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More photos in the Queensland photo album.

The twelve Gmail invitations I had are now gone…

As someone who hasn’t used a Windows desktop computer for several years, there are some nice features that I’ve forgotten even existed. One of them is viewing PDFs within a browser window.
My main work and home computers are OS X machines, so I spend most of my web browsing time using Safari. When [...]

It seems Google is now making their Gmail webmail service available to more users. After inviting a few to my friends, I still have ten Gmail invitations available. If you are interested, drop me an email at jimmyharris AT gmail DOT com and I’ll invite you to join up.

It may be a cliche, but Queensland really is “Beautiful one day, perfect the next”.
After six days in Brisbane and five days on the Sunshine Coast, I’ve just arrived back in cold, wintry Melbourne. Thanks to the financial support of the Australian University Consortium, I was able to attend the SAGE-AU 2004 conference and [...]

It’s not every day that politicians make you laugh rather than cringe, but the debate over the government’s legislative priorities has produced a few genuinely funny moments. Labor accuses the government of being “soft on terror but hard on homosexuals” by giving priority to a ban on gay marriages over new anti-terrorism laws.

Asked yesterday [...]

Who says you can’t mix Apples and methylated spirits?
Feeling a little dopey after a bad night’s sleep last night, I managed to spill a good deal of methylated spirits over the keyboard and display of my running Apple laptop (don’t ask how). After a panicked removal of the battery and a thorough wipedown, I [...]

Queenscliff Pier

Queenscliff Pier

Queenscliff Pier