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Peats Ridge Festival 2010
Holly and I took Louis to his first outdoor music festival, and his first time camping over New Year. Peats Ridge Festival is held to the North of Sydney in a valley near the Hawkesbury River and bill…
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Peats Ridge update before New Year
Festival is great, if insanely hot. Tomorrow is forecast to hit 37 so we're likely to be packed and on our way pretty early. Disaster struck this morning: broken thong. Being a bloody hippy festival,…
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Peats Ridge Festival
We've had a lovely day so far. This is watching Washington in the late afternoon.
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Beers with Hanesy in Shellharbour
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Lovely hat Louis
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I Hate Math! (Not After This, You Won't) : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
Vi Hart calls herself "a recreational mathemusician currently living on Long Island." She talks faster than a machine gun, loves math, and draws like a dream. Her newest video: "Doodling in Math Class…
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Xmas photo
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Wikileaks: major news reports miss the major point
Is it just me or are the major news services missing the whole point of the Wikileaks US embassy cables? Sure it's a bit embarrassing for the Yanks that their data all got into the public domain, but…
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This captures the essence of the Windows user experience
In other words, I know exactly what you're trying to do, but you're doing it wrong so I won't do it.
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Pulled pork
This weekend I made pulled pork again. It's such a great treat and uses insanely cheap meat. I pretty much followed this recipe from Kidspot, with about $15 worth of pork shoulder and a bit of a mixtu…
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Fantastic weekend
We've had a fantastic weekend. Gorgeous weather, good times. Yesterday we kind of hung around a bit, played, cooked and the like. I cooked up some patience-required pulled pork (more on which later).…
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An alternative to anti-siphoning: unbundling
The federal government's sport anti-siphoning list is in the media today. Bernard Keane pointed out in yesterday's Crikey that it's a giant, anti-competitive con that hands sports broadcasting rights…
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Spam attack
If you seem to have received an email from me about my new Chinese web presence, yes it's spam. Seems to have been some kind of break in on my Google-hosted email. The emails look like they've gone to…
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Hey Telcos, lift your game and stop lying!
Optus have been served a Federal Court injunction preventing them from doing further misleading advertising. Optus is one of the worst in the sneaky behaviour department, with insane amounts of fine p…
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Why don't we all switch banks?
The Prime Minister is telling angry bank customers to " take their money and their business somewhere else ". For your transaction and savings accounts, this is reasonably easy. If you have a mortgage…
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Temperance Lane
What a great little bar!
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Is your News Limited?
titch of sydney Posted at 2:40 AM Today to the critic open your eyes alot more iraquis would have died at the hands of the taliban regime if we did not intervene via news.com.au Only the smartest make…
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Spreets: a bit shonky, a lot badly organised
The concept of the Groupon has been going on in Australia for a bit. Essentially it's a "deal a day" idea where, if enough people sign on to the day's deal, it happens. Suppliers can use it to build i…
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This new blog
I've had this new blog on Posterous for a while now but have only just got around to updating my web site to match. I'm redirecting the various RSS feeds so they should all be getting it from the prop…
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Louis has a water and sand toy
Louis loves his new toy, a water and sand table he got for his birthday.