Oh, and by the way

In case that last post weren’t enough to prove I’m home, I got back yesterday afternoon.

Photographic proof (that I went, not that I’m home) –

Adobe PR translation

Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia

Via hicksdesign

It seems painfully true.

Going away

This afternoon I’ll be dropping off the map for a while due to a holiday to Victoria (although regrettably not with, because that would be rather nice), and no Internet access is anticipated.

I’ll probably be back by Friday the 22^nd, but depending on… what people want to do… it could be as late as Sunday the 24^th. Apologies if comment moderation takes stupid amounts of time — users who have already been able to post comments shouldn’t experience any problems, though. As always, the contact form works (I just won’t be reading it for a week), and I’ll have my mobile with me (although reception is open to debate).

See everyone in a week or so!

Luminous

An awesome performance by the ACO at the Angel Place City Recital Hall last night, also on tonight and Saturday there and on Sunday at the Sydney Opera House. Also featuring the photography of Bill Henson, in a moderately well produced but holistically insignificant simultaneous visual display to live and prerecorded music.

It was excellent. Go see it if you can.

p.s. Angel Place is an awesome venue.

Unidentified Power Socket

Ironically found on an UPS… but enough of the bad puns. Does anyone know what this connector is?

It’s marked as being 20 amp, but it’s only got three cores in a sort of quasi-3 phase connector (I think there’s a word/brand for that which I should know but don’t) which is missing two cores. The closest thing I’ve found is a forum posting (second post from bottom on page) which claims these are used for single-phase staging/event gear at least in the UK (they use the same voltages as Australia, I think), with 63A, 32A and 16A varieties available (connectors are physically different sizes, and coloured blue to mark them as single phase, as opposed to the conventionally red/orange 3 phase connectors). I assume that the Clipsal labelling of the socket as 20A simply refers to the maximum socket load rather than what the device behind the socket is happy driving… but maybe not.

Anyone seen these things before?