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The Voice of Silence, Delays and Expectations, Progess

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Hi everyone, I normally apologise for delays, but I am not actually sorry. Any how lets get down to updates which I really wanted to record, hence giving you a video or audio blog instead of what has been referred to by my readers as addictive useful random junk and mountains of monotonous ramblings that [...]

Riverside Gentoo minimeetup and other such fun….

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Hey everyone, Just briefly blogging about the mini meetup we had at 2pm today, I got to catchup with fox2mike, Redhatter and ivanm from #gentoo-au, it has great fun. Redhatter has interesting non photogenic photos of me in his gallery. (I was picking up the napkins he dropped and the wind blew away.) We also [...]

Waiter Is there a bug in my Java ?, Ironic excursion into wilderness results in finding meaning of true hapiness and unintentional death, and some other odds and ends…

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Hi everyone, How are we all ? Silent and uninterested as usual. This update like the last one should have been written and posted earlier, my apologies to anyone who suffered as a result of the delay in writing this. Java Blues (You can get blue coffee ?) I begin to realise know that most [...]

Wedding Bagpipes, The Child on the Bus, Protester Blacklisting,Broken Inside

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Hey Everyone, Long time no update, but it is that time of year. I should have another audio post for the new year and I would actually like to have some feedback on stuff so feel free to comment or email or contact me. First things first. Elaboration on the Title Topics. I have to [...]

Skit time, Out of time, stood on the Slipper, Peaceful Chaos, Can you remember, The Aftermath,Left behind.

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Hi everyone, This post is long overdue I know but given all that I am upto, those who actually bother will understand if not tolerate. Invites are sent out. Currently I am sitting in an empty house, with no way to get down the range to the train station to get to the city. But [...]

A Brave New World, Times are a changing, Go back three spaces ?, Fruit Salad … Yummy Yummy

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Hey everyone, My break is just starting to get busy. I started my research scholarship yesterday. Its two days a week and it is great fun. I am working with Chris Savini, with Michael Lawley (lawley.id.au/blog/) as my supervisor. I will be most likely working on porting diff to MDA & Tefkat (no we didn’t [...]

Sushi, Freedom, Honey, Cupcakes and other such mutterings

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Hey everyone, Second year of university at an end. Just leaving me to hope and pray that I did ok on all the exams I studied and worked so hard for. I am now recovering my mind, soul and what is left of me , by attempting to relax, recooperate and then focus on all [...]

The Joys of Studying Software Engineering

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Hey everyone, Some things I have learnt in my almost two years studying IT / Software Engineering … People skills, teamwork and communication are very important in the developing relationships, friendships, software solutions Coding doesn’t mean Software Engineering, neither does Hacking Software Engineering is usually very much like a Sunday roast, either under done or [...]

Sanitation Frustation, Updates and Blockers, Modelling love , New blue gift of growth

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Hey everyone, I am currently sitting here, cleanly out my laptop’s 100gb hard drive, and updating as much software for my Gentoo as I can since I had to leave the software updates to the weekend as their were several blockers (packages that can’t be installed with other packages), but I believe I have them [...]

OPEC in Austria leaves Sydney secure but abadoned, 438 metres in which directon? Screwing uni doesn’t work…

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Hi everyone, I am very very busy and probably shouldn’t be writing this post, but I figure I may as well now that I have started. Anyhow, OPEC is on in Sydney, Austria and despite the city being shutdown and secured in order to avoid protesting and anything else productive, the Team from the Chaser [...]