The first time I read Charles Stross’ Rule 34, I wasn’t writing about why I read certain books. So, taking …
November 13, 2011
thingswithbits updates itself
I’ve never been so taken by my design website, in respect to design having been thrown into a free template, …
November 10, 2011
danielschlusser.com
Some time in Vienna last year, Daniel Schlusser came to visit and we made some trial rehearsals with ropes and …
November 7, 2011
Was it something I said? (or, supernaut blocked in China)
I noticed a few weeks ago that traffic from China was low — single digits low instead of being in …
October 7, 2011
Daniel Schlusser — Ophelia
In the graben between late night and early morning, while scrabbling small amendments for something of Daniel Schlusser’s I hope …
October 7, 2011
Reading: Neal Stephenson — Reamde
There are five science-fiction writers — though this is a loose term, and none write in this genre exclusively — …
October 6, 2011
Occupy the World
Published on Sunday, October 2, 2011 by NYC General Assembly Declaration of the Occupation of New York City by NYC …
October 6, 2011
Steve Jobs
Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class …
May 30, 2011
supernaut updates supernaut
Last night I noticed the dilapidated state of my sidebar links. “Who uses them anyway?”, I thought, before answering myself …
April 25, 2011
multilingual goat witch
I’ve been adding video to francesdath.info the past few days, and also felt a compulsion to make the site multilingual …
April 12, 2011
生日快乐!!! happy 7th birthday supernaut! (nochmal vergessen…)
aaa!!! I forgot again! every year! Trotzdem … Schokolade! Kuchen! Viel Spaß und Krawall machen! supernaut? yes!
March 19, 2011
2011.touchandplay.org
This morning I launched the website for the 2011 Touch&Play Festival. Still a bit to do, and content is still …
March 8, 2011
goat snake witch dance theatre blackness
The last couple of days I’ve been working on a side-project, cleaning up my dance/performance/choreography website, francesdath.info. I decided a …
March 8, 2011
Flowplayer Playlists and WPAlchemy Meta Boxes
Last night I spent a bit of time working on francesdath.info, which I’ve been shifting into WordPress recently. I wanted …
February 10, 2011
Two Ways to Put Flowplayer into WordPress — Custom Fields & Shortcodes
I spent this afternoon working on a site for Daniel Schlusser that is hidden from view but close to completion. …
January 1, 2011
supernaut lightbox
When supernaut first began, there was barely much of the internet as it is now. I had decided to use …
July 18, 2010
Reading: Charles Stross – The Fuller Memorandum
charles stross – the fuller memorandum
July 8, 2010
on science and ethics
Many of you who read my blog or know me personally know I am a bit of a lush for …
June 27, 2010
actually the whole purpose of this was…
actually the whole purpose of this was… actually the whole purpose of this was… actually the whole purpose of this …
June 1, 2010
fontographie
Early rising to Kreuzberg and after a time to wake Matthi up in Reichenbergerstr. Breakfast peanutbutter and coffee, talking across …
May 14, 2010
wordpress security (in many small steps)
(This is for people who like reading code, cross-posted at thingswithbits.info) Earlier this year supernaut got hacked. Many other of …
May 11, 2010
bechdel’s law
A couple of days ago I was reading Thus Spake Zuska, one of the many science blogs I consume most …
April 29, 2010
sydney’s siberia and other digital creatures
No, I don’t actually remember which Mac forum I discovered Jason Nelson and secrettechnology on. I do though highly enjoy …
April 21, 2010
Shifting Daniel Jaber into WordPress
Daniel Jaber is the second choreographer and dancer I’ve done a website for. Coming from Dasniya Sommer, I was intent …
April 19, 2010
ick bin sechs jahre alt (und na logo habe ich vergessen)
Ja, naturlich, immer ein weniger mehr und immer bisschen spät. Habe Ich heute mit Katrin geplaudert, und dann mir ging …
April 17, 2010
vanished again
I was wondering vaguely why supernaut’s site stats where plummeting ever lower, though decided it was a post-hack/infrequent-blogging combination, even …
April 17, 2010
customised flowplayer in wordpress
Last year while working on dasniyasommer.de and dealing with presenting video in an attractive way with much backend flexibility, I …
