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Archive for December, 2002

Aluminium Foil

Thursday, December 19th, 2002

Nick's Christmas Tip: Wrap your presents in Aluminium Foil (Alfoil). I have more than halved my gift wrap time this year. No sticky tape, just wrap. And it looks cool. Thanks to Jack Osbourne for this one!

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Lego

Wednesday, December 18th, 2002

This is probably indicitive of my Christmas plans, but I have always been a major fan of Lego. Today I found a list of building block toys on the web.
My postings of late have nothing to do with Adobe at all. Sorry.

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Froogle

Monday, December 16th, 2002

The gods at Google have added another service- Froogle. This is a web-product purchase web site - that works. Apart from a highly appropriate name, it has the same quality as the other Google services. I wonder how they make money out of this? The product I just searched for, and purchased I [...]

Amazonian Piano

Friday, December 13th, 2002

The Piano Two years ago, an eccentric explorer John Blashford-Snell delivered a baby grand to a remote Amazonian tribe who'd had little contact with 'civilisation'. Late last month, he and a team returned to tune it - and to see if they had learned to play it. Andrew Brown, one of the tuners on the [...]

Combined Device

Thursday, December 12th, 2002

This Combined Device is getting close to my perfect handheld device. All it needs is a megapixel digital camera, and its perfect. All the essential transportable devices built in to one. Being able to communicate directly to the net whereever you are is appealing.

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Apology

Tuesday, December 10th, 2002

Anyone from Melbourne who reads this: a humble apology. Yes, I was meant to be in Melbourne today. Due to an error in the first email that was sent out, I read and therefore assumed* (there's that lovely word) that the PDF: Beyond the Basics event was scheduled for Thursday. It wasn't. [...]

MBA!

Friday, December 6th, 2002

After leaving Year 12 (that is the final year of high school and matriculation in South Australia) my plan was to work fulltime and study accountancy parttime. A few lectures into the degree, I soon learnt I didn't have the required attention to detail of an accountant. I dropped out. This has to be [...]