diff --git a/content/personal/2008/11/movember.html b/content/personal/2008/11/movember.html index c2ddd3b..61fbad3 100644 --- a/content/personal/2008/11/movember.html +++ b/content/personal/2008/11/movember.html @@ -8,4 +8,3 @@ As part of participating in Movember I am seeking donations that will be passed on to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and beyondblue - the national depression initiative. The Movember Foundation is a registered charity, so all donations over $2 are tax deductible. -To sponsor my dodgy mo (as I've named it) follow this link: http://movember.wezm.net/. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/personal/2009/05/rafael-bonachelas-360-degrees.html b/content/personal/2009/05/rafael-bonachelas-360-degrees.html index d6c06e1..40d73f1 100644 --- a/content/personal/2009/05/rafael-bonachelas-360-degrees.html +++ b/content/personal/2009/05/rafael-bonachelas-360-degrees.html @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -For Manda's birthday this year I gave her tickets to Rafael Bonachela's 360°, a contemporary dance performance by the Sydney Dance Company. The performance was in the Playhouse at the Arts Centre (Melbourne). Unfortunately it didn't meet our expectations. +For Manda's birthday this year I gave her tickets to Rafael Bonachela's 360°, a contemporary dance performance by the Sydney Dance Company. The performance was in the Playhouse at the Arts Centre (Melbourne). Unfortunately it didn't meet our expectations. Now let me preface the rest of the post with the following: We're hardly connoisseurs of the fine arts. Instead we got the bulk of our prior exposure to contemporary dance through channel Ten's So You Think You Can Dance. I'm sure the purists out there would scoff at that but we wouldn't have even entertained the idea of seeing 360° were it not for the show. @@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ With that out of the way let me continue by starting at the end. After the perfo The performance seemed to lack any coherent story. The music choices seemed inappropriate to even tell a story and the projected backdrops seemed to have no relationship with what was going on on-stage. I was left feeling that I was not on the right level to understand it and some aspects were "arty" for arts sake. For example the sand covered skull with the sand falling in reverse to slowly reveal the skull. -Ignoring the aspects I didn't like there was still things that I did like. The skill of the dancers was most impressive. The use of light and mirrors was creative and clever. However overall the experience was a disappointment. I'm hoping that we will find another contemporary performance to see in the future that will live up to our perhaps uncultured expectations. \ No newline at end of file +Ignoring the aspects I didn't like there was still things that I did like. The skill of the dancers was most impressive. The use of light and mirrors was creative and clever. However overall the experience was a disappointment. I'm hoping that we will find another contemporary performance to see in the future that will live up to our perhaps uncultured expectations. diff --git a/content/technical/2009/06/virtualbox-news-atom-feed.html b/content/technical/2009/06/virtualbox-news-atom-feed.html index 3d1792f..8e1f7d4 100644 --- a/content/technical/2009/06/virtualbox-news-atom-feed.html +++ b/content/technical/2009/06/virtualbox-news-atom-feed.html @@ -1,6 +1,11 @@ A few days ago I decided I wanted a feed of the VirtualBox News page. I mainly wanted this to know when new releases are made. Whilst the application does update itself, sometimes I go a while without firing it up so seeing the release in Fever would be nice. -After some brief Googling I didn't come across anything that was obviously designed to create feeds from Ruby (outside of Rails). So I opened up the Atom Feed spec and built the feed manually. The end result is a Ruby script and a feed (updated daily) at: http://home.wezm.net/files/virtualbox.atom. Thanks to the brilliant nokogiri this was relatively straightforward. +After some brief Googling I didn't come across anything that was obviously +designed to create feeds from Ruby (outside of Rails). So I opened up the Atom Feed spec and built the +feed manually. Thanks to the brilliant nokogiri this was +relatively straightforward. My script is below: