My Coffs Harbour

Only discovered recently, Hopwood's Disease was named after one of the earliest known vectors of infection. Despite the fact that it can cripple entire communities, it is still not recognised by some authorities as a serious public health problem.

Symptoms of Hopwood's disease include:

A tough, scaly growth that spreads very quickly.

Allison inherited it from her late grandmother nearly a decade ago. It's never looked particularly healthy, but neither has it died. And once a year, in the middle of the night, it does this:

Went for another dawn swim, just before 6:00am. My new glasses came with the most ridiculous steampunk case, looking rather like a canister intended to be sent around an office building via pneumatic tube a hundred years ago. Found that my swimming goggles fit into this perfectly.

Weather beautiful, water freezing and murky. Took three or four attempts before I could submerge without hyperventilating, and when I did I couldn't see beyond my own goosebumps.

Note to self: Remember to go to bed early on Friday and Saturday nights so I get a solid few hours sleep before it all kicks off.

"Nearly half the world's 8- to 12-year-old urban tweens say the clothes and brands they wear describe who they are and define their social status."

Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss

Meme via Mikkel Høgh.

Instructions

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.

• FOAF
• SIOC

Also see if the Twitter module can be modded to support laconi.ca.

Apologies to Merlin Mann.

• Dessicated slice of pepperoni.
• Book consistently falls open at sex scenes.
• Margin notes revealing your friend is a post-modernist.
• Toilet paper bookmark.
• Rough draft of suicide note.

See these links:

• DiSo Project
• DiSo for Drupal

As of day one, we're already using the following Drupal modules:

• OpenID (from Drupal core)
• FeedAPI

This site is designed to be an example implementation of a "small s" semantic web site in Drupal, as well as something that is useful for people in and around Coffs Harbour. As much as possible we'd like to use existing modules, or create reusable general-purpose modules, rather than put effort into code that will only be used here. Hopefully this site will encourage other similar sites, so that rather than being yet another monolithic service, the functionality found here will eventually propagate out over the network, and it won't matter whether you're using this site or something else to pull in the data that's "out there".

If you'd like to help, there's a discussion forum at coffs.free.net.au, you can contact me to get administrative access to the site and/or server access to really break stuff, and Friday afternoons at Matthew's office in Sawtell is reserved for work on this.