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October 17, 2006

PQPhotos

In a fit of "let's register another domain"itis the other day I registered pqphotos.com. I've had (over the years) a few different photo galleries on my site. Most recently I couldn't be bothered making gallery work so I just told...

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September 30, 2006

Aperture 1.5

So Aperture 1.5 has finally landed in Software Update (and on the Aperture website). First things first: it's a healthy update: 125MB. That's bigger than than the original application (which was only ~30MB, not including sample content). However I'm sure...

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September 30, 2006 10:08 AM. Filed in .

Mac OS X 10.4.8 Released

New things that aren't really mentioned anywhere, relating to mouse/trackpad preferences: You can now control "whole screen zooming" from the mouse and trackpad. My 15" MacBook Pro now offers "Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click"...

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September 25, 2006

Parallels Desktop and Windows Vista RC1

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but while Parallels announced support for Vista RC1 (build 5600) for the Workstation product (runs on windows and linux), but a build that appeared on their website on Friday of Desktop (the mac version),...

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September 25, 2006 03:06 PM. Filed in .

September 14, 2006

Nokia 6126 and iSync

This entry has been updated for Mac OS X 10.4.9. The new entry Nokia 6126 and iSync, revisited is on the current Soapbox The remainder is an archived version of the original instructions - applicable still, I believe, to...

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September 14, 2006 05:09 PM. Filed in .

September 10, 2006

Moving to a MacBook Pro

If you're thinking about whether you should get a fast laptop, or a slower laptop and fast desktop, you're crazy. Just get the fast laptop (and the cheapest desktop for connecting to your array of hard drives). Seriously. Desktops suck....

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August 25, 2006

Apple Recalls Lots of Batteries Too

Important Info: Batteries from the 12" iBook G4, 12" PowerBook G4 and 15" PowerBook G4 are affected. Models/Ranges: 12" iBook G4 battery, battery model A1061, battery serial number between ZZ338-ZZ427, 3K429-3K611 or 6C510-6C626 12" PowerBook G4, battery model A10179, battery...

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August 25, 2006 08:37 AM. Filed in .

August 08, 2006

WWDC brings Mac Pro

To the surprise of probably nobody the WWDC keynote revealed some new gear: Mac Pro, using the Xeon "woodcrest" processors. Surprise surprise. One base config though... but all dual processor, dual core. Nice. Xserve, same. (The Xserve now has graphics...

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August 01, 2006

Dang, it's nearly August

As usual my life is mostly taken up with work. Which always makes me feel less like working on code at home, despite (as usual) having started a number of projects off. At least I've got everything in subversion now,...

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July 08, 2006

Dang, it's July

I'm kind of tired of working out the number of days I've been here. Suffice to say it's been more than two months. Wowzer. You'd think I'd have done it all by now, nothing left to see and all that...

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June 17, 2006

Day 56

The adventure continues, having now been in Canada for 8 weeks. Has it really been that long since I last got to listen to my favourite speakers in the entire world? Having been here a while it feels like home....

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June 06, 2006

Day 46

Wow. Where does the time go? It seems that a good two weeks has passed since I last put fingers to keys and tapped out a tale of my adventure in the northern hemisphere. How about I catch you up...

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May 22, 2006

Day 31

So it's been a little while since I posted with an update with regards to the ongoing adventure I'm finding myself on in this foreign land. I've been here 4 weeks. Holy cow. This also means I haven't actually been...

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May 17, 2006

The MacBook is here

Ok, so Apple went and released the MacBook. Much like the rumours it is indeed a 13.3" widescreen, which is fine. It runs at 1280x800, also fine. Has either a 1.83GHz Core Duo or a 2GHz model, nice. Available in...

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May 08, 2006

Day 17

I'm very much against turning this here into something where I post an entry each day saying "I'm alive", which has the unfortunate consequence that for very many days you just don't see anything posted. I've seen a number of...

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April 28, 2006

Day 7

I set myself a rule upon arrival that I must do at least one thing each day. I find I need to set myself rules like that one, because otherwise it becomes really easy to just sit chatting to people...

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April 27, 2006

Day 5+6

Well, hi again. Curious traveller Patrick reporting in from foreign soil. Monday saw an offer of a job interview, and also details for seeing a place to stay (on Tuesday, but we'll get to that shortly). I did manage to...

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April 25, 2006

Day 3+4

I was doing so well there for a couple of days, but now, just when you thought I'd given up again... I'm back! Hah! Take that internet. Well, I can't honestly recall much of Saturday. I rode my first bus,...

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April 25, 2006 09:36 AM. Filed in .

April 22, 2006

Day 2: Actually Here

Well, if yesterday's post seemed a little... down, well, it reflected my views on the world I found myself in at that very time. I was tired and felt very alone. I don't know what stopped me from getting back...

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April 21, 2006

Arrival in Vancouver

Well I've made it here - at least in the sense that me, my bags, my jacket are all here. I've got my visa, without a great deal of whooha, except for huge waits at the airport. Plus I've checked...

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San Francisco

It seems that despite not really realising I was heading off overseas I have done it. Well, insofar as that I've made it to San Francisco (oh god, 12 hour flights are eeevil), and have realised with somewhat more of...

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April 19, 2006

Excitement... kind of.

Sunday night I saw The Rolling Stones, live, in concert, with my very own eyes. When they shifted the stage out in the crowd, we were just 4 rows away. Wowser. They might look old (oh boy do they, at...

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April 10, 2006

Back to Auckland

Down to 10 days until departure, you'd think it would have dawned on me that I'm leaving by now, but to be honest it still hasn't. That sense of urgency you'd expect? Not there yet. Today was "convince the Americans...

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March 27, 2006

Celebrate Good Times (come on)

So obviously you're aware that I'm leaving. You might even have realised that I'm leaving in the very near future. In recognition of this I have decided to facilitate a celebration of my departure. In other words a "I'm leaving...

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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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March 15, 2006 01:58 PM. Filed in .

March 11, 2006

Six Weeks and Counting

So, you've heard me talking about going to Canada. I've been talking about it for nearly two years now, and I wouldn't be surprised if you had reached the conclusion that I'd given up or forgotten about it. More likely...

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February 27, 2006

Soapbox v5 beatnik ed.

Yep. It's that time again, it's a new design for soapbox. This time it's bringing it into line with the introducing patrick site. Where's the inspiration? Well, the reflective image comes from toying around in iWeb. The way articles are...

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February 13, 2006

Upgrades and Podcasts

Just a quick update today. I redid Introducing Patrick, my "about me" site. All of the photos come from recent walks around Lyall Bay and the surrounding suburbs. I also made a "podcast" of sorts, at Puffy P Productions, just...

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February 05, 2006

Nothing is more persistent than a police dog

So, you haven't heard from me in a while and you're wondering if I still exist and if so what I'm doing. Heck, even if you weren't wondering that I'm going to fill you in anyway because I'm in the...

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January 29, 2006

Garage Sale

Hi there. With the impending move overseas, I have some gear I need to get rid of. Right now I have: Compaq Pentium II 266, 48MB of ram, 6GB disk, 1x intel pro 100Mbps network card, 1x cheap realtek network...

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January 19, 2006

DOM Flickr Badge

Take one Patrick. Add in a dash of a question. Throw in a large splash of feeling like doing something. It slices, it dices, it inserts your (or someone elses) latest flickr photos into your page using absolutely no document.write()...

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January 10, 2006

New Mac Gear

So, Apple announced their new Intel based offerings. We've got two new iMacs, one 1.83GHz the other 2GHz powered by Intel Core Duo (hence being dubbed iMac Core Duo on stage). The Mac Book Pro, a 15.4" PowerBook replacement with...

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January 10, 2006 07:14 PM. Filed in .

January 01, 2006

Copy Protection on Audio CDs

It's not often I post commentary on things I don't know much about, but give me this one opportunity. Thanks. I have very few rules in my life. They include the basics like "don't steal candy from a baby if...

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December 29, 2005

Broadband in New Zealand

This is an update to an entry I posted in March 2004, as a public service mainly (as that page seems to be picking up a fair amount of Google traffic at the moment). If you are confused about broadband...

