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Long weekend
It's a long weekend, a chance to catch up on various household tasks and hopefully take some time to appreciate the home we live in. When work and commuting take up an entire day and time at home is spent doing regular chores, vegetating in front of a television or asleep the house can become…
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The Boeing 767 turns 25 years old
According to this post on airliners.net the Boeing 767 jet airliner has just celebrated it's 25 birthday. On our last international trip , to Japan, we flew on the 767 on all four legs, Sydney-Cairns-Osaka and Tokyo Narita-Cairns-Sydney. One of those flights was with the now reabsorbed Australian Airlines , who had, I think, the…
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On this hot and windy day… hotel at Brighton Le Sands
It's 33 degrees C outside and blowing a gale. The sky is hazy grey-brown-blue. It feels like summer, the kind of day when nothing gets done except to laze around and watch cricket on the TV. Only problem is that it's spring and the cricket is strictly internet only, unless you have Pay TV. Right…
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Intranets and asian food
Thursday last week finally saw the release of our new intranet, the source of much stress over the last month or so. In the end my tincaCMS Content Management System featured more fully than my senior supervisor wanted or knows. I added modules to automatically fix the links of content migrated from Drupal along with…
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Wet weekends and rich text fields
It is such a long time since Sydney received decent rains that the past few days of windy and wet weather have been quite exciting. A good excuse to stay at home on the weekend, especially as the Miranda Westfield shopping centre's carpark filled early (forced to purchase more expensive fruit and veg from the…
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Die Dreamweaver!
Dreamweaver just about tipped me over the edge into full blown insanity today. It kept reverting to using the wrong library items on web pages. I like Dreamweaver, and use it daily at work, but generally I am just as happy using a syntax highlighting text editor. I tend not to use Dreamweaver's "advanced" features…
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