Blog
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Bricked my router
Last night while upgrading the Firmware in my (otherwise excellent) Billion 7404VGP-M ADSL modem/router/wireless thingy, I managed to brick it. It lost connectivity at 20% through the upgrade (though…
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Car sharing
Mary laments the limitations of car share companies. Holly is in GoGet, so I thought I'd share our experiences. First up, "car share" is a misnomer. I'd consider that to be when you let people jump in…
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Blogroll is not a recommendation
Russell makes the assumption that linking to someone's blog is some kind of unconditional recommendation. Far from it! If you look at the standard version of my blog you'll see I've just added the tex…
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Moved into the house
We moved into our new house last Thursday and spent Friday and Sunday nesting. The move was pretty painless, with the removalists getting it all done in one truck load taking about two hours all up. W…
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Quite a week!
Quite a week. Australia signs Kyoto, we get our first (acting) prime minister, Howard is formally unseated. Oh and we bought a house! Holly and I had a poke around the house this afternoon, met the ne…
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Home owners!
Holly and I are now home owners. Settlement just happened and we are officially (part) owners of the house. We move in tomorrow.
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Good HTML beginners book?
I need to impart the holy word of HTML/CSS onto someone at work. Any suggestions for a good book?
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Australian Hi-Tech Crime Centre not so bright
James McCormack of the Australian Hi-Tech Crime Centre is quoted as saying: " go for WEP; it's an older form of encryption but still quite secure ". Mr McCormack was recommending that, if people can't…
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Some new photos
Finally got around to uploading the backlog of photos I've had. Sydney FC playing Beckham's LA Galaxy. A team so bad they made Sydney look good! Critical Mass crossing the Harbour Bridge in November.…
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Howie's Firefox extension suggestion
Howie suggested FireBug as a must-have extension. While I agree it is amazing for debugging web pages, the reason I've had it uninstalled is what I'd call a bug. When you have it switched off for all…
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FireBug tab opening delay redux
Ben, having read my last post about FireBug, notes that you only get the delay opening a new tab if you have FireBug disabled. if it's disabled it checks a whitelist to see if it should be enabled in…
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Testing Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a great tool for tracking users on your site, and it's incredibly easy to set up the basic features. You just bung a bit of JavaScript on every page in your site which, if your sit…
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Homebake 1996
Hey Homebake web designers, it's not 1996 any more! Jesus, Flash splash screens (complete with "skip intro") and frames. While you're at it, where's the Java applet navigation, blink tag and animated…
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Firefox extensions
So last week I promised Stig, a Norwegian living in London, that I'd get off the political blogging this week. Haven't achieved that yet, so here's a start. I use the Firefox browser constantly and on…
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Economic conservative
So apparently when the economy was tanking and interest rates were high, Brendan Nelson took out another mortgage and ran his business on credit. I bet he wasn't paying his employees' super or keeping…
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Memo to Liberal Party: welcome to the wilderness
You might want to take a seat. You could be here for some time. In case you haven't heard, the Tories just elected a man who believes "intelligent design" should be taught in schools. What is it about…
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Un-big-worded milk
Shopping late on Friday night, the only light milk available was this organic brand. Now organic milk is the only organic product that's been shown to have health benefits. The animal husbandry advant…
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Guess what's on an iced vovo?
Our new PM told his staff to limit their celebrations to a strong cup of tea and an Iced VoVo before getting down to work. I doubt he meant it this way, but the hilarious thing about this is that one…
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Ruddslide!
What an exciting time. Our new overlord, Kevin Rudd, wiped away 11 years of reactionary rule under lying rodent John Howard. The weather has brightened. The mood has risen. The future looks bright. I'…
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Remember one thing: Greens in the Senate
Tomorrow is the big day, Howard's End. Something I've been waiting 11 years for. The day his particular breed of reactionary politics is shown the door. There's really only one thing you must remember…