Blog Archive

Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.

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Falling Pots

As you walk around an inner city suburb with high apartment buildings, you may see many balconies with pot plants sitting on the ledges. You may also wander if those...

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Fire

Across the road from our building is another old warehouse converted into apartments: one of the Mark Foys buildings. This is not the original store, that’s now the Downing Centre....

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The Observatory

Back in October last year, we spent a weekend at Sydney’s Observatory Hotel for our anniversary. A very nice weekend; their restaurant (Galileo) is highly recommended.

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The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern ‘The Good Parts’ Edition, Abridged by William Goldman

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New Years Eve 2007

We moved to Sydney at the beginning of 2007. This city is quite renowned for a reasonably good fireworks show on a pretty nice harbour for New Year’s Eve, and...

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Positive Change

There was a federal election in Australia, just last weekend: the 24th of November. This election went a lot better than the last few years worth of elections. John Howard...

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