K2 0.9

By On 2006-08-15 · 2 Comments

Update 23 August 2006: I’m back to K2 Beta Two, since 0.9 was messing up the formatting of static pages by putting   tags around them. Here’s hoping the next version won’t include problems I don’t know how to fix. *** Tonight I updated this site’s theme to the “latest beta”:http://getk2.com/2006/08/k2-09-release/ of the wonderful “K2″:http://getk2.com [...]

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MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) Preview

By On 2006-08-8 · 3 Comments

I had a brief look at the “Leopard preview material”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/ on Apple’s website this morning before work (Jobs’ WWDC 2006 keynote started around 3am Australian time), and was disappointed. “Time Machine”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html looks gimmicky (and, as someone who already has an automatic back-up mechanism, is not the sort of thing I need), though Apple’s long-overdue multiple-desktop [...]

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eCensus

By On 2006-08-8 · 2 Comments

In Australia, tonight is census night. I’m filling out my form online using “eCensus”:http://www.census.abs.gov.au. Unlike the appalling eTax package Australians can use for their tax returns, eCensus is browser-based (and thus multiplatform), and intuitive. Do the census, everyone! It’s important to be represented in the statistics, and privacy is so last century. Really.

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Where, you say?

By On 2006-08-3 · 1 Comment

“Whereis”:http://whereis.com.au thinks Melbourne’s Chinatown is on Little Collins Street. It’s not. As anyone who lives here, or has a copy of a half-decent map of the city, will know, Chinatown is in fact on Little Bourke Street.

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Big Deck

By On 2006-08-2 · Leave a Comment

Thanks to “Tim”:http://www.timwilson.com.au for this one. I don’t usually post such random stuff, but this had me laughing hard…

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