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I have been reading as much about China as I can in an attempt to better understand the country that we will be visiting in less than two months time. There is a dichotomy between the guidebooks and the travel tales. The former excites me about the many sights to see, food to eat, adventures…

Thanks to some further attempts at comment spam new members of allrite's webworld (this site) now need to be manually approved by me in order to join. Register as usual and your account will be approved when I see the email. Unless you are a suspected malicious user, that is.

I've had a very productive past week work-wise. Wrote an extension for the staff CV system, then wrote an add-on for my tincaCMS web content management system which automatically generates the weekly newsletter and the HTML formatted email to the entire organisation. That promises to save me a lot of time every week. And this…

No less gruesome than my last posting today was that I watched the director of The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson's first movie, Bad Taste. It's fantastically, deliberately bad and over the top as four men, 'The Boys', save humankind from becoming food for an alien take-away franchise. The special effects are disgusting and…

We were going for lunch and groceries at the Menai Marketplace today and noticed an ambulance and police cars everywhere, with the area outside of the police station taped off. Sadly, it appears that one of the policemen had shot himself in the head. Very sad and my condolences to friends, family and colleagues.