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March 15, 2006

Briefly: Office update, fseventer, US Visas.

So MacBU went and released another update for Office 2004 - bringing us to 11.2.3. Why should you care about this update? Just like 11.2 most of the love is heading towards Entourage (which I'm totally cool with by the...

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January 27, 2005

Forever

It's been quite some time since my last proper entry. A week or two perhaps. Working 7 days a week (~ 58hours) tends to somewhat eliminate any time you might have in which to be creative. Don't think this is...

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June 03, 2004

Things and what not

I need approx $1,000 to buy these speakers. To go with that I will probably need more money to buy a 40gb iPod to then hold my music in lossless format. I will probably also need a new PowerBook/new harddrive...

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May 25, 2004

Reflection?

It's now well and truly no longer my Birthday, but then it didn't start till 11:59am (when I woke up yesterday), so I reckon I should have another 7 hours. Although I shall probably sleep a large chunk of those....

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May 22, 2004

Photo 100

I just posted Photo #100 on Decade. Wow, 100!...

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April 27, 2004

Recently

Erm, I was sick, so didn't work on Friday night. I also didn't get to visit CityLink and go "oooh" at toys. I did work on Saturday night. I watched Love Actually and Matchstick Men on Sunday night, both good...

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April 18, 2004

Another catch up

I remember back when I started my LiveJournal, I tried to make a minimum of an entry per day. Since I started, I've made 842 posts. Heh. Anyway, the last week... nothing notable since Tuesday's catch up post. On Wednesday...

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March 22, 2004

Me

Well apparently I'm still alive, despite seeing the hour 2am-3am twice. Now that's traumatic. Especially if you are working when you see this hour. I have however finally got around to putting a photo of myself into decade, on the...

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March 18, 2004

Life in General

Wow, I posted last night. In between then and and now I've been to an Interface Meeting, had a DoubleLust, and of course the meeting ended up in a close up down in CO(something)/memphis. My iBook discovered the joys of...

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March 12, 2004

Decade

I've now pointed all of decade to it's now home at decade.geek.nz. CSS revised slightly, makes the archive/about pages more like, well, pages, and not just forgot about parts, same goes to the admin system. But then that makes no...

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March 05, 2004

Things

Decade got it's first face lift. A vote against Bush is a vote for Hitler (well, "like a vote for Hitler") according to the Democrats. (Wonder if I could get away with saying a vote for Brash is a vote...

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February 29, 2004

Hide me

Good morning world, In the past 48 hours many mysterious wonderful things have happened to me. * (*: Slight exaggeration. In reality nothing of the sort.) I did however work, which was work, except quieter and with no internet. Oh...

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February 28, 2004

Political, almost

Your opinion of Tangi Leave - Take this quiz, then read this entry. As it happens the bill makes no mention of 'tangi' leave, nor does it provide any special rights to Maori, or bestow any special obligations on employers...

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February 26, 2004

Surving

Tuesday was a day, a day it was. I remember parts of it, not large chunks however. I believe I might have designed the front page for Nebulous Group, but didn't get very far. I got to sleep at 1,...

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February 09, 2004

Foo and Sleep

Well my bank accounts are both depressing, but my wallet is happy, so I am too. It's 8am, and I haven't slept since sometime yesterday. I might go and have a nap soon, but I want to sleep normally tomorrow,...

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February 01, 2004

Harry Potter

I finished reading book five yesterday (Order of the Phoenix, if I remember correctly) - wow, what a book. I laughed, I hated, I spent hours reading instead of sleeping. (Well, the last part is certainly true.) Now, the question...

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January 22, 2004

Mooving right along

I've not much to say, except pixar are the bestest. I must purchase: Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Bugs Life. Must. I'm still iBook-less. I should email AppleNZ. Experiments 1 gallery is up. A selection of five photos. I...

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January 15, 2004

Graphite

It has just occurred to me, in a way that things do, that I've been using the Graphite 'look & feel' under OSX for about as long as I can remember (which isn't very long, I swear I'm losing my...

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January 05, 2004

Tui

Hello all! This is the post drinking post that I promised amphibious_one earlier. Unfortunately it's not nearly as funny as she or you might have hoped. Yep. That's all. Sorry to dissapoint....

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January 03, 2004

To be 5 again

Well good morning internet reader, how are you today? You know here we have a nice atmosphere of darkness, with a light splattering of flueresent warmth, or should I say cooling. Something like that anyway. I would quite like it...

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January 01, 2004

Happy New Year

:)...

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December 29, 2003

4th Day of Christmas

Well, I'm alive. At least in theory. Wondering about the last four days? You know I am. Boxing day was the usual shop and buy stuff day - brought my total to 4 new DVDs. Got given Buena Vista Social...

