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Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveller, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism. — Henry David Thoreau

Archive for May, 2005

Anyone for online gambling?

Friday May 27, 2005 10:32

Wow, my very first comment-bot spamming with 51 online casino comments made in ten seconds. Unfortunately for the spammers, all comments must be moderated before appearing and even when they do, links to external sites use the “rel=’nofollow’” attribute so they won’t contribute to Google’s Pagerank.
The comments were all made from an IP [...]

Posted in General | 2 Comments »

St Maarten - What a blast!

Friday May 27, 2005 07:42

See below for a three amazing photos uploaded to Flickr by Gocarrt. They were taken on the tiny Caribbean island of St Maarten (Dutch) / St Martin (French). Occupying an area of just 37 square miles, St Maarteen / St Martin is the smallest land mass to be ruled by two governments, in [...]

Collingwood V West Coast Eagles

Saturday May 21, 2005 19:56


“Waiting for response” from OS X Server monitor

Friday May 13, 2005 13:23

One of the more useful utilities that Apple includes with its Xserve products is the Server monitor. This tool provides detailed remote hardware monitoring including:

Info - Hostname, IP address, operating system, processor type and configuration as well as total system memory
Memory - Name, size, speed and type of memory installed in each slot
Drives - [...]

Posted in OS X | 13 Comments »

Cat blogging - Paddy edition

Wednesday May 11, 2005 13:05

Name: Paddy
Breed: Mixed (exact lineage completely unknown)
Hobbies: Biting toes, drinking from the toilet, hiding in filing cabinets and knocking any/everything off tables
Most active hours: 11pm - 1am and 5am - 7am
Ideal day: Wake around 5am, bite Jimmy’s toes until he gets up and starts playing with me, eat breakfast, chase dried food around kitchen, sleep, [...]

Australian native wildlife

Wednesday May 11, 2005 07:53

Photos of Australian native (and not so native) wildlife taken during a trip to the Grampians several weeks ago.

Australian weather for Tiger dashboard widget

Thursday May 5, 2005 07:48

After a few days using Apple’s new operating system, I’ve found myself becoming surprisingly addicted to Dashboard widgets, in particular the Address book and iTunes controller.
I’d also been keen to use the Weather widget but entering the name of my home town of Melbourne (Australia) gave me the weather for Melbourne, Florida instead. Not [...]

Posted in OS X | 31 Comments »

Photos from the Great Ocean Road

Wednesday May 4, 2005 11:11

The Bay of Martyrs, Great Ocean Road

Loch Ard Gorge, Great Ocean Road

London Bridge, Great Ocean Road

Pauline in front of London Bridge, Great Ocean Road

The 12 Apostles, Great Ocean Road

The 12 Apostles, Great Ocean Road