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Have you heard of a Conservation License?
Although the land is not your by title, while you have a license for conservation, it it yours to do with as you please as long as you're acting within the guidelines of the license. Bulldozing the wh...
Even real people say stupid things...
I would imagine having extra people pointing hoses at fires can only help, whereas sending untrained people to war is tantamount to murder. Now whether there are enough hoses to go around is another m...
Definition of life-long friends...
On leaving her job at Channel 10, Jennifer Hansen was reported to have said that:
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...
Being British
Some of the emails are hilarious but this is one from a chap in Switzerland.
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...
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...
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, ...
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.
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...
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.
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...
