Author: Darryl Smith

I did the run this morning about 9am…. And as I suspected it started to get a bit warmer after that. I did a bit further than last time, but not much more. I was getting generally exhausted by the …

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One thing I forgot to mention earlier is that I did go for the run about 4pm. I think I did about 2km, which was not bad since I had not been running for a couple of weeks, and given …

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My computer is faster I think… Defraging helped. I am actually defragging more now which should improve things a bit more now too. I have also sent some old files to the bitbucket in the sky, which created some issues …

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The MadPenguin WWW site has a review of SUSE Linux 10.0. Generally this review is posative of the SUSE Linux – and describes some of the features such as the NX desktop support that I had not come across before. …

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I will probably have a run this afternoon… Depending on the weather that is. Well, I had some hail here about 11am, and right now there are pendulous storm clounds in the distance that might cause a whole lot of …

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If you visit apple.com.au you will see that iTunes is now available. I am still attempting to get into the iTunes Australian store, but I suscpect that since videos are A$3.39 that the local content will be $1.99 per song, …

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I have been busy this morning with getting some work done. No programming, but some hardware things, and some cleaning up. Stuff got thrown out, and I want to get more thrown out today. We will see how that goes. …

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I have just seen the latest installment of UKTV’s comedy show Supernova. As normal it is a hillarious show set in an observatory somewhere near my birthplace of Broken Hill. In some ways the show is predictable, but in an …

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The T G Daily Web site has a collection of some of the more interesting End User License Agreements available. The quote that I love the most is “We’re pretty confident in our software, but if it happens to entirely …

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Ever have days when you get nothing done? Well, today seems like that to me. I am getting nowhere with anything today mostly. I just seem to get call after call after call. And intersuprsed between calls are emails and …

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Two interesting phone calls this morning. The first was that one of my clients wants me to come up to brisbane next week. Queensland is probably the better way to describe this, but brisbane is the airport that is closest. …

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The EuroVision Song Contest is now 50 years old, so they held a competition to find the best song of the last 50 years. I only knew two of the songs and three of the artists, which just shows that …

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CSI Miami tonight was set in Hollywood… Mostly on Hollywood Blvd between Vine and Highland. This is an area I know reasonably well, and it looks as decayed in real life as bits of the show indicated – although there …

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I do not understand Foxtel. They say that they favour viewer choice… mostly over free to air though – but they still do favour viewer choice. Still, I found it surprising that at least 14 channels were in use with …

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Lunch with my grandmother was good… My grandmother is not well at all, not very communicative at all unfortunately. But she is now 83 and in a nursing home – and is in there for a reason – that she …

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