Monthly Archives: January 2009

First Impressions of New Zealand

New Zealand Customs and Immigration is really strict! Even more so than Australia! Before I could be issued a boarding pass for my flight to Auckland I had to produce a paper copy of my return itinerary and show it … Continue reading

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Converting .lit files to PDF for Linux

Rather than carry a load of “dead tree” books with me on my travels, I have a collection of Microsoft Reader (.lit) ebooks on my laptop. The only problem is that there doesn’t seem to be any Linux software available … Continue reading

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“Coon & Goon”

The Australians don’t really go for this political correctness lark. To illustrate this, I present a poster for the Scary Canary’s (the Base hostel bar) celebration of Barack Obama’s inauguration. Brilliant! For those who don’t know, Coon is a brand … Continue reading

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Another Change of Plan

I’ve been back in Sydney for a couple of weeks now, mostly trying to sort out what I’m going to do for the next few months. I was pretty much set until a few days ago when I tried to … Continue reading

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A practical use for the OS X ‘say’ command

Glad to see I’m not the only person to do this!

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Goodbye, Geelong!

After almost 3-months, I’m leaving Geelong this afternoon and flying back up to Sydney. I’m not entirely sure what I’ll do once I get there yet, but getting a job is pretty low on the list of priorities at the … Continue reading

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Police to step up hacking of home PCs

I’ve just seen this article on The Times website (via Slashdot). The Times article is pretty sensationalist, and I don’t get the feeling that the Slashdot discussion will be particularly balanced either judging by the ~40 comments that have been … Continue reading

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New Year, New Public Key

A couple of days ago the Ubuntu 8.04 installation on my EEE 701 suffered a nasty file system crash. I’ve reinstalled from a USB stick and everything seems to work as it did before. The only loss appears to be … Continue reading

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New Year’s Eve Fireworks

New Year’s Eve from around Federation Square, Melbourne.

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