April 8, 2010
hate/love apple
Lucky I was in London for the long weekend, and so enjoying the longest break from my laptop and the …
April 7, 2010
absence
Not much blogging the last months and I feel shame. Though I have excuses. Firstly, the intermittent trackpad/keyboard freezing problem …
March 15, 2010
reading: iain m. banks – consider phlebas (second time)
iain m. banks – consider phlebas
February 22, 2010
mousepath
Along with upgrading my laptop to 10.6 on the weekend (I always, always do these things last at night, and …
December 26, 2009
supernaut wordpress
Six months ago, deliriously annoyed with Movable Type, and deeply envious of all those people using WordPress. I install WP, …
November 23, 2009
lx3 v2.1 1:1
While I suffer with what I shall call VogelschweinSARSgrippe, and ponder whether I can arrive in as many cities as …
July 12, 2009
moving…
I have spent a lazy Saturday transferring supernaut over to WordPress (more on that there). The result of that for …
July 11, 2009
from ecto 3 to wordpress 2.8
uuhhh… When I started finding odd stuff in my Movable Type install for supernaut I knew the end was near. …
July 8, 2009
dasniyasommer.de
Because it’s… I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, …
July 7, 2009
thingswithbits.info
I thought it was about time I had another website… (Now I just need to get around to spending more …
June 28, 2009
today i learned about depth of field
(Inbetween learning about search engine optimisation, Google Analytics… other…) I have a book which is a basic introduction to DSLR …
June 21, 2009
ich habe eine kamera. es ist schwarz
panasonic lx3 black noir schwarz miscellanea plus box and 8gb sdhc card panasonic lx3 and lens cap pasm! hotshoe! 4:3 …
April 23, 2009
berlin frühlingszeit vielfalten
Someone said, “Oh your photos are very good, you must have a DSLR, no?” No. My camera three years ago …
April 18, 2009
ick bin fünf jahre alt (und ein wenig mehr)
mmm… ja, so… leider, ich habe nochmal vergaß. Meine erste Blog Geburtstag in Berlin! Det find’ ick schau. Das war …
February 16, 2009
cookie monster
I don’t like cookies so much. The persistent browser types, with expiry dates of 2031 that cause a trail of …
February 14, 2009
we are enemies… secrettechnology
Discovered on a mac forum that I’ve been on for years, and the best game I’ve played in years also, …
January 24, 2009
women in mac
I was watching Welcome to Macintosh a few nights ago, becoming engaged in a mindless indulgence in Apple, I do …
January 19, 2009
Things…
I started talking about Things by saying, For a very long time my way of organising bits and pieces was, …
January 18, 2009
mailtags & …
For a very long time my way of organising bits and pieces was, for short things in a hurry creating …
January 9, 2009
oops teach me to be stupid…
That will teach me to brazenly copy-paste with no thought to the consequences. Wondering why new posts weren’t showing up, …
December 15, 2008
it degrades rather gracefully…
I noticed recently it’s been almost two years since I did this site design. That I’m not so bored with …
December 8, 2008
things with bits
For all of you with Apple computers, iPods, iPhones, wireless internet, other bits and pieces of hardware, a need for …
October 14, 2008
reading: iain m banks – feersum endjinn (5th time), the algebraist (2nd time)
iain m banks – the algebraist iain m banks – feersum endjinn
October 2, 2008
twitter.com/francesdath
Somehow after all this time, being slow to adopt new things, I decided to get on twitter, mainly so I …
September 7, 2008
reading: books from zürich…
Lacking new reading, and I am suffering, I have been opening my suitcase of books from my life in Zürich …
July 24, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 8)
Wherein I discover that ImPulsTanz knows about my blogging of settlement and having revealed as such in their newsletter, I …
June 28, 2008
monadologie – cosmos magazine
The bubble-quote of my traipsing through a park in Sydney, the endless, vertiginous blackness crisp with infinitesimal points, and there …
June 27, 2008
Global Voices Summit – Budapest
Some of my favourite and also most inspiring bloggers, writers, wonderful computer and internet people are all in Budapest for …
June 25, 2008
emile. blog. eurodisney.
