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Lego Goodness … and Badness!
My 33rd birthday is soon (well, 17 days) and family are starting to ask what I want as a gift. Last year I had suggested the unrealisticly priced Death Star. This year, I’m really liking the new LEGO Mindstorms NXT – you should watch the (slightly) hidden “Easter Egg” on the Mindstorms site (hint: Steven…
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More Beer
Fedeeration Square’s Atrium will be hosting another Victorian Microbreweries Showcase tonight and tomorrow night (Wednesday 19th/Thursday 20th July 2006). There will be some 15 different Victorian microbreweries in the show, of which I have previously tasted about 5. So I’ll be there! Entry is apparently $20 for 20 tastings. Not too bad. Melbourne Based MicroBreweries…
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Best. Party. EVAR!
We had a 6.5 birthday party for Seb last Saturday evening, and it was without a doubt the best kids birthday party we’ve ever been to or hosted. Utterly awesome. So whats with the 6.5 bit? Well, when Seb actually turned 6 we had just moved him between schools, it was during school holidays, and…
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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…