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I'm in a tell-it-how-it-is mood today. Are we just a nation of sheep shearers and miners? Here is a snapshot of a reputable Australian newspaper's IT section: D&D co-creater dead. While tragic, this guy was hardly a technology pioneer, it was all
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I haven't blogged for a while, so I will just stream out what is front of mind lately... Seattle is smaller than I imagined. It reminded me of Adelaide, but with less good wine. Its bizarre to think that Boeing, Starbucks, Amazon.com and Microsoft are
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An actual conversation overheard on the local Exchange Server (only the names have been changed to protect the innocent): From: Smart-a$$ Australian Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2008 12:58 PM To: PIFEM Practitioners Subject: RE: STOP REPLY
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The shipping seven blog makes for interesting reading... is it true? is it another fake blog? is it a reverse-psychology IBM blog? Who knows. Anyways, I am really proud to be able to share with you an early build of "7". Okay, so it is DOS 7.
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A laptop gets bad points for the following: No subwoofer Dell XPS M1530 Review - Laptops
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Okay, okay, I promised Geocollaboration, part 2 - but you'll have to wait a little longer. I want to show off some of my favourite features of Live Search Maps . Satellite Images are all well and good if you are orbiting the planet - but often we want
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Hence the infrequent blog posts lately. Sorry! In other news, QANTAS, Virgin Blue and Cabcharge shares rose by about a bazillion points.
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All I want for Christmas is a 20" laptop notebook portable foldable all-in-one . Is that too much to ask? Hey look, here is just the one at HP AU: HP Pavilion HDX Entertainment Notebook PC - 2.6GHz Core 2, 2GB ram, 2 x 200GB 4200RPM HDD. Oh darn
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I just saw the trailer for the upcoming Iron Man movie... looks good, and even funny. Iron Man is the thinking man's super hero. No special powers, lots of special problems and a penchant for robot suits. What is not to like? Check out the trailer below:
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Twelve months ago, everybody (+ dog) was blogging - these days it seems like the pace of posts is really starting to drop. Was blogging a fad, and have people turned their attention to new fads? It would seem a shame for the firehose of human creativity,
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I've been with Microsoft for about five weeks now (but only about 3 weeks of face time at the Sydney Office) - as a recent resident of Sydney, my whole life pretty much revolves around work at the moment - I haven't yet settled in. I had dinner with friends
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