Last exam is done! This completes my seventh semester of university, out of at least ten.

Attention Firefox 3 users: go to the URL about:robotsHaving a little brother who has just acquired his first phone with a camera is just evil ( Read more... )

Firefox 3 is expected to be released Tuesday the 17th. It doesn't say when, so it may well be Wednesday in Australia. But it will be here soon!

And if you're planning on getting, it (which you all are, right?), you might as well make sure you download it the first day it's released - they're trying to set a world record:


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Lately, when there's a particular thing I want quick details for (such as a writer's bibliography, or the date of a historical figure's death), I find I not only go to Wikipedia, but I type the article url directly to save the searching time. It does follow a simple pattern: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Title . I've only just realised that doing ( Read more... )

Alan* and I have gone over to the dark side. Or rather, the white and shiny, but somewhat confusing side. Oh, don't worry, we aren't there permanently. We are jumping around between this new (for us) shiny side, the old (for us) side, which is dark if you think of the current common outwards colour and the alleged evilness of its creator, and the ( Read more... )

Two webcomics (out of the ones I read) have hilarious, clever, geeky, and standalone strips/pages on the same day? Doesn't happen all too often. So I thought I'd share.

Questionable Content: Part Of This Balanced... Something

xkcd: Network(Yes, they are both geeky humour. But the Questionable Content one is quite accessible to anyone who's even ( Read more... )

Quebec city was beautiful. Lots of pretty buildings, quaint rows of shops, walls and towers and cannons... Some photos are on Flickr, others on Facebook.


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Just in case my last post didn't reveal enough of my inner geekiness, let me tell you what I bought at Borders today.

Megatokyo Volume 1 (to add to my small collection of webcomics-in-print)
Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide (together with my brother)
I CLAVDIVS (the book - we already have the dvds ( Read more... )

So, have you heard anything about the next verson of MS Office yet?

Take a look. Make sure you look at the Making Office Easier to Use article. They've radically changed the user interface. It looks great.

For more Office 12 UI info, see this blog, and this article on the 'ribbon'.