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December 28, 2005

My Favourite Photographers

I found myself sitting on the couch this afternoon. This is not, in and of itself, unusual. I can often be found sitting on a couch. Except when I'm at work where despite my repeated explanations of why a couch...

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December 20, 2005

Summarising 2005

:: What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before? Visited the US, went to WWDC, had a holiday by myself, got a full time salaried job. :: Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you...

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December 02, 2005

#wellylug

[11:16pm] patrick: "It's only pathetic if you talk to the toasters and they ignore you." [11:19pm] patrick: my toaster talks back. it says things like "kill all the kettles. you don't need a kettle. I'm all you need." [11:19pm] patrick:...

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November 27, 2005

Christmas Time

Soapbox should now be coming to you live from Lyra, my "new" US server (a dedicated box at ServerPronto, running ubuntu). MovableType runs a hell of a lot faster on this box than the existing UML partition that everything else...

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November 27, 2005 05:20 PM. Filed in .

October 19, 2005

Weblog Usability

Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes: how many can you violate today? My take is: I have a bio (+), in fact I have a site dedicated to it: introducing Patrick No photo on the bio (-), but there...

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October 06, 2005

Changes

Hi there. You might remember me from such blogs as this one, that one over there, or even real life. I've been meaning to post this for the last few days, but had some other things to clear up first....

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September 12, 2005

Software, some new, some improved

Right, so there's some new power behind soapbox.co.nz that nobody will notice unless I point it out, because that's how smoothly it's all gone. Firstly, MovableType 3.2. This upgrade actually involved an upgrade script, so after a database backup &...

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September 09, 2005

MagnumMac

As at 3pm, Wednesday 21st September I have not heard back from the Magnum Mac manger to whom I offered to temporarily remove this post. So it's comin back up. If you've already read this, please read the notes at...

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August 27, 2005

Soapbox v3

Earlier this week, with little fanfare, and no new post to bring it to anybody's attention, I launched a new design for soapbox.co.nz, Soapbox v3.0. A change in the way the page is laid out, making the flickr images a...

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August 14, 2005

Windows Vista, not for me

It's been out for a while now, but I thought it was about time I threw in some comments about Microsoft Windows Vista. Beta 1, at least. If you've known me for anything longer than half a minute, or at...

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July 30, 2005

Introducing m.ac.nz/a

I registered m.ac.nz a couple of weeks ago, had nothing to do with it so thought "I'll use it for experiments. So, here's the first. Experiment A. It's a slideshow of my photos with the tag favourite (though I can...

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July 16, 2005

Hone

I'm sure everybody remembers their first pet. This is not that story, she had an unfortunate accident while she was still a kitten. Mum and I stopped at a friends house on the way home to pick up a kitten...

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July 10, 2005

July, by any other name

I've gotten back in to the normal routine of sleeping, working, repeat above until weekend, relaxing quite quickly. I've been back for 3 weeks, and really, I'd like to know where that time has gone. The first two weeks back...

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June 19, 2005

Day 13

About 4 hours in to the flight now, so dinner has been served, the first movie has played, the lights have been dimmed. Now is the time when they play a "movie" that you occasionally open your eyes to and...

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June 18, 2005

Day 12

My time in the USA has come to an end, I write this while sitting in the lounge of gate G96, awaiting a boarding call (in about half an hour hopefully) to board flight NZ7 back to Auckland. It's kind...

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June 17, 2005

Day 11

This has been a great holiday for me... I think back in High School was the last time two weeks off "work" had this much meaning. I'm beginning to understand more and more why people value their holiday so much....

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June 15, 2005

Day 8

I went on a tour of Yosemite (included the Great Sequoias). Small group in a van, led by out tour guide Mark. Started at 6am (Early morning taxi), took multiple hours (past windfarms) to get everybody and get to the...

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June 13, 2005

Day 7

Today I thought about going to China Town (by way of the cable car) but the lines were horrible. So I thought I'd give my feet a rest and came down to Metreon (which is kind of like a mall,...

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June 13, 2005 07:08 PM. Filed in .

June 12, 2005

Post WWDC

Right, so WWDC is now over. Wow. There are a couple of things that really prevented me from blogging during the week about what was going on. I'll throw the first one out there right now: the NDA. Not that...

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June 06, 2005

I'm Here

Well, I arrived. 13 Hours of flying, 3 hours of sitting around in air ports, and some how not sleeping at all. So I'm tired. I have however found my lodgings, an Apple store where I purchased cygnet (a PowerBook...

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June 05, 2005

Life Udpate

Once upon a time I was good at updating this thing every day. However, in an effort to keep you all from unsubscribing I shall update now. The last month has just flown past, tomorrow afternoon I head off to...

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May 26, 2005

Birthday Event

Not being one who partakes in "parties" particularly often, I'm not entirely sure how this works. People (assuming they are not coming to kill me, or demand money off me, etc) are welcome to visit The House of Patrick, anytime...

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May 21, 2005

Musical Baton

I've had it passed to me Joseph Lindsay Total volume of Music on my Computer (er, iPod) 5377 songs, 15.1 days, 41.07GB Song playing right now Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Coma Girl Last CD I bought Greg Johnson...

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May 07, 2005

Going to WWDC

I have booked flights and accommodation in San Francisco, so it seems that this poor student is going to WWDC. I've even paid for it all. I fly out of Auckland on the 5th June (at 7.20pm), and arrive in...

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May 01, 2005

WWDC

Well, it seems the nice people at Apple have decided I am worthy of a free student e-ticket for WWDC 2005. I now need to book flights and find somewhere to stay. Given that I am currently in a state...

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May 01, 2005 06:54 PM. Filed in .

Reboot Complete

Well, my site reboot is complete. There's a change of design, though not as radical as I might have liked to start with, but I just haven't had time lately, so never mind. The archive page is greatly improved, not...

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April 28, 2005

May 1st Reboot

Consider this entry the "down for reboot" splash page. I even went so far as to setup a dns record and vhost at reboot.soapbox.co.nz. But reality is I can't be bothered doing a splash page as well....

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April 28, 2005 03:23 PM. Filed in .

April 19, 2005

Mac mini

It arrived! I thought it would never happen, but of course as soon as I spent the money it did. That's alright, except for two days after it arrived the hard drive died. So Monday after it was repaired I...

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April 19, 2005 11:14 PM. Filed in . Comments (1)

Accidents

Was in my first car accident in ages today, Jake, myself and Donald were off to Johnsonville to have BoB (Baron of Beef) for lunch. We didn't get there, because Jake drove into the back of a truck. I swear...

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April 19, 2005 11:08 PM. Filed in . Comments (2)

Work and more

I haven't done a post in a while, and in fact posting has been really quite rare for the last 3 months or so. There is a really good reason for this. I've been working 58 hour weeks, which I'm...

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April 19, 2005 10:33 PM. Filed in .

April 07, 2005

Speakers

Ok. You know how sometimes you go into a store to get something fixed under warranty. Nice, simple easy process. Yeah right. I went in to Harvey Normans on Tuesday. Jake wanted car audio, they had a 50% off deal...

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April 03, 2005

In the Audience

I spent today out at Avalon Studios, being in the audience for Cash Battle. Great fun, and you get paid to sit and clap! I mean, really, the only thing better than that is getting paid to watch movies and...

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April 01, 2005

Bad Joke

What's black and white and red all over? A penguin with sunburn. [Lost, ep 14]. Ok, now we've got the bad joke out of the way, let me take you on an adventure. It is an adventure through body and...

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March 18, 2005

I'm sick

I've been off work the last two days, some fluey cold thing. Unfortunately I still have work tonight, but the last couple of days have been good. Well, in a I'm sick but at least I'm not at work...

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March 13, 2005

Post Sydney

I survived. Had lunch at Bungalow 8, drank some good wine, eat some nice cheese, absorbed some good sun, had some good conversation. I took a few photos (44 or so) on my S700i, which I will upload somewhere. Eventually....

