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Emigrate
Need I say more?
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Are Australians this fucking stupid?
It's crunch time. The election is on tomorrow and I'll know by London lunchtime whether Australians have goldfish memory. The result also has a very big bearing on whether I head home to Australia in…
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Xmas beer in the bucket
After quite a long break over the Summer, I've finally started brewing again. On Monday night I put a Woodeforde's Wherry all malt kit on. I'm gonna keg this one and have it for xmas day at Rachel's p…
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Joke of the campaign?
Bob Brown, to the news that logging trucks were going to blockade Launceston in support of the PM on forestry: "This is the axles of evil on show".
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Shock: Pot calls kettle black
A beautiful quote from Howard in this article about Labor's long-awaited Tasmanian forests policy. " It's a grubby preference deal " which is pretty amusing coming from the party that is preferencing…
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Ouch! Snowdon
Holly and I went hiking in Snowdonia over the weekend with Andrew Allen and one of his mates. Andy, being the gung-ho type, insisted on doing the hardest route via Crib Goch which was more a rock clim…
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Fame at last!
I'm now, clearly, super-famous in blogistan. W00t!
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Bookmark manager solution?
Steve points out an interesting use of Firefox's new "Live Bookmark" feature. Point it at the RSS of your del.icio.us account and you've got instant synchronised bookmarks. This is a problem I've talk…
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Liberal attack-dogs in London too
My, isn't this a surprisingly on-message letter to the The Australian Times from one "Cameron Reynolds"
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This movie doesn't want to be seen
We keep trying to see Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut and being foiled. A week ago we tried to see it at The Other Cinema only to be foiled by the person I spoke to giving me the wrong time. Then we…
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London Open House
On Saturday Holly and I went to see some buildings as part of the London Open House thing. For one weekend each year, buildings, or parts of buildings, that are normally closed are open to the public.…
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Server is back
Craig has left his job at an ISP and so his server, where this site has resided for about eight years, went off the air. Back on now, on my own server in the US.
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Thin client
I recently bought an IBM thin client machine on eBay. Very nice piece of kit. The plan is to stick the jet engine-sounding machine in a cupboard and use the thin client as the actual desktop. Depends…
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Satellite navigation for bikes?
Yesterdays ride ended up about 120km. My legs are very very tired, but it was a good ride. Good preparation for our big ride in a couple of weeks too. Gonna be a few days around that distance! Part of…
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Summary Offences revistied
An email on the Critical Mass Sydney email list brought a court case involving the NSW Summary Offences Act to my attention. My last clash with this insidious piece of legislation was when organising…
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Caught in Blogistan's spotlight
Seeing my logs scroll past, it looks like my Circle Line Party photos have been a hit in Blogistan. Loads of hits there, when all I did was stick 'em up, stick 'em on my blog and post them to the Circ…
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Bunch of new photos
Got a bunch of new photos up. This new camera sure takes beautiful pics! Visit to Utrecht to visit Mani and Joachim. Bike ride to Eastbourne as part of training for our big ride up in the North of Eng…
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Dark wheat beer
This week the Great British Beer Festival has been on at Olympia, which is very close to our house. I think my favourite has been the dark German wheat beer I had last night. Delicious! Might see if I…
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Canadian blonde bottled
I bottled the Canadian Blonde last night. Should be a nice, light beer with loads of hop aroma. I bottled with 100g glucose priming and a handful of Fuggles hops boiled in for a few minutes. Tasted pr…
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Where's my fridge magnet?
Looks like the UK is finally getting a propaganda booklet about terrorism and emergencies. As usual, the poms are years behind everyone else. What's more, it doesn't sound like it's going to be a frid…