HOMEBREW RECORD
FERMENTER
Base: Malt Shovel Brewery Summer Wheat Beer
Sugar: None
Hops: Added Saag – 100 grams of pellets
Date into fermenter: 12/05/07
BOTTLING
Date into bottles: 28/5/07
Volume: 20 bottles marked with W
Drink: 18/6/07 onwards
I forgot to mention here that the Linux.conf.au mini-conf’s proposals are now open.
Below is the press release:
LINUX CONFERENCE AUSTRALIA – MELBOURNE 2008
REQUEST FOR MINI-CONFERENCE PROPOSALS OPENS
The MEL8OURNE team is pleased to announce that the call for proposals for Mini-conferences at linux.conf.au 2008 is now open. linux.conf.au is Australia’s annual Linux conference. Fun, informal and seriously technical, linux.conf.au is a calendar highlight for Free and Open Source Software developers from across the world. It will be held from January 28th to February 2nd, 2008 at the University of Melbourne.
Mini-confs are self-contained ‘conferences-within-a-conference’ that provide a forum for attendees with special interests to communicate and collaborate. Mini-confs draw together hobbyists, educators and academics, technologists, corporate representatives, and members of the broader community to further knowledge and discussion in their specialist areas. Each mini-conference is organised by a member of its specialist community and run within the auspices of the wider conference. Past topics have covered Education, Gaming, Debian, MySQL, the Linux kernel, Security, Clustering and Virtualisation. At 2007′s LCA, twelve different mini-confs were held in conjunction with the main programme.
Speakers present on their areas of expertise within each topic, and community members share ideas, experiences and knowledge. Lightning talks, short informative presentations on specific topics, and poster presentations are also popular at mini-conferences. LCA 2007′s Education mini-conference included presentations from educators and technologists interested in and utilising Linux and Open Source technologies in Education. Topics included technology trends in education, copyright law, collaborative learning and case studies on using Open Source technology in schools, technical colleges and universities. The popular Linuxchix mini-conference, run by women in the Open Source community, discussed topics as diverse as techniques for social networking, bug fixing for non-programmers, and the role of women in Information Technology and Open Source.
Mini-conferences can cover a variety of topics, both new and old, ranging from the long-running Debian mini-conference to the newer Virtualisation mini-conference. For LCA 2008, the organisers invite proposals from previous mini-conference organisers and welcome proposals on new and innovative topics.
You can register your proposal at http://lca2008.linux.org.au/mini-confs
We recommend, even if you are an established mini-conference, that you lodge a proposal to ensure we can plan adequately for your requirements.
For LCA 2008 the call for mini-conference proposals is happening prior to the call for papers. The call for papers will open on the 1st of June, and close 20 July 2007.
How cool is this?
This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows infant stars “hatching” in the head of the hunter constellation, Orion. Astronomers suspect that shockwaves from a supernova explosion in Orion’s head, nearly three million years ago, may have initiated this newfound birth.
The region featured in this Spitzer image is called Barnard 30. It is located approximately 1,300 light-years away and sits on the right side of Orion’s head, just north of the massive star Lambda Orionis.
Wisps of green in the cloud are organic molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs are formed anytime carbon-based materials are burned incompletely. On Earth, they can be found in the sooty exhaust from automobile and airplane engines. They also coat the grills where charcoal-broiled meats are cooked.
Tints of orange-red in the cloud are dust particles warmed by the newly forming stars. The reddish-pink dots at the top of the cloud are very young stars embedded in a cocoon of cosmic gas and dust. Blue spots throughout the image are background Milky Way along this line of sight.
This composite includes data from Spitzer’s infrared array camera instrument, and multiband imaging photometer instrument. Light at 4.5 microns is shown as blue, 8.0 microns is green, and 24 microns is red.
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I love this photo. Expression somewhere between grumpy and petulant with that little stubborn set of the chin. 
I’ve started home-brewing again and I am currently writing to the sound of a bubbling fermenter. Ruth asked me: “Is it supposed to make that noise.” Yes dear, it is. It’s called fermentation.
