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Archive for May, 2008

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1968

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

1968 is the year where the summer of love turned into the year of protest, riots and an escalation in world tension.
World events of 40 years ago seem obscure today. The fear of rising communism, increasing multiculturalism, and general chaos as a new younger generation struggled against older strictures and structures.
Some events seem similar, with [...]

Painting in Sand

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Recently experienced at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum

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French Silverlight Page Flip Flickr Fun

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Silverlight/Flickr Fun

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T40T, 12 May 2008

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Install Windows Server 2008, SQLServer2005 into Virtual PC 2007

My previous application development platform experience is LAMP, so this Windows Server 2008 stuff is going to be fun!
Installation to a fresh VirtualPC took less than 15 minutes.
Only 6 updates required post install of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
Added Application Server, Web Server (IIS), File [...]

Transparent 40% Time

Monday, May 12th, 2008

As my Microsoft job subtlety changes at the beginning of July, it is self-development time!
Next year involves more cycles devoted to development ‘themes’. A change that I am
Following sage twitter advice from Christy Dena, the diary is locked and loaded. Every Monday and Friday are hard allocated to self-development.
Self-development relies on self-control.
To aid the [...]

The Nuclear Option

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Mark Pesce, keynoting at the coming Australian ReMIX, presented his piece, The Nuclear Option, today.
Watch and listen here:

Or read Mark's post.

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Duncan Riley: Officially a Web 2.0 Startup 2.0

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

@DuncanRiley, formerly of Techcrunch, has left as a fulltime writer and has started another startup: Inquisitr.com
Described by Duncan as a “mix of tech, pop and fark type stories”, it promises a blog that captures the lighter side of this strange web world.
I, for one, welcome our new Duncan overlords.

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DG’s New Toy

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Every quokka loves a new laptop. Even when the laptop is twice your weight, height and width.

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Movie: Kurt Cobain About a Son.

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Photo: Rod Yates, editor of Empire Magazine interviewing Michael Azerrad on his movie, Kurt Cobain About a Son.
Kurt Cobain looms out of the cinema screen like a melancholic Viking, ready to pillage our minds. Like the images of other dead celebrities, the image sets off thought patterns and we classify: drug addict, father, musican.
Like all [...]

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