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A new member of the Family.

My lovely Wife has gotten us a pet Fish. Here is a picture of it lurking in it's vase. I was a bit concerned about it on the first night but I think it was just acclimatizing. Seems it's a tropical fish and they need reasonably warm weather so a heater may be on the...

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...

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...

Howards Storage World

Recently went to Tuggerah Westfields because they have a massive Borders book shop that has titles one would actually read. They also have a "Howards Storage World" shop (House hold clutter busters) which I forgot to go into to have a look but just went to their...

Geography – Where the heck is…?

As we watch the news, place names are mentioned and we think 'Hmm that is in the Middle East' or 'Yeah that's in South America' but recently I stumbled upon http://www.geosense.net/ and I've discovered I really don't know where exactly many of the worlds countries are...

Google Telarah – I’m at Page Three

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...

How I got into IT

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...

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