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Month: June 2005

  • Google Maps – Australia

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    Google Maps – Australia Google now has high resolution images for Australia availeable. They worked just before I posted this, but now seem to have disappeared. I could even see my house 😀 M

  • Alienware : Starwars System

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    Alienware : The Best Custom Built Gaming PC for the Ultimate PC Gamer! Comes with Hyperspace too but most importantly decent performance and the artwork is not sucky. Impressive. Does not look like the Australian store has this one 🙁 boo hiss!

  • Visual Studio 2005 – BETA2 Arrived Today

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    Woah does it ever take an eternity to begin the installer. It uses all the 3500 plusses of power provided by the Athlon64 powering my machine, and eats up lots of RAM requesting more. I hope that its WinCE/PocketPC/Smartphone development capabilities exceed 2003. VS2003 feel’s very beta-y even in full release. Now I’m just waiting…

  • Formula 1 – is dead!

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    FOX SPORTS | Formula 1 | Schuey wins six-car fiasco (June 20, 2005) Forumla 1 is dead – Killed by the governing body FIA with michelen tyres as the weapon. Well its not really dead, but the beaurocratic mess that is FIA and Forumla 1 now days is sad. I think that FIA have forgotten…

  • Rules to backyard cricket an anthology

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    The ICC in conjunction with Cricket Australia have today released a standard code of conduct for Backyard Cricket. 1. GENERAL RULES 1a. Can’t Get Out First Ball: Curious rule introduced to give the token unco ******** a reprieve. Smart-ar5e batsmen use it to hone their reverse sweep; which becomes interesting when smart-arse bowlers use it…

  • Running a Diesel engine in properly

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    I found this many moons ago somewhere on the great big wide internet and have posted it here for the sake of posterity – enjoy. Rules that apply for the life of the car * When the engine is cold (below the first 3 white marks at the base of the temp gage) rev the…

  • Stout Time

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    Now that the weather is cooling off in the Southern Hemisphere, specifically Adelaide, SA – now is a good time to make some premium home brew stouts. The yeasts used in stout production like cooler weather and its easier to warm up the fermenter if it the weather is cool than to chill it in…

  • A lesson in traction and example of the Audi “S” cars.

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    Dear Nissan Skyrine drivers, I am referring to the rear wheel driven non AWD Godura(Godzilla)/34 aka Povvo model version here. An Audi “S” is fitted with the quattro system and some wonderful electronics from the mad scientists who ovbiously inhabit the labs at Bosch, oh and the fools at Audi take all this cool kit,…

  • Cruise – June 18 – Today

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    When: 9:45AM for 10:00AM departure, Saturday 18th June Where: Harbour Town carpark. Depart Harbour Town, turn left onto Tapley’s Hill Road. Turn right onto Anzac Highway, left onto Colley Terrace, and left into Jetty Road for a fully sick re cruise. (May be pointless and lacking ladies to impress, depending what time you start the…

  • Web Objects Now Free

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    Do you want a $50,000 software package used for sites such as iTunes and formerly the Dell Store and Greater Union’s Australian website. It now comes with XCode 2.1 and requires OS X 10.4 but its FREE. Got a mac, get Tiger (Max OS X 10.4) and download XCode 2.1 today! M