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For your consideration
Last updated on July 6th, 2015 at 03:13 pm Duncan Riley’s Inquisitor website fell into the amateur’s trap yesterday. Duncan went for the easy laugh criticising Disney pushing High School Musical 3 for Best Picture Oscar. What a sloppy piece of writing. Most movies with a “For Your Consideration” ad in “the Trades” are contractually…
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Kids these days
Last updated on July 6th, 2015 at 03:15 pm My 14 year-old daughter came home from school today and was raging against “the government”. I was so proud of her standing up to “the man”. Now that’s a strange reaction – as a kid I was totally neo-conservative. Digging for the details, because indignant 14…
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Upgraded to WordPress 2.6
Last updated on July 6th, 2015 at 03:12 pm Update:21 July 2008 Don’t upgrade to 2.6! wait until 2.6.1 as there are permalink, login and posting problems. Of course this is the first time in years I haven’t taken complete backups before upgrading 🙁 I thought I should mention that I’ve upgraded this blog to…
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How to pronounce Pfizer
Last updated on March 27th, 2017 at 02:31 pm My wife was watching commercial TV tonight and an ad came on saying Australians should get a cholesterol test. This ad and the website being promoted is sponsored by Pfizer Australia. That was in small print in screen at the bottom. So I’m guessing Pfizer sells…
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Relationship Completer Mac AddressBook Plugin
Last updated on July 4th, 2015 at 11:57 am I?ve just installed Relationship Completer on my MacBook to help organise my address book better. It lets me link cards using the relationships attributes built into AddressBook and does away with data entry duplication. Given the iPhone is coming to Australia, and how great MobileMe looks,…
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OpenStreetMap.org Free as in Speach Street Maps
Last updated on July 4th, 2015 at 12:03 pmOpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from…
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27 Dresses short review
Last updated on July 30th, 2018 at 06:08 pm We saw a preview of 27 Dresses thanks to 20th Century Fox and Metro Magazine – since 1968 Australia’s oldest, continuously published film and media magazine. I’ve managed to somehow overwrite the original review – how frustrating. I like a good romantic comedy. Most of my…
