These images are thumbnails (well, smaller versions) of all the photos taken on or slightly
before Sunday, 24 December 2000. They're sorted by time of exposure. The purpose of this page is rather
like the contact prints that used to be used in the film days: they give me an overview of all
photos taken on the day. Unlike contact prints, I have removed images that are completely
useless, but I've kept anything that might be in any way usable. There's no implication that
their presence here means that I think they're good. In addition, there may be no
relationship between the individual images.
Click on any image to display a larger version, or read the diary entry corresponding to the day.
On 24 December 2000, I invited some of the Adelaide
FreeBSD people to a barbecue. The main reason was because Kris Kennaway and Benno Rice, both
exiles, were back in Adelaide for Christmas. We started off with a ritual offering to Coopers'
beer on the verandah. From left to right: Greg Lehey (groggy), Benno Rice
(Holocaine), Kris Kennaway (kkenn) and Daniel O'Connor (Darius). In
the background we also found enough bits and pieces to put together a machine to loan to Kris
while he's here.
All being active IRC users, we had to have a laptop with connectivity to our favourite
channel. I set up four windows, one for each of us, but of course Darius had to do his own
thing, and it took a while:
It's a pity that fewer other people were active. We basically
ended up serially IRCing and talking to ourselves. Here's the transcript. I'm
there twice: once on the laptop as groggy, and once on my
normal machine as groggled. In that transcript you can
read:
<keichii> somebody take a pic of msmith museum por favor
The box on the left of the table is the machine we put together for Kris. It's a P5/133 with
32 MB memory, Adaptec 2940UW and 4 GB Conner drive, Matrox Millennium display card and a 17"
monitor. Nothing spectacular, but it was interesting that all the bits for it were just lying
around. We had a second host adaptor (Advansys) for the Sun CD-ROM drive you can see to the
right of the machine, but it took exactly this opportunity to die on us.
