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Hurricane Gustav
Today’s evacuation notice in New Orleans was surprising in its force and conviction. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7590332.stm Should be interesting to watch what happens this time. I liked this little loop of the storm to date (I think this link is live data … Continue reading
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The Blue Mountains
img.bluemountains { background-color: whitesmoke; border: 1px solid lightgrey; padding: 13px; width: 590px; } Whilst pushing bytes around to free up some space I stumbled over some old photos I wasn’t all that excited about at the time. Perhaps not so … Continue reading
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Wake Up Sydney!
My brother has just started riding his bike to work… in San Francisco. The Sausalito Ferry carries about 40,000 passengers a month according to the Report of the General Manager Sausalito Ferry Bike Room The Manly Ferry carries about 470,000 … Continue reading
Pray for James
Walking down Manly corso – “Hey mate, can you tell me how far it is to Melbourne?” Never one for a straight answer – “Well probably a bit far to walk”. We get to talking. He not looking for directions … Continue reading
Localization trap in Yahoo’s YUI Calendar
Quick note to self and others having just wasted several hours trying to get Yahoo’s YUI calendar to work with dates in the format “2008-06-19″. Working from this example I was only setting the “DATE_FIELD_DELIMITER”. It refused to work, but … Continue reading
Oztion option opted-out
No joy. I listed my item for 10 days and didn’t get a bid. Just for comparison I’ve relisted the item exactly the same – words, photos, conditions, duration, pricing, everything onto ebay. Sold on day 3. Its a great … Continue reading
Oztion vs Ebay
I’ve been a member of ebay since January 2001! I’m finding myself joining the chorus of people getting a little disgruntled about them. The fees used to be nice and trivial, but now they’re starting to get significant. The latest … Continue reading
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Surf Report
Sizable. High Tide at 10am. Pressure to go before the wind gets into it. Didn’t count but possibly 100 in the water for the dawn session. Went but got nothing without four or five friends. Cut it short till crowd/tide … Continue reading
Still Taxing
Today’s grand triumph seemed like such an elementary question that I was hesitant to even call the tax office. Merely asking such a question would immediately reveal I’m way out of my league and thus the Tax Police would come … Continue reading
