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PhotoshopDisasters: When I think of portable generators I always think of one-legged women in S&M gear
When I think of portable generators I always think of one-legged women in S&M gear. I mean, duh. via photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com
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The High Road - Broken Bells
This track is a surprising little earworm. Starts off very MoR, like something Oasis would do if they were even duller. It gets better. http://open.spotify.com/track/5cwN1htZyoWqZCc33f3RfE
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One thing about the NBN that annoys me
One of the things that's annoying me about all the NBN talk is the insistence on metro-equivalent services in regional and remote areas, as though this is a reasonable thing to require. I live in the…
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Disable the Same Origin Policy in Firefox
Browser impose the Same origin policy on JavaScript running inside a web page. It means that your code cannot access a resource through XMLHttpRequest that belongs on another server, even when it's in…
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De-obfuscate Omniture's JavaScript part 2
After my last post an anonymous email arrived with an even better mechanism to de-obfuscate Omniture's code, including the line-noise base s_code. I currently have a real need to be able to understand…
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Sneaky trick to de-obfuscate Omniture JavaScript plugins
My current job involves working extensively with Omniture products. The company has an annoying habit of secrecy, with documentation only available on request for many aspects of their products. They…
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Jeremy Champion of Connect Digital: welcome to the shitlist
It's no secret I'm no fan of recruitment consultants. They're up there with estate agents in being leeches on society that provide no value while scraping off their percentage. Their inability to unde…
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UI fail from Exetel
Work is providing me a mobile, so I went to cancel my phone with Exetel. Unfortunately this is the UI you see. So first of all, you can helpfully cancel it in the past. But then the button is labelled…
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Josephine's Cheese: Terrible packaging
Josephine's Cheese, given your site has no contact information, and doesn't even display the product I bought, I'll have to howl into the aether and assume you'll find it when I SEO your arse (given G…
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Android, six months on
So I've been using the Google Android phone for about six months now, and it's about time I reflected on how it's gone. Here's a bit of a rambling review. The hardware The G1 hardware is pretty limite…
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Who should get my Haiti donation?
I've got a bit of a dilemma. I want to give some money for disaster relief in Haiti following the terrible earthquake. Problem is, none of the relief organisations active in Haiti meet my criteria for…
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Getting rid of my landline
I'm getting rid of my landline. And no, not just to avoid the Telstra tax, but because the people who call land lines have no social graces. The only people who call landlines are old people and telem…
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The future of the music industry?
Ten years ago I wrote this blog about how the music industry doesn't get it. It's interesting that also today Apple bought the subscription music site lala. Subscription is definitely where it's all h…
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How not to compete with free
So I'm a bit late, but I wanted to grab the latest Decoder Ring album. Logically, I started at their site, which certainly talks about the album. With no link to somewhere it can be purchased. Next st…
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Louis is growing
It's about time I gave an update on our son Louis. He's doing great, putting on 200 grams a week for the last two weeks and growing 3cm since his birth. All that growth requires a lot of food, which m…
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Welcome Louis Anthony Rumble
After a long and quite painful birth, Holly delivered our son Louis Anthony Rumble on Thursday 30th September 2009 at 22:53. He was 2.7kg (5lb 15oz), 48cm and all the bits in the right places. And abs…
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Rollercoaster ride: birth imminent
Holly and I have had a bit of a rollercoaster ride the last six days. On Friday she woke up with a headache in the early hours that stayed with her until it was time to get up for work. On her visit t…
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Guide to the government's insulation rebate
I've built a site that's a guide to the government's home insulation rebate programme. My aim is to provide a fairly quick and simple guide, given that the government site is all full of legalese like…
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Get a response from your local member: be rude
Yesterday I sent a rather terse and rude email to my local state member, Carmel Tebbutt complaining that I'd received no response from my email sent last December. It seems being rude helps! Does she…
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What is it with recruiters?
Why are all IT recruiters: English? Almost every one of them. Completely unable to communicate in any method other than the telephone? Unable to accept any format other than MS Word. Even for Web and…