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DEAR SIR/MADAM:
I AM MR. DARL MCBRIDE CURRENTLY SERVING AS THE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE SCO GROUP, FORMERLY KNOWN AS CALDERA SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, IN LINDON, UTAH, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I KNOW THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOUR BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD NO PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS OR BUSINESS DEALINGS BEFORE NOW.
MY ASSOCIATES HAVE RECENTLY MADE [...]

What a game! Australia losing to a Johnny Wilkinson drop goal in the final minute of extra time left a bitter taste in our mouth, but the beer helped drown our sorrows.

Jimmy enjoying a beer

Santa and Marie

John, Santa and Jimmy

Thanks to a AUD$4,000 scholarship from Apple, I’m off to Macworld San Francisco in early January 2004. It’s been around three years since my last overseas trip (Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) so I have taken the opportunity to extend the trip around the world.
The current itinerary:

Sydney -> San Francisco 31/12/03
San Francisco -> New [...]

Here’s an anonymous quote I found on the Internet, slightly adapted for Australian politics.
“The Liberal Party is the evil party, the Labor Party is the stupid party, and bipartisanship is when they join forces to do something both evil and stupid.”

With all the controversy raging in the US about the lack of security of their evoting machines, it’s nice to see an article on an Australian sucess in the area. Critically, the Australian solution is open source, has been reviewed by security experts, and the company is very serious about removing all bugs and [...]