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Happy New Year
I realise I'm about a week late, but hey I've been on holidays, for the first extended break in far too long, so I've been neglecting my readers. Too bad, I needed the holiday! So, it's a new year and…
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Dear Embittered
Someone who seemingly would like to remain anonymous (88.209.73.252 252.73.209.88.dsl.monaco.mc) has been reading my blog and getting into a froth about something or other. I have read your Blog and f…
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Lunch in Coffs
Geo: -30.289268,153.122356 We've just arrived in Coffs Harbour after an early start. We're heading up the coast to Uki for a New Year do. We being Don, Christine, Eric, Holly and I. Rachel, Mikey, Leo…
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If programming languages were religions
Perl is indeed like slitting the throat of a live chicken and smearing its blood and entrails on an effigy of your enemy. If programming languages were religions... thanks to Raz
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Five percent
So Rudd has announced that we're going to reduce our greenhouse emissions by a staggering five percent. How ambitious! Worse, every polluting industry and his lobbyist appear to be in line to get a ha…
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Holy Fuck at the Annandale Hotel
Last night Holly, Todd, Pete and I went to see Canadian band Holy Fuck at The Annandale. Quite an incredible gig. For many many years, bands have been trying to do electronic music completely live, an…
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Pea Pretz!
One of the good things about working in the CBD is the Asian food. At the bottom of World Square, where I work, is an Asian supermarket. I'm enjoying finding all the weird and wacky snacks. Today's di…
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Copyright violations
It seems there's a lot of people who think that images in Wikipedia can be used however they like. In fact, unless they've been released into the public domain, they have licenses that require some fa…
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Private school funding
If people want to send their kids to a school that is a social, single-gender and/or religious ghetto in an attempt for them to meet the "right" people, keep away from the "wrong" people, live out the…
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Truth in company names
I remember seeing these signs all over Leicester, and just thought to look it up. Shonki Brothers real estate. How appropriate. For the non-Australians, the word shonky means shoddy, dubious quality.…
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Gastro!
Wow Lindsay, that was bloody quick! Yesterday I asked about doing a geo mashup of the NSW government's name and shame list of dodgy food joints, and today Lindsay has done one. Impressive! Now I wanna…
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Geo mashups
A site screaming out for a geo-mashup is the NSW Food Authority's Penalty Notices list, which shows the companies that have received penalty notices for poor hygiene and the like. Problem is, the data…
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Fuji Xerox DocuPrint 203A on Ubuntu Linux
Just bought this super cheap (AUD$88) black and white laser and spent a while going around in circles. FInally worked out that it works just fine with the Xerox P8e driver. So to install, System > Adm…
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Great food, I won't be back
Le Pain Quotidien, corner of Fitzroy and Bourke Streets, Surry Hills Holly, Rachel and I popped into this restaurant a week or so ago before heading up to the football stadium for a dismal Sydney FC m…
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One thing, done well
I bought a digital photo frame yesterday. On the face of it, this should be a pretty straightforward product. You stick a memory card in it that has photos on it, and it randomly cycles through them.…
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No more donations to Oxfam
Dear Oxfam I'm writing publicly because you've completely ignored the email I sent you about this matter. Nice one. I've been an Oxfam supporter for many years. You're one of the more respectable aid…
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Should the bush have metro-equivalent broadband?
Yesterday's Crikey had a letter from Rachel Dixon that rather eloquently said what I've said before about the National Broadband Network projects aim of connecting 98% of the population to "metro-equi…
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I love a snaky review
There's few things finer than a review that slams an album, and none could be more deserving than the long-unawaited album from Axl Rose's Guns N' Roses cover band. Ever since waiting forty minutes at…
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But how does it work in theory?
Last night on Radio National's Australia Talks, Paul Barclay hosted Clive Hamilton and Mark Pesce to discuss the Internet censorship proposal from Labor. The host was pretty clearly pro-censorship, an…
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How much for the soul, Pete?
I sure hope Peter Garrett got a good price for his soul because his principles sure haven't amounted to much. He seems to have a Short Memory with his politicans, party lines, don't cross that floor!…