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Definition of life-long friends...

On leaving her job at Channel 10, Jennifer Hansen was reported to have said that:

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Am I a Geek?

> A geek (pronounciation /gi:k/ ) is a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by obscure or very specific areas of knowledge and imagination. Geek may not always have the same meaning as the t...

RandomPersonalTechnology
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Being British

Some of the emails are hilarious but this is one from a chap in Switzerland.

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MySQL Backup Script

``` #!/bin/bash # MYSQL Backup Script # # Creates: # $BACKUP_PATH/ # '-- yyyy-mm-dd/ # |-- database_name.sql Full database backup # `-- database_name/ # |-- table1.sql Individ...

TechnologyOpen Source
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OSGERMS renders a page

Okay, so it only says "Hello", but it's a start. The system is separated into a share and docroot directory, where the docroot contains a symlink to the index.php in the share directory, and deploymen...

Open Source
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PHP Training Australia web site launched

Yes folks, the wheels are moving. We've designed a few modules and are about ready to give our first course. There's probably another week's work to do, and then we'll announce the first course date, ...

Work Life
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BAHS Web Site Goes Live

No reason it shouldn't have, but after a major email outage after their last DNS update a few years ago, I'd been warned that they'd had little success and that I should proceed with extreme caution.

HostingOpen SourceUncategorized
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Bourke

We had planned to meet Judy at the Aboriginal Health Service the next day, but forgot it was a public holiday. Tuesday morning we found out she was on holiday. But all was still well, as Michel helped...

Open SourceRandom
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Dubbo Zoo

We left the pub at 11pm just after the police arrived to take away a very drunk and very loud young lad to go back and drink a bottle of bubbly outside our cabin.

TravelUncategorized
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West Wyalong

1 day into our holiday at BogieBush, Sandrine decided to drop a beam on her finger, as you do, and was forced to relax instead of work. Anyone who knows Sandrine knows this simply meant struggling wit...

TravelUncategorized
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Wanna buy a shed?

Here's the story. The neighbours I referred to in the [previous post](https://bendechrai.com/2005/12/20/weekend-warriors/) have decided to sell (again - long story) but there may be a sticking point i...

Environment
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Weekend Warriors

That is until someone gets hurt.

Environment