Author: Darryl Smith

There is a story in News.com.au about a lawsuit… Regarding the Harry Potter movie. Apparently there is a band called the Wyrd Sisters, and they are suing over the use of the band name The Weird Sisters in the new …

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Cute… According to SlashDot.Org, AutoDesk have purchased Alias|Wavefront, the company started by my friend Bill Kovacs. This is very interesting because AutoDesk already own 3D Studio Max, which was written by another friend of mine. So of the two professional …

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I have just tried to call a Melbourne number with my VoIP device. No luck – I got a message saying that all the circuits are full and to try again later. This means that they have a dialout number …

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Work has started in ernest… I have started coding – the first step was to clean up some existing code before I could actually do any other work. The challenge here was to sort the code out so that I …

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Some links before I start work in ernest. The SMH has an article on how a phone tap was used not only to save a prosecution in a court case but convict others of attempting to pervert the course of …

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A friend of mine forwarded me a link to a strange WWW site. This one is for the University of Nigeria. This is of course a spoof Web Site. To the best of my knowledge there is no such place …

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I think that AlwaysOnline read this blog, and heard that I was planning to defect, and have blocked the use of VoIP services… That is what it seems like at least – the VoIP box has stopped working and I …

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What a day… I have this feeling that I have been on the phone half the day, and frantically at work the rest of the day. Right now I am almost finished getting a job out for the department of …

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When I woke up this morning my computer had the infamous ‘Blue Screen of Death’, microsoft’s way of telling you that something has gone wrong with your computer. And gave a cryptic message about some IRQ (or interrupt issue) with …

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Earlier today I picked up a few CD’s from K-Mart and GoLow. I picked up the new Bon Jovi album, the Gorillaz CD, and Green Day’s American Idiot. I have not heard all this music yet – but what I …

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Just to show that Sydney has better weather than Melbourne, I just had a phone call from a colleague in Melbourne. He was working in a field in melbourne… And I was here in Sydney, and I can assure you …

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Yesterday I had a call from FedEx… Yes, yesterday was a sunday. They were ringing to let me know that a parcel was in the country, and were wanting to know how I was going to pay the shipping charges. …

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My father is heading off to Thailand today for work. He gets back on thursday – and is going there for some negotiations with his business. Seems to me like a real long way to go for just a few …

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