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Productivity
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…
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Bad Taste
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…
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Local police officer shoots himself
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.
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Instant noodles
Kyodo News (as spotted in the Sydney Morning Herald) is reporting that Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant noodles, has passed away aged 96. Ando founded the company Nissin Foods and in 1958 created the first instant noodles, Chicken Ramen. In 1971 he came up with cup noodle concept. In one survey the Japanese rated…
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Quests
We have spent the past few evenings re-watching the 6 discs of the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition. Both watching the movies and reading the books are the best way I know of taking a voyage while seated in your own lounge room. Through the incredible imagery of Tolkien you are there with Frodo…
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My 2006 – a year in blog
New Year's Eve 2006. Time to reflect on the year past. In January I celebrated Australia Day with a recipe for lambingtons. February was hot and sticky. During March I added an image gallery and wiki to this site and laid into the lack of scientific rigour on the Amazing Race. Like the Amazing Race…
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