Ameel Khan

Wide-angle photo looking up from the bottom of a bright orange coloured children's slide in a local park.

Testing out my new wide-angle lens at the bottom of a playground slide :)

Photo of two long, outdoor, wood-and-iron cafe tables and their accompanying benches. The tables are placed outside the building where the footpath is sloping downwards towards the street. The legs on one long side of the table are taller than the legs on the other side, resulting in the eating surfaces of the tables being perfectly horizontal.

When faced with an awkward outdoor seating situation, why not custom-build your tables to accommodate the footpath's slope? :) #melbourne

Photo of a tall building in the middle of a large city. One window of the building is shining brightly as the sun reflects off it. The photo has been taken from underneath a set of railway bridge, with a train crossing one of the bridges in front of the photographer.

Sun reflecting off Eureka Tower in #Melbourne.

Photo looking straight down at a metal plate embedded into the road surface on top of which two tram tracks cross each other at an acute angle. The photographer's white sneakers are visible in the bottom of the photo frame.

Tram-track crossing on Swanston Street in #Melbourne.

Close-up photo of a tray of egg tarts in a bakery display window.

Close-up photo of a tray matcha cube croissants and blueberry cube croissants in a bakery display window. A small paper label stuck to the top of each croissant reads, "#1000 Bread"

Dubai chocolate egg tarts and blueberry cube croissants in the display window at #1000Bread on Swanston Street in #Melbourne.

Four-panel comic that's been converted into a meme. Panel 1: Close-up of a car rear-view mirror with text over the mirror that reads, "Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear". Panel 2: Close up of the driver sweating from stress while looking at this rear-view mirror. Panel 3: Blurry view of the object seen through the rear-view mirror. It looks like a person. Panel 4: Close-up of this object, which turns out to be Mariah Carey wearing a sexy Santa outfit.

We're coming up to that time of year!

Using Tresorit to sync files on Linux — Insanity Works The ability to automatically synchronise files across devices via the internet (and also save a copy in the cloud) hasn’t been around for very long. Heck, most people didn’t have multiple devices to...

When I moved my desktop PC to Linux, I had to drop Sync.com as my E2EE cloud sync provider (no Linux client). I blogged about why I picked Swiss Post's Tresorit over all the other available options: www.insanityworks.org/randomtangen...

Photo looking down at a creek running through a grassy area. There are structures built along this creek to manage its flooding, such as a drain pipe that redirects flood waters via smaller creek into a flood retarding basin. A series of flood-level markers have been installed along the wall of this creek so observers can note the height of the floodwater.

Flood-level markers on the banks of Merlynston Creek, as well as the opening to #Melbourne Water's regional drainage system that keeps the properties in Melbourne's north safe from floods. (These drains divert flood waters to a nearby flood retarding basin.)

Daughter Helping With Printer Unknowingly Recreates Exact Tone Her Dad Used Teaching Long Division EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T GET IT! A local woman has unknowingly continued generational trauma cycle as she finds herself grappling with her parents printer today. ...

*sigh* I'm sure all us nerds have been there. Though in my case it was my mother who taught me long division and whose documents I needed to print :) I never dared echo her exasperated tone back at her though!!

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Photo of a Koko Black coffee stand on the sidewalk of a metropolitan city. Two baristas are making coffee at the coffee machines along the back of the stand. In the foreground are a woman and a girl waiting for their drinks, with the girl gripping the back of woman's jacket with her hand.

Waiting for the baristas at Koko Black on Swanston Street in #Melbourne.

Photo of two bales of hay with blue sheets wrapped around them. On each bale is a brown teddy bear that is wearing a black, leather, classic flight jacket; a pair of googles; and a black, classic flying cap. There is a bandage on each bear's right leg. This is an activity for young children to do while they learn about the Royal Flying Doctor Service at their booth at an airshow.

Royal Flying Doctor Service teddy bears ready to be tended to by visiting children at Avalon Airshow 2025. #ThrowbackThursday

Photo showing three large road signs erected on metal poles. The signs are next to a massive concrete pillar with a stone facade. This pillar is one of several that are holding up a series of elevated train lines that cross over the roads that run beneath. The signs read, from top to bottom, "Flinders St" (the cross street at this intersection), "Docklands" (the suburb to the right of this intersection), and "Marvel Stadium" (the point of interest to the right of this intersection).

Dirt-caked road signs under the elevated train tracks the run down the length of Flinders Street in #Melbourne (going from Southern Cross to Flinders Street railway station).