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March 12, 2005

In Sydney

Well, I'm in Sydney (day two, fly back to NZ tomorrow). While there is a drastic lack of free wi-fi here at the hotel, and indeed a lack of free internet, there is fast internet delivered over ethernet. It's horrendously...

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February 28, 2005

Like a Rock

Well Sean left for England a whole week ago. I actually meant to post something then, but... well, time seems to escape me quite frequently. This might also explain why it's been nearly two weeks since my last proper post....

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February 15, 2005

Camera Phones

I saw today that Motorola have announced a 3MP phone, with auto focus lens no less. Good gracious. My wallet thanks Motorola for not releasing this phone until late this year. It should (in theory) be priced at about the...

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February 05, 2005

More Updates

My homepage now includes the latest 5 photos from my flickr photostream. It's just so easy to get photos on to flickr it's hard to resist the urge. Come join the party! My "movies I've seen" site is now up...

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January 06, 2005

Oh dear god, he wrote this?

I find it weird writing things down. I was never particularly good at writing in a paper journal - as bad if not worse as I am getting stuff in here. After work this morning I set out on a...

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January 03, 2005

The New Year

What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before? Started a daily photo project (decade) Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I don't make them, usually. This year...

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December 27, 2004

Post Christmas

Christmas happened. We spent lunch at the cousins (as per usual), which was good and full of tasty tasty food. It's kind of nice having Zoë and Ruby there now too. Here's a few of my christmas day photos as...

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December 24, 2004

Merry Christmas

Hi everybody, This is my (somewhat belated) customary Christmas Message. Today is Christmas Eve, which happens to be a Friday, and when these two powers combine everybody is shopping for last minute gifts. I have just finished wrapping mine....

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December 23, 2004

In Auckland

I made it to Auckland in one piece (plus luggage), thanks to Jake (driving to Walton, somewhere in the middle of nowhere that is the Waikato) and Mum (who drove down and picked me up from there). Not that Jake...

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Photographing People

You won't see many people on Decade, most of the time at least. Part of this is, I've never really got over a fear of having someone come over to me, hit me over the head and call me a...

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December 20, 2004

Fresh Install

Oh dear god. My system locked up at about 8pm this evening, and upon attempting to reboot would go no further than the "Login Window starting..." part of start up. Later on I discovered huge number of "crashreporter" messages for...

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December 18, 2004

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing....

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December 15, 2004

S700i and Things

Oh no, Christmas is but 10 days away and I haven't done anything here on the old website to celebrate. Heck, I only actually got a tree on Monday. It is however nice and fibre optic and things. Not USB...

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December 10, 2004

Introducing, er, Introducing.

I've been mucking around with a new "about me" site, I call it Introducing. The photograph is an original, taken from the Mt Vic lookout (the, er, original can be found on Decade), has some filters applied, and came out...

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December 06, 2004

Sky NZ's PVR

Tone (December 2004) has a preview of the Sky PVR. I shall give you some specs briefly. It has a 160GB hard drive (80 hours of video), dual tuners (record on one or two, plus watch something already recorded, for...

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What a weekend

Did you know it's December already? Christmas is less than 3 weeks away? This weekend I've watched 7 movies. That's in the space of 48 hours. Some of them were good (Dead Letter Office, City of God, Run Lola Run),...

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November 30, 2004

Discovering Ruby

Last night I discovered Ruby. Actually, more specifically I discovered Rails. This is perhaps the most "hey wow I can actually makes this do cool stuff really easily" I've been about a programming language in a long time. I'm having...

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My Girl 2

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Madeline

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Home Alone 4

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November 30, 2004 03:11 AM. Filed in .

Sleepless in Seattle

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November 30, 2004 03:11 AM. Filed in .

Home Alone 3

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November 30, 2004 03:11 AM. Filed in .

Home Alone 2

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November 30, 2004 03:11 AM. Filed in .

Empire Records

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November 30, 2004 03:11 AM. Filed in .

Home Alone

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November 30, 2004 03:11 AM. Filed in .

Dave

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Not Another Teen Movie

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Freaky Friday

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November 26, 2004

Facts and thoughts

I watched a couple of movies tonight, with I, Robot making me think about things. Back to that one in a moment, however. I bought a second AirPort Express today. This brings the total to 4 in our flat, one...

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November 20, 2004

On Holiday!

Having a holiday is always a good thing to do, in my opinion. It's especially good if in doing so you can manage to not go to work. Not a lot has gone on around here, although I did discover...

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November 11, 2004

Red T-Shirt

Being the wonderful readers I know you all to be, I'm sure you read my earlier extra double strength entry. I'm also quite sure you remember it was 6:30am and I was still awake. I'm sure that you are all...

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Bubble Wrapped Entry

Now, I don't know what's more disturbing: I'm awake (it's 6:30am, and I'm not at work), or that I'm only vaguely tired. Actually I'm more than vaguely tired but I can't sleep, so perhaps the world is trying to tell...

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November 08, 2004

Decade on the Move

Mainly for those who follow decade, I have now moved it to the US Server, I've switched over DNS and uploaded new photos there. As soon as you see the new photos appear (Oct 31 - Nov 7), then you...

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November 03, 2004

Outdoor Fun

Last month was a bit of a write off really. I don't know why, really. I just had no energy, and then it just disappeared on me. Suddenly there are nice sunny days. Perfect for sitting out in, drinking a...

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October 27, 2004

New Apple Stuff

Well, here is why I should never sleep (or at least should read RSS feeds before I do). iTunes 4.7 includes support for copying photos to an iPod photo, the ability to show duplicate songs in your library, and other...

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October 26, 2004

Slate for NetNewsWire

What with everybody making their own style for netnewswire I decided to make my own. It's nothing revolutionary, borrows from others, but with a colour scheme matching that (basically) of my own site. So nice dark background. Has specs...

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October 22, 2004

Firefox Print Ad

The idea was is to ask for donations of $30 ($10 from students) from people (and students, who are not people, obviously). With the money, they will buy an ad (hopefully full page) in the New York Times about...

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October 20, 2004

Following On

Right, the cell that was "much more there than it should have been" was the eosinophils, of which the usual is 0 to 0.5 10^9 per litre of blood and mine were 3.1 10^9 per litre of blood. Which is...

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October 13, 2004

Alive (!)

I being me (obviously), have many faults. Yes, I know it's hard to believe. However before you get all excited I'm here to speak about just one - and that is my ability to just try and ignore things and...

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October 09, 2004

Here Comes the Caviar and American Idiot

In amongst a week of feeling like utter crap (choosing not to beat around the bush here), I decided I really needed a pick me up. Having not purchased an audio cd (with prerecorded music on it! Wow!) in months...

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October 05, 2004

ShipRS and More

I'm often tempted to begin one of these posts with a line something like "oh dear god, what did you do with my week?", and lets face it this post is no different. I've spent a great deal of the...

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September 28, 2004

School

You never thought I'd say this, and lets face it neither did I, but I've spent the previous 9 hours at school, having just got home. Yes, you read your clock right, it is 5:30am. I actually find coding in...

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September 25, 2004

Movies I've Seen && Foster & Allen

I've had a Movies category around for quite a while (the first entry appeared in January of this year), and didn't really use it much, until recently. Then today I realised that none of the DVDs I own was in...

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September 24, 2004

Work is in Progress

I've spent quite a lot of time being busy. I some how spend (looking back) quite a bit of time doing almost nothing at all. Quite a bit of this time has been spent either coding, or thinking about coding...

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September 22, 2004

This is a test

This is a test of MarsEdit, the blog editor from the nice people at Ranchero. I'm testing to see if entries pop up in LJ, which they probably won't, but then the next step will be to try and make...

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September 21, 2004

Movie Addiction

In the last week I've watched eleven movies. Wow. When I write it like that I really seem like some kind of junkie. Which I am, make no mistake. I'm hooked on the excitement. I spent a bit of time...

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September 17, 2004

Five Things

The following is a "Five things you may not know" type thing, that I stole from DamoK. I've "snipped" it for my own homepage, so it may look a little silly there, however I'm sure that visitors will cope. I...

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September 16, 2004

New Toys

A merry old week it has been, filled with purchasing goodness, and coding. That's about it, though. On Monday I went shopping. Now this is always a bad thing, but even more so when I come away having purchased new...

