Blog
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Barons Lemon Myrtle Witbier
Pretty much every time I see a new wheat beer I haven't tried, I buy it and give it a go. Barons is a pretty new little brewery in Sydney but I've been very impressed with their pale ale and ESB, both…
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Pay the tax cut into super
Birmo is always entertaining, but today's little rant contains an incredibly smart idea at the end. Rudd has painted his way into tax cut corner and desperately needs to find a way out. Birmo suggest…
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Multivariate testing
Much of my job involves supporting a marketing department in web stuff. A lot of the time this means finding and explaining new ways to help them market. I've recently been looking at multivariate tes…
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Don't waste money on internet filters
Stilgherrian has an excellent synopsis of why geeks get angry when politicans suggest filtering the Internet. The bit about the shiny suited salesman is brilliant.
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Bow before me, I am solder guru
Before I left London, I bought an iAudio X5 audio player. The main selling point was that it plays mp3, ogg and flac, along with the fact it just shows up as a USB mass storage device, unlike other pl…
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Pace Active 3875 ADSL Receiver
There's one of these boxes sitting in a pile of junk outside a house around the corner from home. Anyone have any idea WTF it is? I'm intrigued because it has ethernet, SCART, printer, serial and comp…
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JavaScript email address validation part 3
Continuing on my my odyssey to find a decent JavaScript regular expression for email address validation, I've come up with something I'm happy with. I started with Rob Eberhardt's crack at it here, bu…
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JavaScript email address validation part 2
A few people have responded to yesterday's post about validating email addresses in JavaScript pointing out that it's very very wrong. For starters, Skud points out that.info addresses won't work. How…
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Birmo on censorship
John Birmingham, one of my favourite writers, writes about the proposed Internet censorship laws. Chips, why don't you go back to your big new office, stop messing around with my inalienable right to…
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JavaScript regex for email address validation
I found this helpful page with a nice recipe for email address validation in JavaScript. Unfortunately the regular expression doesn't allow for email addresses with a plus sign in the front part, for…
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Be Alarmed, Not Alert
Finally, Internet filtering that works, able to block anything that could possibly offend Fundies First. But block it for everyone, not just Fundies.
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Simon and Holly: greengrocers to the stars
We're in this little fruit and veg co-op with a bunch of mates. Our turn to head out early in the morning to Flemington came up, and here's all the veg divided up. It's a great time for produce, with…
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A DVD player that doesn't suck?
DVD players seem to be disposable devices these days. You really only get a year out of one before it starts randomly skipping on brand new discs. So I'm in the market for a new one. This time around,…
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NYE 2008 and housewarming
The party at our new place last night was loads of fun. Stretching across twelve hours, a bunch of people tramped through the house, got drunk, danced and shouted at each other. Great fun! I took some…
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Laminate flooring and Udden bench and drawers
Today we got a lot done on the house. We laid a laminate floor in the kitchen and built an Udden bench with drawers. Above is the "before" shot. Note the disgusting lino and the oh-so-chic bachelor pa…
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Productive DIY day
I'm starting a new category, DIY, to capture improvements we're making around the house. I had a very productive day of DIY yesterday. I made and installed a couple of flyscreens for our bedroom and t…
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Wall fastening
A question for any DIYers out there. I'm going to be installing an Udden shelf tomorrow and I'm wondering what kind of fastening to use. Ikea are very coy in their instructions: "Choose screws and fit…
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Someone needs to set their clocks
Virgin Blue's clock is a little out...
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Mr Abbott, I'd like you to meet the pot
Tony Abbott, the man who would like to tell all Australians how to behave in bed, and wants to have control over womens' bodies, has called Krudd a control freak. That's a bit rich doncha think?
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All coppers are corrupt
I'm rather forthright with my opinions of our servants in blue. They're all bent as a peg. My reasoning here is that I've seen enough petty and very serious corruption, whether it's collusion to suppr…