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what terrorism may achieve

22December2004

William Gibson quotes Lord Hoffman (UK House of Lords) on terrorism and the Brit […]

Terrorist Descent

06December2004

Brilliant cartoon in The Boondocks today: it's hard to tell if someone's a terro […]

My Favourite Book

06December2004

So the results of ABC's *My Favourite Book* poll are in. *Lord of the Rings* cam […]

more Centrists

04December2004

Been reading the last couple of months on William Gibson's blog - looks like he […]

Xenon specs leaked

19November2004

There's a document with Xbox2/Xenon specs doing the rounds, supposedly leaked fr […]

Undoing Introversion
or "Hi! I'm an introvert"

Put this together for a uni class, 'Culture, Writing & Textuality'. We were tasked to tell of a cultural encounter where one point-of-view was silenced. Although mine isn't about any specific event, it talks of the encounter between an introvert and the extrovert-dominant discourse in society. I put it together in a blog-like form, so there's a couple different writing-styles in there (although still clearly one voice). It's therefore part-diary, part-reflection...

kill everyone

10November2004

I love how people can point out the hypocrisy in politicians opposing abortions […]

trendy lefties

09November2004

No wonder Catholics form center parties...! Now not only have 2 Coalition inva […]

Xinit/VNC hack

25October2004

Just installed VNC at home. Running the Windows server on our XPHome machine, an […]

countdown to china

22October2004

Finally got some details for departure - now the real countdown begins. Flying […]

digital delivery

30September2004

Ripped unashamedly from Penny Arcade: "Imagine that you had to go to a well ev […]

funky google trick

28September2004

Cool trick, discovered this in a roundabout way. Some librarians got together to […]

appeasement is a dirty word

10September2004

How long till the 'JAKARTA BOMBING' (!!) gets used for election purposes. Johnny […]

pro-one-choice

07September2004

Sydney Uni Life Debate on Abortion today. Unfortunately both sides tended to str […]

another little victory

10August2004

got a letter printed in the uni magazine - Vertigo. Pretty trashy mag really, bu […]

Artorius Rex-tended

23July2004

(Excuse the lame pun). Wrote some more about King Arthur... For now it's basical […]

Crazy Irish-Catholic terrorists

23July2004

The news shows some of the hijackers getting through airport security and people […]

Five and a half pages

23July2004

You'd think that only 12 years after going to war with a country, and barely mor […]

now the banks are beating the scammers at their own game

21July2004

Got a phishing email - one of those ones apparently from Westpac, with a link as […]

I knew he was stupid, but really...

16July2004

Alexander Downer, clever fellow that he is, today admitted that "poverty, disadv […]

Artorius Rex

16July2004

I've wanted for years now to make a film about King Arthur - when I heard about […]

The name of this class, ‘abc’, conflicts with the name of another class that was loaded, ‘abc’

28June2004

Macromedia Flash forums: Wow, I searched all over the web and these forums, an […]

‘at no time did australian troops...’

27June2004

Getting more and more worried everytime Johnny and his posse tell us Australian […]

The Altar Of Reason

10June2004

there's still a web design section coming... Now that uni's finished for the sem […]

Domain.com.au Feedback

17May2004

Hi, I use your website for a client and I find it very annoying/temperamental. M […]

cut and run

17May2004

Didn't think Mark Latham's call to get out of Iraq was very sensible at first (a […]

aligned with evil

11May2004

Trying to rewrite this site in standards-compliant XHTML and CSS, but IE6 is giv […]

snow!

03May2004

Source: Reims web […]

and the winner is ... (syd-en-ey)

01May2004

Ballot's complete and I'm going to Reims, which ended up being my first preferen […]

Jazzy Mix Parts I & II (Beats and Blues)

01May2004

Part One (Beats) **Alicia Keys** *Harlem's Nocturne* **The Roots ft D'Angel […]

Abort

25April2004

I've noticed the issue of adoption come up a few times lately, and I realised: i […]

The Passion Part I

22April2004

Finally got around to seeing The Passion, I've been waiting for the right moment […]

woundedness

18April2004

The priest in today's homily: Time doesn't heal; time just helps you learn to […]

the light in the darkness

18April2004

Went to John Mayer's concert last night at the Sydney Entertainment Center. Amaz […]

Chromies

15April2004

So I went and saw Starsky & Hutch last night, and during the previews there was […]

Fortress Australia

12April2004

Seems like only a couple years ago (ie, the last election campaign) when the Lib […]

flash gallery thingy

08April2004

Putting this here for now - there's a web design section coming, but for now... […]

back back again

25March2004

Been out of it for a while - back at uni means everything's very chaotic, add to […]

The Passion Pre-Viewing

04March2004

ok, so I haven't seen The Passion yet. But these are my comments before I do... […]

Your fetish with the Semantic Web is just an excuse not to organise your thoughts hierarchicly, as God intended

26February2004

I've linked to FTrain.com before. Now here's an interview with Paul Ford, the ow […]

‘the desire to be a patriot and to change things’

18February2004

Another blog entry here. *FTrain.com* is marvellously postmodern - in it's desig […]

I want to be a Free Spirit

14February2004

*Everyday Matters* has some amazing artwork, and some really profound moments in […]

Broken Hearts

14February2004

A nice one for Valentine's Day. *The Morning News* published this photo series w […]