Author: Darryl Smith

The Fergy 8 guys are preparing to leave Dalhousie today for the Simpson Desert trek today. They expect to take about a week to cross the desert, mostly taking the ‘French Line’, a trail surveyed in the 1960’s by a …

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According to the Australian Broadband site Whirlpool, Telstra and Unwired have just reduced their prices for broadband. The Telstra prices are starting to get reasonable. If the Unwired ones covered anything other than Sydney, then I would get Unwired for …

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Thai food for lunch… It was good to have Thai again… It has been a few weeks, and it did not seem as hot this time. Still, I managed to drink over a liter of water during lunch meaning that …

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I love this… This Group of comdians decided to do a U2 imitation on the top of a building… Dressing up as U2, and playing a concert… All in New York… And got a whole lot of their friends to …

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I saw this a while back… And it sums so many things up… This is a version of the USA Defence level system… This image actually changes character depending on what the terror level actually is. I just think it …

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On Saturday, August 20, 2005, eight intrepid men and their vintage Ferguson tractors started out to cross Austalia’s Simpson Desert. The owner/drivers are farmers, contractors and tradesmen from Swan Hill, Shepparton, Walpeup and Young. With their support teams, the group …

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People… I need some help – I have been asked to do an ‘Intro’ talk at the Digital Communications Conference next month. The thing is I do not know what I want to talk on. This is a technical conference …

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With a couple of good friends of mine in London at the moment, and having visited there myself, I was interested to see this article in the SMH about how to do london cheap. They have some suggestions like buying …

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The Space Shuttle had problems in it’s last mission. It had problems getting launched, and then coming back to earth. In the end it landed in California. Now comes news from The BBC that the shuttle has finally been flown …

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Tonight I saw a doco on The Da Vinci Code… And I am more convinced than ever that the book is a great work of fiction. I did learn a number of things though – like that Mary Magnelin was …

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I have just finally finished watching the DVD of ‘Lantana’ – A movie that I have been wanting to see more than a year… and a DVD that I first tried to watch around christmas but I did not get …

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Some links… A few years back there was a ‘Hacker’s’ Camp to celebrate the release of the book “Hacker’s”. I have a first release of the book… and a second edition… And an electronic copy. Well, O’Reilly has re-instated the …

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Strangely, of all the pages on my WWW site, the fourth most popular is a list of Australian Postcodes. Never in a million years would I have thought that this would have been popular. So, rather than remove this file, …

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There is a song by Queen called ‘Radio GaGa’… “I’d sit alone and watch your light My only friend through teenage nights And everything I had to know I heard it on my radio, Radio You gave them all those …

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