Better than google ads
Having found myself with a little spare time at 1am this morning I improved the advertisements that display on pjf.id.au. You may need to look carefully (or at a few different pages) to see the changes. While the new ads aren't likely to earn me $0.005 cents/day like the old ones, they are a little more amusing.

Lunchtime Code
This lunchtime over a salad roll I put together code to generate Perl Training Australia Brand Fairy Dust(TM). These are the little squares that appear on our letterhead, course covers, logo, and other corporate branding.

The code allows for variable density and colour saturation, the creation of different sized areas, and various scaling factors. This means that it's very easy to generate some very cool looking special effects. It's good to have a well-behaved logo.

Exporting Training
Most of Perl Training Australia's busi ness domestic, but from time to time we export our training; almost always to New Zealand, which is practically another state of Australia anyway.

However today we exported training to the Netherlands. No PTA representative is traveling to Europe, nor is a delegate coming over here. Instead, the group in the Netherlands are re-selling that training to an office in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is then transferring the training to a person in their Sydney office. The person in Sydney will be attending our course.

Recursion in business is a wonderful thing.

Gardening
Spent the day in the garden, building a new bed, and chopping up our very vibrant rhubarb into smaller, less vibrant pieces.

Melbourne.PM elections
Last night Melbourne.PM held its first AGM, a required step in becoming a registered association. A motley crew of members were elected into the committee, and their picture taken.

Journal
In addition to the regular outlets (use.perl and advogato), my journal now appears on pjf.id.au as well. This is important for my non-geek friends, who complain about my journal being hidden on strange websites that have camel fascinations.