Monthly Archives: June 2007

“Mac or PC” Rap Music Video

Fun video…

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What water restrictions…

Amusing picture, courtesy of a news.com.au reader. Read the sign.

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Wearable displays

Craig just pointed me towards some cool wearable display technology.

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Sidetracked

Got very sidetracked to day, I started out working on my Ruby on Rails skilling up project and got into Rails plugins, which led me to the forge, which led me to RadiantCMS and then to Terralien where I considered paying … Continue reading

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Hummer limo…

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iiNet + iTunes

Good to see mainstream ISP’s in Australia supporting new media by offering unmetered downloads of iTunes purchases. Well done iiNet.

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Spitting the dummy…

Well, I’ve made good progress, but stuck when arriving at p182. Part III: real Rails. Listing 9-2 on the next page has a ‘require_gem…’ at the start of the page and try as I may i can’t get past this. 

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Aptana

Well, I discovered that Aptana have taken over RadRails and downloaded their IDE. After a few hours messing around and using MacPort to install Ruby, Gems and more I’ve got to the stage where I can run the first example … Continue reading

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Ruby on Rails

I’m going to have another run at Ruby on Rails this weekend, I bought ‘…for Dummies’ so maybe that’ll kick me off and then I can go back to the other books I’ve purchased to get further into the technology.

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Second Life products…

As I get more involved with Second Life, as my first venture into a virtual world, I’m uncovering some fantastic products and some very talented people. Take a look at Maximum Minimum and you’ll see what I mean.

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Apple Safari for Windows

I’ve just installed Safari (Apple’s web browser) for Windows (beta) and it’s rendering  pages a lot faster than IE7 and maybe faster than Firefox. I’ll grab the OSX version and see if that’s faster than v2.

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OpenID

I’ve just been listening to Security Now’s blog and Steve Gibson talking about OpenID. This looks great and along the lines of a federated online authentication system that we’ve tried to get off the ground in Australia. There are a … Continue reading

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WordPress stats…

I’ve plugged in two stats packages, one from WordPress.com which publishes davidbanes.com stats on WordPress.com and another (WP-ShortStat) that keeps simple stats on the blog linked from the dashboard.

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Sh!t weather here!

We’re on along weekend, Queens birthday, weather has been sub-tropical storms for the last few days, roads being washed away, trees flying down the street and amazingly Lou’s hairspray finally let go this evening…

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Airbus..

The big Airbus just flew over our place next to Sydney harbour, it’s big, but not at all noisy. Full of Qantas guests I think.

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AXIGEN Mail Server

The AXIGEN Mail Server is now available from Cleartext. We’ve selected this platform for two reasons, 1) It’s built be Gecad, the European company that used to develop the famous RAV Antivirus, so they know security, 2) They have a … Continue reading

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Amazing YouTube video

Of some buffalo fighting off some lions after loosing a calf to them. Battle at Kruger

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