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Waiting for the flickrPaparazzi

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Thanks to those 8 people I don't know who voted for me. +1 to my Mum!
Lachlan, Ajay, Martin, Rene and Russ should really be ahead of me. Oh, and where is Mark Pesce?

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I To Do Therefore I Am?

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Personal organisational skills. I can not has. They left me some time ago.
Microsoft has released some research on the gender differences of To Do lists.
About 70% of people have a To Do list.
20% of males keep their To Do list in their head.
Mine is a combination of email (whatever is still in there needs to [...]

Books, DVDs

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Les Carlyon, The Great War. Documenting Australian stories from individual soldiers to the indifferent commanders on the western front of World War I. Excellent 2.5 day read. Highly recommended for lovers of Australian Military History, and a good followup to Les' previous tome, Gallipoli. It also documents the interference of then journalists Charles Bean and [...]

Personal and Professional Resolutions for 2008

Monday, December 31st, 2007

The home matters.
Weigh less again at the end of 2008. Improve on 2007 results.
Geeks Who Care matters. There is something in Cameron Reilly's initiative. If all this technology does wonderful stuff, and we geeks are the mavens: where are the so-called benefits? Politicans should care less about censorship and control, and more about what they [...]

Reviewing 2007

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Goodbye, and good luck 2007.
Reviewing 2007, there were 4 resolutions/tasks to complete:

Take family back to Japan, this time getting out of Tokyo (geek out in Blade Runner 2007 not 2019)
Weigh less in December 2007 vs now (eat better)
Refind my geek roots
Write more interesting, technical articles on this blog (become less boring)

Point by point [...]

Playing with Wordpress / Flickr integration

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Using FAlbum, here are my Flickr photo albums here in the blog.

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When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth. A short story from Cory Doctorow.
I read this story in a sci-fi short stories compilation on my recent trip to the US. I even gave it to Liam to read, as it presents a world of online governance.

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Lost in Microsoft

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Up, to work. Parking easy as everyone is somewhere else. Frankarr on the internal TV system not doing LOLCATS. Speaking Shakespeare to promote TechEd. Even when Frankarr is not in the building, his Hamlet-ian ghost haunts us.
On way to desk, speak to Jeffa about his two way cool posts: Windows Server 2008 and the new [...]

Japan 2.0: No Shrines Needed in Hiroshima

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

 

Up at 6:00am to get ready for a long day. Osaka JR train to Osaka-shin. Catch the Shinkansen to Hiroshima via Shin-Kobe and other stations that mix together. The Hodge's almost broke the whole system by inserting our Suica cards into the wrong machines. Friendly JR staff kindly help us for gaijin out.
Just like [...]

Japan 2.0: Lost Underground in Osaka

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Goal today was to work out exactly where we are, and what is around. And more importantly, how we are getting around.

Picture: Can Has 8-bit Text! Shinkansen timetable
First stop: JR station to purchase tickets. Eventually lining up in the correct queue, we spent about AU$1200 on carious Shinkansen (bullet/fast train) both to Hiroshima for Sunday, [...]

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