Anyway, some time ago I got a Tevion “USB Hi-Speed DVD Maker” from Aldi and on the weekend I finally managed to make the stupid thing work thanks to some freeware I downloaded off the net. The software that came with wouldn’t record squat.

So, here’s six-and-a-half minutes of The Frying Dutchman’s one and only performance, live at the Punters Club back in 1995 as part of the RMIT heats for the National Campus Band Competition… that year Jebediah took out national honours.

The Frying Dutchman – Live at the Punters Club – 1995 from kekoc on Vimeo.

There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those that don’t.

Today is the second binary day of the year. The second of nine. There were nine last year too. There also were nine back in 2001 and nine in 2000… so today is the 29th binary day of the century (taking 2000 as the first year… some would argue that it was in fact the last of the previous, but let’s not get hung up on semantics). Twenty-nine such days in little over a decade would suggest it’s not all that special, but when you allow for the fact that after the last binary day this year on 11th of November (11.11.11) there won’t be another binary day for 88 years and 40 days… not until the first day of the year 2100 will be see another. So, 36 binary days each century does make it something worth celebrating.

What makes it especially worthy of celebrating for me personally is it happens to be my daughter’s first birthday. Yes, she happens to turn 1 on a binary day, after having been born on a binary day… i.e. was 0 and 1 on binary days… binary ages on binary days… while her 10th and 11th birthday’s won’t coincide with binary days, if she has the good fortune to make it to 100 or even 101, she’ll no doubt be one of very few binary baba’s (i.e. Ukrainian for grandmother), after having been a binary newborn.

So… anyway, if you’ve missed binary day today, I suggest you make the most of the next 7 this year, even if it doesn’t coincide with your child’s birthday… after all, there’s a good chance we won’t be around to celebrate them after this year.

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Delicious
• … and other similar online applications

How have these impacted my blogging?  Well, quite simply, they’ve provided quicker, easier, better targeted means of doing much of what I did with my blog in the past.

Facebook provides me an avenue to update family and friends with the latest news about the latest goings on in the Kekoc household, and doing so in a manner that I don’t need to email them when I’ve updated.

Twitter provides me with a way of recording random thoughts etc that I’m happy to share with the wider community.

Delicious enables me to capture and catalogue the many wonderful gems one finds on the internet on a regular basis.

Then there are all the other online applications I use on a regular basis… and while each have their strengths, they have weaknesses that make me quite reluctant to putting in much effort to cultivating my presence on these for much longer… but I’ll go into each of these in greater detail in the coming weeks.