I remember hearing about DDJ possibly as early as my last years in high school [‘89/‘90]. Didn’t care enough to subscribe while I was still studying at university [doing a non-CS course], so it wasn’t until around 2002 when a promotion for it came my way that I thought “hey, I should get a subscription to that”…

So, sent off the forms and got the first couple of issues on a trial – all Windows, nothing Mac, nothing Unix and quite insubstantial from what I recall. Emailed them and asked to cancel the subscription from becoming permanent. So Mike’s comments about reading it

“until a few years ago, when it had become thinner and more Window-centric”

Guess it’s just another death-rattle from print media dying around the planet.

As far as the title goes, that may or may not persist. I was going for something that reflected my interest in:

• Systems administration
• Software development
• Australian Rules Football (hence the “footy” for any non-Aussie who may be reading)
• Other, more cerebral pursuits, like mathematics (hence the intersection sign "∩")

And yes, that combination pretty much assures me of my blog being “unique” – I don’t expect too many other people to be interested in all of those topics, so intersection is actually an appropriate operator for the blog name. But – if there’s anyone else out there that is also sitting in that very small part of a rather unique 4-way Venn diagram, let me know…

Hopefully I can also find more time in 2009 and onwards for developing my photography skills – Nick has already mentioned something interesting for early in ’09, so we’ll see how that pans out. I expect that I’ll post the end results of any interesting shots somewhere here – was reading about HDR the other day, and it sounds pretty damn cool from a purely technical perspective. Some people aren’t fond of the results, but I think it’s just another way that DSLRs are “expanding the envelope” of what is possible with digital technology that simply wasn’t practical with film-based media.