Also I have been in this town for five years now. I meant to post something about it, but I was some kind of slug-like creature and got distracted by watching most of the episodes of Futurama.

Also one of several projects, which I refuse to give any details about, has moved ahead slightly, meaning that I might need to ask for more people to become involved.

I know that by “taking a break” I might not be able to post as much as I like, despite the fact that the “Updated Weekly, Sometime More. Sometimes Less” on the right there, should be more of a rule and less like something I completely ignore.

So I’ll conclude with another paste up from Abyss.

I really like the patterns used. It really give this crystalline meets photoshop layers quality about it. That poster about the lost cat nearby, I’m sure its incidental.

This reminds me of Von Dutch somewhat.

Since taking photo of the street art/graffiti around this town for the last couple of years, Abyss is a little bit of fresh air from the usual, complex, freestyle name tags around the place.

He’s got a few pieces there made from (hopefully) discarded traffic signs. This was one of the best ones in my opinion. Check them out at MU.

Some notes #1 & #2 by Byrd. #3, #4 & #10 by Abyss.

Blank Canvas, from what I see by flicking through the pages, is more along the lines of ‘Street Art’ as opposed to ‘Graffiti’. It’s murals, portraits, tattoos and hang-able art that can lend their origins to graffiti, but ‘classical graffiti’ itself. I’m looking forward to see where this one will go.

Some notes: #4 & #5 is by Foe. #10 is by Lister. The eye tag is by Abyss. #18 – #20 is by Abyss.
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The people in Melbourne were nicer than I expected, even the homeless seemed hospitable to some degree. I expected attitudes of cynical big-city life, similar to the cynical we-think-we-live-in-a-big-city life I’ve come to expect from number of people in this town. But, I will admit I was surprised.

I stayed for a week in one of those short-stay apartments. A fully furnished kind of deal that is something of a hotel, but without so much interference from the staff. The problem was the location. While close to the city, it would have been less awkward by being on the other side of the river where the action was. There were a number of times I had to drag myself back and forth across Southbank and the River in order to leave things at the apartment and then go back in again for dinner or another appointment.

Catching up with my family was fun in the end. It was nice to see their faces once more. I also need to develop some contacts in Melbourne too. It would be nice to go back later in the year.

Just finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Now I know what the differences between the book and the film are now. You can read that as either good or bad.

I was interesting to be in a town that embraced street art, but there were also plenty of people that were taking photos, same as me. Got a little annoyed with that sometimes.

While I missed out on the ACT Comic Meet’s mid-month meeting, I did stumble across a illustration studio in the Atrium in Federation Square, where small human zoo of illustrators were plugging away at their work.

For the last couple of months, the team I work in has been waist-deep in a data centre move. Thousands of servers, which have to be relocated to another site. They can do this by either mirroring the server across the wire, copying it over in chunks, or picking up the box, load it into a truck and then plant it in the new data centre. Where the team and myself come in, are the backup side of things. Fortunately, I have not directly dealt with the move. That has been left to three, now two, people who are responsible for building backup servers, media libraries, backup policies and then make sure the whole damn thing works. Then while this is happening, we have a team leader that has been effectively deflecting every project manager and general time-eater from our area. I do not envy these people’s positions. Nor do I envy the person who has been trying to delegate someone to load media for us at the new site. My role has been relatively small, which is attempting to continue checking the old servers, while everything is slowly shut down. It is slow and often confusing work, as several teams are involved and the communication is all over the place. Frankly, we never had the numbers to handle the move in the first place. We would have needed clones of the entire team, to keep up with everyone and everything being thrown at us.

This is just one aspect of a data centre move. I do not know of the stories that the server teams, projects, or other groups have to speak of. But go ask anyone in IT. They will probably tell you it is shit. They are being very polite.

This is going to change soon. After a call and an email, my paperwork for a new job has arrived. By Monday, I might be signing something and then in a number of weeks I will be going to another place to perform, exactly the same kind of work I am doing now…except without dealing with a sodding data centre move, or the company i currently work for.

Another project is coming to a close soon, my time as volunteer copy-editor, and surgeon of articles is coming to a close for now. Now it’s basically waiting for the official announcement to come through so I can repeat it here.

I am drinking whiskey right now. Because I have not done so in more than a month. Because I have been waiting for one or two things to actually finish. Well, its nearly three. Its worth a drink and I am very tired.

This and work like it has cropped up near and around where I live.

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