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Sent to Connex’s Customer support
I will not be recommending the SMS alerts service to anyone, and will likely unsubcribe from it due to it’s extremely poor performance. I get nuisance notices early in the morning about how a service was cancelled and then not cancelled. I get notices about how the 6:25am from Epping will not run, but don’t…
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Melbourne, get your game on!
It’s Retrocon time! Retrocon is Melbourne’s newest games convention and it’s still smallish. This means two things: Retrocon needs you! If you’re new to gaming or interested in getting into gaming (of a Role Playing nature more than Roll Playing :wink:), then small is good. If you’re even slightly interested, I recommend you at least…
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Good News! (and some bad)
Are you a fan of Jonathan Coulton? You should be. Anyway, the esteemable (is that even a word?) Chris Miller of Unquiet Desperation has an interview with Jonathan, discussing his history, motivations, plans and how he managed to get the millionaire girlfriend and a wife. That last part isn’t really true though. Now the bad…
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Huh? SPAM?
Granted I’m not a high-profile site and I certainly don’t get a lot of traffic, but I get no spam. And I don’t resort to what John Dvorak used to tell us to do: Drop everything that isn’t from a known good address. I had three problems with that concept: What about e-mails from old…
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You can really taste the goat!
I am generally not a beer drinker. This is for two reasons: I’m alergic (or used to be) to something in a majority of popular beers. Just one beer would make me violently ill almost exactly 12 hours later. As the joke goes, I was never sure if it was the 13th or 14th 😀…
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New Microsoft article about Linux – done the right way
It’s actually a support article: The system time runs too fast on a Linux-based virtual machine that is hosted in Virtual Server 2005 R2 I’ve always* used both Windows and Linux in my personal and professional lives, so have basically ignored most of the Microsoft vs. Linux (and GNU/OSS/etc) rhetoric out there. Hypocritically though I…
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Exhausted … Still!
Ok, so Conquest was on over the Easter weekend and it was fantastic as usual. Of course I’ve actually only been twice now… 😆 For me, it was four intense days of gaming and helping out and even two days later I’m feeling exhausted but happy about it. I may have a problem though: I’ve…
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Easter! Means! Gaming!
Well, it does if you live in Melbourne that is! 😀 That’s because it’s time for Conquest again. w00t! We haven’t signed up for the same “Get Wrecked” plan that we did last year with Andrew – but we’ll being helping out at the rego desk amid the rest of the con-fusion. 😉
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My Nerd Score
Oops, it didn’t occur to me that I would score this high… 😳 [via Xbox Live’s TriXie]
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General comments now available again
I had left comments set to require you to be registered and logged in to comment – not that good for encouraging feedback! 😳 I turned it on when I installed the OpenID plugin for authenticating comments and forgot to turn it off. Why did I install the OpenID plugin? So I could comment on…
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Stop the Administrator insanity!!!
Bloody hell! 😡 Why do so many things needlessly require administrator privileges??? The latest culprit: Apple iTunes on Windows Ok, so I bought Kim an iPod Nano for her birthday – she’s only been begging for one for about 3 years… I installed iTunes on our PC using a dedicated Administrator account then logged back…
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Mur Lafferty is my (Geek Fu) master now!
I have been listening to podcasts for a while now and one of the very first podcasts I started listening to was Mur Lafferty’s Geek Fu Action Grip. I’m hooked and can’t get enough Mur goodness 😀 Geek Fu Action Grip I Should Be Writing (Very relevant to anyone writing anything, not just fiction. e.g.…
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Being IT – Try it out
http://www.dice.com/beingit/ The Pizza Launcher was my fave.
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Bing me!
There are a large and growing number of Instant Messaging systems out there and just as many ways to ask someone to contact you. Given that I normally only have 1 or 2 methods in common with a particular individual, it’s redundant to ask them to Skype/MSN/GoogleTalk/Jabber/Gizmo/Yahoo/ICQ/etc me. And so, I’m throwing my vote to…
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It’s disturbing how much fun this is.
It’s an odd choice … but my first post after a long hiatus is this: Try this out – it’s fun in a disturbing way. More posts to follow, probably with better content – but I’m not promising anything… 😀 Oh, and thanks to Anthony for the link!
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Holidays should be a time of rest…
Oh poo, I was enjoying being totally ignorant about work stuff whilst I was on holiday – until this found it’s way to my personal inbox: Zero Day Holiday
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X-Box Live Gamercard
Whew – it’s been ages. This is just a quickie to turn off the piratey theme and post a link to my X-Box Live Gamertag. Feel free to add me to your friends list – preferably with an audio note mentioning who you are and how you know me. 😀 I’m really only playing Halo…
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Systm.org – Better than I had expected
I’ve been holding off watching any of Kevin Rose’s Systm – mainly because he’s a dork 😛 However … I was pleasantly surprised! I watched their MythTV episode, and while their hands were hyperactive, it was totally watchable. The coolest thing about their show, that will probably bring me back every time, has to be…
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So, I went to the meet-up – and it was good!
Apparently I didn’t shut up about pod-catching… 😳 Tejas, I’ve dumped all my podcast feeds into a Podcast category list in my sidebar. For general IT related feeds, IT Conversations has to be my favourite, with the Chris Pirillo Show in a close second. These are usually not podcasts in the ‘traditional’ sense – they’re…
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Hmm, Geek Dinners …
I used to go to geek dinners. Back in the day. When BBS’s were the blogs of the time.