Author Archives: Robin
Nearly 3 years…
Hmm, so it’s been nearly 3 years since I posted here. Can I get away with this: Stuff. It happened. Perhaps not. In short, thanks to a great deal of financial support and trust from my parents we were able … Continue reading
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The Plan
I need to move house, but I dont know how to get there… Continue reading
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Delicious Super Fudge Brownies
Ingredients: 200g dark or milk chocolate chopped roughly 200g butter chopped roughly 4 eggs 1 Cup of castor Sugar 1 Teaspoon of Vanilla extract 1 1/3 cups of Plain Flour ¼ cup of Cocoa Powder Method: Preheat oven to moderate … Continue reading
Tech.Ed 2009
[This is a belated and incomplete post, but since I'm unlikely to finish it, might as well publish what I threw together in the airport on the day after] Wow, where to start? Tech.Ed is the Microsoft IT geek yearly … Continue reading
Filter CFA incidents by region
With all the focus on bushfires in Victoria and the close proximity to my house of some of those fires, I’ve been checking the Country Fire Authority (CFA) website to see what is going on in the area. The CFA … Continue reading
iPhone Headphones
I’ve had an iPhone for a few months now, and am enjoying it as both the most usable phone I’ve ever owned and alsp the most enjoyable PDA I’ve ever owned. Except, that is, for the headphones. Continue reading
Twitter updates re-enabled
I’ve started using Alex King’s fabulous Twitter Tools again. Continue reading
Stupid stuff
I occasionally post stupid things to my Stuff section to see track what seemed fun at the time and I’ve noticed something: They are all at least as accurate as the daily astrological rubbish in your paper/magazine/website of choice. I … Continue reading
New Addiction
I’ve developed a new addiction, or perhaps merely a new obsession: Pokemon. Specifically, Pokemon Pearl on Nintendo DS. This is probably not news to the geeks out there, but it’s good! Mrs Froosh and the Kiddo have been playing the … Continue reading
Taxi drivers vs Melbourne
This is not so much a comment about the safety of the drivers, but taxi drivers in general. Inspired by a post over on Melbourne Metblogs. Taxi drivers, I believe, are professional drivers. Professionals in that they get paid to … Continue reading
How to flub a job interview
As many of my Twitter followers will know, I interviewed for a job on Monday afternoon and was very excited about the opportunity. I was not chosen to progress to the next round of interviewing and I’m somewhat crushed by that. The painful part is the reason I was given for the rejection. Continue reading
CSS Naked Day
Yes, the site looks awful. That is the point. Without friendly CSS written and provided to me for free by the internets, this is somewhat like it would look all the time! CSS Naked Day is a token of our appreciation to all … Continue reading
TimeShift your life part 1: DVDs
I’m a moderately busy person. Not “Cory Doctorow” busy, but busy enough with family, work, personal projects, and keeping up with the current state of IT geekdom that stopping to watch the TV, go to a movie, or listen to … Continue reading
Blogger Lunch Panel
An interesting mix of panelists at the Blogger Lunch: skeptics, business advisors, content providers, Microsoftian enterprise blogger. How to walk the line between tight content control and enabling the free and open conversation – Microsoft seem to get it, but … Continue reading
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Tech.Ed 2007 Bloggers Lunch
So, might as well blog from the Tech.Ed 2007 Bloggers Lunch. We got our lunches in nifty little esky’s that we get to keep (logistically, too much trouble for them to dispose of them I’m betting ) Discussions are about … Continue reading
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Twitter updates
While the twitter daily summaries have been handy (for me) to see who and what I’ve been talking about, I’m turning them off for now as I intend to start posting real entries more often and they would be lost … Continue reading
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Tweets for 2007-05-11
Allrighty! Aussies can Tweet via the UK SMS number! w00t! # ‘Cept that I’m still not actually receiving the tweets via SMS. Back to IM … # Cute kitten videos make a stressful day better. Thanks @Leann # @leslienassar: For … Continue reading
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Twitter: shiny hotness, or brown and sticky?
Daniel asks: So what’s so different about Twitter? Or is it just another case of a new, shiny, evolving (but not revolutionary) thing getting all the hype? What’s different for me is that it’s IM/IRC that actually works on my … Continue reading
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Testing some existing RSS to Twitter tools
I was writing an RSS to Twitter cross-poster when it occurred to me that I couldn’t be the first to try this. So now I’m trying some of the existing ones to see if they do a good enough job…
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It’s Conquest time!
Oh noes! I haven’t blogged about Conquest soon enough and now I have guilt! Yes it’s Easter (insert other full-moon at spring/autumn festival of your choice) , which means that Conquest is here. It’s too late to register on-line, so … Continue reading
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