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Airline Reviews
Ever since I had a very bad experience flying Malaysian Airlines (very stuffy cabin, malfunctioning enetertainment system) and an excellent experience flying to London on Qantas, I have been picky about flying. On the weekend I saw a cheap offer to Europe via China Eastern Airlines. Are they any good? It’s a question I feel…
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Friday the 13th and Ladyhawke
It only costs $1 per movie to hire weekly DVD’s on Wednesdays from our local Civic Video store. It means that you can hire movies of dubious quality without feeling guilty about it. So for two dollars I was able to take a trip back to the eighties with Friday the 13th and Ladyhawke. I…
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Enrolled in an Astronomy Course
I enrolled in a Graduate Certificate of Science in Astronomy course at Swinburne University of Technology today. The course is run entirely online and starts next week. As I am only doing two subjects per semester, it should take me a year to earn the certificate. I may translate this into a Grad Dip or…
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Following the creek
Needing to clear my head today, I went for a walk through the suburb. I found myself walking a firetrail through the valley separating Menai from Illawong. It’s a pretty trail, sandstone boulders and the eucalyptus bush screening out the sight of most of the houses. I followed the creek (Still Creek) until the end…
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Why PHP?
Why choose PHP over other languages like Perl, ASP, Java and Python for web application development? It depends on the requirements of the site you are developing for, but a few good reasons include: PHP is designed from scratch for the web. Other languages, like Perl, Visual Basic and Python are more flexible, but can…
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What is PHP?
PHP is a scripting language, somewhat similar to Perl, but designed from the outset for web development. It can also be used on the command line and for developing GUI applications (PHP-GTK), but in this book we will concentrate on the use of PHP as a web server module. Unlike the client side JavaScript (ECMAScript)…
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