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Some of they guys at work went to see Tim Minchin this week. Wish I could have gone, check out this great short song: “If You Open Your Mind Too Much Your Brain Will Fall Out (Take My Wife)” mp3 link.

Like PragDave, I love a good cheese. Time for everybody’s favorite segment: my cheese story of the week.

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Closure Proposal 0.2

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been pinged a few times by cow orkers in the FishEye development team who were complaining about a mysterious JDK1.5 dependency in our code. Their development builds were breaking on a JDK1.4 JVM with an error like: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.StringBuffer.append(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)Ljava/lang/StringBuffer; The sweat started pouring the first time I got that complaint; [...]

Like shaved Parmesan over a spicy meat sauce, I stay on top of the antics of non-believers at FSM HateMail. And although I am but a midget in the FSM’s grand plans, Pastafarian know that we are all His creatures, and that He touches us with His Noodly Appendage. And lo, today I saw proof! While reading this entry at FSM HateMail, [...]

While reading the computer section of today’s Canberra Times (10 July 2006, page 14), I spotted this little gem. The talent pool in Canberra must be drying up and we are now importing aliens. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Hopefully they will turn up the the next CJUG meeting. Lets all welcome @^qebdafkb G^hqj ^k [...]

It’s our last day in San Fran, and Terence took us for a nice little tour of the city. If nothing else it was noteworthy because we were finally showed were we could get some good coffee. We are now sitting in Ritual Coffee Roasters (or “Cafe Web two dot oh” as Terence calls it). Great coffee, [...]