Blog
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A good week's snowboarding
Holly and I just got home from a week's snowboarding at Perisher with Holly's brother Ben and his mate Warren. It was a great week with brilliant weather, a deep base of snow and even a mid-week topup…
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Each man will be issued a pamplemousse!
Some words are inherently funny, as regularly exploited by many great comedians. One of my favourite web comics explores this concept in the latest edition. PS, the RSS feed for this comic.
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Bring on the lifetime of crippling debt
Today Holly and I exchanged contracts on a house in Marrickville. Yes, this is the neighbouring house to the one we bid on a couple of weeks back. For those of you in the UK who seem to be able to hav…
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Great online customer service, in Australia?
Since returning from the UK, I've been massively underwhelmed with the way Australian business has embraced the Internet. While most companies now have web sites, they're invariable brochureware of th…
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Rudd stands for something: SHOCK!
Kevin Rudd has actually taken a stance on an issue, this time the sale of uranium to India, a nuclear-armed country that has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Amazing! Is this the first…
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How?
Earle just posted the search terms starting with "how" used to reach The Open Guide to London and I thought I'd check it out in my Google Analytics account for my own site. Quite enlightening. The fir…
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Photo scene completion
While we were travelling through Europe, the sign that a building was truly old was that it was covered in scaffolding. Sure, these buildings really need their maintenance, but it's kinda annoying. I…
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GBBF 2007: lucky bastards!
Just in case Holly and I weren't missing all the great stuff going on in London, Scott sent through this photo of him and some other mates enjoying the Great British Beer Festival. Bastards!
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Kevin Andrews must resign
Kevin Andrews, Australia's minister of immigration, has defamed an innocent man and tarnished Australia's reputation as a country of fair dealing. He must resign. You can also demand he does.
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We bought a house! (nearly)
Holly and I last night negotiated the details of our purchase of a lovely house in Marrickville. It's next door to the place we bid on last Saturday. The process here is quite unusual. At the end of t…
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emusic.com are spam friendly
A long while ago I signed up to try out emusic.com as it seemed like someone doing the right thing with non-DRMed music files. Their business model didn't really suit me, what with it being subscripti…
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Auction: sheer terror
Holly and I went to a house auction this morning and placed some bids. It has to count as one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. In the end, the house went over our price limit and the two…
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The downside of hub gears
Last night I discovered the downside of hub gears when I went to ride off from work and discovered my rear wheel was flat as a pancake. Getting the wheel out is quite an operation on my commuter bike.…
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Estate agents lie: SHOCK
Estate agents who willfully underquote houses going to auction will apparently get big fines with a new investigation. It won't be hard for them to find examples. Say, a 2-bedroom house quoted as "ove…
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Dealing with terruhists
So Haneef is out and heading back home. I suspect he's going to be a rather wealthy man by the time his lawyers are finished, but then again he's now on every blacklist under the sun and probably won'…
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Stop the jihad on badly-behaved RSS
Following up my earlier jihad, after discussing it a bit with Martin of the khymos food nrrd blog, then doing some investigation when it happened again on Rozie's blog it appears that it's Bloglines t…
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Jihad on badly-behaved RSS feeds
I've had it with RSS feeds that spontaneously reload the entire backlog. It's surprising how common this is, and I'm unsure why it happens as it's never happened on my blog. One that just did this see…
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Brave freecycler
This just came through on freecycle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecycle_Network Have an extra one of these that came with a phone upgrade last year. Expires in November. Pack opened but unused. (P…
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Great weekend in Wamby
Had a great birthday weekend up the coast in Wamberal. Laura, Lillith, Emma and Holly came to stay in the beach house, Jacinta, Mat and Eamonn dropped by, and Ben and Kaz joined us for birthday dinner…
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Rudd sells out Tasmania's forests
With both the logging companies and pro logging unions supporting Rudd's just-announced forestry policy, you can be sure the one thing it doesn't do is protect any trees. Yet another sellout from the…