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A friend of mine in Phoenix, Arizona asked me to send her some vegemite. I won't name her, for anonymity is important. Let's just call her 'Teh Mandeh'. So I did. When Teh Mandeh received it, she tasted it for the first time on webcam, so I could watch. All I can say is...oops, did I forget to tell you that you should have it ...

You may recall a post of mine recently about a peice of graffiti where one of the people had two heads. Late last week I was wondering back from a lunch date (not that sort of date) and found (quite by accident) another one of them. That's two. The second is about 200 metres away from the first as the crow flies, but there's a road and a car ...

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 ...

Today's been pretty wierd. I share an office with one other person, so we're chatting to each other all the time. Often it's work related chatter. And I'm sure that today is no exception. The thing is that besides all that, I was thinking over some of the topics we've talked about today (and many of them resulted in internet research). It's a ...

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. Interestingly, the remote control I got, since it's only a keyboard as far as the PC is ...

I don't mean explain the whole concept of graffiti. I know what it is. Hell, I'm sure I've even done some myself - on my desk at school if no where else (and I'm pretty sure it's nowhere else, now I think about it). Some is stupid, some is rude, some of it is some pretty decent artwork. There's one near where I work that captured my interest. ...

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 ...

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 ...

No, this isn't a security port - at least, not security in the way that Rocky would talk about it :) Last night Jordie and I had to go a meeting at Issy's school. On the way home from picking her up (before we went to the meeting) she asked who'd be babysitting her. Here's the script: Issy: Who's going to be looking after me?Me: Alex is coming ...

It happened so long ago that I don't even remember why I did it, but I've just been informed that I've been listed on 25peeps.com. You know, now that I think about it, it's pretty dumb idea. Maybe it's fine for normal blogs, but for tech blogs? I don't know what I was thinking - more than likely it was really late at night and I was tired :) But ...