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Melbourne Cup Madness
It's not all work at work. This afternoon the race that stopped the nation stopped Marsfield as well, as we sat down for a catered lunch of chicken and ham and watched the horse race on TV's setup around the canteen. The theme was blue and white, but our table decided instead on a Monty…
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Sydney’s Ugliness
I strongly agree with Elizabeth Farrelly's piece in the Sydney Morning Herald on why Sydney is such an ugly city. I have lived in Sydney longer than in my birthplace of Melbourne and there are places in Sydney I have find beautiful. Some, like the Harbour Bridge up close or the CBD as viewed from…
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Five years ago…
It's difficult to believe that five years ago I was sitting in a Qantas 747 approaching Bangkok airport on my way to Paris, my just-married wife right besides me. That was a perfect honeymoon after a perfect wedding. Last night we celebrated with a meal at Restaurant Larousse at Brighton Le Sands. Excellent meal and…
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ICT Centre Conference 2006
Demonstrated my tincaCMS content management system at the CSIRO ICT Centre Conference 2006. Some very interesting talks about the work done at the Centre, but because it wasn't a public conference I had better not comment further.
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China Planning and Stressing
I'm in that happy/stressful state of existence again where I am attempting to plan a holiday. We have decided to visit China and Japan (again) early next year. The cheapest fare that we were able to find is with Cathay Pacific, flying Sydney to Tokyo via Hong Kong. The Cathay Pacific website is great and…
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Fetch
Kita worked out that bringing his tennis ball back to me means that he gets to chase it once I throw the ball again. I like playing fetch with dogs! B also taught him to sit and stay, pretty good progress seeing as we have only had the puppy for a week. Owning a puppy…
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