Tag Archives: Blog

Experimenting

With this blog having been out of action so long, there’s a lot of upgrading to do. I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.5, and to K2 RC6, losing my custom CSS and header image of the Melbourne skyline in the process. … Continue reading

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Slow blogging month

Just a short post to indicate that yes, both I and this blog are still alive and operational. I’m still settling into Melbourne, having been back from Japan almost a month now. I found myself a cheap city apartment, and … Continue reading

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MIT Blog Survey

Today I did a survey that MIT is carrying out. The questions focus on what your blogging practice is like, and on what kinds of people you know personally. If you read this and keep a blog, give it a … Continue reading

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Microsoft copies Ubuntu logo

The MSN Spaces service recently passed out of its beta phase. On visiting the service’s home page, regular readers of OSNews will likely recognise a shocking degree of similarity between the Spaces logo and that of distro-of-the-moment Ubuntu Linux. The … Continue reading

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Personal attacks

Today, dogpossum posted what is, so far, the most antagonistic comment related to my site that I’ve yet received. Her blog doesn’t have permalinks, so you’ll just have to search for 17 March 2005. Currently, though, it’s at or near … Continue reading

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Pugnacious

From Dict.org 1 definition found for pugnacious From Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : Pugnacious Pug*na”cious, a. [L. pugnax,—acis, fr. pugnare to fight. Cf. Pugilism, Fist.] Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting. Notice that I changed the title … Continue reading

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You rich lawyer, you…

Not that this information is of public interest, but since no-one is reading my blog yet, I might as well mention that the aforementioned “best friend Annette” (see Taxnami) was yesterday given an articled clerkship at Brian Ward & Partners, … Continue reading

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