Monthly Archives: November 2009

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Music Monday #003 – Weddings Parties Anything

The Weddoes were a legendary part of the Australian pub rock scene with a fanatical supporter base, known as the “Wedheads”. Weddings Parties Anything Weddings Parties Anything (often known as WPA, Weddings and Weddoes) were an Australian folk rock band … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2009-11-30)

Sysinternals Updates Updates: VMMap v2.5, Disk2vhd v1.4; Sigcheck v1.63; Autoruns v9.57; PsExec v1.97; PsKill v1.13 and a new Mark’s Windows Internals Session video from PDC 2009 (2009-Dec-01) [MS: Sysinternals] Books! Best Books of 2009 as chosen by Readings staff and … Continue reading

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Microsoft Security – Five out-of-band updates (Nov-2009)

Microsoft have released 5 out of band updates. These require a reboot. KB number Description Software 973685 When an application uses MSXML to process XHTML, redundant retrieval requests for well-known DTD files from the W3C Web server cause XHTML parsing … Continue reading

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White Ribbon Day

White Ribbon Day, 25 Nov 2009 White Ribbon Day, 25 Nov, marks the beginning of a national campaign to get all Australian men and boys to take a positive action and put an end to one of the most widespread … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2009-11-23)

When the Twitterwall fails as a backchannel. The impact of the Twitterwall during Danah Boyd’s talk at Web2.0 Expo from the perspective of the speaker. A disturbing perspective of a backchannel becoming a mob – the social network removing value, … Continue reading

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Music Monday #002 – Spiderbait

Continuing with some more great Aussie Pub Rock. The last time I saw Spiderbait live was at La Trobe University (1996). As T was pregnant with child#1 she had a great seat in the balcony sipping drinks while the rest … Continue reading

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Castle: “Space Cowboy”

Castle S2E6 “Vampire Weekend” was on this evening with a large serve of geek culture references – Firefly and Serenity, Buffy, vampires, werewolves, Dr Horrible and probably more that I missed. The intro gives a big nod to Firefly. “A. … Continue reading

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[FRI] Bambi vs Gozilla

Bambi meets Godzilla Bambi meets Godzilla is an animation by the Marv Newland from the Video Vault on the Kenny Everett Video Show (Thames TV) Series 1, Show 3 (1978). Bambi Meets Godzilla is the title of a humorous 1969 … Continue reading

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Outdoor Cinema (2009) Melbourne

The summer 2009/10 season of outdoor cinema is soon to be upon us! “Where do I get my fix of twilight cinema goodness?” you may well ask; fret no further as the following list should help to get your summer … Continue reading

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