Blog
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Weekend of garden bed making
Earlier in the week I thought I'd missed fruit trees, but suddenly one of the suppliers has got some more stock. So I've quickly ordered some trees today. I'm changing tack slightly, as according to B…
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Blue plaques with a twist
Nosey In Newtown notes a fun take on the blue plaque, spotted in the People's Republic of Newtown. Quite funny!
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Do not call!
I just had a call from a telemarketer at my private health insurer (don't get me started on being forced to have one) trying to get me to sign up for their "Extras" cover. In case you don't know how t…
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Missed out on fruit trees this year
One of the things I wanted to get in early in our house was some fruit trees. But because we live in the inner city, we have some constraints over what we can plant. We don't want something blocking o…
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Firefox search in the URL bar
It seemed people appreciated my last Firefox tip about deleting autocomplete entries. Here's another one. If, like me, Wikipedia is your first point of call for just about any enquiry, here's a quick…
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Conspiracy or fuckup?
Conspiracy nutters are everywhere these days. George Bush and Dick Cheney ordered the "controlled demolition" of the Twin Towers. The Duke of Edinburgh, a 12th-level Mason, ordered MI6 to kill Di and…
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Kidneys in sherry and cream
I've got some mates coming around tonight for offal, beer, wine, whisky and poker. A boys' night, with SWMBO banished for the evening. I've just bought some lamb kidneys, sherry and cream, and plan to…
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XRay for CSS
Very very cool little bookmarklet that shows loads of cool info about the styles of an element you click on a page. Wow!
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All CMSes suck
I have a slide I use when presenting about content management systems to manglement types. Content management systems suck. They're designed that way. The main idea behind them, in a corporate context…
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Oscillate Wildly review
As mentioned yesterday, Holly and I managed to get a booking at Oscillate Wildly for last night, our ten year anniversary. I'd attempted to book back in May, but they were already booked out. Fortunat…
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Ten years!
Ten years ago I snogged a lovely young woman at The Globe nightclub in Newtown (now a backpackers hostel and pizza joint). Ten years on and we've travelled the world, cycled thousands of kilometres to…
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Oscillate Wildly for dinner
Just got a call to offer me a table at Oscillate Wildly tonight. I'd attempted to book months ago for tonight and it was already booked out. Yay! I've wanted to eat at this place for ages. Review some…
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Police riot in Genoa goes unpunished
Nick Davies gives an update on the police attack on 93 unarmed demonstrators at the Diaz Pertini school building at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy. It seems despite clear evidence that the police…
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New fence
We've had a shiny new fence installed all around. It's been a few months in the making, getting quotes and agreement from three different sets of neighbours. Finally it's done. We now have a gate on o…
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World (Catholic) Youth Weirdos
Spotted this morning walking through Sydney Uni, some Catholic pilgrims (the lanyard and pass is a giveaway) taking a photo of... the wall of HK Ward gymnasium. Weird. Maybe they saw Mary? I'm trying…
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Gotye: What a nice bloke
Last week I had a whinge about trying to buy one of Gotye's albums online and failing. A day later I got an email from the man himself! I was very disappointed to hear about your shoddy experience wit…
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iReasonablePlan
I've been thinking over the weekend about my post about the iPhone and the crap plans being offered. The problem is the lack of data covered by these plans. I reckon the stories in about a week's time…
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How to be popular
Break SHMBO's hair dryer while shrinking tubing for your new LED bike light system. Fortunately she has another, travel, one. Not as good, but it shrunk the tubing eventually.
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Petrol prices are going up: Yay!
I watched SBS's Insight on Tuesday this week. It's a discussion programme and this week's episode was about petrol prices. You couldn't find a more shameless group of rent seekers than the majority of…
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iCrapPlan
Mark Pesce and Stilgherrian are talking about starting their own telco. More power to 'em, I say, but I suspect they're in for a rude shock. Running a telco isn't as easy as it looks. The big telcos m…