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Chutzpah is...
I figure the word " chutzpah ", as mentioned in Mediawatch last night, probably isn't the most familiar term to Australian gentiles. It's a fantastic word so I thought I'd start a series of examples.…
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Costello: all tip, no iceberg
Keating's still got it. The prime minister who made question time worth watching still has his acid tongue. "The thing about poor old Costello is he is all tip and no iceberg." Brilliant!
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Loving MythTV
We've been using MythTV over the weekend using my shiny new silent front-end. Turns out, surprisingly to me, that the front-end has enough grunt to play Xvid encoded videos just fine, so we've been wo…
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Green lightning?
Last night there was a huge storm in Sydney. Given how hot it was all weekend, that's not terribly surprising. Was a pretty cool storm, going from about 23:00 until well after midnight, as it kept swi…
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MythTV front-end in the lounge room
We've finally got MythTV up and running properly. I have a fanless Via EPIA system sitting on top of the telly as the front-end running MiniMyth. It's very very nice! I had trouble getting my existing…
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Looking at Google's badware notifications
Today's Crikey asks if perhaps Google knows something about Quadrant magazine. It seems Google is flagging the site as a crapware site. I also noticed this when searching for the Good Vibrations Festi…
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Ethical dilemma: "defence" industry employers
I've just received a job description for a contract at a software company whose customers include a bunch of organizations in the killing business. Australian, New Zealand and Malaysian Navy, Australi…
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Myth finally running
I finally got MythTV running under Xen last night. It was quite a bit more work to get it running under Debian than Ubuntu which works out-of-the box, but Ubuntu has problems installing using debootst…
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Sex shops sell porn: SHOCK!
Our ever-smart coppers have made a shock revelation in the Sydney's red light district. The sex shops there sell porn! Australia's film classification system allows for a bunch of different ratings, w…
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Rupert recycles far-right scare stories
Dave Cross pointed out a scare story in Britain's Daily Fascist newspaper. Seems Rupert's Daily Terrorgraph has stolen the story wholesale, though the sub editor amusingly "corrected" the spelling of…
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DNA testing shows Hanson is a mongrel
This is just too funny. DNA testing has shown Pauline Hanson is of mixed race, including some middle eastern blood. That's just too good! Of course a smarter racist would have expected this and refuse…
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Flooding from the storm
There's rivers running down the roads near our place. Crazy stuff. At least some has hit the dams!
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Lordy that's real rain!
Just tried to get to work and was turned back by being soaked, head-to-toe, at about 1/3 of the way to the bus stop. This was with an umbrella. I'd got used to London rain where it's constant but does…
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Great party
We had our housewarming party last night and it was loads of fun. The theme was "Departure Lounge" and we had some fantastic costumes. Lots of boogie board bags with suspicious additions. Trolly dolli…
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Keith Urban: you're an arsehole
It seems crappy country singer Keith Urban is is sueing oil painter Keith Urban for owning and using the domain name of his own name. Nowhere on his site does painter Urban claim to be a country singe…
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When did this become Emo Planet?
When did Planet Linux Australia become emo planet? WTF?
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Loving the beach!
My family has dinner together most Mondays. Last night we went out to Bronte Beach for a surf and barbecue. This is probably the best thing about being back in Sydney: getting to the beach regularly.…
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Why I hate Macs
Charlie Brooker has a highly entertaining sneer at Macs and, more entertainingly, Mac users. The Mac users then descend on the comments to prove him right, point-by-point.
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Xen and Myth coming along
I'm making slow but steady progress getting Myth and Xen going. Cabled up the spare bedroom yesterday so it's now got a TV aerial port. Plan is to put the computer behind the door fo the spare room, w…
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Pop covers in metal
Stig followed up my recent post about covers but got it wrong. He's enjoyed the pop and acoustic people covering metal songs. What I meant was the best ones I've found so far are metal/glam bands cove…