September 2011
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Test →
Testing, please ignore
December 2010
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October 2010
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I'm on holiday now!
After waiting for more than 2 months I’m finally on my adventure holiday - off to a sailing trip around the Whitsunday Islands.
I’m sitting in Brisbane airport while writing this. I’ve been working out how to do things quickly and conveniently, in regards to blogging about my holiday and sharing photos that I take. I’m using my iPad instead of a laptop, so it’s...
September 2010
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August 2010
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Lessons to live by
ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
THREE. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
FOUR. When you say, ‘I love you,’ mean it.
FIVE. When you say, ‘I’m sorry,’ look the person in...
“How you see your reality is a mirror of your inner reality. What happens around...”
– I’ve been pondering this for a number of years now. I find a lot of frustration in my world around me, and I’ve been thinking about what that means for my world within me.
For me to be frustrated and angry with events around me, that are outside of my control, there is obviously a lot...
There's this girl...
She’s at work, and I’ve found her quite attractive. Tonight, as I was about to leave work, she did something odd.
I was packing up my stuff, and I noticed she did too. As I started to walk out, she finished packing and ran a bit to catch up with me as I walked down the corridor, and we walked out together. We exchanged in a bit of small talk before parting ways.
Running to catch...
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Internet Explorer 9 Beta Launches on September 15 →
Microsoft will be launching the completely revamped Internet Explorer 9 at an event in San Francisco on September 15, but will it be enough to turn the tide in the war for web browser supremacy?
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Album - Beautiful winter's day in Canberra
The Year America Dissolved →
It was 2017. Clans were governing America. Clans organized around families and individuals who possessed stocks of food, bullion, guns and ammunition.
The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and...
Share your Tumblr blog with Facebook!
So I wanted to allow visitors to share any posts or videos or links or whatever with their friends, so I did a bit of research to work out how, and I think the best option is to share on Facebook, ‘cause pretty much EVERYONE is on Facebook. So here’s some instructions for you to do the same on your own blog.
Click on Customize at the top right of your Tumblr blog.
Click on Theme....
Thank God!
Many people thank God for something good happening. I saw someone on Twitter thank God for vaporisers. It made me wonder… What about the MAN (or woman) that invented the vaporiser? Shouldn’t we thank them? If they were inspired by God to make a life-saving device, then sure, we can thank God. But what about the inspiration behind the invention of weapons of war? A device that kills...
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Whitsunday Islands, here I come!
I’ve just finished organising a holiday for late October sailing around the Whitsunday Islands on this sailing boat (to the left). It’s going to be so exciting! It’ll be for 3 days and 3 nights. I’ll have my own room ‘cause I’m not interested in sharing a 4-bunk room with a bunch of strangers. Plus they might not appreciate my snoring….
I’ll be...
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Key WikiLeaks Figure Detained →
Pentagon officials have been searching for Julian Assange for quite some time, and officials have refused to rule out “targeting” him for his role in the leaks of 92,000 documents related to the Afghan War.
July 2010
28 posts
Apple Magic Trackpad: The Beginning of the End for... →
10 Ways Blogging Can Improve Your Life →
Have you ever read a blog and thought about starting one yourself because you could do as good a job? Most of us could benefit from keeping one. Especially those with small business aspirations!
“When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two...”
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How I became a Foursquare cyberstalker →
Move over Twitter, there’s a new social networking tool everyone’s talking about. But is Foursquare, which reveals your exact location to other people, a stalker’s dream? Leo Hickman reveals how he used it to follow a stranger.
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Comments on Tumblr
I didn’t even realise that no one could comment on posts I made on Tumblr… I’d just assumed that EVERYTHING these days allows comments. Well, I found out it was everything except Tumblr…
But have no fear! I found a solution. If you want to allow comments on your own Tumblr blog, then go here and follow the instructions:
http://disqus.com/comments/tumblr/
You’ve got...
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The art of negotiation
So I went to the store yesterday to look for a home theatre system to go with the TV I bought just over a month ago. I found what I wanted, and went to find a sales assistant. I asked him what deal he could do for me on the $999 system. He told me that he couldn’t, or he’d get fired. I looked at him and asked if he was new, and he said no, he’s been here a long time.
“But...
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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War... →
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, 39, discusses his decision to publish the Afghanistan war logs, the difficult balance between the public interest and the need for state secrets and why he believes people who wage war are more dangerous than him.
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Australian government blocks out 90% of document... →
pamela-emmons:
Australia’s web-censors have outdone themselves. After Stephen Conroy (the Australian minister notorious for proposing the Great Firewall of Australia) promised greater transparency in his government’s efforts to regulate the Internet, they replied to a Freedom of Information request on plans to monitor Australians’ internet traffic with a document that was 90 percent blacked...
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Media Deception →
Many people would rather not know about the major manipulations happening in our world. Believing that it is better to focus only on the positive, they choose to avoid looking into the shadows. Yet would you ignore a friend who was about to harm someone or commit suicide?
As long as we collectively choose ignorance over awareness, these manipulations will continue. In fact, they will likely grow...
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How to find good books to read →
When it comes to reading, one important problem is how to find good books to read. After all, the goal of reading is to get as much value as possible. Don’t read just for the sake of reading. Read to somehow improve the quality of your life. That’s why it’s essential to find books that are worth your time.
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OMG... No internet!!
After a couple years of very bad ‘quality of service’ from my internet provider, I decided to upgrade to Telstra, Australia’s main telecommunications provider, to bundle cable tv, phone and internet all in one, which is going to be cheaper than how I was doing it previously. And I’m hoping that the quality of service will be much better! So the phone was transferred over...
The 7 Secrets of Running a Wildly Popular Blog →
Did you ever wonder why some blogs attract tons of readers and others don’t? Of course you’ve wondered. We all have. Because if you’re reading this blog, you almost certainly have a blog of your own. You think it’s great, and you want lots of other people to think it’s great too. So what’s the answer? Why do some blogs become more popular than others?
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The war on photography →
Today, most people walk around with a camera of some sort in their possession. Point-and-shoots, DSLRs and tiny video cams—not to mention cellphones—have become ubiquitous. And yet it seems that in many public locations, security officials are touchier than ever about letting people actually use those cameras. Our guardians of public safety often have the idea that shooting pictures in...
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Gurkha ordered back to UK after beheading dead... →
This is just ridiculous. A Gurkha beheads a Taliban commander so that he can be identified later, because they were under fire and the whole body could not be removed. As a result, the Taliban complain that the soldier’s actions were ‘inappropriate’ and the Gurkha was shipped back to the UK where he’s awaiting a court martial. How ludicrous!
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Beautiful winter's day in Canberra - Photos →
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Earth's upper atmosphere collapses. Nobody knows... →
An upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere recently collapsed in an unexpectedly large contraction, the sheer size of which has scientists scratching their heads, NASA announced Thursday.
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How To Use Tumblr To Inspire Yourself and the... →
Do you feel like you’re just not inspired enough when it comes to everyday things? Do you have days when you’re inspired and creative, sandwiched between several days of monotony? Do you approach your daily cooking by pulling mince meat out of the fridge as you run off to work and figuring it’ll just have to be spaghetti bolognaise again? It’s not just you, you know.
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Create Tumblr Bookmarklet in Safari on the iPad →