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Changing jobs
I'm leaving Telstra Media this Friday for an exciting new job. I'm going to be Head of Data at Datalicious, a company doing cool stuff at the intersection of web analytics, big data and marketing. I'm…
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Dear car sites: we're not all rev heads
Holly and I are discussing getting a bigger car. With another kid on the way, two child seats in the back of a Yaris is going to be very crowded. I need the seat all the way back to drive, and a car s…
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The Cure
An amazing gig in an amazing venue. The Cure playing their first three albums at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. Brilliant. Over three hours of brilliance. After missing out on tickets when they…
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Red wellies!
Splashing around in the rain tonight in his bright red wellies.
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Withnail & O
via youtube.com Genius
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Google, you're starting to give me the shits
I've been a fan of the Google keiretsu for a long time. Adwords is a brilliant piece of technology, and a brilliant piece of business: it works so well because everyone wins. More recently, they've st…
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Apple's brilliant piece of price discrimination segmentation
I was reading this article from the Grauniad thinking the usual. Whiny Apple fanboi whinges about his beloved screwing him like a pooch. So far so ordinary. (The flippant 9 year old daughter buying he…
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Shall we swap Fergies?
This dream is what the Pilgrims sought when they landed on Plymouth Rock, why Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, and why the pioneers colonised the lawless West (don't quote me on any of that – our pub…
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Meat overdose @ Momofuku Ssam Bar Title
via eatshowandtell.com Ever since reading about David Chang and his restaurants, I've been keen to visit. The cookbook is excellent, if a little daunting. Here's some vicarious food porn.
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ALP finally ready to turn the guns on News Limited?
Mike Quigley is no more responsible for the corruption at Alcatel than John Hartigan was for the corruption at the Melbourne Storm. via abc.net.au A tip in Crikey pointed out this quote from AM this m…
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Should I run Cat 6?
Wow, three times in the last few days I've been asked by people whether it's a good idea to run Cat 6 ethernet in their homes. The answer is, emphatically, yes! Us lucky people in Australia are going…
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Linux, implemented in JavaScript
JavaScript is just a buggy toy language right? Wrong! (Though having the same operator for addition and concatenation is still idiotic.) It's amazing how far JavaScript, and particularly the implement…
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Pork with apple and cider gravy
Last night we had Matt & Maz around for dinner, a lovely roasted piece of pork shoulder from Urban Food Market, served with roast potatoes, onions and turnips. For a sauce to accompany the pork I'd st…
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Ultrasound
As promised, here's the ultrasound of baby #2. As of last Friday the baby was about six centimetres long. More pics on my Smugmug.
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If fonts were dogs
via fuckyeahdementia.com
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Reading Crikey on the Kindle @hmoffatt
A commenter, Hamish Moffatt, on my post about my first impressions with the Kindle has asked if I've solved the reading Crikey problem. The problem is how to read the daily Crikey newsletter on the Ki…
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We're having another baby!
I'm very pleased to announce that Holly is about 12 weeks pregnant and we're due to have another baby in late November. Everything's going well so far and I'll have some ultrasounds to post shortly. W…
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Existential Star Wars
via howtobearetronaut.com Star Wars makes a whole lot more sense this way...
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Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death
We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exce…
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Web analytics blog name change
Wow, that idea for a name of a web analytics blog was truly awful. Agonising analytics. What was I thinking? So now I have a much better name, which better reflects what it's all about. Here's the blu…