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As anyone who knows me knows, I've got two gorgeous children. It's time now to show you the new additions to my family. They're nowhere near as cute, but they're family, so you have to love them. Last night I was at the doctors checking up on a problem with my wrist, and I mentioned that I'll be going overseas soon. Not long after that, I got ...

Sad now :( I'll miss you.

For a while now i've been using an iMate JAMin as my phone/pda. It was pretty good, cept for the lack of buttons. It was all touchscreen. I upgraded a few weeks ago. I wanted something that was pretty much the same, but i wanted to be able to type, not just tap. Enter the iMate Ultimate 9502. So far it's going pretty well. There's issues, but ...

XKCD is a comic that I really like. Just read it, it's great.  Anyway, this one in particular stands out to me as oh so true. (Note: yes, wetriffs.com does exist now :)  In the last 12 hours, it's been proved to me twice. I found this about 10 minutes ago (actual url hidden to protect the guilty - and I know this ...

Late last year (ish) myself and Kari, a friend of mine, were killing time, and we ended up maing up a story. It's certainly not serious or anything like that (quite the opposite even), but it was fun. It all happened in an IM window, and I believe it started something like this: Me: I'm bored.Kari: So?Me: Tell me a story.Kari: No, you tell me ...

    Public Sub Start()         Dim t As New TimeSpan(SomeLargeNumber(), 0, 0, 0)         MsgBox(''I'm trying to start blogging again'')         Thread.Sleep(t)         Start()     End ...

A friend of mine, Tony, from my old job at Telstra, did up a comic last week. I think he was trying to make some sort of point at work :) So anyway, I promised to blog it when I had the chance. And here it is. Click to see it full size. I love it - looking forward to Episode 2!

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 I got throttled to slower than modem speeds for 5 days :) This month (12 Jan - 11th Feb) I ...

Things have been flaky on CrankyGoblin for a while. Some of it has been my fault (dodgy code uploaded to the server :) but a lot had also been flakiness on the part of my provider. I really like having my own web server. I can upload whatever I want (within legal reasons), share whatever I want (ditto), host my blog, tinker with my blog (CS high ...

I'm a little behind the 8 ball with this (hah! 8, get it? You will...) but a couple of weeks ago Project 8 (see?) came out! I picked it up on the weekend. I got some late nights coming up soon, me think :)