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A GIANT Rabbit on a hillside
Almost impossible to believe, but this is true… Follow the links at the bottom of the page…
The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy.
The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbitÌs body, a country dropped from the sky; ears and limbs sneaking into the distance; from its side flowing heart, liver and intestines.
Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel. Happy you leave like the larva that gets its wings from an innocent carcass at the roadside.
Such is the happiness which made this rabbit.
I love the rabbit the rabbit loves me.
After almost 5 years of knitting the rabbit found its final place in the italian alps (close to Cuneo). It waits there to be visited by you. You might even take your time or check back every now and then as the rabbit will wait for you 20 years from now on.
Some links for your viewing pleasure:
google maps link (unfortunately, this link takes you to the general area, I wasn’t able to locate the rabbit… It sure looks “hilly”… I wonder if it snows here! It looks like it does!)
WordPress iPhone app – crashes ** FIXED **
Today I downloaded the WordPress app from the Apple App store, for the iPhone. I have been looking forward to this for some time since that although my site looks good on a mobile device, it doesn’t lend itself to be uploaded to from a mobile device.
Until now… Enter the WordPress application from the app store. errrrm… ok… But it didn’t work for me. It would consistently crash and restarting the app would just crash immediately. I determined this was because I am running a WordPress multi-site. Whether it is or not, I found the fix:
Hi.
Please open “your/wordpress/directory/xmlrpc.php” in any text editor, and rewrite the line 477,
'blogid' => $blog_id,
to
'blogid' => (string) $blog_id,.
Yeah! Now, you can use WordPress for iOS!
Cheers!
Now I’m a happy camper…
BTW, I found this solution here, look for the first comment dated 05/07/2010.
edit: today I upgraded wordpress to the latest version 3.01 and I checked the above file, it has not been fixed. If you install the 3.01 update, you will also need to re-edit and include the string cast for the blogid.
on a side note: I also use tumblr, and the tumblr app for the iPhone is equally FANTASTIC! Highly suggested and recommended if you use tumblr.
The price of fuel
These aren’t the best photo’s, so I’ll commentate. These are photos of two service stations in Woy Woy. This afternoon while refueling, the decision as to which one to use was pretty much determined for me. It was at the Shell service station that had cars lined up at the bowser.
Their price: $1.137, with a further 4c discount if you had a voucher.
Across the road is the BP service station, with not a single car in the driveway.
Their price: $1.199, no discounts available.
If I had a discount voucher (unfortunately I didn’t), the price would have been more than 10 cents cheaper!!!! This is right across the road from each other!
How do people like these stay in business?
Big Brown Eye
I couldn’t resist. It’s probably more photoshopped than anything, ie the colours for the final effect, but none-the-less, a very impressive image.
These arrived today
Rotary Encoders from Ebay
So I have a fair idea what I’ll be doing this weekend, or hope to do anyway. There are many factors that determine what I do, the least of which is what I WANT to do!
Nah, just kidding, she’s not THAT bad!
I’ve got a micro project that I’ve been procrastinating about for a while, this has just provided some incentive to do some work on it. I have all the parts I need to complete the project, I now just have to sit down and do it!
What was that? What do i want rotary encoders for? 10 of them, no less (I hear you ask)…
I have an old clothes dryer that the mechanical timer continually sticks on. I have on occasion found that after a few hours the dryer has failed to turn off. So I have been procrastinating about building a timer for it, this was (I’m pretty sure) the last component I needed to put it together.
I’ll be prototyping it using an AVR microcontroller (ATMega128), but the final project will be an older AT90S2313 I have lying around.
Of course this is going to have on/off and a timer function, but it would be cool to allow it to have soooo much more! It would be good for it to control the heating element, maybe once internal temperature has reached a certain level, power to the heater turns on and off a minute at a time – I don’t know, just a random thought – would help to save a bit of power. Maybe incorporate a humidity sensor to detect when the clothes are dry.
But for now I’ll just concentrate on the timer. If I ever finish it, I’ll put up a post about it.
My First Born
“I’m going to take a picture of my firstborn and use age progression software to figure out what he’ll look like when he’s 16. Then I’m going to frame the picture and keep it as a centrepiece in our house, something he’ll grow up looking at. Then when the appropriate time comes, and he realises that the picture is of him, I’m going to try and convince him that he is a time traveller.”
Not mine, but I like it