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Spectacularly bad UI
Wow Ricoh really take the cake here. My work has some Ricoh photocopiers with an excellent feature, you can use them as scanners. Great feature. Lousy user interface. Once you're scanned your page, yo…
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1 terabyte is now under 300 bucks!
An important threshold has been passed. 1 terabyte of external storage is under $300 at a mainstream vendor. Wow! I could get all old fogie and reminisce about the old days, our first 10 megabyte hard…
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Great cabling
My uncle is putting built-in cupboards in our bedroom. There's a phone jack in the bedroom, right in the way of where he's building cupboards. He asked me if I wanted the phone jack, and I said no, so…
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Children of Men
I signed up to Quickflix recently on their free trial. The service is good, but I don't think we get through enough movies to make keeping it worthwhile. However, one of the movies we got was Children…
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Background Briefing: Greenwashing
I've been a long time listener of the ABC's Background Briefing, ever since I was interviewed for one of the programmes back in 1998. It's always well-researched and very interesting. What's more, the…
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Eco Choices for Home Renovators
I did a class run by The Watershed on Monday night, Eco Choices for Home Renovators. This is my second class from this organization, the first being a worm farming workshop. They're funded by the City…
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Swan is indeed inexperienced
That's right opposition fucktards, Wayne Swan is inexperienced as Treasurer. He's never been Treasurer of Australia before. Then again, neither has Tony Smith. In fact, Tony Smith has never been a gov…
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Web mockups
The marketing gurus at my work want to redesign our online ordering system. What we ended up with is certainly problematic, but at the time was about as much as we could get into the scope of this hug…
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HD MythTV via PS3
Jeremy, shamelessly pimping for his work has suggested using a PS3 as my MythTV front-end as an alternative to building my own front-end. Advantages being it could be slightly cheaper (depends on hard…
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Socceroos calendar
Since the FFA seems too clueless to provide this, I've created a Google Calendar with all upcoming Socceroos matches. I watch the football news about our team pretty closely, so I should be able to ke…
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HD MythTV responses
I've had quite a bit of response to yesterday's post about HD MythTV. Thanks for the input folks, you've pretty much answered all my doubts! Cafuego told me he's having no trouble recording two HD str…
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HD MythTV
Our ancient CRT telly has recently started getting a green tint in the lower corner, and Holly just got a substantial pay rise by moving jobs, so we're going to treat ourselves to a new telly. Judging…
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The first step is taken at last
We are at last on the path to reconcilliation with Prime Minister Rudd saying sorry to the Stolen Generations, nearly 11 years after Bringing Them Home. It's a momentous step and Rudd's speach was mag…
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When the revolution comes...
The product manager for Internet Explorer and his entire team will be the first up against the wall.
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Doctor reviews?
My GP has moved practices and is now based in Drummoyne, which is too difficult travel-wise for my tastes. So after being very happy with her, I'll have to change doctors. I'm sure the only industry w…
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WebTrends are at least responsive!
In response to yesterday's rant about WebTrends, I got an email this morning from Scott Driscoll, Product Manager at WebTrends. He says they're working on improving usability and want a chat about wha…
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WebTrends, oh how you shit me
My work uses WebTrends to track people using our sites. It's not cheap, and the user interface is mind bogglingly stupid. It's, of course, one of these JavaScript-heavy, wait-for-everything-to-load-be…
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Dangerous dog bites woman, but cops blame the woman
I just love the attitude of these cops. A police dog bites a woman who's doing nothing wrong, in a public place. The police blame her for doing something very normal. And of course, "The spokesman sai…
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Enjoy the conference
Similar to last year, I can't make linux.conf.au 2008 again. Yet again, it sounds like a great programme and I'm sure the organisers will, as usual, deliver a conference so good that people rave about…
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Rainbow lorikeets in the garden
This afternoon we got visited by a flock of rainbow lorikeets, munching on the seeds from the tree in our neighbour's yard. They're such beautiful, colourful birds. Our garden really is a hive of wild…