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September 13, 2004

Decade v.Something

I've not long ago landed a new design over at Decade. It now has a colour scheme that largely matches that of my current website (so dark grey blues, not the colour before), which is probably the biggest change people...

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September 12, 2004

You thought I was dead, didn't you?

Wow. What a week. I don't think I've had an actually restful moment. I worked (of the paid to be there because otherwise there's no way I'd put up with the boredom kind) an extra shift. I helped a fellow...

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September 06, 2004

onJade : Post

I have just completed (and electronically submitted) my assignment for ELCM301, written entirely in Jade. Jade, if you haven't heard of it (which you probably haven't) is a rather nifty object-orientated database and programming language. It's also an IDE, and...

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September 02, 2004

On Dual Link DVI, and Nothing in Particular

I hate to start today on a rant, but quite frankly I'm quite annoyed by the little piece of misinformation that seems to persist regarding the 30" Apple Display. This beast uses the "Dual Link" DVI connector. Contrary to popular...

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August 29, 2004

No G5 iMac for you!

Sunday you say. Wow. Where has the first week of holidays gone? There is only one week left of enjoying have no guilt about not going to lectures. Not that I'd not go to lectures or anything. I haven't been...

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August 26, 2004

Discovering Music

About a week ago I set about cleaning up my RSS feeds. I succeeded in that (kind of), but in reality I actually ended up adding about 20 more feeds. One of those feeds was Acts of Volition. I was...

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August 23, 2004

AirPort Express

As the question of the day hinted - ok screamed out - I got hold of my AirPort Express today. Freaking hell they are small. Every now and again I look in it's general direction and just go "how can...

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August 18, 2004

It's rather cold

Well somehow I'm back in Wellington (probably has something to do with an plane, and flying, and what not), and good gracious is it windy and cold. Damn it's cold. I'm not sure it's ever been this cold in the...

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August 15, 2004

While on GPRS

I'm lying here in a motel on the North Shore, using the internet at extremely high cost, otherwise known as GPRS. Mmm gprs. Well, really, what else am I supposed to do? I'd make this entry longer, but then instead...

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August 11, 2004

Travelling

In one of those "I really don't have enough hours in the day" I'm heading to Auckland for a week tomorrow (er, today). Between now and 8pm I have a number of rather important things to do: Sleep INFO320 Meeting...

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August 09, 2004

Politics (But not really)

As per this post on Channel 9, I fully support the idea of Windows Update not being web based. (Note I'm not suggesting not using http, just not the HTML interface.) It has always struck me that allowing this means...

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July 30, 2004

Friday Commentary

Having not commented much on, well, anything lately I thought it was about time I pulled out the soapbox and said something. DoubleShot is proving to be quite useful - I should get around to getting one of those bookmarklets...

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July 27, 2004

Music Stats

One quiz never being enough to keep one happy, I discovered iTunes PlayStats by way of jetless heights. You can download it (if you have a mac). I ran this against iTunes on ginger (iBook), which I've only had for...

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July 21, 2004

On National Radio

As a result of an INFO320 meeting with our "client" I woke up just on 10am this morning, with the theory being that I wouldn't really have to wake up immediately. However, on this mornings Nine to Noon show, was...

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July 19, 2004

AllOfMP3

I must say, I came to AllOfMP3 with a certain amount of skepticism. It's cheap. Almost too cheap, I thought. I know it's legal (in Russia at least), and by using it you are at least paying for your music....

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July 09, 2004

For Sale

In a rare act of self promotion, the author has three items currently for sale on TradeMe: 7' Quarry Beach Surfboard & Legrope Dive'n'Surf XL Black/Gray Summer Wetsuit Grandstream Budgetone 101 IP Phone (& FXO card) The author does, however,...

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July 02, 2004

News and Updates

In intersting news today we have: The announcment from Alpine of the "Alpine Interface Adapter", providing something like the BMW interface recently advertised. The big difference is that this system treats the iPod as an external harddrive, so you can...

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June 17, 2004

On Being in Auckland

Having arrived in Auckland more than 24 hours ago, I thought it was about time I wrote something here. As usual flying was the method of choice. Also as usual, it went rather uneventfully. Ending up in Auckland, does however,...

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June 15, 2004

On DoubleShot

On reading Synapse this evening, and seeing how she had done her "sideblog", named Expresso, I found the plugin for WordPress that would finally allow me to (easily) do sideblog the way I had always wanted to do it (as...

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June 08, 2004

Americans and Wirless

Today we have: American homeland security causing problems, and showing the stupidity of "distrust everyone until proven completely innocent" AirportExpress showing yet again that Apple is cool (now if only you could send it Audio other than from iTunes, like...

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June 05, 2004

Fixed LJ Bugs

Well. I've made some changes to the various scripts around the place, so that now there is a link to the atom feed as well as the rss2 one. This is a good thing. There is also now a preview...

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May 31, 2004

Busy Days

Working working working. And some coding in VB.net/SQLServer too. Fun, yes, sure, I believe you. Although it is nice to just say something "EXEC VehicleExit 'Rego'", and have it do it all in the database. Erm. Other than that nothing...

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May 24, 2004

Birthday

It's that day of the year. Where has the last year gone? Where? I'll post at the end of the day, /me thinks...

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May 21, 2004

Harry Potter

& the prisoner of azkaban tickets for reading are on sale now. does happy dance. Not long to go either! It occurs to me that Monday is my birthday. I'm not entirely sure how, as it doesn't seem particularly long...

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May 20, 2004

Upgrades and Things

dodie got a nice fresh copy of MySQL4 (4.0.18 to be exact) installed tonight (upgraded from 3.23.something). Decided it was about time I did the upgrade... Also tried out MySql Administrator for windows. Very nice, although looks a little incomplete....

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May 19, 2004

On Decade and Smarts

I decided I'm not 100% happy with the look & feel of the pages on decade (ie. other than the homepage). I also decided I really should have hooked it in to Smarty for templating when I coded the thing...

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May 17, 2004

Nebulous

Hey Everybody. It's been nearly a week since I last posted, but then it has been all on. Or something like that. I kind of took the weekend off living, but seeing as I was alive for a lot of...

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May 10, 2004

Things

Simply Said, a guide every New Zealander should be forced to go through before telling me a place name over the phone. Wow, it has been a few days. However a few things of importance have happened: Vodafone/Microsoft/somebody did not...

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May 05, 2004

Taxes

Well, ok, this entry will have very little to do with taxes. I've been mucking around with my tablet in photoshop and came up with the beginnings of a person, or what might be a person, if I could draw....

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May 04, 2004

My Desk

See my desk (See my desk, pure gorilla chest!) Yep....

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April 30, 2004

Happiness is

Plenty of storage apparantly. My own storage history goes something like this: * (er, before this my memory is hazy) * 1997-1998: 250MB * 1998-1999: 750MB * 1999-2001: 8,000MB * 2001-2002: 18,000MB * 2002-2003: 98,000MB * 2003-2004: 160,000MB * 2004:...

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April 22, 2004

Today

The summer sun is fading as the year grows old and darker days are drawing near the winter winds will be much colder now you're not here Having just finished my bottle of coke I'm slowly thinking about bed. It...

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April 20, 2004

New Apple Hardware

The Apple portables have been updated at last. Three new PowerBook models have faster processors (1.33GHz-1.5GHz), all with built-in bluetooth and Airport Extreme. New iBook models, with 1GHz-1.2GHz processors, and listed support for 1.25GB of RAM (with the 256mb on...

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April 19, 2004

New From Apple

(Although you've probably read it elsewhere already...) Xsan. Very cool, lets multiple computers concurrently access terabytes of storage on Xserve RAID over high-speed Fibre Channel, according to Apple. Motion. For real-time motion graphics design. Now, that would be fun to...

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April 17, 2004

Puffy P

You may notice 4 entries in my journal, Episode 1 - 4, the initial adventures of Puffy P. These files are in AAC format, so probably won't play unless you have Quicktime 6 (or something else that can play unprotected...

