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My Australia Day
Woke up. Reminded my Malaysian born wife that it was Australia Day and not Austria Day when she wore a t-shirt from Salzburg. Drove up to the North to inspect puppies that were the result of crossing English and Japanese breeds. Lunch at Sydney’s second Chinatown, Chatswood – yum cha. Came home, watched some Australian…
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Lambingtons
It’s Australia Day and what foods are more Australian than lamb and lamingtons? So, why not combine the two as a lambington. Recipe follows… Ingredients Cold lamb chops Icing sugar Cocoa powder Butter Milk Dessicated coconut Instructions Make the chocolate icing by sifting 500g icing sugar and 1/3 cup of the cocoa powder together. Add…
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Country array
I was searching for a list of countries for use in my software registration PHP code and could not locate one on the net. I obtained a list of countries from the UN website and removed the codes. I also added Taiwan, formatted the list as a PHP array and escaped the necessary characters. The…
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Trips to Victoria and Adelaide
We drove down to Melbourne on the 27th of December for a brief holiday. The Hume Highway is a very familiar road to us, especially the stretch between Yass and Albury along which we travelled at least fornightly while I was in Canberra and B studying in Albury. However, our new car hadn’t yet travelled…
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My Year 2005
We only arrived back in Sydney this morning from a holiday in Victoria and it is already time to wave goodbye to 2005. It’s been a busy and exciting year, stressful, but ultimately rewarding. Highpoints and Achievements Trip to Singapore, London, France, Spain and Japan Contract renewed for 2 years Wrote a sophisticated content management…
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The Science of Superman’s Love Life
He’s faster than a speeding bullet. He’s more powerful than a locomotive. He’s able to leap tall buildings at a single bound. Why can’t he get a girl? Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, Larry Niven’s very amusing analysis of Superman’s “issues”.
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