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December 25, 2003

Merry Christmas

Well I've made it through another Christmas. I'm not 100% sure how :) Did the open present thing, got plenty of stuff that I like (mmm sugar), I can use (clothes), I can read (books), I can listen to (CDs,...

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December 24, 2003

Turning Tree

Well, it's early morning, but what to do but post? On the recent security vulnerability on Mac OS X/dhcp/LDAP/evil, this article, and the ensuing comments I think make it all seem a lot less dangerous than it has been made...

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December 21, 2003

Hawera

Well Hi everybody... Here I am lying on a bed in a motel in little old Hawera. Yep, you heard right, Hawera. You might wonder why on earth I would be in Hawera, and the answer I shall give you...

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December 15, 2003

Look buddy

I'm about to head to bed land, but before I do I shall post an entry. I didn't use CafeNet this weekend. I feel a little, well, unusing. Then again, my iBook didn't even leave the house all weekend. I...

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December 01, 2003

Sounds

Life in the city can make you crazy Today I visited the medieval fair, which wasn't quite as bad as it might of been, but perhaps was also not quite as good as it could be in the future. I...

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November 29, 2003

Rent Day

We are down a flatmate, so rent goes up a little, but that's ok, and it's life. I thought it was time for a new screenshot (as you can see a part of below). I shopped and chose Effervescent Lime...

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November 26, 2003

From behind the fridge

iCalViewer - solves a problem I never knew I had! (And nicely too) Today I did bugger all. Yep. I collected more stamps from Subway, and realised I had enough to fill my card anyway, so could've had a free...

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November 23, 2003

MOTD, Auckland,

Well, I'm in Auckland, alive, and living on 46k internet. It is rather a lot slower than 256k, but I may live. I rewrote ihug's motd script in PHP, as I'm not a fan of perl, and I wanted to...

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November 21, 2003

Foo

Todays software is PodWorks. Useful, in a 'lets me play my iPod's music on other macs despite the fact I have it set to auto-manage in iTunes' kind of way. I just downloaded and install Xcode 1.0 so I can...

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November 20, 2003

New and unimproved

Macromedia Central is looking interesting. Flash is still, well, Flash, but still. The blog reader is quite impressive, it does what LJ-friends page does, but in an application. Cisco Network Admission Control also looks interesting - but what about OS'...

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November 16, 2003

Number 9 Number 9

My stomach feels like it has a large lump of lead in it, that is pushing against the front part of my person. It is quite annoying and uncomfortable. Hopefully it goes away over night, though it didn't through sleep...

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November 14, 2003

8

She hangs her head and cries on my shirt She must be heart very badly Tell me what's making you sadly Open your door don't hide in the dark You're lost in the dark you can trust me 'cause you...

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November 07, 2003

Floopenogen

Hmm. Today I bought a cordless drill, as it was only $29. And then I drilled with it. It was much fun. I also had lunch in town w/ Jake. I enjoy food. But Red Dwarf is also good. And...

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Holy comment spam batman!

I just opened up my LJ page to see that the new stylesheet I just landed worked ok. Imagine my surprise when my last entry had 6 comments, and I'd seen none. I thought "hmm, this is odd, why no...

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November 06, 2003

Before I sleep I...

I should charge my cell tonight, it looks like it may be flat by tomorrow evening. And my plan refreshes tomorrow. I used a lot of GPRS I believe. ...the dreaming tree has died... $8.50 of unbilled calls this month....

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November 05, 2003

On

I decided today could be an audio post. It is available in mp3 format, is 1.3mb and shouldn't cause you any harm. Clean audio fun. I promise....

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October 22, 2003

Fishy fish

I forgot that I set my mouse so that clicking and scrolling allowed me to go forward and back without my moving my hand from the mouse. Interesting. Completely forgot I did it. Oh well. Office 2003 is quite nice...

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October 21, 2003

ze

I finished book four at 3:33 am, and crazily, just before the cd looped. Now I want book five, but it's till in hard back! Those bleeps! Hmm, now I'm tired though, so maybe I should sleep again....

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October 19, 2003

No more sad songs

Um. Today. Got home at 7.30ish. Slept until 11.30ish. Went out in the sun with Jake/Sean/Fung/me. Played sporty type things. 'twas summery. Played more with iTunes for Windows. It now controls 4,349 songs, totallying 12.4days playtime, consuming 33.71GB of my...

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October 14, 2003

Design and so on

Hmm. I will endeavor to post more with interesting stories. I will. It's possible. It could happen. I was working tonight on the new Nebulous site. Should really do assignments first, but bah. I also designed a business card. Mmm...