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April 16, 2004

My Day

I've finally replaced the old style_chooser with patrick.geek.nz preferences, which will, eventually, give more options. But it'll do for now. In looking at that you may notice that I've finally made 'zen' the default style. Todo tomorrow: Fix IE's bugs....

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April 15, 2004

Long time no energy

This last week has been rather hectic, since my last post I had the obligatory massive number of assignments to hand in, then 5 graveyard shifts, and then I worked last night as well. However, I have done things other...

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April 06, 2004

No Posting?

Haven't posted in a couple of days. Here's the basics: I bought a projector (why not) Just finished a 2,000 word assignment in less than 3 hours work. (4 hours, but a good half of that was not working.) That's...

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April 04, 2004

For as long as you like

I just did the geek test, only to be told I'm only 23.4714%, thus only a 'Geek' on the following scale. Geekish Tendencies Geek Total Geek Major Geek Super Geek Extreme Geek Geek God Dysfunctional Geek Hrm, I don't feel...

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April 01, 2004

Interface and Decade

Tonight there was an interface meeting. It was connected to the internet. That was good. The end of March meant another backup of Decade. Unfortunately I couldn't be bothered burning to CD, so yep. I also made a new design,...

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March 31, 2004

iTMS

After reading this Behind the iTunes Music Store.... I decided to make my own pages. I came up with Patrick's iTMS and Patrick's iTMS » Feedback. And heck they both work. You can even submit feedback (kind of, It won't...

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March 29, 2004

More on IPv6

I finally got around to having enough time to install an IPv6 capable web server. So I installed a binary for Windows with built in IPv6 support. So now I have Apache 2.0.49, and it works quite nicely. If you...

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March 28, 2004

Stuff

Erm, it's been a few days, but I'm still alive. I think. I've been busy. But I got new frames (only $75! Go sale at the right time!). At work last night I tried to watch Forrest Gump again, (Forrest...

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March 23, 2004

Carl is on Debian

Well I successfully setup Debian unstable (sarge?) on carl. I booted with neither CD or Floppy, as the machine has an Intel network card, handily already setup to do network booting using PXE. So by guessing what the dhcpd configuration...

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March 23, 2004 03:03 AM. Filed in .

Copyright Law

http://www.publicaddress.net/default,1104.sm - bassically states my opinion on the copyright alaw reforms. (http://halfpie.net/2004/03/23/hypocrisy.html is also right.) Hehe. Apparantly this APT has Super Cow Powers....

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March 22, 2004

Not that coke

Rusty is a homosexual. Well I found it funny. I shall now go back to Coke....

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March 20, 2004

On Apple Pro

What popped up in my RSS feeder today but a link to Apple Pro/, and what was it specifically that it was guiding me to? Steriogram. New Zealanders Steriogram have an instinctive feel for guerilla marketing. They’re self-confessed geeks who...

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March 19, 2004

Things

I've been working on my photogalleries - so far I've only replaced Days Bay, but it's really easy. At this stage the "Gallery Maker" only does basic stuff - like create the multiple sized graphics, and the new thumbnail view....

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March 16, 2004

Things

Wow. What a last few days. Well, no not really. I did my ACCY assignment, and I'll hand it in tomorrow. I'm lucky they are accepting at all really. Got my group for INFO312, that's good. I've been tidying and...

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March 10, 2004

Foo and Sleep

Well. Recap. Monday: school, WellyLug, camera stop working. Today: didn't go to school, got camera fixed, went food shopping. Wow, that was fast. That is all....

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March 02, 2004

Broadband in NZ

I have updated this article as at December 29th, 2005. See the new Broadband in NZ. The original is shown here for posterity. TelstraClear have released what can only be described as unheard of in the New Zealand internet...

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March 02, 2004 11:03 AM. Filed in .

First Day

Today was a university day alright, I spent 4 hours there... and spent $250 on books and notes and crud like that. I have however done no work tonight. Oh well. One hour tomorrow. That's enough I think. Yep. That...

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February 29, 2004

Copyright Law

I don't comment much on things 'political', but there is another entry that does slightly. If you know nothing about creative commons, here is a great Introductory Video, that is well worth the 7mb watch. I support the idea of...

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February 23, 2004

Decades

As of now I have released Decades v0.6.1, the first public release of the software I use to power my Decade project. I have released it under the GPL license. If you wish to do your own 'decade' like project,...

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February 23, 2004 08:02 AM. Filed in .

Constant Craving

Well, I bet you are wondering what is new in the world of me, aren't you? Ok, more likely you probably haven't given it a second thought. I, however, have given more thought. It's a bid hard to escape you...

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February 22, 2004

Moo

Howdy everybody, It's nearing 5am, and quite frankly I wish it were closer to 7. However, I lack cash money (can't buy chocolate) and I get to go home (and sleep) at 7, so I shall not complain (too loudly)....

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February 20, 2004

Tonight

I've spent a lot of time this evening playing with GarageBand. I can see it becoming quite addictive. I'm already thinking of stuff I could buy for it :) Unfortunately I could really do with getting an external synth -...

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February 19, 2004

Night time

I'm back in the, er, slightly colder than Auckland city. (Otherwise known as Wellington.) 'lois' - my new g base station is setup and running, and accepting connections. Well, if you have my iBook's mac address. And you know the...

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February 17, 2004

Stupid safari

Web browsers vendors listen here: if someone has typed something into a form, especially a large text area, especially a large amount of text, how about WARNING before closing the window? ARGH. And, giving us undo support. Stupid world. Today...

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February 17, 2004 11:02 AM. Filed in .

Commentary

First, a quiz: Step 1: Open your MP3 player. Step 2: Put all of your music on random. Step 3: Write down the first ten songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing Eric Clapton - Change the world Tracy Chapman...

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February 16, 2004

Decade

After a bit of furious work, I have released my answer to "Ten Years Of My Life"[1] - Decade[2]. I started working on it on Friday, so photos start from there. I shall endeavour to keep this up for 10...

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February 16, 2004 12:02 PM. Filed in .

Decade part 2

I made some improvements to Decade. Now it has an: Atom feed, RSS2 feed, and it exists as a LiveJournal Syndicated Account as well (currently 'costs' 0.699 syndication points, but sign up and it'll 'cost' you less). Today on Decade....

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February 14, 2004

Today

Spent 24 hours with no internet access (due primarily to the phone line being 100% dead). Visited Renaissance, had 256mb of ram fitted, to bring it up to the 384mb that I had in the original ginger. I now have...

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February 10, 2004

Moo

Well I'm in Auckland, watching tv. Thank somebody for wireless. I forgot a phone cable, so yeah, but I did bring a network cable and my wifi AP, so it's all good. Well, it's connected to dial-up, so I wouldn't...

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February 10, 2004 11:02 AM. Filed in .

Early Morning Commentary

By gum, United Future not only has a Maori Affairs person, but he said something smart. anti-iPod? What are they thinking? Telecom are a funny company at times. Perhaps that will be all for now....

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February 10, 2004 01:02 AM. Filed in .

February 09, 2004

Wired wireless

Todays entry is brought to you by the number 4 and the letters H (for hours) and S (for sleep). It is aired by APE everywhere. After a discussion recently about ping times over wireless b card -> b...

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February 08, 2004

Spam

I am quite frankly getting quite sick of this latest virus/spam thing. Not least of all it's habit of sending itself to random names @ my domain. I have now grabbed most of the names I used, aliased them in,...

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February 07, 2004

Rendezvous

Now this http://ginger.local./admin/auth.login.form is a url. It's got dots, and small letters, and no clue as to what tech it's running on. (Other than the .local. tells you it's probably OSX.) Hmm. I should do a big post. Perhaps when...

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February 04, 2004

Me Myself

If you've known me for very long (as in more than a month I guess), you'll know I go through site designs faster than I go through (insert frequently changed item). I think this is probably at least partly to...

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February 03, 2004

Thank somebody

Kiwi Schools get Apple Upgrades - basically covering such essentials as OS (to 10.3), and KeyNote, and iLife. Not a lot has happened in my world other than finally being able to start tackling some jobs that need doing. My...

