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As I glossed over on my last post, I've been reinstalling my media center pc. So far I've: Formatted C Drive Installed Vista Installed the motherboard, audio, video, tv card, and bluetooth drivers. And that's enough for tonight. I'se tired and sleepy.
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Well, not that much really. Work is flat out, but fun, so I'm happy :) In the off hours, I've mostly been running my net connection downloading tv shows. Last month (12th December-11th Jan) my 40 gig download limit was used up 5 days before the end, so
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My sister sent me a link to this site last week. It's a riddle site. They're really hard. I love em. I'm currently on level 56, which means I've almost finished all the ones that are there so far. Now I can't sleep. Gah! Die Deb, die! :)
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Its amazing the way language evolves. In the IT world especially, new words spring up all the time - often spawning a complete grammar to go along with it. For example, we create a new product - let's call it Spanky. Once people are familiar with Spanky,
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Update: If you're looking at this post through my blog rather through a blog reader, you might have noticed that you're only seeing the left hand side of this comic. Sorry about that - I keep forgetting that the skin for my blog is fixed width, and anything
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I made a discovery today. It's probably not big news, and everyone but me probably knew it already, but it was news to me. Athena, Canberra's fantastic user group leader, has a blog . Anyway, in the course of browsing around her stuff, I stumbled across
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For the last few weeks I've been missing something that's quite important to me. My memory stick. The last time I can remember seeing it was when I was packing for TechEd - I'm pretty sure I decided to bring it, just in case. It ended up that I didn't
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I'm spending the day sitting on the back verandah again while I'm working. I have to say - this is really a nice way to spend the day. It's warm (but not hey yet, although once the afternoon kicks in and the sun moves aroudn to shine on me it might be
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I think my life is complete now. For the first time ever, I've got more than one computer running at home. Instead of going around to a friends place tonight like we normally do, we decided to have a quiet night in - especially good now that the inlaws
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Well this is a new experience for me. I'm sitting in Sydney Airport waiting for my flight home from TechEd. I've been here about three and a half hours already, and there's still almost an hour until takeoff. Luckily, Mitch has been stuck on the same
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The whole world knows by now that Beta 2 of Office 2007 is out and available to the whole world. So I'm not going to announce it, since you already know. But I did want to post this picture. I imagine that the server load on the download site is pretty
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Register Now for Innovation 2006 , the technical training event for Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office “12”. It’s a day of in-depth training with dedicated tracks for IT managers and developers. Discover how Windows Vista and Office “12” simplify
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My mother sent me this joke tonight. Sadly, before I got to the end, I'd already had the same thought to myself as what the punchline is. Two IT guys were talking in a bar after work. "Guess what," says the first IT guy, "yesterday, I met this gorgeous
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On Tuesday Frank blogged about getting a new toy from Andy . My quest for MS Toys is starting to become pretty well known - as well as giving one to Frank, he also sent one over to me. Andrew - thanks so much! It's a bobble-head figure of Eric Rudder
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