Blog
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First Sydney FC home game of the season
Saturday night was the first Sydney FC home game for the season. A lovely warm afternoon and 35,000 people packing the stadium. Given the last home game last season had around 7,000, it was a very dif…
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Happy Birthday Louis
Louis is 3 today. It's gone so fast and he's grown into such a delightful boy. Beautiful day of presents then beach.
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Sad face
Yep, smashed my SGS3.
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MA BICYCLETTE ♫ - YouTube
via youtube.com
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Ahhh democracy
Spent the morning handing out for The Greens in Marrickville. The powers wielded by local government are quite incredible. According to one old Greek lady, since the Greens came in she's had to pay so…
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Best Windows error message ever
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276304 I particularly like how a service pack changes the number of required characters. (via an excellent piece on interface design)
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Let's put the people smugglers out of business
Clive Palmer has a knack for making statements that get him loads of publicity. This time around he's said something really sensible. ABC reports: "If a family wishes to fly to Australia and they don'…
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Can Limited News at least be consistent please?
From the news organization that regularly rails against occupational safety rules as "red tape killing our small businesses".
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Depressing to be an Australian at the moment
via anonymouslefty.wordpress.com Our heartlessness has sunk to new lows. It makes me ashamed to be Australian. And Labor, what a bunch of political halfwits. If they think adopting the Opposition's po…
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In which our garden gets sorted out
When we first moved in, I built some garden beds with sleepers lying at the back of the garden. I also made the rather stupid decision to have one of the beds jutting out into the yard. That dramatica…
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Communiction
Learning outcome 6: using spell check.
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Ride on! Cycling comes to Google Maps in Australia
via google-au.blogspot.com.au Awesome work!
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How Sydney got non-cyclists on two wheels
Fiona Campbell, Sydney council's manager of cycling strategy, spent many years as an independent cycling campaigner before joining the administration. In the UK to share Sydney's vision at the Buildin…
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Macquarie Lighthouse
We just did the tour at Macquarie Lighthouse in Vaucluse. Brilliant view and gorgeous day for it.
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Google, you do support so badly
The problem with a company of rock stars is that nobody wants to do the boring stuff. Integration, exceptions and handling edge cases is boring and glamorous, so it just doesn't get done well. Here's…
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Impartial journalism at its finest from today's Terror
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Moving domains
I've been offered a sizable chunk of cash for my rumble.net domain, so everything's going to be moving. If you go to my site now, it should be redirecting. Once the domain transfers, those redirects w…
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When programming languages give perfect errors
Perfect error message for this Tory site. (via Ha, on the coalition's "deregulation taskforce"site there's a bit of broken code that says "invalid argument supplied". deregulationtaskforce.com.au — Be…
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Day out at Watson's Bay
One of those brilliant crisp but sunny Autumn days. Caught the bus, then ferry. Fish and chips in the park, ice cream, then back home. Lots of fun.
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Labor, what's with the kid gloves?
The Australian Labor Party needs to grow a pair and get serious here. This is a political party whose internal bastardry is legendary, yet they can't seem to use the same kind of RealPolitik tactics o…