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A crude future
I have just finished watching the ABC documentary Crude about the origins and history of oil and the consequences of its use. The thought provoking video is available from the above linked website. By looking at the conditions that produced the major oil reserves the documentary ponders whether our burning of oil and other fossil…
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Discovered!
Can't keep secrets from my wife. There goes the surprise, but oh well, so long as she's got a smile on her face I don't mind. That'll teach me not to clear my browser history and log out properly! It feels good to be playing the keyboard on a Friday night. Letting my fingers loose…
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Frames and javascript navigation
Yesterday I had to dust-off my frameset and Javascript knowledge for a project we are undertaking at work. We are putting together a DVD where the navigation system is in HTML while the contents may be HTML pages, PDF's, Flash animations or movies. Now, most of my coding is server-side scripts, primarily in PHP, but…
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Live and loud
For the past two Saturday nights I have been subjected to two very different live singing performances. The first was entitled A Night in Middle Earth, performances of Tolkien's verse to the music of Donald Swan and Benjamin Britten, interspersed with my youngest brother reading excerpts from the books and his wife performing interpretive dance.…
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Hot dogs and temptation
As we drove back along the F6 on Saturday under clear blue skies we realised that it had been over a year since we had gone on a decent length road trip in the country. That morning we had taken Kita to Hanrob for his weekly obedience lessons. He still has a bit to learn,…
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What am I doing?
Due to an urgent need to visit the dentist I worked from home today. Fortunately B was able to wangle a rostered day off and sat reading her book with Kita on the daybed in the study. The sun was shining, music playing out loud and I was able to wake later than usual. It…
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