Monthly Archives: January 2009

First Impressions of New Zealand

Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 by Peter

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

Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 by Peter

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”

Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 by Peter

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

Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 by Peter

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

Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 by Peter

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

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Goodbye, Geelong!

Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 by Peter

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

Posted on Monday, January 5, 2009 by Peter

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

Posted on Thursday, January 1, 2009 by Peter

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

Posted on Thursday, January 1, 2009 by Peter

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

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