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Japan holiday DVD
I finished cutting the DVD of the photos from April's trip to Japan, something I've been meaning to do for a while. I divided the photos into the separate locations (flight across, Nara, Takayama, etc) and used Picasa's create movie function to generate movies from the sets of photos. I found that the best compromise…
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Removing Drupal URL aliases
We use Drupal as the basis for our intranet at work. With time we noticed that it took longer and longer to load individual pages. Part of the problem was tracked down to the number of url aliases in use: around 1500. The majority of these had been generated using the pathauto module. Apparently the…
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And I thought we were supposed to be at the leading edge…
I'm seriously frustrated by work at the moment. I am supposed to be working for a world leading ICT research centre, yet I am being told that our intranet should be using technology from 2000 and before. My boss wants static web pages so he can tweak every little bit of appearance (using <font> tags,…
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East Timor: Answered by Fire
Watched the first episode of the ABC 's mini-series Answered by Fire about East Timor 's vote on independence from Indonesia on television tonight. It's been a long time since I watched Australian drama on tv and this was a very appropriate program considering the current events in East Timor. Australian troops are being deployed…
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Watch out China!
Our normal Saturday sleep-in was disrupted by the need to take B's mother to the airport this morning. She, and two other aunties, were off to China for a tour of the Yunnan province. It took an hour to get them through check-in. Hopefully they were able to cope with transiting through China okay –…
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Jetstar’s 2 for 1 deal
Jetstar are having a two tickets for the price of one deal at the moment and we just couldn't resist. After agonising over which destination to fly to (Hobart, Christchurch, Queensland) we eventually decided on a winter trip up to the Gold Coast. Now, I don't like the Gold Coast, but I do like water…
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