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January 25, 2004

Not a snowy night

Sometimes you get linked to from the strangest places. Here is one such place. Last night was super busy. Now by busy I mean long queues and extended periods of long queues. By that I mean nearly 3 hours long....

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January 24, 2004

noop

Bush likes ribs, apparantly. Things with the iBook may be sorted. I'll keep y'all posted. It's the weekend. I want it to be Sunday so I can have a rest. And not have work for 4 days. Already. please? And...

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January 20, 2004

Digital Camera?

Howdy y'all I'm leaning towards a digital camera as my course related costs purchase. The Fujifilm S3000 is very tempting. It's a nice looking camera (which isn't the important part :)), has 6x optical zoom (and probably has some digital,...

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January 19, 2004

Mozilla and .nz

.nz rules the world. I'm not kidding it is. Does anyone else find it bizzare that it's 'mozilla.org, .net.nz'? Proves that it was probably written by a .nz-er....

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January 16, 2004

Eclectic Post

Ok, I just wanted to use Eclectic in the title, as it is my word of the day. Are you aware that it is very nearly time for normal people to start waking up? I'm painful aware, as it's nearly...

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January 14, 2004

In the Press

My letter (look for 'Absent Apple'). This was written back in October I think - just after the reader survey. It's not anti-apple as it might be now. Well, not necessarily anti-local Apple. But still. I was still impressed they...

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January 14, 2004 06:01 AM. Filed in .

On Statistical Analysis

I just ran through my logs/access.log file for apache. This unearthed the fact that I should really seperate patrick.geek.nz/photos./download./is./everythingelseblahblahblah-and-so-on. However it also showed me that there is at least one person reading my RSS feed, other than my own subscription...

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Year of Study

I received my confirmation of study today, along with the textual timetable they give. I have thus made my timetable for Trimester 1 and Trimester 2 (both are PDF files). Trimester 2 is particularly, well, sweet. I also tidied my...

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January 12, 2004

Update on bluewall

Thanks to a tip from mattmatt, the menus now render correctly under IE. IE is now officially absolute crud. I can see no compelling reason for anyone to use it anymore. Computers should come preloaded with Firebird I say! The...

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January 12, 2004 12:01 PM. Filed in .

iLife '04

Oh yeah. I want. Now. Not later. Now....

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January 12, 2004 11:01 AM. Filed in .

Weird Story

I awoke this morning with a feeling somewhat akin to that of a hangover. This might not seem odd to you until I mention that I haven't drunk any alcohol in several nights. This worries me....

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January 10, 2004

Suburbs and Localities

It's 3am and I'm tired as hell. I didn't get a lot done {to|yester}day, but I did spend some time out in the sun. I got to work and am told I am owed 16 hours of pay. This is...

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January 07, 2004

Caution DMCA violation

(Well it would be if the DMCA had control here. Probably. The DMCA is evil.) I bought the feelers' playground battle on CD today. It apparantly has copy protection. I unfortunately do not want to listen to it on my...

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January 05, 2004

100x Weird

Good morning, How are ya? You spend all your time waiting, for that second chance. Hmm. Interesting words. I've been listening to this 3 hour playlist for the last several nights. (I made it, and the connections necessary, to play...

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January 02, 2004

DVDilicious

Well, I'm at work, and for some reason I got a mysql error on my post, hit back, and discovered again that IE4 is the biggest piece of crap ever put on this earth to piss me off. It clears...

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December 23, 2003

Shop and Drop

Today I did not a very lot. Now, that sentence is bad, but I like it, so it shall stay. Went shopping, purchased Mum's and Hugh's christmas presents. That shall keep everyone happy for a while. Yep. Had people around...

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December 23, 2003 11:12 AM. Filed in .

December 22, 2003

Photos

To those who wanted my background pic from the other day, download it. My pics from my phone are available for viewing exported from iCal, will do up a gallery when I get back. One of the Mt Taranaki shots...

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December 22, 2003 10:12 AM. Filed in .

December 21, 2003

Blue toothed car

Because every geek should own one....

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December 20, 2003

New Screenshot

So many menulets!...

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December 20, 2003 05:12 AM. Filed in .

Leaving Work

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December 14, 2003

Music Library

I just made a fairly simple PHP script to allow world-wide access to browse my music library. Ok, it lets you look through \dodie\audio. It doesn't let you download anything. I'm not opening that can of worms :) Has some...

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December 10, 2003

Go Google

Type in the words "miserable failure" in a regular google search. Then hit "I'm feeling lucky." -- Hilarious....

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December 10, 2003 07:12 AM. Filed in .

Christmas message

My Christmas message is up, for those who care to read it. On a more geeky note: I moved the images/css for my my site over to http://is.patrick.geek.nz/. I also made some major improvements to the style switcher, and have...

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December 10, 2003 02:12 AM. Filed in .

December 09, 2003

Christmas Time

patrick.geek.nz (and thus the rest of my web properties, including LJ stuff) got a Christmas theme today. 16 days to go, after all. (And besides someone else did it, so I had to.) The images come from stock.xchng. Great resource....

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December 08, 2003

Songs of Leaving

I downloaded a Gentoo release today (how weird, gentoo and release in the same sentence?) through CafeNet. 1gb of CD's in less than half an hour. Mmm fast. However, time has come to burn to CD, and I'm thinking to...

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December 06, 2003

A cat in my hat?

The Cat in the Hat. I'm amused by the trailer. Maybe it'll come out on DVD, and I'll see it then....

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December 06, 2003 12:12 PM. Filed in .

Two Days

Ok, so this week I saw two movies, Love Actually (trailer), and yestereday I saw href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0320691/">Underworld ( href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/underworld/">trailer). And then I thought I was going crazy, but LA's rock musician really is viktor. Underworld was better than I was expecting,...

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December 04, 2003

So many monsters

Today I: a) Purchased Whale Rider on DVD b) Went food shopping /> c) Purchased more christmas lights d) Visited Damo-K e) Forgot to get my WiFi access point's power adapter off barb when I got out of the taxi....

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December 04, 2003 02:12 AM. Filed in .

December 02, 2003

Love

Having a need to see a movie, I saw Love Actually. I shall now bring some of the brilliant brilliant quotes: You mean there was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus? and Girls love musicians, don't...

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December 02, 2003 05:12 AM. Filed in .

December 01, 2003

The Guts of a New

The Guts of a New Machine - talking about the iPod, and is worth a read. I'm told it requires registration, but I don't know - I may be registered. They haven't spammed me yet, so that might say something....

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December 01, 2003 11:12 AM. Filed in .

November 30, 2003

Product Design

I'm just reading the latest Urbis, and am greatly amused to see, in the spring collection the Power Mac G5. You don't see many computers in those pages. It does make me want to do more painting but I have...

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November 30, 2003 05:11 AM. Filed in .

November 28, 2003

While you were hanging yourself

While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words Dying to believe in what you heard (Can you name: title, artist?) I'm back in Wellington, and I should get up soon and make breakfast, which will be tasty, but I've...

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November 25, 2003

Ping below 4ms

After some rather bizarre actions on the part of TelstraClear regarding peering at href="http://www.ape.net.nz/">APE, it was nice to login to fantail.pftqg.com, and ping my wellington box (thewall.pftqg.com), and have it average at 21ms. Wow, all the way from Auckland to...

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November 25, 2003 05:11 AM. Filed in .

November 23, 2003

Late in the evening

Hmm, I got my monitor, but now I need to get software in order to do, you know, the sorts of things a OSD would do. Dumb dumb dumb idea philips. Otherwise a very very nice monitor. 1600x1200 is very...

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November 23, 2003 11:11 AM. Filed in .

November 22, 2003

Power Surge

Wellington, and possibly as far north as Palmerston North appears to have been subjected to a hefty power surge roughtly 15 minutes ago. I can't find any details, but I just heard a report of a power failure in a...

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November 22, 2003 04:11 AM. Filed in .

