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  • School and the Amstrad

    The Amstrad CPC 6128 By 1985 the limitations of the MPF-2 were becoming obvious and Dad decided to purchase a new computer. We were living in rural Queensland at the time and there was not a large range of computer stores or models on sale. Dad settled on the Amstrad CPC 6128, which he bought…

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  • Twenty years of computers

    Introduction It’s New Years Eve and we are soon to welcome in 2004. I can confidently predict that next year’s computers will be faster, the hard disks bigger and the price of monitors will drop. How can I say this? Well, 2003 marked my twentieth year of owning a computer. In that time I have…

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  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Sheet Music

    A review of the piano sheet music album to Howard Shores score to Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

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  • My Job

    The three year term on my contract is up at the beginning of next year. Last week my supervisor informed me that they had advertised for my position, as they must by government regulations. I saw it in yesterdays paper. You can’t have it! I want to keep it! Why else would I be spending…

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  • 10 Years since we met in person

    Yesterday marked 10 years since B and I met in real life.

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  • I want a new computer!

    It’s been over 20 years since I first started using computers and I want a new one! I found myself with a little bit of time to play games the other day and my Dual Celeron 500 (and that’s overclocked!) wasn’t up to it. My GeForce2 MX card died a few months ago and I…

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