Month: December 2011

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My Tweets For The Week

  • Began moving sites over to the new server, so far so not so painful. #
  • Can't believe it. Chose the 10-2 slot for installation and they turned up bang on 10. #it #039;sachristmasmiracle #
  • I hope Bert's school shoes can hold themselves together for one and a half more days… #
  • Happy Gravy Day one and all. #
  • We're all set to walk to school this morning, step out the door and it's raining. Grrrrr. #
  • For those wondering what Gravy Day is; the best Christams song ever http://t.co/IuqJOPcR #
  • One plus of Foxtel so far – hockey in HD. Recording today's game to watch when I'm not so busy. Fingers crossed for a Canucks game one day. #
  • Ah, @paul__kelly on BBC 6 Music, my work here is done. #
  • Spent the evening planning server migration from old host to new VPS. #livingthelife #
  • Made my last school lunch for Bert's 1st year at school this year. Can't believe he's finished Prep #
  • Bert home after a celebratory lunch out. Waiting for the first 'what can I do Dad?'. #
  • "I don't want to be a princess when I grow up. I want to be a doctor!" Cop that Disney and go Moo. #
  • There shall be less swearing this Christmas for I have purchased an electric knife. #
  • (and I bought the remastered 1st season of Twin Peaks at the same time) #
  • Bing Crosby, now it's Christmas. #
  • Wondering if I have weather related migraines. Not a nice way to be spending Christmas eve. #
  • The Happy Feat penguins? Carols just jumped the shark. #
  • Just failed the 'can you tie a pony tail' test. #
  • Either Rudolph has put on weight or that was thunder waking me this morning. Merry Christmas one and all. #
  • Wow. Hail and storm. UPS surge protector tripped. #
  • That was a serious storm. http://t.co/FRbE5J7H #
  • Any suggestions on where I can get a new UPS on boxing day? #
  • Here we hail again. #
  • Tis the season for yelling ads. #
  • Ferals are having a party. Looks like we're sleeping on the sofa tonight. #
  • Classic Law & Order from the 90s, Foxtel looking better by the day. #

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My Tweets For The Week

  • Listening to Harvey Danger, Little By Little. Still one of my all time favourite albums. #
  • Kindle tells me I'm 15% of the way through The Hanging Garden. That's enough for the evening. #
  • Poor wife on the way home thanks to tooth. Frustrating that today it's quicker for her on train than for me to go in and pick her up. #
  • New mouse for my work PC. For the first in years I'm trying a Logitech instead of Microsoft. #
  • At the school picnic for our sins. #
  • Watched the opening of Hard Boiled again this morning. I'd forgotten how spectacular (and bloody) that restaurant scene was. #
  • Any recommendations for an Australian based Windows VPS provider? #
  • Just received my VPS details.Deep breath and here we go… #
  • Go say hi to Emilio at http://t.co/qxm4dXjC – my latest site that's just gone live. #
  • Not sure on this Logitech mouse just yet, may be heading back to Microsoft before too long. #
  • Grrrrrr. One mistake in entering an IP address for the VPS and now I have to wait another 24 hours for the change to propagate. #
  • Looks like The Age has started it's summer time diet already. #
  • Just improved the sync on subtitles for John Woo's The Killer. Can't wait to watch it now. #
  • Just saw a horrific accident. I hope it wasn't as tragic as it looked. #derrimut #
  • We've discovered an odd thing in our back yard – anyone have any idea what it may be? www,http://t.co/YAdWVhhn #
  • Just saw second car accident for the day, police and ambulance blocking off road. #derrimut #thinkiwillstayathomenow #
  • Sadly the 2nd accident was a fatality. http://t.co/JEwr8muC I've seen people do crazy things on the road. #
  • 'the road' was meant to be that road. It's long, straight and no speed limiting devices. Idiots just can't help themselves. #
  • And sadly this is the result. #
  • Woo Hoo! VPS finally propagated. #

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More Concrete

A bit more digging has revealed a bit more.

At the moment is seems one of two things. A cover for something that should have been on our plans but isn’t or a block that was dumped by builders. If only they had have moved it 20 cm closer to the house we never would have known it was there.

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What In The Earth?

We went shopping today. Or plan was to buy a seat/day bed for the deck but they were all too expensive so we went for a stroll around Masters. On our journey we found the perfect plants for the back garden. We’ve wanted some greenery out the back for ages and these were great and within budget.

We brought them home and started digging. All was going well until I was swinging the pick for hole number 2 and whack – I hit rock. At least I thought it was rock. The more we scraped and tried to find the edge the more puzzling it became. Slowly the rock revealed itself to be a rectangle of concrete.

It’s not on any of our plans but does sit within the easement boundary. There’s no identifying marks and it only has one hook thingy. Anybody have any idea on what this may be?

