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Fred Nile: racist (part three)
I thought I could have a reasoned debate with Erik, but his latest post's first argument quotes me out of context and ignores the entire point. Thus, not much point continuing as it will just descend…
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New tuner and anyone got a crappy AGP video card?
I slotted a new tuner card into my MythTV backend last night. This time it was a KWorld "Dual Hybrid" from Dick Smith Powerhouse. Once again it's an SAA7134-based card, so it Just Works. Nice to have…
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Fred Nile racist, or just playing politics?
Erik de Castro Lopo has responded to yesterday's post about Fred Nile's recent conversion to racism. Erik makes the pedantic claim that Islam is not a race. In this era of the dog whistle I thought th…
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Lovely morning for a ride
Sunny when I left home. Sunny as I wheeled into the office. Pissing down the entire journey. Reminds me that I need to get some mudguards.
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Fred Nile: racist
I don't suppose I have too many hardcore Xtians reading my blog, what with me thinking it's perfectly okay to ridicule adults who still have imaginary friends. Just in case I do, it's worth pointing o…
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Beach and beer
We had a great weekend up the coast at my parents' holiday house. We drove off on Friday night and watched a film when we arrived. Saturday morning we slept in, had a lazy breakfast reading the paper.…
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Chutzpah is...
I figure the word " chutzpah ", as mentioned in Mediawatch last night, probably isn't the most familiar term to Australian gentiles. It's a fantastic word so I thought I'd start a series of examples.…
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Costello: all tip, no iceberg
Keating's still got it. The prime minister who made question time worth watching still has his acid tongue. "The thing about poor old Costello is he is all tip and no iceberg." Brilliant!
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Loving MythTV
We've been using MythTV over the weekend using my shiny new silent front-end. Turns out, surprisingly to me, that the front-end has enough grunt to play Xvid encoded videos just fine, so we've been wo…
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Green lightning?
Last night there was a huge storm in Sydney. Given how hot it was all weekend, that's not terribly surprising. Was a pretty cool storm, going from about 23:00 until well after midnight, as it kept swi…
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MythTV front-end in the lounge room
We've finally got MythTV up and running properly. I have a fanless Via EPIA system sitting on top of the telly as the front-end running MiniMyth. It's very very nice! I had trouble getting my existing…
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Looking at Google's badware notifications
Today's Crikey asks if perhaps Google knows something about Quadrant magazine. It seems Google is flagging the site as a crapware site. I also noticed this when searching for the Good Vibrations Festi…
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Ethical dilemma: "defence" industry employers
I've just received a job description for a contract at a software company whose customers include a bunch of organizations in the killing business. Australian, New Zealand and Malaysian Navy, Australi…
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Myth finally running
I finally got MythTV running under Xen last night. It was quite a bit more work to get it running under Debian than Ubuntu which works out-of-the box, but Ubuntu has problems installing using debootst…
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Sex shops sell porn: SHOCK!
Our ever-smart coppers have made a shock revelation in the Sydney's red light district. The sex shops there sell porn! Australia's film classification system allows for a bunch of different ratings, w…
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Rupert recycles far-right scare stories
Dave Cross pointed out a scare story in Britain's Daily Fascist newspaper. Seems Rupert's Daily Terrorgraph has stolen the story wholesale, though the sub editor amusingly "corrected" the spelling of…
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DNA testing shows Hanson is a mongrel
This is just too funny. DNA testing has shown Pauline Hanson is of mixed race, including some middle eastern blood. That's just too good! Of course a smarter racist would have expected this and refuse…
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Flooding from the storm
There's rivers running down the roads near our place. Crazy stuff. At least some has hit the dams!
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Lordy that's real rain!
Just tried to get to work and was turned back by being soaked, head-to-toe, at about 1/3 of the way to the bus stop. This was with an umbrella. I'd got used to London rain where it's constant but does…
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Great party
We had our housewarming party last night and it was loads of fun. The theme was "Departure Lounge" and we had some fantastic costumes. Lots of boogie board bags with suspicious additions. Trolly dolli…