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Obama Yells at Hillary and Bitch Slaps Bill Clinton
Recently spammers have been taking the tabloid approach to get people to open their emails. There's been a lot of emails with subjects like Rare nude photos of Kate Moss, Paris Hilton Charges For Puss…
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Two birds, one stone
Wow, looks like the NSW conservatives have achieved two excellent outcomes for the state in one. Power privatisation is off (until the Tories do it themselves, that is) and Michael Costa says he's gon…
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NSW Department of Fair Trading shows how not to do publicity
Step 1: Issue a press release that is reported on but doesn't give enough detail for consumers to take any meaningful action. Step 2: Don't put the press release in the "Media releases" section of you…
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The end
Geo: -36.982510,147.142761 All over unfortunately. A great last day. 18cm of snow overnight made for great runs. In the morning I rode the chutes in Heavenly Valley. The afternoon I did a bunch of slu…
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Great morning
Geo: -36.976593,147.147796 Lovely morning today, though the weather looks set to deteriorate. Yesterday afternoon we discovered some lovely and quiet runs that tested our skills. Now happily working t…
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Visibility: excellent
Geo: -36.984936,147.144996 This view from our apartment window is what the Hotham web site describes as excellent visibility. Fortunately it's a little better further down. The snow is getting a bit p…
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White out
Geo: -36.978000,147.147763 This morning started out beautiful and sunny. When I got up to pee at dawn the view out the window was spectacular. I got some photos on my real camera. About 1000 clouds st…
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On the piste
Geo: -36.988866,147.145640 Up early this morning to hit the slopes. It's a really interesting resort and we've covered a fair chunk of it. I'm quite happy with my boarding. First run and I nailed my t…
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Eden
Geo: -37.054151,149.943536 View from Ben Boyd National Park near Eden. We had a fun night last night with an Elvis and Johnny Cash impersonator at the local pub. Driving up to Mt Hotham today and snow…
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Orbost
Geo: -37.707143,148.454433 In retrospect an anti logging sticker in Orbost might not be a brilliant idea.
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Don's chainsaw furniture
Geo: -35.650248,150.292883 In South Durras on our way to the snow. Don's been proving his manliness with the chainsaw. Beautiful weather! Off to Eden next.
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Brogo dam
Geo: -36.489320,149.741006 We're back in my old stomping ground near Bega. This is the big dam that supplies the area. Seems smaller than back when I was a kid.
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Key signing in Sydney on 12th September, 2008
Geo: -33.85967,151.207025 Udo van den Heuvel is visiting and would like to do a key signing to improve the web of trust. I've suggested The Australian in The Rocks where I tend to take overseas touris…
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The Obama Blend
I just bought some coffee beans at the phenomenally-busy Campos Coffee on Missenden Road. I had to write down the description to share with you. The Obama Blend Great deptch of character, strong and e…
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Testing my geo mobblog
Geo: -33.902166,151.163230 Before our big trip around Europe I set up this system to blog with added geographic tagging. Turned out that on the road I couldn't use gprs so it never happened. I'm off s…
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Fruit trees are in
I planted out all the fruit trees and vines today. There's two types of apple, Dwarf Dorsett Golden and Dwarf Tropical Sweet, two types of plum, Maiposa and Narabeen, and two types of passionfruit, th…
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Russ Meyer: Auteur
News.com.au describes Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill as an "arthouse classic" in this article about a putative Tarantino remake. That's hilarious! Though if anyone was to remake Meyer films…
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Channel 7 misses the digital point
Channel 7 holds the rights to broadcast the Olympics, but clearly doesn't get the possibilities that digital television brings. Last night was the first football match, with Australia's mens team play…
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GroceryWatch
So the ACCC has launched the new "GroceryWatch" site, GroceryChoice, which gives comparisons of a basket of goods between supermarkets. I wonder how hard it would be to game this system, if you could…
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Fastway do it again!
Yet again, Fastway couriers fraudulently forge a signature to "prove" delivery. At least this time they didn't forge my own name. In this case, the courier didn't bother to knock. We were in bed at th…