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  • The cabinet of Dr Chorus

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    OK, so this has gone in about 400m from my house. That’s good, right?

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  • Simple guide to burning an .AVI to DVD in OS X 10.4.11

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    Here’s how I burn .avi files to DVD. For a guide to why this guide exists, scroll down. You can click the pictures to make them bigger. 1. Get ffmpegx. It’s free and marvelous. Install and follow all the instructions. 2. Open your .avi and set it to convert to .mov. I accepted all the…

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  • Bloody focus

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    You should read Merlin Mann’s Better post. It’s a superior articulation of my goal this year: to contribute more and consume less. I’m the world’s best procrastinator. I also love the net. That’s a very, very dangerous combination, and I’m trying to redress the balance. I have this blog and sportreview.net.nz – I do them…

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  • Me-ssa load letter

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    Check out Fark.com’s best photoshop contest for a while – Star Wars characters in other movies. Probably not dial-up friendly.

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  • Dispatch from Dial-up hell

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    I was trying to upgrade OSX when the shit hit the fan. Some big downloads meant I’d teetered over my 10GB cap for the month, and my internet connection, my precious, precious broadband was grounded – back to 56KBps I went. For two weeks. Bloody hell. Oh well, we survived for years on Dial-up –…

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  • Links

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    Wired magazine has an oral history of War Games, the film that made me realise Dad’s TRS-80 was capable of more than 10 Print: You are a dick and 20: Goto 10. Possibly. That shit’s *still* really, really funny Kubrick nitty gritty fans should take an hour to watch this, or the time-poor should read…

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  • Me in other places

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    Here’s what I’ve been up to while neglecting this here blog. I thundered in on the recent truck protest, and the Auckland International Film Festival on the Aucklandista Graeme from Sportsfreak kindly published my nostalgic wallowing on the day we beat the Aussies in 1999 I did a couple of awesome (ahem) cartoons on sportreview.net.nz:…

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  • A cynical experiment – LOL!

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    I’m fascinated by people that make money from nothing on auction sites – like this guy flogging a Casio Vl-1 ‘possessed by Satan’. So… a weekend tidy up yielded an innocuous cheese grater – and I decided to write a ‘hard case’ ad on TradeMe, taking full advantage of current hoo-hah over rising food prices.…

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  • Del.icio.us – where to-dos go to die

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    I’ve been using Del.icio.us since April 2005, and saved 2200 pages to the site. Recording and tagging my web travels is great, stopping all those wonderful links from slipping into the digital never-never land. Firefox makes link getting really easy, with Apple or Ctrl – click I get a good eight or ten tabs open…

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  • Unplugged in Opito Bay

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    I went off the grid for a few days with my girl. As I left the office on Friday, I wrestled with my conscience – does the laptop come or stay? With my T3G card, I get reasonable  connection pretty much anywhere – but that’s not really a holiday is it? It wound up staying.…

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