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Going to Brisbane

Most people need a break from work every now and then, and I’m no exception. So, I’m booked on Qantas flight 550 to Brisbane leaving at 7:35pm tonight. I’ll spend a few days with my mum and sister before returning on Sunday evening. In my opinion, the evening is the best time of the day to fly. Sunsets are absolutely

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Xbox – Power cable recall update

Last week I posted about the Xbox Power Cable Recall and how my device was affected. Microsoft are certainly efficient at getting out the replacement power cables. I ordered my replacement cable on Friday morning and received it a short time ago.

Operation Switch

For a few months now, I’ve been contemplating buying an Apple Macintosh as a change to the Windows environment I’m used to. The recent release of the Mac Mini (or Mini Mac as I’ve been calling it) has made my decision even more difficult. This morning I made a decision – I’m switching. It’ll probably take me a few weeks

Operation Switch – Update

The Mac Mini has been advertised as BYODKM – Bring Your Own Display, Keyboard and Mouse. As I have been using laptops for quite a few years, I don’t have a decent display. A short time ago I arrived home (which is also my office) with a shiny new Philips 17″ LCD. I’m sure that it will go nicely with

Your Apple Store Order

I’ve just ordered an Apple Keyboard and Mouse from the Apple Store so that everything will be ready for the arrival of the Mini. Estimated build time is 2-3 days, and I should receive them soon after that.

Movie – Mambo Italiano

I received Mambo Italiano from Homescreen last week and decided to watch it today. As I didn’t know anything about the movie’s plot, I didn’t have any expectations – good or bad. I was pleasantly surprised by what I encountered. Mambo Italiano is a comedy/drama on gay relationships in an Italian family. When Angelo Paventi (Luke Kirby) reunites with estranged

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Xbox – Power cable recall

According to an article on Australian IT, Microsoft is recalling over 14 million Xbox power cables after reports that faulty cables had caused burns and fire damage. The fault affects all units made for Europe before January 13, 2004, and units made for the rest of the world before October 23, 2003. Xbox owners can check if their unit is

fwdOUT – Feasible or not?

Free World Dialup ceased operation in 2008. This post is still online for historical purposes. Over the past few days, I’ve been pondering over fwdOUT, a service conceived by Jeff Pulver. fwdOUT is basically a non-commercial peer-to-peer telephone network that allows its users to make calls through another user’s connection to the PSTN (public switched telephone network). In return, you’re

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This site is no longer using DominoBlog. This post is for historical reasons only. I have been contemplating starting up my journal/blog again for quite some time now, but haven’t been certain what software to use. My previous journal used some custom software that I had written in PHP. It was lacking in some areas, particular archives and I never

Journal is back

Those of you who either know me, or have visited this site in the past may be aware that I had an online journal from mid-2002 until mid-2003. Nearly 2 years later, the journal is now back online. I’m not going to move the old content over, but whenever the opportunity arises I’ll be posting the latest happenings in my

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