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Melbourne · November 2026 · humans.txt
What I'm Working On
2026‑11‑10
- Enterprise Architecture: Leading team initiatives at TIM Technologies, deep in software architecture, system integrations, and optimizing enterprise infrastructure.
- Website: I've owned trek1701.com for decades, meant to point it to the TV site when I got around to building it, it's got another use this week.
- Website Refinement: Promoted Sci-Fi & Cult TV Master Watch Order from private to a public page. It required adding some styling and tidying the filtering and sorting.
- Website Refinement: Update the webcam watchdog code to ensure ffmpeg.exe terminates.
What I'm Not Doing
2026‑10‑31
- Doomscrolling: Filtering out outraged feeds in favor of long-form books, classic sci-fi, and focused technical manuals.
- New side projects: Keeping all dev time focused on enterprise work and the home lab.
- Overcommitting to social events: Keeping evenings mostly open for quiet reads, movies and walks.
- Social Filter: Politely ignoring insincerity and saving energy for genuine connections.
Reading & Watching
2026‑11‑02
- Internet worm anniversary: Watched
WarGames,
Sneakers,
Hackers.
Of the 3 hacker movies in 1995 Hackers is my favorite,
The Net 2nd.
- Reading: Working my way through the Jack Ryan universe
interspersed, primarily, with sci-fi novels.
Favourite 4 books - Friday and
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein,
Hackers by Steven Levy,
and Chuck Yeager’s autobiography.
- Sci-Fi & Adaptations: Still riding the high from
Project Hail Mary,
Disclosure Day,
and revisiting the classics.
Currently on a bit of a retro sci-fi kick, appreciating the tight pacing of older cinematic storytelling
(re-watching Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan recently had me tensing up during the Genesis countdown).
- Technical Manuals: Working my way through the classic HP-41CX owner's manuals having fun reminiscing my time
with my university calculator with a SwissMicros DM41X
while the HP-41CX waits for repairs. Occasionally running the HP-41C BEEP
[.mp3] command is comforting.
Latest
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- Books: Terminal Velocity, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Line of Demarcation, Defense Protocol, Shadow State, Act of Defiance, Command and Control, Weapons Grade. [2026‑11‑05]
- Movies: Highlander, Project Hail Mary, The Bourne Supremecy, Hackers, Sneakers, WarGames, Top Gun: Maverick, Iron Man. [2026‑11‑08]
- TV: QI, Hogan's Heroes, The West Wing, NCIS, Bluey, Station Eleven, Yes Minister, Frasier. [2026‑11‑09]
- Wondering: How can I tidy things so there's 4 items in this section too?
Around Melbourne
2026‑10‑20
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Wildlife: I pass a water bowl under a drinking fountain on my walk along the Yarra and fill it if required.
Saturday, 17 October, there was a magpie by it then in it. I said hello, he moved, I filled the bowl and left.
He returned to the bowl. 100m later there was a warning sign about swooping magpies. Oh yeah, that's right.
- Website: The clear days are producing some nice webcam pics as we head into spring.
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Living in the CBD: My favorite exercise is walking east along the Yarra toward the Swan Street bridge,
perhaps around the MCG before returning on the south side of the Yarra —
much nicer than heading toward the casino.
I'd love some company to wander with, unpack everything and nothing, or just set up a picnic and watch the world go by.
- A pub or two: A quiet read of the Kindle accompanied by a Balter XPA at Fortress Melbourne or Garden State Hotel.