Monthly Archives: October 2002

a little self-deprecating humour

for bloggers. I had to have a little laugh at the “techie blogger=togger” desciption. But I don’t think I’d put a computer in the fridge and I don’t read slashdot. But I am an INTP.

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attitude

Yeah it’s all about attitude. Today I’m feeling a bit better and accordingly there doesn’t appear to be 57 ways in which the world will end in the next week. It’s taken me a little while for me to accept

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WE’RE ALL DOOMED!

Uh, sorry I just had to get that off my chest. We aren’t all doomed but i feel like I am. Have had this impending sense of doom all day, despite it being a beautiful day. Am having trouble concentrating

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Queensland: beautiful one day ….

biblically proportioned storminess the next. I’ve been watching CART car races off and on (mostly on) for four years, and of the races that actually went ahead, yesterday’s race at Surfer’s Paradise would have to be the worst. If it

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lawnmowerman

Our lawnmower sits in a storage area under the house. I’d generally thought that people saying the sea air rusts things were exagerating, but it seems not. The cord on the mower that controls the throttle has basically frozen. i

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On the road again

Just thinking of the Ed Kuepper version of the Canned Heat song. Am going down the highway a bit today to see my mum for a day or so. I don’t do it nearly often enough, but I feel too

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mulch this

There’s a vacant block of land with a bunch of trees on it about 50metres up the road and this morning at 7:30 on the dot they started ‘developing’ it. A chainsaw and an industrial strength mulcher. I’ve read that

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red hat 8 – day one

I had a go installing last night but accidentally put GRUB on the start of the /boot partition when I really meant it to be on the MBR. Also, the first try – I whacked the install CD in the

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postie cometh cometh down

I got red hat 8 today which is fantastic, but I still haven’t finished this assignment on Zen Buddhism, which isn’t fantastic. Hopefully I can get it knocked over by this time tomorrow so then can have some guilt-free fun

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Xandros, crossover and KDE

After raving on about nature for a couple of days it feels like time for something computery. Via OSNews earlier in the week I see that Codeweavers have licensed their Crossover plugin to the Xandros Linux OS. Struck me as

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