Monthly Archives: July 2005

National Tree Day

Posted on July 31, 2005 by visibleprocrastinations

NATIONAL TREE DAY – Sunday 31st July National Tree Day is Australia’s biggest community tree-planting event. Each year on National Tree Day, people are encouraged to plant trees and shrubs that are native to their local area. Planet Ark set … Continue reading →

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Narnia

Posted on July 29, 2005 by visibleprocrastinations

Today was ‘come as a book character’ for school. Kira decided (after listening to the first 4 audiobooks of the Narnia Chronicles) to go as Lucy from Narnia. This also meant that Tracy had to whip up a *fur coat* … Continue reading →

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Kira’s Birthday

Posted on July 26, 2005 by visibleprocrastinations

Kira’s birthday party this evening; Pizza & Ribs followed by ‘Birthday Cake’ So now, mum’s not the only one with a new bike 🙂

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System Administrator Appreciation Day

Posted on July 26, 2005 by visibleprocrastinations

System Administrator Appreciation Day 6th Annual – Friday – July 29th, 2005 ( Celebrated annually on last Friday of July ) Friday, July 29th, 2005, is the 6th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your … Continue reading →

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Google Moon – Google Map “Hybrid”

Posted on July 25, 2005 by visibleprocrastinations

Welcome to Google Moon In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. … Continue reading →

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2005 Billy Cart Derby

Posted on July 24, 2005 by visibleprocrastinations

Well, it has been run-and-won for 2005 A great turn up from both the District, and our Pack (with one of our carts coming in 3rd! We had 3 carts running for Gellibrand, with one retiring during the day. Generally … Continue reading →

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Follow the Bouncing Malware

Posted on July 22, 2005 by visibleprocrastinations

From the SANS Handler’s Diary July 20th 2005 (Handler on Duty: Tom Liston) …  Follow the Bouncing Malware VII: Afterglow Disclaimer: Let’s face it: not everyone is smart. There are some people in this world that can best be described … Continue reading →

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FireFox Extensions

Posted on July 22, 2005 by visibleprocrastinations

Firefox, full of meaty goodness and allowing for extensions! After a chat with Sandi today, this is the list of extensions that I run as standard; the objective is to make the browser an efficient place to work and check … Continue reading →

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WebDAV clients

Posted on July 21, 2005 by visibleprocrastinations

WebDAV is “Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning”, and is an extension to the HTTP protocol. The new LMS system (Blackboard) has WebDAV enabled for management; http://app.lms.unimelb.edu.au/bbcswebdav/users/%username%. The server app.lms is running Apache Tomcat/4.1.27 (currently) so we can get a bit … Continue reading →

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“Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated!”

Posted on July 20, 2005 by visibleprocrastinations

Platypus (Tracy) has now been invested as a Joey leader. Well, she had escaped the assimilation process for 10+ years but now she ‘is Scout’ 🙂 Resistance is Futile.   “You Will Be Assimilated!” (This makes for 3 couples in … Continue reading →

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