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Eloise the Photographer

Tinkas — Sun, 09 May 2010 05:13:00 +0000

Recently in Christchurch I was invited to dinner with Dans family, and his little niece Eloïse decided she would be the event photographer. Here are the photos she took. The whole lot are a zip file here.

Amys 4th Birthday

Tinkas — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:22:40 +0000

Photos from Amys Jungle Party at the Melbourne Zoo.

Rebuilding the site…Again!

Tinkas — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:23:28 +0000

Yep, it’s happening again! I’m actually getting off my behind and rebuilding the site, after a couple of years of being ignored. This will take a while, but I’m trying to restore as much of the original content at the same time I am finalising the new design. You’ll know when this is finished by the simple fact that this post will no longer be at the top.

Emily’s Birthday

Tinkas — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:10:56 +0000

Here are some photos from Emilys 1st birthday.

Hi Tayla

Tinkas — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:42:41 +0000

Tayla decided come along on the 26th of July to some dancing friends Marc and Tamara. She weighed in at 3.335kg and thanks to the wonders of mms/sms we even have a photo.

Amazing…

Tinkas — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:58:28 +0000

Saw this today via instapundit, and just had to share it. I didn’t think you could actually do anything like this with a remote controlled aircraft…wow!

Yet another baby

Tinkas — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:01:07 +0000

But at least this ones in the family. Aunty ‘Manda and Uncle Damian have given us Henry. Until we get some pictures this little one of Amy will have to suffice.

Hooray for Ross & Michelle

Tinkas — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:38:43 +0000

A big congratulations to Ross & Michelle who have brought Logan into the world. Logan came out with all the proper bits in a nice and quick 4 1/2 hour labour, and apart from all the usual baby stuff Mom, Dad and Baby all seem to be doing fine. If your reading this Ross, give me more info like weight/size etc before Melly ear bashes me to bits!

Important Information

Tinkas — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:47:18 +0000

On Thursday the 4th of next month (may), at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

That won’t ever happen again.

You may now return to your (normal ?) life.

BASH: The octal problem

Tinkas — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:59:36 +0000

I was writing a whole pile of scripts which performed end of month tasks for this webserver, including stats archival, monthly backups, clean up bits and pieces. They all ran great until I hit the end of August and BANG…everything fell apart in a heap of “value too great for base (error token is “08″)” Damn, said I, so off to find a way to fix it all.
The problem turned out to be Octal numbering, which can be solved by lifting whole chunks of somebody much smarters post:
from Payne’s Playhouse » bashing octal numbers into decimal

The problem is fixed in one of two ways. GNU date can be told not to zero pad the numbers by inserting a hyphen between the ‘%’ and ‘m’:
MTH=$((`date +%-m` – 1))
The bash shell can also be told the number is decimal by using the base#number notation as follows:
MTH=$((10#`date +%m` – 1))
For September this modifies the date output to be 10#09, which bash evaluates as a decimal instead of octal 9. This method can be applied more generally to anytime a script is returning zero padded values that should be interpreted as decimal numbers.