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Archive for January, 2008

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Bloody Omaha

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Richard 'Hamster' Hammond on a UK TV Show TimeWatch: Bloody Omaha.
How to recreated Saving Private Ryan without the luxury of 1000 Irish extras.

 
 

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Bloggers do get Writer’s Block

Friday, January 11th, 2008

U IZ BANND FROM TEH TWITTA.
 
This posting on http://on10.net/ : "64bits. More than 2 times 32" has been in my Windows Live Writer drafts for too long. Sitting there, looking at me.
The topic was easy. I knew I was going to write something about Vista x64. Not that I am the world's expert: and that [...]

Updating my Windows Media Center config

Friday, January 11th, 2008

For completeness, updating the configuration of my Windows Vista Media Center

Installed Vista Ultimate x64 (all drivers found and installed OK, just need to load SATA RAID drivers for Gigabyte motherboard at install time)
Upgraded the case, swapped out the 500Gb PATA with a quieter Samsung 500Gb SATA drive (making a total of 4Tb in the house, [...]

AFP: Going after Identity Theft

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Australian Federal Police should increase efforts in ecrimes such as Identity Theft. says the Rudd government
Thanks for listening, Government.

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Australian Accent and Blokey Good Looks

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Microsoft's answer to Ewan McGregor, Nic Fillingham, has joined the http://on10.net/ (Channel 10, on10) team at Microsoft.
Apart from being Ewan good looking, he's a smart and hard working bloke.
...first day on the job, he gets to interview Bill Gates and Robbie Bach. How do you top that?
The Australian Mafia gains a posterboy.
 
Robbie Bach [...]

Windows Home Server team just ROCK!

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

The Windows Home Server team absolutely rock. OK, I work for Microsoft and am paid to say that.
Well, today I am on holiday. So, I am saying this as private citizen Nick Hodge.
Listening to users, researching and fixing bugs quickly; and adding requested features in an open and rapid way. This is the way to [...]

Our Benevolent Federal Government should Filter More

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

As commented over on Stephen Collin's Blog: Dumb decision by our new government over ‘Net filtering. Some people mention this is a mere policy dump on the last day of 2007. Of course, the Australian web 2.0 community is not necessarily happy about all this talk of censorship.
OK, can we then get our trusty [...]

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