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Port Macquarie – Holidays
We just spent a week in Port Macquarie. The place is filled with what appear to be largely empty holiday apartment buildings. We went in an off peak period so I assume that the place must really hum when it fills up. The beauty of Port Macquarie is the Coastline. A...
How to tell what version of Ubuntu you are running
Here are a couple of methods to determine which version of Ubuntu you are running: The contents of file:///usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html has the "Welcome to " information. In my case that is "Welcome to Xubuntu 7.04!". The version number equates to what...
Roof Quote – Talkin’ about my Renovation
Got a roof quote today. So the eventual plan will be a new Colorbond roof with Colorbond Facia covers. A Fiberglass Wool blanket is also planned to add a little more insulation.
Baby Einstein DVDs
The Age has an article debunking DVDs that purport to help your baby become a genius. Clever marketing is all I can say. The Sales and Marketing Professional asks "What is it most Parents feel guilty about not giving their Children enough of?" Time! So some clever...
Profound Nothing
I have been browsing the internet and looking at blogs, usually using StumbleUpon because my craving for spontaneity means that the "mouseclick gamble" it provides fulfills the desire to be entertained and suprised. Bloggers have a certain conceit that other people...
Compiling xfburn on Fedora 7
Fedora sevens xfce4 package is a steaming pile of incompleteness. Here are very rough steps to getting xfburn going. wget http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/libburn-1/libburn-0.3.2.tar.bz2 wget http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/libisofs-1/libisofs-0.2.4.tar.bz2 do...