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  • Terminator 3 review

    You can tell that James Cameron was trained as a physicist. His movies have an attention to scientific and technical detail that is sadly lacking from most Hollywood movies, movies like Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. They are replaced by more car chases, explosions and pretty girls. Some of the big concepts in Cameron’s…

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  • At last, Internet from bed!

    It’s not the first time that I’ve connected to the Internet while lying in bed, but it is the first time from the main bedroom. And from the loo. And anywhere else in the house. You see, I setup a wireless network in the house last night. Now I can surf the net on my…

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  • Second thoughts

    After investing so much time writing the ViPeR content management system for the Australian Astronomy Festival and IAU 25th General Assembly Virtual Press Room websites I’m now reconsidering whether to implement it here as well. I have it running already on an Ilisys PHP/MySQL system – I would just need to migrate the existing content…

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  • 4am

    Working until 4am. Will 2 hours sleep leave me feeling a little refreshed? I hope so. I really need a holiday.

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  • Noisy fan

    One of the CPU fans in the system sounds like it’s dying. Very distracting, and it means I can’t leave the PC on all day for fear of it dying. All I needed right now. Maybe it’s a sign that I should have a break. I see that the PC has been up just under…

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  • allrite.net now using Drupal

    I have now setup allrite.net with Drupal, an open source content management system (CMS). I swallowed my pride and decided to go with a third-party CMS rather then one of my own design (as previously used) as it offered more features then I could implement in the time I have available. Drupal has multiuser capabilities…

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