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Guerilla gardening comes to Marrickville
Apparently guerilla gardening has come to Marrickville, with people taking over the grass verges in their streets. There's no grass verge on our street but I've noticed a few people have planted ornam…
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Brilliant music review
I love Metacritic's summaries of reviews. This one summarises reviews of an album by The Little Ones. As usual, NME is incoherently raving. For the NME, a band is either the greatest band ever, or an…
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Note about Same origin policy
JavaScript's same origin policy security model means that a script can't (directly... there are sneaky ways aroun dit) request data from another site. It's quite strict. foo.site.com is different to s…
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Those poor, poor banks
So the banks are crying poor, claiming there's not enough liquidity in the market. You'd think this would mean their savings interest rates would be hovering somewhere around the RBA Cash Rate so they…
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We're all doomed! Doomed I tell you!
Stop me if you've heard this before. It's been around for ages. I keep getting asked to explain how this subprime crap works. Apart from explaining that Lurlene and Jethro, who've never had jobs in th…
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Terror needs help with geography
An article on the Daily Telegraph site seems a little confused, geographically. A MILLIONAIRE banker was beaten to death by a mob after stepping in to save a couple being assaulted at a taxi rank in L…
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Nonphilately
A great letter in this week's Guardian Weekly. If Bill Goodman (Letters, September 5) is indeed correct that atheism is in and of itself a religious belief, then surely not collecting stamps is a hobb…
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ZigBee sensors
I've been watching the space of low-power wireless networking for some time, as it has some cool possibilities for sensor networks. ZigBee is one such standard that seems to be gaining support. It's a…
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ZigBee
Already had a few responses about wireless sensors. Des suggests looking at SquidBee which is an open implementation. Quite interesting. Rich recommends a book, Making Things Talk: Practical Methods f…
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How the hell do NSW local council elections work?
On Saturday NSW local councils (or at least the ones that haven't been dissolved) had their elections. I was handing out material for The Greens in St Peters and one of the voters asked me how we were…
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Cats and MythTV
Geek resourcefulness at its best. This just got posted to the MythTV users list: Subject: Cats and MythTV... Recently my cat has decided that the top of my MyhTV box is a great place to have a nap...…
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Super cheap USB keys
I can't remember who it was, but someone on the Planet Linux Australia was talking about using cheap USB flash drives to teach RAID. I thought it was Russell Coker but can't find it now. Anyway, just…
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Bugs on my garlic
Something is eating my garlic. Little black bugs. What's that all about then? From what I've been reading, garlic is something that repels garden pests, and that you can use to get rid of garden pests…
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A Family First of their own
Today's Crikey carries a letter that reminds us that Family First, currently causing problems for the ALP in the Senate, are a creation of... the ALP. Andrew Burke writes: Every time Stephen Fielding…
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Factional map of the ALP
For those wanting to follow Australian politics, it's critical to understand the factional structure of the Australian Labor Party and the influence this has on events. For example, the Left has tradi…
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Coolest Chrome feature: search within page
So far this is my favourite little UI hack that I've found within Google Chrome. Kind of appropriate that a search engine company would get this right, I suppose. If you're familiar with Firefox's sea…
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Google Chrome: first looks
I've been playing around with Google Chrome this morning on my work (Windows) machine. This is Google's browser software, and I have to say I'm impressed. I had expected something a fair bit less poli…
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Google discovers solvent abuse
We all thought the folks at Google were on crack. Turns out they've been on something quite a bit cheaper. Sometime "tomorrow" (though mentioned as "Tuesday", but probably Mountain View-centric time),…
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Senate recommends ignorance on unit pricing
One of the government's laudable policies was a plan to introduce unit pricing into supermarkets. As seems to be common with this government, even this straightforward aim has been put on the inquiry…
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Scott's bucks night
Geo: -43.105311,147.72546 On the weekend I flew down to Hobart for Scott's bucks night. It was held in a beautiful spot down on the Tasman Peninsula. About 20 of us camped out, drank a lot of beer and…