Archive for October, 2005

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Wow - Dell Answered….

Well, I was on hold for about 10 minutes this morning before I spoke to a gentleman from India

After going through a few checks, he arranged a pickup, so sometime in the next day or so, it will be collected for repair.

And then, were into a whole new world of possibilities But [...]

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Monday, October 31st, 2005

My laptop died!

2 years and 40 days old my Dell Inspiron 8500 has shuffled off its mortal coil.

Luckily its under warranty but we’ll see how we go, Dell service is apparently bad, but I’ll let you know!

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Sunday, October 30th, 2005

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Well, I just spent a couple of hours upgrading my version of gallery from 1.5 to 2.0.1.

Even though i used the ‘1-click install’ feature of my hosting company (I thought I’d be lazy), it still took quite some time to import and configure.

Now its up and running (and on its own sub-domain) I’m happy. [...]

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Saturday, October 29th, 2005

CNN.com - No advice from CDC on Tamiflu hoarding - Oct 28, 2005

“‘Parents should not be worried about their kids catching bird flu this year unless they’re planning on visiting a chicken farm in Vietnam,’ Kaye said.”

CNN.com - No advice from CDC on Tamiflu hoarding - Oct 28, 2005:

Here here!

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Saturday, October 29th, 2005

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Chanel Cole, isn’t she lovely?

sigh

Credit’s to my wife who saw her at the ARIA’s and was thoughtful enough to take a picture for me. 

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Saturday, October 29th, 2005

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I really don’t know if I should be alarmed by this or not: God to help set wages, says Harper - National - smh.com.au

On one hand, being ‘christian’ might make him a little more socially aware than a pure blooded economics man who thinks cheap labour will save the day.

On the other hand, the fact than [...]

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Saturday, October 29th, 2005

W3C validation…

Well, I just spent the last 20 minutes fixing up

http://www.herod.net/steven/ to be W3C compliant, added in links to the photo gallery and setup blogger for the third time in my life….I really should have been out clearing up the garden whilst there is still daylight, but the oppressive humidity (yeah, [...]

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Saturday, October 29th, 2005

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Wow, finally it worked, who’d a thunk it… it only took ‘random clicking’ before picassa, IE, firefox and blogger finally worked out everything was okay.

Anyway, meet my niece ‘little-k’ (apologies to loobylu.com  

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