Only this to say, about time. Emile is blogging at eurodisney.biz emile zile – eurodisney.biz
June 23, 2008
42a at EAF
Last year at Downtown, 42a was the most memorable show for me in Adelaide. Then Alison got Triennial funding and …
June 8, 2008
Reading: again… some for the fifth time…
Suffering from a paucity of new books the last two weeks, and packing mine all away in preparation for inevitable …
June 8, 2008
blog…
A notably slow Sunday, cleaning, washing dishes, reading The Subject of Gender that I am already certain will be on …
May 27, 2008
buzkashi, self-portrait & laptop
When I was a student, I would trundle up to Melbourne Uni and on weekends and holidays hole up the …
May 26, 2008
phoenix
Sometimes I get really deliriously happy about humans and what we occasionally do. Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic this …
May 14, 2008
Reading: Antonio Giustozzi – Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007
koran, kalashnikov and laptop
April 29, 2008
生日快乐!!! happy 4rd birthday supernaut
Oops … 我忘了… I forgot… My blog’s 4th birthday was almost three weeks ago on the 7th of April. I …
April 8, 2008
ftp blah…
I have no idea why none of my FTP applications are able to run LIST -a while using Internode’s wireless …
March 21, 2008
monadologie … last days and finish
The previous week has been on of quite small scale. I’ve been trying to learn everything I can on absorption …
March 19, 2008
monadologie photos
I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I’ll make excuses elsewhere. I …
March 15, 2008
… return
I was up till quite late last night methodically going through installing all of my add-ons, plugins, bits and pieces …
March 14, 2008
end … begin
Since mid-December I have been using one of the Centre for Astrophysics white MacBooks, which has been a joy. A …
February 20, 2008
monadologie day 40, 41 & 42
Oh, so close now and … mmm nervousness and so on. A peculiar week. I haven’t been too intent on …
February 17, 2008
monadologie day 37 & 38 & 39
This is the running order of the work. Or … it describes certain possibilities that if I’m clever enough could …
February 14, 2008
monadologie
Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie. “In so far as the concatenation …
February 12, 2008
monadologie – self-referentiality
Just because I’ve continually forgotten to do this… I’m blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New …
February 12, 2008
monadologie day 30 – 33, 34 & 35
So, has been an eventful week of much sleeplessness and then some sleep. And then some more sleeplessness. And now …
February 1, 2008
monadologie day 28 & 29
This week has mostly involved me being in the studio and not so much time at the Centre. It was …
February 1, 2008
reading: william gibson & bruce sterling – the difference engine
william gibson + bruce sterling – the difference engine
January 30, 2008
monadologie day 27
Just me alone … and Sunn 0))) … unjoy. I wasn’t sure how useful me being in a studio on …
January 29, 2008
monadologie day 25 & 26
The twenty-fifth day being that wherein herd displays of nationalistic supremacy and mob imbecility occur across a country still insultingly …
January 26, 2008
Reading: Charles Stross – The Atrocity Archives
charles stross – the atrocity archives
January 25, 2008
monadologie day 23 & 24
I’m losing track of what day is where… We spent a big day on Wednesday learning large amounts of material …
January 22, 2008
monadologie day (21 &) 22
Some hecticness, I’ll write about yesterday and today properly-ish when I have time … or not. A little video. 45 …
January 17, 2008
monadologie day 20
Thursday, the last day of our second week, though it feels like our first week as we were in the …
January 16, 2008
monadologie day 18 & 19
The learning of movement from video is exhausting me. I remember this from when I used to haha choreograph. Somehow …
January 14, 2008
monadologie day 16 & 17
Mostly I slept. I roused to see the Christian Marclay exhibition on at ACMI, and was utterly deliriously overjoyed and …
January 13, 2008
frances without laptop
Avoiding bringing home my laptop means time for fun things like staring at walls, lying in bed, rolling over, looking …
January 12, 2008
monadologie day 14 & 15
Thursday was so baking and heavy, like getting into the trunk of a car on a hot day and being …
January 10, 2008
feeds and things …
Every so often someone asks, “How do you read so much stuff every day?” and rather than shatter their illusions …
January 9, 2008
monadologie day 12 & 13
I chose Camera B. The other one, Camera A seemed to be silently petulant around me. Together, they make up …
January 7, 2008
monadologie day 11
We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also …
December 14, 2007
when i decompiled the source code of my feed reader it said, satan satan satan!!!
Obviously, I thought it was funny… (Later on I felt a sense of dread…) 666 satanic feed reader
December 12, 2007
monadologie – a start
I’m now in residence at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing where I’ll be for much of summer working …
November 29, 2007
AIR
While I’m about to embark on my residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, and getting quite giddy …