Dropsafe

On the road from Canberra’s city centre to the office there’s a fair bit of construction going on — new appartment blocks being constructed or existing ones being improved — and at one of the sites there’s a big sign next to the pavement that reads “Pedestrians watch out for trucks”. Well, no. If a…

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New photosets posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/alecmuffett/sets/.

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…and it’s a good tale, better than the last couple of books where Harry has been just plain whiney. I’m somewhere between wistful and glad that it’s over, or rather that it has been brought to a proper conclusion – and, perhaps unsurprisingly for a book which deals so much with themes of life and…

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It’s bucketing down outside – the drains in Fleet have lifted their covers, and the roads are up to 5″ deep at the verges. My back patio was 2″ deep when I left, so it’s not impossible I will return to a damp kitchen; at least this would be a novelty compared to some of…

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In Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion he mentions – in passing – something about “North Hemisphere-centrism”. So it was fitting to have read that book the flight to Sydney; and it just made me realise: we really need for someone to make one of these “south-side up” maps and caption it (for those familiar with…

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…is the old die-hard bloggers finally realising that their blogs need an overhaul of look and feel, possibly not to mention method and purpose. Really. Watch this space, or go check out Twitter feeds for Hugh and Winer, although of course as usual they are slightly behind the curve for reasons that will become apparent…

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This works: mlindholm: My Stowaway Sierra keyboard arrived today, and in my poking around (and reading other suggestions) I think I found a hack that fixes the “Fn” menu issue. Edit the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 , and comment out the line: <MENU> = 117; so it reads //<MENU> = 117;

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So I got into a debate with a bunch of my colleagues about an idea I had – that an internal conference we hold every year would be greatly improved if some, perhaps the majority of the presentations were pre-recorded and posted to a corporate-internal YouTube-alike media server. The conference could still go ahead, be…

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Can anyone point me please at a resource that lists all the keyword=value query strings which you can feed into WordPress to drive the search engine? Stuff like (hypothetically): ?author=alecm&year=2006&subjectContains=hamster …or whatnot? muchobliged++

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This is the only decent photo I’ve seen taken of me in years… Photo credit Doc Searls. Writeup of the weekend’s events to follow…

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Tea & Ginger Nuts Takeaway Chinese: plain boiled rice, stirfried pickled duck, spicy prawns and water-chestnuts. Superb. Hachez Cocoa D’Arriba Mango & Chili Chocolate – very good Hachez Cocoa De Maracaibo – exquisite, the best milk chocolate I’ve had Chili Beef Jerky with a chaser of Hereford Cider Brandy How was yours?

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The Perl Song Hitlers Sheffield Utd Suffer Their Downfall Hitler Gets Banned (His Ultimate Downfall) via Adriana

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