November 19, 2003

Smurfing Spectacular

I bought a Phillips href="http://www.epinions.com/S0603826-Brilliance107/display~full_specs">Brilliance 107 on trademe for $100 + shipping. Not a bad deal I thought. Think of the 1280x1024x85Hz possibilities. I found my href="http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/shop/ultimate/ult/tre/ULT14KND1002.01.html">ideal christmas present. Yep, buy me one and I shall be yours forever. Or...

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November 19, 2003 12:11 PM. Filed in .

Quotation

Is that what I think it is? What do you think it is? A big orange whirly thing in space...

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November 19, 2003 11:11 AM. Filed in .

November 17, 2003

Fun fun fun

Today I did things, like visit Student Health, and walk from Uni to Karori to visit Damo-K and tempestjb. Was a good walk and I reached the top of the killer stairs without losing a breath. I was quite amazed....

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November 17, 2003 11:11 AM. Filed in .

Gah to mornings

Stomach still sore stupid thing from hell. I shall go to Student Health at 10:45. But what to do for the next hour. Hmm. Maybe I shall kill things or watch TV....

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November 17, 2003 09:11 AM. Filed in .

November 16, 2003

Sweet home saturn

on the topic of the Paris Hilton sex tapes. Work got 5 seizures in all last night, makes me happy. Christmas parade at 2pm. Anyone want to go? Maybe I should just give up and have breakfast....

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November 16, 2003 12:11 PM. Filed in .

November 12, 2003

Anderson Pies

On the topic of Anderson Pies, I tried one. It was good. Oh so very good. I must kill and have more! MORE! (Ok, so it was good) (But Mrs. Mac's are still good too.) /> Ok, pies in general...

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November 12, 2003 05:11 AM. Filed in .

Matrix Revolutions

I saw this today. It was good. I quite enjoyed it. Now I shall buy it on DVD when it arrives. Then I shall have all three. But then I need the Animatrix DVD as well. Then I shall rule...

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November 12, 2003 05:11 AM. Filed in .

November 11, 2003

Write Ten Paragraphs

Using your own words on when or why you would use each lifecycle model. /> BAH! I can only conlude that everybody hates me. Or perhaps that I really should have purchased that text book after all. Oh well. Didn't...

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November 11, 2003 11:11 AM. Filed in .

November 10, 2003

Updated

Hi there, and welcome to the world of hip. Ok, before you think you've reached an incorrect destination, let me assure you, there will be no further 'hip' mentioned in this entry. /> Changes have been made. Yep. I've hacked...

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November 10, 2003 05:11 AM. Filed in .

November 05, 2003

Mmm explosioning

I like fireworks :)...

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November 05, 2003 09:11 AM. Filed in .

I want apple stuff. more. free though.

mmm $25 discount on $250 or more orders, see claim code within....

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November 03, 2003

On

Guess what: Dell is still fucked. And of course it href="http://www.chaosmint.com/macintosh/articles/dell-dj-digital-jukebox-h.shtml">looks nothing like href="http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html">anything else. No similarites here, no. My criticisms of that screen shown: use of two words (complicated and largely unnecssary), no visual clues as to wether these...

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November 03, 2003 01:11 AM. Filed in .

November 01, 2003

Down down down we go, where do stop? Nobody knows.

My god. href="http://www.winsupersite.com/images/showcase/longhorn4051105.jpg">It's 'Window has texture', for Windows. Oh well, at least it's a hundred years away. I read my friends page, and in the process opened up somewhere around 26 tabs. I went swimming today, that was good. I...

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November 01, 2003 12:11 PM. Filed in .

October 22, 2003

Office 2003

Installed and activated. Now to do Business Contact Manager. Because it has a cool name....

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October 22, 2003 10:10 AM. Filed in .

Office 2003

Time to install Office 2003....

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October 22, 2003 09:10 AM. Filed in .

October 19, 2003

Oh my god

src="http://a896.g.akamai.net/7/896/51/d33c54a39e3763/www.apple.com/home/images/2003/10/itunesscreen10162003.jpg" alt="iTunes, in hell?" /> src="http://a772.g.akamai.net/7/772/51/242d2b3b4cc609/www.apple.com/home/images/2003/10/itunestitle10162003.gif" alt="Apple, you are my god" /> It feels just like the Mac version of iTunes, and it looks pretty, and supports the iTunes Music Sharing of the Mac iTunes. If you want to...

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October 16, 2003

Completed?

I've finished one of my assignments that is due on friday. It was, however, the 40% one. So that's good. Just two left (15% and 12%). I'll start the 12% (for INFO214) tomorrow, and well, if I don't get to...

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October 16, 2003 12:10 PM. Filed in .

October 13, 2003

Sutff

I added a new screenshot to my gallery today. I'm voyaging into magnum mac tomorrow. As early as I can I think. Maybe I'll have breakfast first. I don't know how long I'm going to sleep yet. As long as...

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October 13, 2003 12:10 PM. Filed in .

October 12, 2003

Thins

Wow, it's 4:04am. Wow. I'm up to date with work. I'm looking forward to going home, sleeping, and then playing with Panther some more. Should probably also look into starting one of the three assignments due Friday. Meh. Hmm. I'm...

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October 12, 2003 04:10 AM. Filed in .

October 09, 2003

A new craze!

images/20031009menubar" alt="My Menulets" /> Proteus, Synergy (registered even), AirPort, Volume, Battery, iSync, and the clock. /> What do you have in your menubar?...

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October 09, 2003 11:10 AM. Filed in .

October 08, 2003

New Toy

Today I got a new toy. I like toys. Toys are good. A brand spanking new 10GB iPod. Mmm lots of music on the go. I like my music. I do, however, hate waiting for initial charging....

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October 08, 2003 03:10 AM. Filed in .

September 29, 2003

Sea Minus

I want a handy small print server type device. I also don't want to pay a billion million dollars for it. Why must these two requirements be mutually exclusive? I need to tidy my desk, and I also need to...

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September 29, 2003 01:09 AM. Filed in .

September 14, 2003

New names of my PC's

I renamed them :) Now I have on my network: dodie.wgtn.pftqg.com - Desktop, shares internet currently ginger.wgtn.pftqg.com - my iBook macie.wgtn.pftqg.com - windows laptop courtney.wgtn.pftqg.com - wireless access point miranda.wgtn.pftqg.com - laser carl.wgtn.pftqg.com (will be the name of my routering...

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September 14, 2003 03:09 AM. Filed in .

ADSL, chicken shaped like fish, and

Within the next week or so I should hopefully get a PII266, my first less than 450MHz process since my 486! Wow! Anyway, this machine will be firewall/routering device. luckily I should be able to sacrifice one of the lan...

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September 14, 2003 02:09 AM. Filed in .

September 10, 2003

Howdy

Hopefully this post makes it...pftqg.com is now in Auckland, in an air conditioned server room, running on a real server, on a real server operating system, but still the same (albeit one point.point release higher) webserver and (newer major version...

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September 10, 2003 02:09 AM. Filed in .

August 30, 2003

Sometimes

Hi everybody. Internet is good, except when you're on dialup, and forget to disconnect for 4hours, and don't use the internet for that time, and think hmm... I'm working on an analysis system for a certain breed of log files....

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August 30, 2003 01:08 AM. Filed in .

August 25, 2003

Things

I may not be leaving until 5:30 tomorrow afternoon (why would anybody think I would fly at 5:30am?), my clothes are packed, my iBooks laptop bag nicely fits into my other laptop bag (with my iBook inside the new bag),...

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August 25, 2003 03:08 AM. Filed in .

August 01, 2003

Forty bullets and ink droplets

Hmmser. I have a tutorial for INFO214 tomorrow morning, for which I need to do tutorial questions and a minicase. I can do neither as I cannot access blackboard. It just won't load. I hope I can get it done...

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August 01, 2003 12:08 PM. Filed in .

July 28, 2003

When I come

Today was a Sunday, of that much I am sure, but what do day names really mean, of what significance are they? The division of time being a purely arbitrary system, what importance does it really play other than to...

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July 28, 2003 12:07 PM. Filed in .

July 20, 2003

Wow late it is, tired I am, post I

Hey everyone. It's 4:47am. I have 2 hours, 13 minutes to go. Man am I tired. I think I've done all my work too. I answered the ehck in call from auckland 15mins ago and the guy's like "Wow... you...

