Monthly Archives: January 2005

Louise granted residency.

We went for our immigration interview today, to prove we live in a defacto relationship. They believed us, phew, after 18 years I should hope so!

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Mt Buller pictures published

I’ve posted some pictures from last weekends event . I think one of the TV networks attended but I’ve no idea when it’s going to be on the box, so keep an eye on the TV guides.

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Australia Day

It’s Australia Day today and I spent this morning at my citizenship ceremony. So there we have it, I’m now an Australian.

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Moving office

Messagelabs is moving to a new office, still in North Sydney and slightly closer to home.

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Porsche Mt Buller Sprint, great fun.

We went to the second annual Porsche Mt Buller Sprint this weekend. We flew to Melbourne then headed north west for three hours by rental car. We drove all the way up to the top of the mountain and stayed … Continue reading

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http://www.banes.org/ online

Well I finally got the family web site setup at http://www.banes.org/. It’s taken a year or so of thinking about it, and just a couple of weeks of evenings to get it setup, all thanks to Mambo

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OK, I’m using Skype…

I thought I’d managed to escape one ‘net craze, but it does look good on a Mac under OSX and it is rather cool chatting from laptop to laptop and IM’ing at the same time. But the real deal is … Continue reading

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Tasks and Tasks Pro

I’ve been using Alex king’s Tasks and Tasks Pro for a while now and can highly recommend them.

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The Motorsport Calendar

Well I finally got The Motorsport Calendar up and running, thanks to ExtCalendar 2. If you’re interested go to http://www.motorsportcalendar.com/

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It’s Sunday and it’s hot

The hot weather makes you feel very lethargic. I think it’s that and interrupted sleep because of the heat. We should buy a portable air-conditioning unit.

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NZ Targa

I just watched Channel Ten’s one hour program about Targa New Zealand. The event looks good. I like the fact that the regulations for the cars are a bit more relaxed, except around the safety equipment.

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It’s the end of the week

It’s been a strange week, feels like left over jet lag and bit of depression thinking about mum’s passing and life worries in general. Maybe the weekend will clear all this up

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It was the images

So now I have to work out why and if there’s a fix. Maybe I just need to make sure the images are a certain size, small.

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Porsche Mt Buller Sprint

The second annual Porsche Mt Buller Sprint looks like being an intersting event, I’m going to pop down there on one of the three days and see if it’s worth putting an entry in for 2006. That’s far enough away … Continue reading

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New Apple products

Apple just released some interesting things. A new Mac, called Mac mini, they should have called it Mini Mac. A great new iPod, called iPod ‘shuffle’ and iWork ‘05. iWork is a bit disappointing because it’s just Keynote plus a … Continue reading

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A problem with some articles

Some articles appear to cause the page layout to shift left. I’ve made sure all the linked sections, pages and forms match in both syntax and layout but the problem persists. I’ve got a feeling it’s the ones with embedded … Continue reading

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New site live for 2 days

Well the new site has been live for two days now and I’m slowly getting to grips with Textpattern the CMS I’m using. Although I must admit that I’ve nearly trashed the whole lot and gone to Mambo several times.

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Personal in car GPS navigation

A couple of years ago I imported some small GPS devices that connected via USB and managed to get them working on a pocket PC (iPaq). Well finally you can buy them as integrated devices. The Navman PiN runs PocketPC … Continue reading

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