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Temperance Lane
What a great little bar!
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Is your News Limited?
titch of sydney Posted at 2:40 AM Today to the critic open your eyes alot more iraquis would have died at the hands of the taliban regime if we did not intervene via news.com.au Only the smartest make…
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Spreets: a bit shonky, a lot badly organised
The concept of the Groupon has been going on in Australia for a bit. Essentially it's a "deal a day" idea where, if enough people sign on to the day's deal, it happens. Suppliers can use it to build i…
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This new blog
I've had this new blog on Posterous for a while now but have only just got around to updating my web site to match. I'm redirecting the various RSS feeds so they should all be getting it from the prop…
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Louis has a water and sand toy
Louis loves his new toy, a water and sand table he got for his birthday.
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Woolworths gaming unit pricing
In the ethnic food section paprika is priced per 100g. In the spice section, per 10g. Slimy.
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Dunraven
I know the feeling. I bet this sign went up on a Tuesday. This is a house around the corner on Illawarra Road that had an open house on Saturday, so we went and had a sticky. Turns out it's a house I…
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Sun, beer, friends
We had a wonderful afternoon down at the Concordia Club, drinking German beer, eating schnitzel and pork knuckle, hanging out in the sun. A fantastic, lazy Sunday. In the photos are Matt's pork knuckl…
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Child bike seats are problematic
Louis is in daycare and Holly starts back at work two days a week on Monday, so our attention has gone to a seat on our bikes for the boy to help with the daily commute. It's a bit problematic. To sta…
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Erm, thanks but no thanks
Being invited to attend a company's "Customer Advisory Board" is nice. It recognises my real-world experience with their products, and hopefully means some of my ideas will end up in the product, maki…
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Malt whisky ginger cake recipe
via guardian.co.uk I made this over the weekend with some of the lovely Bruichladdich "Peat" multi vintage whisky that Louis received for his first birthday. It was amazingly light, with a very comple…
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Dear Labor, please vote down gay marriage, sincerely Greens
It appears Labor will vote as a bloc against the Greens gay marriage bill. To get to the lower house it will probably require the support of the Liberals, but tactically that might be a smart move on…
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I know where you've been
Reading the site behind the evil evil evil evercookie hack (evil, almost indestructible cookies), I stumbled upon the author's CSS History Knocker code. This is something I'd toyed with in the past bu…
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Shred the week
Time-Killing ‘Chrono Shredder’ is a Day-Dicing Wall Calender Wall clock, calender and mortality reminder all wrapped up in one odd work of (post)modern art. The so-called ‘Chrono Shredder’ provides a…
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Classy
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Distributed social networks and security
Most of you will know I'm not on Facebook. By the time Facebook came around, I'd already been on Friendster, Orkut, LinkedIn and the rest and lost the desire to really get into a new social network. T…
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Dear Bogans
via media.crikey.com.au From yesterday's Crikey. Brilliant.
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Kindle: first impressions
My Kindle arrived on Monday and I've been using it to read stuff ever since so I thought I'd record my first impressions of the device. Hardware design The industrial design is incredibly slick. This…
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Catholic? You share the blame.
An Onymous Lefty claims that protests against the Pope's visit to the UK are aimed at the church, not its members. His reasoning is that it's the church hierarchy at fault for its various ills, not th…
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Logstalgia: web log file analysis as pong
via thealphablenders.com This is very cool. Web log file analysis visualized as a game of pong. (Pointed out by Des. Thanks!)