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Google, you're starting to give me the shits
I've been a fan of the Google keiretsu for a long time. Adwords is a brilliant piece of technology, and a brilliant piece of business: it works so well because everyone wins. More recently, they've st…
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Apple's brilliant piece of price discrimination segmentation
I was reading this article from the Grauniad thinking the usual. Whiny Apple fanboi whinges about his beloved screwing him like a pooch. So far so ordinary. (The flippant 9 year old daughter buying he…
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Shall we swap Fergies?
This dream is what the Pilgrims sought when they landed on Plymouth Rock, why Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, and why the pioneers colonised the lawless West (don't quote me on any of that – our pub…
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Meat overdose @ Momofuku Ssam Bar Title
via eatshowandtell.com Ever since reading about David Chang and his restaurants, I've been keen to visit. The cookbook is excellent, if a little daunting. Here's some vicarious food porn.
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ALP finally ready to turn the guns on News Limited?
Mike Quigley is no more responsible for the corruption at Alcatel than John Hartigan was for the corruption at the Melbourne Storm. via abc.net.au A tip in Crikey pointed out this quote from AM this m…
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Should I run Cat 6?
Wow, three times in the last few days I've been asked by people whether it's a good idea to run Cat 6 ethernet in their homes. The answer is, emphatically, yes! Us lucky people in Australia are going…
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Linux, implemented in JavaScript
JavaScript is just a buggy toy language right? Wrong! (Though having the same operator for addition and concatenation is still idiotic.) It's amazing how far JavaScript, and particularly the implement…
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Pork with apple and cider gravy
Last night we had Matt & Maz around for dinner, a lovely roasted piece of pork shoulder from Urban Food Market, served with roast potatoes, onions and turnips. For a sauce to accompany the pork I'd st…
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Ultrasound
As promised, here's the ultrasound of baby #2. As of last Friday the baby was about six centimetres long. More pics on my Smugmug.
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If fonts were dogs
via fuckyeahdementia.com
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Reading Crikey on the Kindle @hmoffatt
A commenter, Hamish Moffatt, on my post about my first impressions with the Kindle has asked if I've solved the reading Crikey problem. The problem is how to read the daily Crikey newsletter on the Ki…
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We're having another baby!
I'm very pleased to announce that Holly is about 12 weeks pregnant and we're due to have another baby in late November. Everything's going well so far and I'll have some ultrasounds to post shortly. W…
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Existential Star Wars
via howtobearetronaut.com Star Wars makes a whole lot more sense this way...
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Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death
We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exce…
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Web analytics blog name change
Wow, that idea for a name of a web analytics blog was truly awful. Agonising analytics. What was I thinking? So now I have a much better name, which better reflects what it's all about. Here's the blu…
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MONA
Hobart is lucky to have the amazing Museum of Old and New Art. The collection is incredible and the building spectacular. Well worth a visit! [video width="500" height="300" mp4="https://media.contrac…
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Easter eggs!
First Easter egg. Yummy!
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Disappointing experience with retrofit soft closers
I was quite excited when I found this inexpensive approach to creating soft close drawers and cupboard doors. They're a pretty simple concept: a little damper piston that you stick wherever possible t…
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Chicken dance with Grandma and DadDad
My parents are travelling around the country in their caravan so I got them set up with wireless broadband (Telstra, since then it'll actually work, even outside the cities) so they can stay in touch…
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Jesus at my shoulder
via fuckyeahdementia.com Only a deity would have the patience... Though there'd always be the temptation to smite her.