Helen and I, and our friends Mike and Alecia, were in Amsterdam last weekend. We had a great time over there! It reminded me a lot of Venice with all the canals. It was freezing cold over there - below zero (although not as cold as Russia is at the moment!). We stayed at
Victoria Hotel, which is near the central train station (about 5 minutes walk). It is a very nice 4 star hotel, and I'd definitely stay there again. We went to
Magazijn nightclub, which is a very nice and chilled-out club.
The easiest way to use CVS with ssh is to use ssh-keygen to generate a public/private key
without a passphrase (so ssh won't prompt you for a password). Upload the public key and put it in your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys directory on the ssh server. Try checking out your project now - you should be able to check it out without having to type in a password. Make sure the environment variable CVS_RSH is set to ssh so you are using ssh as the transport.
Put the following line in your .emacs file and you should be able to check stuff in and do version control using emacs and VC:
(setenv "CVS_RSH" "ssh")
Helen and I just had the laziest New Years day ever! We just had our own
Kagami Baraki of DVD watching, specifically
Veronica Mars, a very cool TV series about (I know it sounds lame) a girl who helps her father who is a private investigator. It's a very cool detective story - thoroughly recommended.
For the 99.9% of people who don't know what Kagami Baraki is, it's a Japanese ceremony held at the start of the year, where you are supposed to reflect about your life and actions of the previous year, and (if you are involved in martial arts especially) reaffirm your commitment to training. Well we certainly didn't "energize our whole year" this weekend, but it was great having such a relaxing time.
Here are some photos I took from my phone last night. We had a great night, with some good friends over. We drank lots of champagne, ate lots of food, and the boys won at Pictionary! Then we walked down to watch the fireworks at midnight.
 | Here is a photo of Big Ben taken from the the Dali Museum across the Thames. |
Happy New Year, everyone! It's the eve of another year here in Covent Garden, London. We're looking forward to a lot more travel in 2006. For us, 2005 was:
- New Years with friends in Margaret River, Western Australia
- Sydney, Australia
- London, UK
- Paris, France
- Venice, Italy
- Barcelona, Spain
- South of France
- Andorra
- Sydney, Australia
- Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Queenstown, New Zealand
- Tokyo, Japan
- Scotland, UK
- London, UK
We immigrated to London in August on the highly-skilled migrant programme, so as you can see it's been a busy year!
OK, Just moved my site to another server. Have to set up my site again!
Here are some photos of the new apartment. As you can see we still have boxes everywhere!
Well, after nearly a year of not updating the news log on my web site, I've finally decided that it's time to start updating it again! The reason? Well, maybe it's that Helen and I have just moved to a new apartment, in fact an apartment that we own! It is in Goulburn St in Sydney, right in the CBD, and we absolutely love it! I'll post pictures when I can be bothered.
