, I've been adding feeds at the rate of a few...

February 21, 2006

nothing left to do but vandalise shit

For a while I go so into playing Halo, and I mean so into it in the end I had...

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