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Adelaide Week

Saturday 9th October, 2004 Leave a Comment

Off to Adelaide this morning, teaching a class there for some business partners, and taking the opportunity to go visit my family while I’m there. My sister is in Clare and my parents are in Murray Bridge, I’ll be spending time in both locations while I’m around. I enjoy driving through the South Australian country … [Read More »]

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Buffy Bargains

Wednesday 6th October, 2004 Leave a Comment

As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, we have been buying the Buffy and Angel DVD boxed sets and watching the series in order. When first released, each set (two sets to a season, three DVDs per set, four episodes per DVD) cost over $80. More recently, some stores have been trying to move excess stock … [Read More »]

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Happy Job Day to me

Friday 1st October, 2004 Leave a Comment

It’s a couple of days late (been a busy week !), but Tuesday the 28th was my 4 year anniversary of joining “Big Blue” (aka IBM). Given it was during the Dot.com era I joined, I honestly didn’t expect to stay with IBM past about 2 years – that was the longest I’d ever been … [Read More »]

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Melbourne week

Sunday 19th September, 2004 Leave a Comment

Off to Melbourne tonight – spending a week in Melbourne. I was going to be attending some training, but it got cancelled at the last minute. Rather than cancelling the trip, I made some quick phone calls and started to tee up some meetings with business partners in Melbourne. I’m going to spend the week … [Read More »]

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SETI milestones

Friday 17th September, 2004 1 Comment

I’ve been participating in the SETI@Home project for just over 5 years now. This basically means that I run the SETI analysis program on my computers (in idle time, when I’m not using them), which helps to search for signs of Extra Terrestrial Intelligence being picked up by radio telescopes. As of right now, I’ve … [Read More »]

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