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So now our quick one hour planting has turned in to a major renovation of the back yard. This will be covered up before too long but before it is we’d love to know what it’s doing there.

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Just When You Think You’ve Got Away

They drag you back in….

After careful analysis of the fixture for next year, remembering just how freaking cold it is sitting at the ‘G on a cold winter’s afternoon, being well and truly jack of Channel 7’s treatment of the average footy fan and Rae receiving a bonus at work we’ve bitten the bullet and Foxtel is coming back in to our home.

It’s been about seven years since we unplugged Foxtel and we haven’t missed it all, except for the football. We just don’t watch television that much any more and having an extra 20 or so channels on the basic package only gave us more stuff not to watch. When they dropped the AFL channel that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Now that Foxtel will be broadcasting every game live it has become a much more appealing proposition. We love our footy and being able to see both of our teams no matter when or where they are was just too appealing. I had a quick look at the channels on the basic package that we had to take to get the sports and most seem very similar to the extra channels on free to air. We’ve gone HD too, even though there’s an extra cost (which is ridiculous) but there’s not much point in having a nice telly if you’re not going to use it.

So next week there’ll be an extra box and an extra remote. We’ll probably fire it up every now and then over the next couple of months but come late March it will give the media PC a run for its money. I’m just waiting for some geek on the forums to overcome Foxtel’s latest update and let us run the pay channels through the media PC.

Foxtel on my media PC. Now that would be heaven.

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My Tweets For The Week

  • Struggling already and it's only 9.45… #
  • Let's try that again – Tonight's 'Rae Is Away Music' – Ben Folds Five, Whatever and Ever Amen #
  • Absolutely no focus this morning so I went and mowed the lawns. Feel better now and can actually get work done. #
  • Ah, working from the deck. Perfect day for it. #
  • Perfect day outside, may take the lappy out the back and work from the deck today. #
  • Tried out an @oovie_australia machine at the shops this morning. Quick, easy and best of all today it was free! #
  • Homemade hamburgers and chips, eaten outside. Hard to top that for a dinner. #
  • Scrubbed the deck this morning (thanks Steve) before starting work. All set for a coat tomorrow morning. Plan is to do it early. #
  • Whose bright idea was it to put the Copy and Paste keyboard shortcuts next to each other on the keyboard? #
  • finished Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery by Ian Rankin. My Rebus Kindle treck goes on. http://t.co/lCk3SByb #Kindle #
  • finished Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery by Ian Rankin and gave it 5 stars http://t.co/lCk3SByb #Kindle #
  • Deck done. Hopefully will get another coat on tomorrow morning. #
  • In the interest of energy conservation and keeping things a bit cooler I'm working off the laptop today. #
  • Well done to us. 10% reduction in electricity usage compared to this time last year. #
  • Wow @BBCChrisHawkins @ClaireSlevin – The Pursuit of Happiness on the radio, and not *that* one! You've made my Friday afternoon. #
  • Looking at flights now. #christmasatslevs #
  • Ooops. Meant looking at flights now #boxingdayatslevs @ClaireSlevin #
  • Second coat done for the deck. Had enough left over to do the new table and benches too. Good start to the weekend. #
  • Just how many ways do I need to make an espresso….my wife is a bad influence on me. #
  • Watching Elvis in Hawaii. Aloha baby. #

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The Clan

Thanks to mum, for the first time in many, many years the whole lot of us were all in the one place at the one time yesterday. She had organised a lunch at Plunkett Fowles winery and afterwards the opportunity to have a family photo taken was too good to pass up. So, with many thanks to the random stranger plucked from his lunch table to take it, here is the Malloy extended family portrait.

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Thanks for all the work put in to getting us together mum. It was a great day.

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My Tweets For The Week

  • Multitasking today. As I work I've begun the slow process of ripping our favourite DVDs to the network. #
  • Business and important docs backed up to @crashplan. Hope it's ready for the 50GB of photos now heading its way. #
  • Oh, how I wish I had enabled Undo Send for my Gmail account….sigh. @gmail #
  • Favourite three eps of UK Apprentice – The Interviews, The Scavenger Hunt, Make An Ad. #apprenticeuk #
  • Are @Microsoft time travelling? Copyright notice on the new MSE beta is (c) 2012. #
  • Left over Chinese for lunch…..thanks again Zita! #
  • I can't believe people still do splash screens. http://t.co/t7UA6KbH #
  • Opened a 1lt tub of lemon survey. I don't think there'll much left to go back in the freezer. #
  • Glad so many of my clients seemed to have marked Dec1 in their calendar to start a major projects. 9 emails in one afternoon, all big jobs. #
  • How on earth did it get to be 1.00pm already!?! #

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