Archive for July, 2006

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Why do network solutions still have a business?

I just renewed herod.net for a further three years (I’ve been going year to year for the past few years).

 I’ve always intended to relocate the domain registration from Network Solutions to Dreamhost for the ease of it, but due to the time pressure (it was valid for only 4 more days) I just decided to [...]

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Monday, July 24th, 2006

Kenny

No, not the south park character, but the intrepid lead in a mockumentary about a portaloo plumber

http://www.kennythemovie.com/ 

Only in Australia could a pair of brothers make a film funded entirely by a Portable Toilet - yep, thats right ‘Splashdown’ the company featured is actually the funder of this film.

Thats reason enough to see it!  (that and [...]

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Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Browser woes…

Okay, I’m on the ‘mac’ (specifically, my better half’s ibook). And I’ve switched back to using Firefox on her laptop instead of Safari - since Safari keeps crashing!

Secondly, I’ve reinstalled Opera 9 on my work Windows laptop to give it a go - after spending the last few weeks as IE as my default [...]

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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

Dubious Science

I’ve been surfing the net, looking into some of the literature about bottle feeding your baby.

There is some very dubious information out there, and this is a classic.

The author, the impressive sounding ‘Dr Linda Folden Palmer’ is infact not a medical doctor but a ‘Doctor of Chiropractic’, and her paper has an impressive list [...]

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