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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
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Post OSDC thoughts

We're very excited that OSDC is going global, with [the next conference](http://www.osdc.org.il/) being organised by the Israeli Perl Mongers and the Python user group! What's more, they're lucky enou...

ConferenceOpen Source
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I need sleep!

We've been encouraging people who took photos to stick them up at [flickr](http://flickr.com/) with the [tag "osdc2005"](http://flickr.com/photos/tags/osdc2005/). Yours truly can even be [seen here he...

Open SourceRandom
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Sad

Random
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WorkChoices: Tell Senator Barnaby Joyce what you think

We have a little over 3 days to get our views to him, and I would encourage everyone who feels this bill can only be a bad thing, to [sign the petition now](http://www.rightsatwork.com.au/campaigns/ta...

Politics
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OSDC : Get your early bird tickets now!

Not only that, but if you register before the 31st of October you will also receive a conference t-shirt.

ConferenceOpen Source