The Plane
When I go on holiday I tend to go to North America, my last two holidays were Vancouver in 2000 and Florida in 2002. This year we were going back to Vancouver, to see which area we wanted to buy a house in. This has been delayed as my pregnant wife being unable [...]

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MacDevCenter.com: Panther Maintenance Tips [Nov. 21, 2003]
Learning OS X is a lot like owning a Ferrari. Lovely to look at, all sleek, shiny and deceptively simple to use. Then you take the cover off and look at the engine, and realise just how complex the whole thing really is.
The more OS X I learn the [...]

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I’ve updated my MT Blacklist as another spammer has been wasting my time and bandwidth. Hi 213.91.217.* you scum. May your bad karma make your leg fall off (or something).
MT Blacklist has blocked 21 spam attempts so far, 5 have got past it and been manually deleted.
It’s not like I’m big in the blog universe, [...]

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Allow me to clarify something that might just have been understated in my initial entry. I really hate flying. No, wait that still doesnít do this justice.
I. Really. Hate. Flying.
That makes this a little clearer, now allow me to go into this in a little more depth. So whatís so bad about flying? Everything. This [...]

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Creation Robot
On Friday I scoot off for my first holiday in over two years, and my first ever beach holiday.
In a frightening move for all concerned I’m taking the powerbook and shall write up the whole adventure. From the horrendous flight (I REALLY hate flying) to wandering up an active volcano.
Really, how can I be [...]

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Slashdot | IT Workers Not Eligible for Overtime in New Rules
Hidden within the bowls of a discussion on IT salaries and overtime is the gem in the extended entry. Copied and pasted as is from Slashdot.
This is interesting speculation to me, just where is society going. We have the end of oil - sometime in [...]

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Slashdot | Shifting From P2P To Stream Ripping
Weird that I’d looked at this a couple of weeks back. The Mac has great ripping software, I think the Windows stuff is getting there now from what I’ve seen - it probably already is but I’ve only booted up my PC twice in the last 3 weeks.
100% [...]

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Teemings - Extras - The Horror of Blimps
I laughed so loud the entire office looked at me :(
Funny stuff because the same thing happens to me - and probably all of us - from time to time. The whole must wake up NOW full body adrenaline kick.
This has added import for me for two reasons, [...]

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