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Not really an appropriate advert Google
Search for kids' TV programme Yo Gabba Gabba (apparently there's live shows at Westfield), I got this, somewhat inappropriate ad. Whoops. Now I'm willing to concede that Muno looks like a giant gnobbl…
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Anyone work for the ATO?
It'd be a real shame if details of Gerry Harvey and Harvey Norman's tax arrangements leaked out. Terrible really. Apparently it's unAustralian to shop online because you avoid paying tax and [cough] l…
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Adobe's Omniture license agreements getting ridiculous
Some time ago I was invited to Adobe Omniture's Client Advisory Board to have some input into the next iteration of the Adobe's Omniture products. They sent me through an agreement to sign before I co…
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Dear Australian Retailers
Your recent campaign to get GST levied on all Internet transactions has some rather major logical flaws. 1. Your prices are much more than 10% higher than overseas prices. It's interesting that Angus…
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Alexis Petridis' perfect New Year's Eve playlist
Chime Orbital Useful because a) it's great b) has vaguely Big Ben-ish bells on it, but also because playing it marks the inexorable passing of time: watch ex-ravers of a certain age "have it large" be…
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Peats Ridge Festival 2010
Holly and I took Louis to his first outdoor music festival, and his first time camping over New Year. Peats Ridge Festival is held to the North of Sydney in a valley near the Hawkesbury River and bill…
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Peats Ridge update before New Year
Festival is great, if insanely hot. Tomorrow is forecast to hit 37 so we're likely to be packed and on our way pretty early. Disaster struck this morning: broken thong. Being a bloody hippy festival,…
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Peats Ridge Festival
We've had a lovely day so far. This is watching Washington in the late afternoon.
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Beers with Hanesy in Shellharbour
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Lovely hat Louis
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I Hate Math! (Not After This, You Won't) : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
Vi Hart calls herself "a recreational mathemusician currently living on Long Island." She talks faster than a machine gun, loves math, and draws like a dream. Her newest video: "Doodling in Math Class…
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Xmas photo
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Wikileaks: major news reports miss the major point
Is it just me or are the major news services missing the whole point of the Wikileaks US embassy cables? Sure it's a bit embarrassing for the Yanks that their data all got into the public domain, but…
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This captures the essence of the Windows user experience
In other words, I know exactly what you're trying to do, but you're doing it wrong so I won't do it.
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Pulled pork
This weekend I made pulled pork again. It's such a great treat and uses insanely cheap meat. I pretty much followed this recipe from Kidspot, with about $15 worth of pork shoulder and a bit of a mixtu…
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Fantastic weekend
We've had a fantastic weekend. Gorgeous weather, good times. Yesterday we kind of hung around a bit, played, cooked and the like. I cooked up some patience-required pulled pork (more on which later).…
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An alternative to anti-siphoning: unbundling
The federal government's sport anti-siphoning list is in the media today. Bernard Keane pointed out in yesterday's Crikey that it's a giant, anti-competitive con that hands sports broadcasting rights…
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Spam attack
If you seem to have received an email from me about my new Chinese web presence, yes it's spam. Seems to have been some kind of break in on my Google-hosted email. The emails look like they've gone to…
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Hey Telcos, lift your game and stop lying!
Optus have been served a Federal Court injunction preventing them from doing further misleading advertising. Optus is one of the worst in the sneaky behaviour department, with insane amounts of fine p…
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Why don't we all switch banks?
The Prime Minister is telling angry bank customers to " take their money and their business somewhere else ". For your transaction and savings accounts, this is reasonably easy. If you have a mortgage…