The current batch is a Summer Wheat beer and I have a MSB Two Row Lager finishing in bottles at the moment too. Temperature is a little dodgy I think for the finishing so we’ll have to see how we go. Certainly I’ve needed to pop a brew mat under the fermenter to keep the temperature up and get the fermentation going. But I can’t really think of a nice, warm’ish place to finish the beer at the moment.
I’m going to log batches in weblog entries. I’ve always been hopeless about documenting what and how I brew’ed batches. I should also record first and last gravity too but I keep forgetting to take measurements at the beginning. But hopefully having a location and a reminder might improve my process and documentation.
HOMEBREW RECORD
FERMENTER
Base: Malt Shovel Brewery Two Row Lager
Sugar: None
Hops: Added Hersbrucker- 25g sachet
Date into fermenter: 29/04/07
BOTTLING
Date into bottles: 12/05/07
Volume: 20 x 750ml glass long necks marked with L
Drink: 02/06/07 onwards
Undertook another re-design of the weblog. Just had a few moments of time this week and decided the old design was looking a little tired. Thankfully remembered enough CSS to make it a relatively easy re-shuffle. Also tried out my tired Photoshop skills to produce a better banner.
Took the opportunity to simplify my template system too. Must re-read some of the documentation around how the templating and embedding system works as well to ensure I am making the best use of it.
So on a fine Sunday off we trooped to see Cherry Rock ’007. Ruth was dragged out of bed and despite much prodding we were slightly late and stopped for food – which resulted in missing Shooting Unarmed Men who started the whole thing. WTF BTW? Was this an attempt to get people to come earlier by putting them on early? If so, next time advertise the bloody schedule better. Thanks.
I couldn’t get Ruth to wear skanky rock chick outfit. Apparently real female rock chicks (who can actually play instruments) wear what is comfortable on stage rather than cut-off keys, tattoo-exposing halter tops and black leather boots. Who knew? *ducks* Thankfully there were a lot of other people in attendance who had appropriately dressed. We waved briefly at Ms Fits and Richard Watts (also early starters) and then sat down to watch music.
The Good
Digger and the Pussy Cats – A lot of fun – an excellent wake-up call. Entertaining albeit not nearly as funny as they think they are.
The Five Venoms – Very amusing. Long-haired metal/rock done Chinese-style. Especially enjoyable was watching the parents of one of the band members. The father in his white cardigan looked very much like “this isn’t what we had in mind with all of those classical music lessons…” Also Ruth’s ‘new favourite band’…
The Palenecks – fun fun fun. Silly folk/comes rock/comes The Pogues with great lyrics and a lead singer who looks just like Charlie Pickering (but according to MySpace is in fact a chap named Heath). Going to go to their EP launch on the 18th at the Tote.
Johnny Casino – A lot of fun. Great set and amusing lyrics. Really enjoyed them.
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Fun. Loud, aggressive and slightly mental. Bollocked the security guards a few times for playing it a little rough with the moshing crowd. Angry, young man rock. A good set.
Rocket Science – The head liners. Quite rock – more Ruth’s taste than mine but a good solid bouncing set. Some new stuff and some old stuff.
The Bad
Alex Harvey Experience – Hyped and really not very entertaining. Seemed to be a few issues with making music with the instruments too.
The Stabs – Whinged all the way through their set about the rider, it being Sunday, them being hung-over, etc, etc. Overall, phoned the set in. Not overly impressed.
The Ho-Hum
Dynamo – The original party band. Emphasis on band – as in band camp. Half the line-up look like they were in the band at high-school and were trying really, really hard to be cool. I think they failed but YMMV.
The Double Agents – Don’t know why these guys didn’t work for me. But they didn’t. We pissed off to go see The Palenecks (I think) instead who were great.
The Pink Fits – leopard skin bikini-clad Edgar Rice Burroughs-esque girl dancing on stage. Hmmmm. A little lame I though.
The Black Guns and The Devil Rock Four – Dull, derivative suburban rock verging on hair metal. Ho hum.
Overall a fun day. Hope next year’s is equally as good.
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