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Fruit trees are in
I planted out all the fruit trees and vines today. There's two types of apple, Dwarf Dorsett Golden and Dwarf Tropical Sweet, two types of plum, Maiposa and Narabeen, and two types of passionfruit, th…
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Russ Meyer: Auteur
News.com.au describes Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill as an "arthouse classic" in this article about a putative Tarantino remake. That's hilarious! Though if anyone was to remake Meyer films…
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Channel 7 misses the digital point
Channel 7 holds the rights to broadcast the Olympics, but clearly doesn't get the possibilities that digital television brings. Last night was the first football match, with Australia's mens team play…
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GroceryWatch
So the ACCC has launched the new "GroceryWatch" site, GroceryChoice, which gives comparisons of a basket of goods between supermarkets. I wonder how hard it would be to game this system, if you could…
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Fastway do it again!
Yet again, Fastway couriers fraudulently forge a signature to "prove" delivery. At least this time they didn't forge my own name. In this case, the courier didn't bother to knock. We were in bed at th…
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Weekend of garden bed making
Earlier in the week I thought I'd missed fruit trees, but suddenly one of the suppliers has got some more stock. So I've quickly ordered some trees today. I'm changing tack slightly, as according to B…
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Blue plaques with a twist
Nosey In Newtown notes a fun take on the blue plaque, spotted in the People's Republic of Newtown. Quite funny!
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Do not call!
I just had a call from a telemarketer at my private health insurer (don't get me started on being forced to have one) trying to get me to sign up for their "Extras" cover. In case you don't know how t…
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Missed out on fruit trees this year
One of the things I wanted to get in early in our house was some fruit trees. But because we live in the inner city, we have some constraints over what we can plant. We don't want something blocking o…
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Firefox search in the URL bar
It seemed people appreciated my last Firefox tip about deleting autocomplete entries. Here's another one. If, like me, Wikipedia is your first point of call for just about any enquiry, here's a quick…
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Conspiracy or fuckup?
Conspiracy nutters are everywhere these days. George Bush and Dick Cheney ordered the "controlled demolition" of the Twin Towers. The Duke of Edinburgh, a 12th-level Mason, ordered MI6 to kill Di and…
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Kidneys in sherry and cream
I've got some mates coming around tonight for offal, beer, wine, whisky and poker. A boys' night, with SWMBO banished for the evening. I've just bought some lamb kidneys, sherry and cream, and plan to…
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XRay for CSS
Very very cool little bookmarklet that shows loads of cool info about the styles of an element you click on a page. Wow!
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All CMSes suck
I have a slide I use when presenting about content management systems to manglement types. Content management systems suck. They're designed that way. The main idea behind them, in a corporate context…
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Oscillate Wildly review
As mentioned yesterday, Holly and I managed to get a booking at Oscillate Wildly for last night, our ten year anniversary. I'd attempted to book back in May, but they were already booked out. Fortunat…
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Ten years!
Ten years ago I snogged a lovely young woman at The Globe nightclub in Newtown (now a backpackers hostel and pizza joint). Ten years on and we've travelled the world, cycled thousands of kilometres to…
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Oscillate Wildly for dinner
Just got a call to offer me a table at Oscillate Wildly tonight. I'd attempted to book months ago for tonight and it was already booked out. Yay! I've wanted to eat at this place for ages. Review some…
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Police riot in Genoa goes unpunished
Nick Davies gives an update on the police attack on 93 unarmed demonstrators at the Diaz Pertini school building at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy. It seems despite clear evidence that the police…
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New fence
We've had a shiny new fence installed all around. It's been a few months in the making, getting quotes and agreement from three different sets of neighbours. Finally it's done. We now have a gate on o…
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World (Catholic) Youth Weirdos
Spotted this morning walking through Sydney Uni, some Catholic pilgrims (the lanyard and pass is a giveaway) taking a photo of... the wall of HK Ward gymnasium. Weird. Maybe they saw Mary? I'm trying…