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Melbourne · July 2026 · humans.txt
What I'm Working On
- Enterprise Architecture: Leading team initiatives at TIM Technologies, deep in software architecture planning, system integrations, and optimizing enterprise infrastructure.
- Home Lab Maintenance: Fine-tuning my local server stack.
After a recent round of Lenovo firmware updates and
moving Proxmox VE from 8 to 9, the home environment is up to date, and running smoothly. [2026‑07‑10]
- Website Refinement: Enjoying the new layout changes after giving this site its first major structural overhaul in 17 years. Keeping things light, fast, and highly scannable. [2026‑06‑20]
What I'm Reading & Watching
- 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.
- Reading - Working my way through the Jack Ryan
universe interspersed, primarily, with Robert A. Heinlein novels.
Top 3 most read books Friday by Robert A. Heinlein,
Hackers by Steven Levy,
and Chuck Yeager’s autobiography.
Latest
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The recent few media entries automagically pulled from the home control system database, most recent first.
- Books - The Number of the Beast, The Door into Summer, Tunnel in the Sky, Target Acquired, Shadow of the Dragon, The Day After Tomorrow, The Cuckoo's Egg, Project Hail Mary. [db 2026‑07‑25]
- Movies - Two Weeks Notice, Music and Lyrics, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, The Thing, Thunderbolts*, Project Hail Mary, Mission Impossible 4 - Ghost Protocol. [db 2026‑07‑28]
- TV - Glee, QI, Doctor Who, Frasier, Red Dwarf, Blackadder Rides Again, Blackadder Back & Forth, Resident Alien. [db 2026‑07‑28]
Around Melbourne
- There's been a number of foggy mornings in July resulting in a higher than usual number of visits to the webcam.
- Current Project: Trying not to inadvertently format any more 5.25" floppy disks in my dreams. Visiting Luxembourg in my dreams is not uncommon.
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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.
- Standard quirk: Quietly singing to myself when happy, and randomly demonstrating my ability to pat my head and rub my tummy with either hand, in either direction.
- The ideal outing: Love a lively time with close friends, but acknowledge that my absolute favorite after-party is a couch, and a quiet wind down.
Similarly, I need to book-end the day with relatively quiet time.
- Hoping to meet someone: Actively looking for a partner with a great sense of humor and an interesting level of silliness to explore Melbourne and beyond together.
If a casual drink and talking about happy, random things leads to something special, that would be all kinds of nice.