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July 17, 2003

Things

I'm in the special group of beta testers for Yukon. I'm sure the NDA probably prevents me from saying this though. It means I get it roughly two weeks before the general beta testers. So I just won't say...

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July 16, 2003

From the 'opposite-to-what-it-says' cateogry

Todays featured program is: kdontchangethehostname. Informs KDE about a change in hostname. Yeah, makes sense to me too! Crazy nerdy thing to do for today: RDC into a local win machine, and then RDC from there to another machine, then...

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July 16, 2003 02:07 AM. Filed in .

July 07, 2003

Natural colours and flavours

I reinstalled OSX today. My dock is super tidy at the moment... just terminal, hydra, safari, mail, proteus 3 and iTunes in the apps side. (They're all permanent, they have to be.) Wow, I even have 21.61GB free still. I...

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July 07, 2003 01:07 AM. Filed in .

July 03, 2003

Today

Yo yo people-o! Today was not bad. Spent the morning early afternoon doing god only knows what. I sure don't. But then we (being damo-k and I) went to good ol' HLH to do some good old fashioned reinstalling. I...

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July 03, 2003 01:07 AM. Filed in .

June 20, 2003

It's moments like these you need pftqg

Hmm, I put myself into bed at midnight, and just listened to mp3's for an hour. And then I sat and read for 3/4 of an hour, with Import in the background. And now I'm posting. Yes, I had an...

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June 20, 2003 02:06 AM. Filed in .

June 19, 2003

Stab stab stabity-stab.

I'm about to go to bed. Not least of all because I went to sleep some time around 4.30 this morning, and was out of bed before 12. This did not provide me with enough sleep. Um, my day... I...

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June 19, 2003 02:06 AM. Filed in .

June 04, 2003

Before you sleep, you

I got quite a bit done today. Now by that I mean: * I booked an appt on Thurs to see a Dr at uni. * I got the inet stuff that I copied off the uni computers and got...

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June 04, 2003 02:06 AM. Filed in .

June 02, 2003

Here I stand, head in hand, turn my face to the wall

My day, because you care, wether you know it or not: Woke during the night a few times, gave up trying to sleep at 7.15, and just lurked in bed till 7.45, when I checked email, and did other morning...

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June 02, 2003 07:06 AM. Filed in .

May 31, 2003

Can't you see the sunshine?

Somehow it's nearly 3am. God I love webdesign. It's one of the few things I can do at the moment and just find myself wasting huge amounts of time just doing. I find programming interesting, but it doesn't give me...

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May 31, 2003 02:05 AM. Filed in .

May 25, 2003

My day

I said that nothing would make me sad today, and I have kept to that. My day has been great. I relaxed into the morning, being awake but not doing anything. I had text messages and lj comments and phone...

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May 25, 2003 12:05 PM. Filed in .

May 21, 2003

idle 00:06:23, signon: Wed May 21

I have had one of the best days in the history of the world. Now that statement if you interpret best as not actually meaning best. Or in fact good. Well, quite frankly, it was roughly equivelant to being stuffed...

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May 21, 2003 11:05 AM. Filed in .

May 18, 2003

PLEASE

I'm tired, part of that is probably the blue pills kicking in. I'll shortly make the leap to bed. Tomorrow shall be my day of work. But I need additional AA battery-idge, as I'll basically have to plug in my...

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May 18, 2003 02:05 AM. Filed in .

May 17, 2003

All I do is keep the beat, bad

Random subject lines suit me best. Possibly because I don't have great confidence in the contents of my posts to keep your attention, I think maybe you'll at least be amused by the disconnected nature of subject/content. But anyways... Went...

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May 17, 2003 01:05 AM. Filed in .

May 12, 2003

Whirr microwave

Hey all, I'm writing as I wait for my rice to cook. I made the mistake of deciding I wanted rice long after I actually should have. Actually I decided to have satay sauce a little late into the cooking...

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May 12, 2003 10:05 AM. Filed in .

April 30, 2003

Well! I'm still in a

Well! I'm still in a kind of positive mood, and I'm not going to let anything make me unhappy. So! Work was like all worky and stuff. You know how they (being work) could only ever manage it. But I...

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April 30, 2003 11:04 AM. Filed in .

April 19, 2003

Far Away

i haven't spent much time with my flatties over the last week or so, so when Jake was telling me a story just before he got quite a shock when he found I'd actually been in the room at the...

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April 19, 2003 02:04 AM. Filed in .

April 11, 2003

Today

Today was not bad all in all. I sort of fell asleep while talking to href="http://pftqg.com/pl/1">bezajel, while she was doing her essay, on msn at 2.45ish. Only thing is, I was communicating iBook, which was on bed. It was still...

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April 11, 2003 11:04 AM. Filed in .

Within the sounds

I started writing in my LiveJournal over 6 months ago now. I can't quite recall the date, it might be in my LJ info, but I'm not sure. What has come out of it? Friends. I've gotten to know just...

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April 11, 2003 02:04 AM. Filed in .

April 01, 2003

Home

Well, I'm back in Welly, and what a weekend it's been. Home was good. I like home. I also spent minimal time in front of a computer - obviously my need to stay in touch with sith, damo-k, and bez...

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April 01, 2003 12:04 PM. Filed in .

March 28, 2003

After featuring in other peoples

After featuring in other peoples journals, I thought it was about time I made an appearance in my own. So here I am! Tonight was late work night ... I worked till 10. Meant I'm tired from longish shift, combined...

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March 28, 2003 01:03 AM. Filed in .

March 27, 2003

Windows has a use afterall

Having multiple computers is really great, and having multiple operating systems at your disposal is also great. Apart from when you want to cut & paste. Then it gets, well, down right impossible. So this is being posted from arnold....

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March 27, 2003 12:03 PM. Filed in .

March 23, 2003

Advanced Healing

Well, work was work. I was doing all the WCC call logging tonight, which meant I also got to browse their staff intranet. Amusing it was! I bought the BBC series, The Human Body on DVD yesterday. It is such...

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March 23, 2003 08:03 AM. Filed in .

March 22, 2003

What, you mean I have to sleep?

Um today. Went in to do contribute training for vuwsa. Hopefully they came away with something useful! Got cheque. Went to Class Rep training (see www.vuwsa.org.nz/education/) with icebubbles. Met up with sitharus. See his blog for details. Went to work....

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March 19, 2003

*mutter mutter*

Mum's surgery was successful! w00t! (Ok, that's enough of that :-)). Anyway, the surgeon called me to tell me it went successfully. That was much appreciated. Stress, Worry & Me are an odd combination, and usually doesn't manifest in a...

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March 19, 2003 03:03 AM. Filed in .

March 11, 2003

AirPort, Canada, and a pack of Chewing Gum

I did a few weird things today. Firstly, saw Chicago Also, tried to get ADSL running over at Barb & Seetal's place. Didn't have too much luck. If you know anything about the Ni500 and getting it to work with...

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March 11, 2003 12:03 PM. Filed in .

Damn it damn it damn

Damn it damn it damn it! My headphones are at and user="damok">'s place. And all I want to do is listen to some music in the next hour and a half I have before ELCM201. Argh it to hell. And...

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March 11, 2003 12:03 PM. Filed in .

March 10, 2003

Strangely generic

Well I turned up for Jury duty this morning, to be told there was only one case being heard this week. It was expected to last up to 5 weeks! Anyway, it turned out to be a murder trial, and...

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March 10, 2003 12:03 PM. Filed in .

March 06, 2003

... and for a fraction of a

Ok, todays title could be hard for you to pick... again, try and guess the song, and artist. Um, saw Gangs of New York today. I've been waiting for this movie for a long time, not least of all because...

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March 06, 2003 09:03 AM. Filed in .

Browsers in the Hands of

Browsers in the Hands of an Angry God (on PerversionTracker). Refers to Safari. So damned funny. I'm going to keep track of Crazy Apple Rumors this year (CARS). I discovered it a million billion years ago (before it was even...

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March 06, 2003 08:03 AM. Filed in .

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