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Foxtel on Xbox 360 vs Multiroom

Last week I made a post about my Impressions of the Foxtel on Xbox 360 service. As I mentioned, I was uncertain if the service was chargeable for existing Xbox 360 customers as press articles indicated that the service is free but I couldn’t find anything on the Foxtel site to support this. For example, from this article: Existing Foxtel

Impressions of the Foxtel on Xbox 360 service

In late 2010, Foxtel launched their Foxtel on Xbox 360 service with approximately 40 live channels from the Foxtel service. I initially didn’t take a second look at this service as I already have three Foxtel units in my house: I do however have a TV in my home office that currently only has access to free to air (FTA)

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Mirroring the Brisbane City Council web site

This post references UberGlobal. As of June 2011 I am no longer employed by UberGlobal. The floods in Queensland and Brisbane over the past few weeks have shocked and saddened us all. I would think that many, if not all Australians if not affected themselves would know somebody who is. While I’m based in Canberra, I still have family and

Samsung BD-C6900 DVD Region Free

This article describes the steps involving in making the Samsung BD-C6900 DVD player region free.

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A stay at the Limes Hotel

My previous hotel trip report A stay at the InterContinental Wellington has started a bit of a trend that will continue with my next trip report titled “A stay at the Limes Hotel”. This trip report covers my stay between Friday the 22nd of October through to Sunday the 24th of October 2010. I usually stay in the Brisbane CBD

Glass Elevator at 30 The Bond

Going down in the glass elevator at 30 The Bond in Sydney.

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A stay at the InterContinental Wellington

I recently posted some details on the InterContinental Wellington in my recent article titled My first InterContinental experience. Since then I decided to post a more detailed review of my stay that took place between Friday November 26th and Monday November 29th 2010. My trip to Wellington was planned quite a few months ago, but I wasn’t sure which hotel

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Travelling with an iPad

Frequent travellers would be familiar with the frustration of being required to remove your laptop from your bag for separate screening through airport security checkpoints. This is only made worse in some countries such as the United States where you must also remove other items such as toiletries, and your shoes. Fortunately the iPad is not classified as a laptop

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My first InterContinental experience

Those of you who know my standard travel procedures know that I usually stay in the Starwood brand of hotels (Westin, Sheraton, etc). I have easily been able to keep Gold Preferred status in the Starwood Preferred Guest program for the past 3 years by directing my stays to Starwood group hotels. However, I have found it difficult to move

Photo galleries restored

I have finally restored the photo galleries after redoing the site design. I’ll also start adding some more images to the galleries from my collection over time.

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