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At the moment if I do a google of the word "Telarah" I am on page three of the results. If I do a google of "Telarah Linux" I am at the top of the results. Search engines results are interesting but sometimes I feel as if the only visitors to my site are my mother 'hi...

As a teenager I had no interest in computers. I was interested in how things worked. So when I finished year 10 at Moss Vale High School my mother said "If you're not going to go back to do year 11 and 12 you have to get an apprenticeship". So I got an apprenticeship...

Train-spotting Or more precisely Coal Train Spotting. You can make note of the engine numbers and count the coal carriages. I spent a thrilling 20 minutes one day counting 80 carriages. Only problem is I don't have an Anorak

So I had a call from my friendly Bank the other day. Which Bank? I'll let you figure that out on your own. Anyway, So they are saying `how am I liking my Home Loan etc etc' and I'm like fine, fine it's all going just peachy. Then I say however one things got me...

OK so we have the `Rutherford Industrial Estate' nearby but what about the Silicon Valley of the Hunter? I propose `Telarah Technology Park'. We could put it right near Bunnings and cater to everyone that is interested in starting a high tech business. I'm sure at...

So I moved from Singleton to Telarah about 3yrs ago. Telarah is a suburb of Maitland and it traces it's birth back to the post '55 time(I think) when flooded houses were moved onto new lots, up on the hill out of the flood waters (my house has river mud in the...

So I went to the book shop at Greenhills Shopping Centre the other day and shelled out thirty dollars on "Online Investing on the Australian Sharemarket" Edition 3 by Roger Kinsky. I'm up to chapter 3 and I find it very readable. I haven't been flummoxed by jargon as...

Life sometimes expects us to be jugglers. Unfortunately juggling isn't one of my skills. Recently we have had the Hunter River flooding it's banks making travel impossible. Many people have been flooded and the general unsettledness of the district is palpable. I will...

Proving I am a creature of habit. Just went to make myself a cup of Coffee and reached into the fridge for the Milk. Unfortunately what was in it's exact location, in the same 1 litre Tetra pack style of packaging, was Gravox. Needless to say I had to remake my...

We live in the Hunter Valley. Not suprisingly the Hunter River flows through the Hunter Valley. Because it's a broad flat flood plain flooding is common. Around Maitland the Telegraph Poles have signs indicating flood levels from the big floods of 1955. We are...

Do you have a dog? Some of us had dogs when we were younger and enjoyed their company and antics. As we got older and moved away from the family home a dog was not something we considered necessary and indeed became an impediment to renting property. But once you buy...

Today is Saturday and I am approaching the last day of my weeks annual leave from my job. I work as a "Systems Engineer" - which for the company I work for means: "Jack of all Phones and Computers and the bits that tie them together". The thing about holidays, and I...

Today I was sitting in a shopping centre food court waiting for my wife to return. So I indulged in a spot of people watching. One particular person caught my eye. This woman had a hot chip in each hand and she was waving them both in the air. It almost looked like...

Just been checking out my apache logs. And there seems to be a lot of Blog Crawlers and other interesting access's going on. Probably just the mindless automatons sifting through things they can't comprehend. I wonder when their masters start to discriminate and value...

Just as I was arriving at Bunnings to look at items for my bathroom renovation. I noticed some charming individual had purchased a car battery, and decided to change it in the car park, leaving the old one in the car space. Should I be suprised? No, I suppose I...

One of the facts of our existence is we have only 70 or so years to live before we fall off our perches and join the newspaper and other items at the bottom of our metaphorical cage. However recently my siblings have decided to reproduce. Yay! I must say it's brought...

Written by James McDonald Monday, 11 December 2006 So we ended up going to see Al Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth”. If I can admire someone for the delivery of information then Al Gores presentation gets an A plus.I know a few people who "Don't believe in Global...

Following is a list of the opensource apps I use and the windows application that they replace. OSS Application Replaces Remarks The GIMP Adobe PhotoShop Feature rich image editor. Takes time to get the hang of all the little techniques but is very powerful. Scribus...