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October 10, 2003

It's a genuine weather vain, moves with the breeze

I went shopping today, and was joined before I departed the flat by href="http://www.livejournal.com/~damok/">Damo-K. We voyaged in to town, opting for the Fairlie terrace through the buildings down past the bench, through the wall, descend into the wooden car park,...

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October 09, 2003

Exempt Cheque Duty

Today was fun, today was good, today tasted like sunny days should. I love sun, the warmth that seems to penetrate through layers more than any other heat is able to do. The crisp morning air that can wake me...

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October 07, 2003

It's all sutff and nonsense

Hmm. I got nothing productive done today, but I was entertained none the less. Now, just 12 1/2 hours after getting out of bed, I'm about to head back there. Maybe I'll be more productive tomorrow. I doubt it though....

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September 13, 2003

"Why? It's the army"

Hmm. I started off LiveJournal making a post each day, no matter how meaningless the day's activities had been. Now I just don't feel like anything has the value required to make putting something up worth the effort. However, to...

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September 06, 2003

troublesome

I making my approximately one billionth post for today. It's weird how change is necessary yet causes such great discomfort. It was weird sitting here today, and seeing myself going through the same end of one thing beginning of another...

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August 31, 2003

Use it only for me

Howdy everybody Hmm today I went out for lunch, went to the gym, and went out for dinner, and discovered I have plans for: Monday evening, tuesday midday-evening, wednesday, thursday. Gah! Where did my week go? Mum realised my iBook...

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August 02, 2003

Eat and be

I did hand in my assignment, I went to my tutorial, I met Jake for lunch, I dropped ACCY111, I fixed some problems over at VUWSA, and I converted a whole lot of class rep data over into the database....

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July 24, 2003

Chess

I went into town with Sean today, intending to pay bills (which I did), and return dvds (which I also did). I also bought a tv cabinet / trolley, which after the trip to town I assembled and am now...

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July 04, 2003

My hair is soft

I made pancakes today and they were super tasty, and I got Damo-K over to help consume them (because there is no way I could've otherwise), but he left is Maple Syrup on the table, so I should go rescue...

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July 02, 2003

Non stupidty!

I bought myself a tv today. It's the (currently on special) Digitor 21" (known at dse as the G5170). Intriguing thing: it has RCA in (left at the front and on the rear, only one 'channel' but when you plug...

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July 01, 2003

Stupid.

The 'mains' button on tv died. It just refuses to stay in. Luckily my video card's video in feature has allowed me to watch tv all evening, so I'm moderately happy. I just have to decide wether to buy a...

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June 16, 2003

You bought me with you stories,

Musing... Once I woke up every morning, knowing the world I would face was the same as the one I went to sleep upon the night before. Change is enevitable, and while I may not like to accept it is...

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June 08, 2003

On

I had a great end to my day. I don't think I could have asked for any better. I think I might be coming off that high now, but shrug, it was all good. So I, your fabulous host, woke...

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May 17, 2003

If changing an Action Officer for a CONFIRM Enquiry,

I just spoke to mum. On my cell. In a building that is like solid concrete walls and in which I usually have trouble getting enough signal to say, do something simple, like be on the network... well, it was...

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May 10, 2003

So I was not the one you wanted

Hi there, Welcome to another exciting installment in the life of me, your host, pftqg. I will try and take you a whirlwind adventure, and deposit you at the end of the ride, hopefully with a feeling of fulfillment at...

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May 04, 2003

Apprarantly

depot: [~] % who quinngpatr pts/8 May 4 01:27 (thewall.pftqg.com) robinsdavi1 pts/12 May 2 12:29 (barretts.mcs.vuw.ac.nz) alex pts/13 Apr 6 14:01 (fridge.mcs.vuw.ac.nz) mark pts/15 Apr 25 16:14 (city-art.mcs.vuw.ac.nz) depot: [~] % Now, pray internet users, who has the coolest hostline?...

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April 26, 2003

Snarfle Zort!

shep_sheapley can make really really scary disturbing noises sometimes. I was like "ARRR!", and then said "Good morning", and she ran off screaming. Well, ok, just went back into the dining area, but meh. Stupid dry skin can go to...

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March 18, 2003

Today, the price

Today has been quite a decent one. I sucessfuly used up most of my non-class time (which was basically all but about an hour of the day). The people mentioned in previous post, for benefit of b2 readers (as someohow...

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From the land of mystical elves

I'm at school, and supposed to be at a combined ELCM/DESN lecture on website usability today. Except that would mean going all the way down to Vivian St, and back again, so I decided t just skip it. And all...

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