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When did futons get expensive?
When I moved out of my parents' house, my room was about 50cm longer than a double bed, and about 10cm wider. Still, I needed a bed and wasn't going to be very successful with the laydeez if I had a s…
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They're a weird mob
These Australians are a bit weird. Just got back from the supermarket and nearly all the sausages are beef sausages. That's just wrong! Especially when they say things like "traditional" on the packag…
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Bugger, can't do linux.conf.au
Just looking through the programme for linux.conf.au and unfortunately I'm not going to make it. As a contractor it's quite expensive for me to take days off, so I was thinking a single day. Friday's…
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As classified "Pornography/Sex,Entertainment" by the Australian government
Apparently my blog is blocked on a federal government department's network as "Category: Pornography/Sex,Entertainment (Global)". Besides the mis-categorization, it just goes to show the futility of f…
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Those Ikea bits
The post yesterday asking about Ikea components has got me a couple of responses. Steve Walsh says: IIRC, they are; threaded pin rod and rotating lock screw Alex Hudson says: Your Ikea part isn't; it'…
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What is this Ikea component called?
I'm trying to work out what component 110630 and 112996 are called from Ikea furniture. I'm quite impressed with the utility of these devices: they allow you to align items at right-angles in a precis…
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Amazing use of Google Earth
The Wilderness Society have released overlays for Google Earth that show the scale of the destructive logging going on in Tasmania. It's incredible that we allow this to happen in such a beautiful, un…
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Fratellis and Gainsbourg
I've been listening to a couple of great albums recently. I'm really getting into Costello Music, from Glasgow band The Fratellis. Great spiky guitars and catchy, almost Beatles-esque tunes. Loads of…
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Why we should respect the Police
Spotted last night at the end of my parents' street, a police paddy wagon parked outside the local pizza joint in a No Stopping zone while the copper was inside waiting for his pizza. There's a car pa…
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How not to do a viral campaign
The Liberal (that's Tory for you non-Australians, yes it's confusing) party have quickly shoved out an attempt at a viral campaign, Same Old Labor in the wake of this morning's leadership spill. It's…
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Damn my amazing PageRank
As I've mentioned before, Google just loves my web site. My PageRank is five but it seems to really really love anything I post up. For example, I'm currently hit number five for " Rimming Sugar ". Er…
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Notice any similarity?
This photo was taken by Gabe at Critical Mass last Friday. This appeared in both the printed and online editions of yesterdays Daily Terrorgraph. I see the Terror's respect for the law only cuts one w…
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1999 Peter Lehmann Grenache
Back in 1999, we were drinking the fantastic 1998 Peter Lehmann Grenache. It was in our price range ($12 at the time) and very tasty. We kept going back to the bottle shop and buying more until they r…
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There's Lear Jets over Kulgera
Might be time to dust off the old Red Gum song Lear Jets Over Kulgera. And there's Lear jets over Kulgera Where the Dust dances in the heat Sing a song for the poor young little rich country As they b…
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Rimming sugar?
Browsing through the homewares store at the bottom of the building I work in, I spotted a product like this. Not the kind of thing I'd normally associate with "homewares" but I guess whatever makes it…
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Moved in
Well after the major hassle on Saturday, we finally got moved in yesterday. The house is pretty cool and we're already really enjoying hanging out in our lovely garden. Certainly makes a nice change a…
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ARGH! Real estate scum!
Turned up at 11:30 this morning to move in, and it turns out the tenants are still in the house. Still asleep even! Do you think this elicits an apology from the estate scum? Course not. "Nothing we c…
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I'm a resource
I love it when project managers refer to human beings as "resources". It would be okay if they were using it in the general, but you never hear them talking about equipment as a resource. When they sa…
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Server arrived
The server I bought on eBay for $360 arrived last night. Dual 1.4G Xeon, 2 gigs RAM and 290 gigs RAID disks. Very nice! It's kinda reminiscent of a jet engine, though. I think I'll have to work out so…
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MythTV rocks!
I hadn't actually installed MythTV and played with it before. I just installed it on my laptop. Wow, this has to be one of the slickest free software projects I've seen yet! Installing from the Ubuntu…