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For some awful reason we have become regular viewers of that inane travel competition called The Amazing Race. In Episode 2 of Series 9 competitors have the option of climbing a waterfall or crushing sugar to make ethanol. The latter option involved passing sugar cane stalks through a manual press then distilling the resultant liquid…

I have now installed an image gallery and wiki on this website. I was disatisfied with Drupal‘s built in gallery functionality and decided to give Gallery a go. Unfortunately, only version 1.x is supported on Ilisys, so it isn’t integrated with Drupal. I especially like the remote uploads options and slideshows in Gallery. I’m using…

Tonight I’m taking advantage of the fact I’m paying too much for broadband access by playing around with some of Telstra Bigpond‘s features. In the background is the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games streamed coverage. I also setup a Telstra BigBlog, available here. There isn’t point in me having yet another blog, except that I can…

Already the rain is easing. It seems like such a rare event that I am enjoying that sounds of the rain against the roof and windows, the fireworks of thunder and lightning outside. The radar shows large cloud masses over the city and I hope they do not drift past too quickly. The rain has…

Last year I moved the work intranet from a static web site built with Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage and running on a Windows IIS server to Drupal and hosted on a UNIX/Apache server. The intranet consists primarily of documentation, which is fairly static content, and news and event listings, which are constantly updated. The…