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23Mar
2010 Feral bogans, police chases and .50 calWho would have thought a solution to the road toll caused by people who think it’s OK to steal cars could be so simple…
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27Oct
2009 Dear AGL…This is an open letter to AGL marketing department. I post it on my blog because the online enquiry form does not take text over 1000 characters and my rant was well over 2000 characters. Also there is no contact email advertised anywhere, so this is the next best thing as far as I am [...]
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08Oct
2009 I download and I vote (oh, and #iitrial is cool)Yes, I “illegally” download copyrighted content. There are many reasons why I do that and for some time I felt a tiny bit guilty about it. I don’t any more. I am not THAT person to say that I buy more DVDs than ever before or that I ALWAYS buy the TV show DVD when [...]
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10Sep
2009 This is how bad my ADSL connection wasFor backround on the story, read more about it here: Part 1. Part 2. Here are some graphs showing the frequency of the connection. The first graph is connections by minute for the first hour, the second is connections by hour for the first 40 hours.
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03Sep
2009 Intermittent – a dirty word in telecomms – part 2Read the first part of the story here. Alas, the communication gods were with me and the phone was playing up when the tech got in yesterday. He called me on the land line before he got in, 3 minutes later the line got heaps noisy and then dial tone disappeared. I was so happy. [...]
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01Sep
2009 It’s not that hard to make a laptop adHeard an ad for the U Series laptops from Asus. It was pretty lame, just like all the other Asus radio ads. What caught my attention was the line that went something like this: “…What you want a fast enough machine to play DVDs in hidef, which not many other slim laptops can.” Two issues [...]
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28Aug
2009 Intermittent – a dirty word in telecomms – part 1When you are a techy of any kind you often troubleshoot problems. Sometimes they are easy to solve, sometimes they are not. Of course before you fix anything you usually want to reproduce it. Again, sometimes it’s easy, other times it’s not. I am sure all programmers have come across a case where the sequence [...]
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