Meeting people

A conference is all about meeting people and making absurd comments. Nervous phd presenters revising their stuff a lot of times, some just along for the food.


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Conferencing in Darwin

Now it is going to be easier to post than ever. First very slow day of conference. Staying over at the fun cavanagh, a big party was in full swing when I arrived. This is going to be awsome.


-- Post From My iPhone

Grass SVN and QGIS with ECW

There seems to be a large demand for QGIS with both Grass and ECW, now that gets tricky. Grass causes indigestions in MSVC and ECW spits at MingW GCC. So I will try to build a sans-Grass ECW based release for those users.

On another note now that blogger finally works in Opera I will be switching to it full-time. Only using FireFox to make some shadow posts in my other blog since I have a saved session there and no password.

Passwords change frenzy - Qgis 0.9.2 installer

So in a frenzy I decided to change all my passwords and forgot to remember them. Now that is a good thing since my last blog might have been calling up stalkers. So here begins the new confused life.

Finally I have made a Qgis 0.9.2 RC1 Windows Installer while battling with my head cold. It is out in the wild for testing, hopefully virus-free.

Back in Adelaide battling Trojans

This seems to be the story of my life when returning from conferences - things are in a mess.

Otherwise this post was going to be about the magnificent trans-Bali trip to Mt. Batur and back. Since all the photos are somewhere in Germany I have more niggling issues that has to wait. I passed the citizenship test by the way, glad that's out of the way.

I am going to discontinue this blog due to ... cold and flu for a while.

Exploring Semniyak - Dining on the beach

Today I caught up with Marieka who could not get a flight out and is stuck here till Sunday. So I at least have some quality company for a few days. I got to introduce her to Kelapa Muda which she apparently had never had before.We occupied a gazebo for dinner near the beach and planned an outing to Ubud tomorrow.
Then I hot the classy Hu'u bar in Semniyak and indulged in some Lychee martini's and a sisha.

After conference - Life in Kuta

So after nearly 4 days of hard conferencing I have settled in Kuta to relax for a few days. If you can call partying all night relaxing. I am staying in a small beach side hotel called Melasti , it has nice old buildings and garden and a couple of pools. The beach is a stone's throw away as is the mall. The nightlife is a short taxi ride and you can stagger your outing properly to hit the right spot at the right time.

I started with dining on the beach while watching the sunset and moved onto Poppy's and Bounty. Big aussie crowd here - not hard to make friends and across the road there was a band playing. Most of the time was spent dancing in front of the air-con and fan for position. When Poppy's died down I headed to MBarGo and ran across a few familiar faces seeming to have a lot of fun with the locals.

When I ran out of steam a short cab ride dumped me right on my bed.