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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
It was bound to happen. People seemed to enjoy the first TV Theme Quiz so I fired up Audacity and created another 30 seconds of familiar ditties. Things were solved pretty quickly last time so I tried to make this one just a smidgeon harder - we will see if ...
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
I don't usually do a lot of Python programming, but I always enjoy it when the opportunity arises. Python is in no way a "clean" language, it has all sorts of warts and limitations that mean that it tends to not get used for big projects. Despite this (or maybe ...
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
I load up Facebook and what do I see?
"Once you've been tagged... (1) Turn on your MP3 player. (2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode. (3) Write down the first 25 songs that come up--song title and artist--NO editing/cheating, please. (4) Choose 25 people to be tagged. It is generally considered ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
I consider myself a fan of spiders. I knew when I bought a wooden house that I would probably end up sharing it with some eigth-legged friends and I was perfectly OK with that. I do brush up their webs if they get too untidy but generally I leave them ...
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
A man reluctantly lets his teenage daughter take a trip to Paris. As soon as she arrives she a kidnapped (or taken, if you will) by an evil white slavery ring. Luckily she was on the phone to her father at the time and manages to scream out a description ...
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
A young girl travels with her mother to a remote military base in the Spanish countryside to live with her stepfather, an army captain. While there, she meets a magical faun who gives her three fantastic quests to carry out. This would be complicated enough, but in the meantime it ...
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
WordPress 2.2 was released a few days ago, and I thought it was a good excuse to finally update the year old version I was running. The upgrade was complicated by the fact that I store a two extra tables in my WordPress database for my WordMap game, but it ...
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
I have just installed Peter's Custom Anti-spam Image Plugin here (as recommended to me by Aggie). Despite having terrible branding, this plugin allows you to comment on any of my posts without having an account, providing you can prove you are not a spambot trying to post links to porn ...
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
It's a Brother MFC-215C, one of those scanner/printer/fax/copier multifunction devices. Its a bit of a jack of all trades but master of none; the included software is pretty terrible (as usual), and for some reason Brother saw fit not to include a USB cable in the box! On the other ...
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Monday, April 9th, 2007
It's Easter, and that means the terrible spectre of Jazz once again haunts the land. These days it seems you can't move 6 feet during Easter without wandering into an extended guitar solo or quasi-funky drum break. Luckily, the highest concentration of Jazz in Auckland is quarantined on offshore islands, ...
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Finally a new game for the Wii has been released! Excite Truck is a monster truck racing game pitting you against several nameless, faceless opponents in races set in various locations around the world. All pretense at realism is thrown out the window - the trucks move at insane speeds ...
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
I have a Wii, in fact I have owned one for 2 months now. I like almost everything about; its small and quiet, unpretentious, and has great functionality. Although it is not as powerful as the other "next-gen" consoles (the Xbox360 and the soon-to-be-released-in-this-market PS3), I actually find this to ...
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
I enjoy my garden; it is coming along well since I moved into my new house several months ago. Recently though, some of the plants have been looking a little worse for wear. In particular, my poor raspberry was all droopy and limp, not its normal raspy self at all. ...
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
I attended the wedding of my friends Simon and Marcia on the weekend. The venue was perfect for such an event, the Indian Garden (one part of the larger Hamilton Gardens), and the weather held out as well. Later we retired to the reception at a local school hall and ...
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
When I first set up this blog, I allowed user comments. This turned out to be a bad idea as my inbox was quickly filled with comment spam, so user comments have been disabled for a long time.
As an experiment I have enabled user registrations, so if you wish to ...
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