Tim's thoughts, words, findings, musings, and rants

Just came back from a two and half hour ride – we went out the back of Kambah, behind some mountain as well as Urambi Hills, and back into the Tuggeranong Town Centre.
It really is great riding back there, except for the fact that you continually have to dodge rocks on the dirt paths, and [...]
Posted: Saturday 18th March, 2006 at 6:43 pm under General
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Rand Fiskin, of SEOmoz, recently interviewed Ammon Johns, focusing mainly on Ammon’s new position as SEO Director at The Search Works. The interview goes over the basis of identifying SEO projects and the clients that want them, and is a small insight in to the way Ammon and his company works. I have the privilege [...]
Posted: Saturday 18th March, 2006 at 3:44 pm under Search engines
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For those of you who like Sudoku, check out Dave Child’s new version – Colour Sudoku! I’ve yet to really get in to Sudoku – I think it’s too complicated for me to handle – but I can see how it can become addictive.
Posted: Saturday 18th March, 2006 at 2:03 pm under Random snippets
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Anyone in the eastern states of Australia (minus Queensland and plus South Australia) who is using a Windows machine may find the following patch useful:
Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Microsoft Products for the Year 2006
Posted: Friday 17th March, 2006 at 5:58 pm under Software
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For my 18th birthday back in January, I got a book. It’s part of the Every Young Man series – of which I’ve read a few books in before – and it’s a relatively new piece.
I hadn’t started reading much of it yet, simply because I couldn’t be bothered. As the book mentions in the [...]
Posted: Monday 13th March, 2006 at 8:52 pm under God stuff, Personal
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Pretty funny thing happened this afternoon – Tom Vendetta, a 15 year old kid from New Jersey in the US, pretented that he got employed by Google. Easy to do, but it went a bit of a distance and fooled quite a few people, until he posted his apology on his blog.
Certainly a quick and [...]
Posted: Monday 13th March, 2006 at 4:58 pm under Internet news, Search engines
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Now that I’m 18, I’ve got into the sharemarket!
After watching Engin (ASX: ENG) shares continue to rise, and after consulting dad on it, I decided to buy several thousand of them. Within a few days, I had made $320 – and I was quite happy with that! I’m slowly beginning to not look [...]
Posted: Saturday 11th March, 2006 at 7:31 pm under Economics
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I just love macro shots – anything close up looks super cool.
Here’s a few of my recent attempts:
The first two were taken at the Australian National Botanic Gardens, and the third was taken at the Australian War Memorial.
It’s amazing how much of your own city you realise you haven’t seen before when you’re showing around [...]
Posted: Thursday 9th March, 2006 at 11:48 pm under Photography
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I’m talking about the new Westpac internet banking sign in screen.
Westpac say they have professionals who advise them on issues such as this, but if these are security professionals, then I personally think they’re short sighted.
The sign in for Westpac’s online banking service has recently been replaced by an on screen virtual keyboard. Instead of [...]
Posted: Thursday 9th March, 2006 at 11:27 pm under Rants, Security
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Google is at it again, with a leaked document specifying some details of “GDrive” – an unlimited online storage facility.
Notes accidentally made public on Google’s website said “With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, [...]
Posted: Wednesday 8th March, 2006 at 1:57 pm under Internet news, Search engines
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