Month: January 2007
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The strange, strange world of tax
As I mentioned below, I just got a new laptop. Despite the fact that it cost twice as much as a desktop. Why? [Section 58X(2)(h)](http://www.austlii.edu.au//cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/legis/cth/consol_act/fbtaa1986312/s58x.html?query=laptop) of the [Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986](http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/fbtaa1986312/), which says: > each of the following is an eligible work related item : […] a notebook computer, a laptop computer or…
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18/1/07
Weight: 109.0kg Breakfast: Weet Bix & OJ Lunch: Vegemite Sandwich x 2 Dinner: Chilli with Cous Cous Snacks: Beer after work Total Calories: 1,326 cal Exercise: None (raining 🙁 ) Ladder: na
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What’s stranger?
That someone made a [film about the Helvetica font](http://www.helveticafilm.com/)? Or the fact that I really want to see it now… (Via [Daring Fireball](http://www.daringfireball.net/)).
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My shiny new laptop
Shortly before Christmas my [old Powerbook laptop](http://www.apple-history.com/?page=gallery&model=pg4_12&performa=off&sort=date&order=ASC) started doing two distressing things. Firstly, it started getting really, really hot and was working really slowly. Secondly, and even *more* worryingly, the hard drive was making funny noises every time it got used. So I very quickly stopped using it, which is the other excuse that I…
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Wii unboxing
In the rest of this entry are the pictures from when I got my shiny new [Wii](http://wii.nintendo.com) back in December. I didn’t post the pictures at the time due to my laptop explosion. Warning: only geeks will care. For the rest of you: the Wii is great fun, and I wish I had some more…
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Papercraft Christmas
One of my christmas presents this year was this a papercraft penguin. This weekend just past I found the couple of hours to make the thing, and here it is, looming from the bookshelf in my home office.  Some more pictures after the cut. This thing is huge: 53cm tall.
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17/1/07
Weight: 109.1kg Breakfast: Weet Bix & OJ Lunch: Vegemite Sandwich x 2 Dinner: Fillet Steak with Potatoes and Peas Snacks: None Total Calories: 1221 Exercise: Cycling, 20 mins Ladder: na
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What the???!!!
Via [Washington Monthly](http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_01/010565.php) is this unbelievably strange [story in the Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1990795,00.html): > Britain and France talked about a “union” in the 1950s, even discussing the possibility of the Queen becoming the French head of state, it was reported today. > […] > When Mr Mollet’s request for a union failed, he quickly responded with another…
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No comet
Went out tonight to try and find [Comet C/2006 P1 McNaught](http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~rmn/C2006P1.htm) with no luck so far – too much haze, and Canberra is just too bright. This continues my near perfect record of not being able to see astronomical phenomena from Canberra, having also missed a solar eclipse, a lunar eclipse, and I could never…
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So very,very wrong
Last night I very nearly posted a long rant about how it’s ‘Macworld’, and not ‘iPodworld’ or ‘iPhoneworld’. [Good thing I didn’t…](http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/09/macworld-2007-keynote-liveblog/) Apple only announced two big new products at the Macworld keynote, neither of which are computer hardware: the [Apple TV](http://www.apple.com/appletv/) and the [iPhone](http://www.apple.com/iphone/). The phone looks very, very nice, but there’s no word…