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Welcome Louis Anthony Rumble
After a long and quite painful birth, Holly delivered our son Louis Anthony Rumble on Thursday 30th September 2009 at 22:53. He was 2.7kg (5lb 15oz), 48cm and all the bits in the right places. And abs…
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Rollercoaster ride: birth imminent
Holly and I have had a bit of a rollercoaster ride the last six days. On Friday she woke up with a headache in the early hours that stayed with her until it was time to get up for work. On her visit t…
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Guide to the government's insulation rebate
I've built a site that's a guide to the government's home insulation rebate programme. My aim is to provide a fairly quick and simple guide, given that the government site is all full of legalese like…
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Get a response from your local member: be rude
Yesterday I sent a rather terse and rude email to my local state member, Carmel Tebbutt complaining that I'd received no response from my email sent last December. It seems being rude helps! Does she…
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What is it with recruiters?
Why are all IT recruiters: English? Almost every one of them. Completely unable to communicate in any method other than the telephone? Unable to accept any format other than MS Word. Even for Web and…
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My new blog: Informed consumer
I've regularly thought about the imbalance between consumers and companies providing services. Having worked in telecommunications, it's really obvious. We have whole teams of people sitting around wo…
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Start your own social network
Many employers view social networks as time-wasting nonsense. Can building your own workplace social network deliver all of the productivity and none of the problems? Simon Rumble finds out. My articl…
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Latest ultrasound
Here's the latest scan from this afternoon. 28 weeks and 2 days. Diagnosis: Normal growth and wellbeing. And here's Holly brandishing her disco biscuits.
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It's Lovely! I'll Take It!
Have heart-to-heart discussions in the intimate conversation nook! I've been reading this fantastic blog, It's Lovely! I'll Take It!. Weird photos from real estate listings, and great captions. Simple…
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Sydney FC fixture calendar
I've entered all the upcoming fixtures for this season into the public Sydney FC calendar I maintain. It means I know when games are coming up as I live by my calendar and refer to it constantly. Time…
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The music industry as we know it is over
Something big is coming to the music industry. The smart ones have already worked it out, and it scares the crap out of them. The really smart ones are getting ready. Weird music When I was young, my…
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Confusing pictograms
Jason Parker-Burlingham posted a confusing pictogram so I thought I'd add my own. This is from the path to the beach in Nida in Lithuania, which is at the Lithuanian end of the Curonian Spit. That's t…
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131500 site is the reason people are developing third-party apps
Back in early March I wrote to the NSW Transport Minister by email about Shittyrail threatening developers of third-party apps using Sydney timetable data. Late last month Parliamentary Secretary for…
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Announcing: Swedish Chef wave robot
I managed to score myself a Google Wave account by promising to write a Swedish Chef robot. So this afternoon I wrote one, in a language I've never used before (Python) and to a target platform I've n…
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Acer Aspire One D150 and Ubuntu netbook remix
Earlier this week I bought an Acer Aspire One D150 to use as my new portable and, possibly, desktop. Most of these new netbooks are pretty much the same inside, so a few things won me over to this one…
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Why display advertising sucks
I've been working on a fair bit of marketing-related stuff over the last few years, and we've been spending pretty big on online campaigns. Much of this money has gone on display advertising, the kind…