Why I picked MX Linux over other Linux distros — Insanity Works When I moved my desktop PC from Windows to Linux a few months ago, the Linux distribution I picked was MX Linux . In this post I explain why. What’s a Linux distribution? In case you’re new to ...

I've been using UNIX/Linux on and off since the mid-90s but I only switched my desktop/gaming PC to Linux this August. The distro I settled on was MX Linux and in this (long) post (that I wrote mostly for myself) I explain why. www.insanityworks.org/randomtangen...

Was looking at this typeface just this week! It's a lovely book Venetian and it has a display sibling, Nicholas.

#typography

Goodchild Fonts | I Love Typography The essence of any typeface is a visuality which neither words nor measurement can fully convey, and it is this concept of form which the type designer…

Goodchild, Nick Shinn's modern, highly-readable interpretation of Nicolas Jenson's roman typeface, is on sale for US $99: fonts.ilovetypography.com/fonts/shinnt...

I find Goodchild more versatile and practical compared to Adobe Jenson and LTC Cloister, although the latter is also on sale from P22.

Photo of one end of an Australian Rules Football field in which tall nets have been installed behind the goal posts.

Nets behind the goals at a local community footy field in #Melbourne.

Black-and-white photo of a coffee cup with, "Coffee here!" written on it along with a smiley face. The coffee cup has been placed on a cafe window sill.

Get your coffee here! =)

#Melbourne

Photo looking down at a pavement with a large, yellow warning sign painted across it. The full sign reads, "watch for cars" but the photographer has cropped-out most of the message so all that's visible in the frame are the first three letters, "wat".

Wat?

("Watch for cars" warning sign painted on the pavement.)

Photo of a residential red-brick wall with a round section cut out of it so a rolled-up newspaper or magazine can be placed in it by the mail carrier. The wall and ring itself are out of focus. What is in focus is a bush that is growing in the garden behind this wall.

Nice garden behind the newspaper ring that's been built into the wall.

#Melbourne

Photo of a round culvert around a floodplain. Even though it is daylight outside, the interior of the culvert is pitch dark. A warning sign posted next to the entrance hole reads, "No entry" and "trespassers prosecuted". Explanatory text above this reads, "Lack of oxygen and sudden rising water".

The forbidden hole: "Lack of oxygen and sudden rising water" 😨

(Part of the floodwater drainage system in Melbourne's northern suburbs.) #Melbourne

What Made Blogging Different? Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...

"[If] you wanted people to read your blog, you had to make it compelling enough that they would visit it, directly, because they wanted to. And if they wanted to respond to you, they had to do it on their own blog, and link back." — Elizabeth Spiers

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Photo of a series of white, graduated flood-level markers installed in the steep walls of a floodplain. Each marker is one metre tall and is painted white with black level-marks on it. Text next to these marks shows that the highest marker measures flood waters as high as seven metres above sea level.

Flood-level markers going up to 7m along a bank of a creek in a floodplain in the northern suburbs of #Melbourne.

Photo taken through a wire mesh fence of half a dozen train tracks running between where the photographer is standing and several buildings and sports centres on the other side. A blue-and-yellow Metro train is running along one of these tracks. A covered, elevated walkway runs above the tracks.

Train tracks between the MCG and Melbourne & Olympic Parks.

Close-up, wide-angle photo of the front of a classic, maroon coloured MG car at a car show. The front grill of the car and its four large headlamps dominate the frame of the photo.

Throwback to this MG at the Antique Car Show Karachi 2024.

Photo of the top of the Crown Towers building seen through a large ceramic ring that is part of some artwork on the ground floor promenade outside.

Crown Towers building, as seen through 'The Guardians' artwork on Southbank Promenade in #Melbourne.

Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner Perennial runner up finally claims the crown in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll, ahead of Baudin’s black cockatoo and gang-gang cockatoo

Woohoo!

"More than 310,000 votes were cast after polling opened on 6 October and the tawny led the charge from the start, despite being hotly and persistently pursued by two cockatoos…"

Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner
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Photo of a covered courtyard under a historic building that is being held up by several stone pillars.

Pillars of the Old Arts Building at the University of #Melbourne.

Photo of a man in a dark blue suit wearing a light blue cycling helmet, sunglasses, and brown formal shoes. The man has a black messenger bag slung across his back. The man is riding an electric scooter up a cycling and pedestrian bridge that spans an urban river.

Scooting up the Webb Bridge, connecting Docklands to South Melbourne across the Yarra River in #Melbourne.

Grapes are like water you can eat. (This is a good thing.)

This is a little long, but it is glorious.

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence