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Monday, June 23, 2008 10:46 PM

Windows Media Center - Is it still just for geeks?

I was impressed with Windows Media Center from the very first time I tried it. However when we got our first Media Center PC a number of years ago, it was quite a trying experience getting it all set up. Getting the PC to talk to the cable set top box
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Saturday, February 09, 2008 9:24 AM

Dialog Box of the Week

Luckily for me, it didn't actually take quite that long.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:46 PM

So, what did you watch last night?

When I was growing up, we had two TV channels in my area: ABC, the government-run channel, and Capital 7, the commercial channel. While I don't really want to go back to that world, I do remember it with a certain amount of nostalgia. While the number
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:31 AM

Amazing Offer! All Sydney houses 50% off!

It's another beautiful Saturday morning in Sydney, and I'm about to waste it all by shopping for real estate. I've always hated almost everything about buying and selling houses, but it's far worse now as everything is so bloody expensive. At the moment,
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Friday, November 02, 2007 8:56 PM

How to get money out of your telco, in 37 simple steps

Before I get started, to my point about globally-accessible writing , let me warn you that this post is only going to have practical relevance to Australians. However anyone who has ever been screwed by a telco may get a warm and fuzzy feeling from the
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Monday, October 08, 2007 9:37 PM

Some bad sportsmanship

It's been a tough month not to be obsessed with sport. Not that I don't occasionally partake in watching a bunch of sweaty men on a paddock doing unnatural things to a ball - but this last month has been bordering on the ridiculous. As a lot of people
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Monday, August 13, 2007 10:19 PM

Inoffensive music offends me greatly

OK I've been in the Qantas Club lounge far too long now, and before I board my plane I have just one comment: the so-called "inoffensive" music they are playing here (mainly easy-listening ballads from the '90s) offends me greatly. Playing such music
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:48 PM

I'm It!

Alas, the game of Blog-Tag has finally found me (thanks Jezz and Olaf !). Now that I'm tagged, I need to reveal five things about me that most people don't know, and then tag five more people. So here goes: I was born in Woden Valley Hospital in Canberra,
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Sunday, December 17, 2006 7:58 PM

The lights are back on!

Last Thursday night, Seattle was hit by a major windstorm, which brought down trees and powerlines across the city. While I was lucky enough not to have been directly impacted by the storm, I was in one of the million-odd households that lost power. In
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Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:41 PM

...And I disapprove of this message

Here in the United States, it's election time again. Being an "alien" (as the US government insists on calling me), I can only watch from the sidelines (what was that thing about taxation without representation?) - but to my antipodean eyes, the American
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Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:12 PM

The Emperor's New Web-based Office Suite

Every couple of years, the tech media giants get together to hold a secret meeting. According to my sources, it takes place in a cave, deep underground, somewhere just east of Wagga Wagga. The main order of business is to choose the next technology that
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:18 PM

Windows Live Local comes to Australia

This is very cool - Windows Live Local (aka Virtual Earth) has finally been launched in Australia, with detailed street data, aerial photography of many cities, address and business searches and directions. Find out more on the WLL Blog - and be sure
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Saturday, June 03, 2006 7:00 PM

What the Da Vinci Code and the Bible have in common

After holding out for a long time, I finally went out and read The Da Vinci Code . I'm generally too busy doing other stuff to read a lot of books, but I guess I was specifically holding out on this because I figured that with so much hype around it,
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Sunday, May 21, 2006 7:17 PM

Digital Media Library of Babel

Not too long ago I read an intriguing short story by the Argentinean author Jorge Luis Borges called The Library of Babel (at least that’s the title of the English translation). The story tells of a honeycomb-shaped library filled with books that each
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:30 PM

Fine Dining != Big Slabs of Meat

Last night I went out to dinner at the Metropolitan Grill. Several people I know have named the Metropolitan as the best restaurant in Seattle, and several others have named very similar restaurants as their personal favorites. And I must say that the
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