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Mon, Jul 20 2009 8:15

Dropping my coffee intake to 0

Uhmmm – one of the decisions I’ve made recently has been to drop my, according to others, excessive coffee intake and replace it with something a bit more gentle. Tea…. I’m now on day 7 of no coffee at all, started last Monday and obviously it had a very...
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Sun, Sep 14 2008 15:31

3 weeks at Fujitsu Australia

I was trawling through my latest posts, in the hope to discover if the "date and time" issue I found the other day had occurred on other entries. And i noticed I'd mentioned I was leaving Change Corporation - but i didn't mention where...
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Mon, Aug 11 2008 7:58

Back again – it’s been a while..

Haven’t blogged for quite some time – life, work and misc had caught up with me and i needed to re-group again. So what have I been up to lately? Well, i just finished off a project at Woodside, where I worked pretty much alone (part of a team, with an...
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Fri, May 16 2008 9:45

I can has loose weight!

I've decided that i'm going to loose weight. Everybody seems to be getting into shape these days and i'm the only one that hasn't jumped on the health-wagon yet. So, decision is made - i want to loose 20kgs...i don't quite know how...
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Thu, Dec 13 2007 10:05

Fabian rocks....Sharepoint DVDs going on order!

today i got the green light to purchase two copies of the Sharepoint Training DVD which Sahil Malik created together with Carl Franklin . All thanks to Fabian who vouched for it and put the PO through for me. Now i just have to wait for Carl to get back...
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Sun, Nov 11 2007 12:47

Garden Project: Code name "Rosario", 99% complete

Phew, in full tradition of software releases, i've decide to dub my veggie patch/garden project "Rosario". Note: any coincidental conflicts are solely accidental and you can ignore this or rename your own project. I've blogged a bit...
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Wed, Oct 3 2007 18:19

Garden project - getting physical with the picket fence

As summer is almost around the corner, my wife decided she wanted a small veggie patch, surrounded by a picket fence. So over the last week or so i've been digging, painting, sawing..well, you get the picture - but now things are finally starting...
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Fri, Sep 28 2007 18:13

4 Weeks to go - a new beginning...

Today the decision was made for me to move to another company. In an earlier post I wondered what I was looking for and what type of work I felt I could best fit into. I've had a string of interviews over the last two weeks and this afternoon I accepted...
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Sun, Jul 1 2007 11:56

Personal Development...how to go about getting it done..

I read a very interesting post on Mitch Denny's blog about how he's tackled personal development in the past and i wonder if i should attempt to work it in the same way as he did/does. Basically he decided way back to learn .Net and set himself...
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Sun, May 27 2007 21:16

TPN - The Microsoft Developer Show..

Thursday morning I went by Nick Randolph's place to take part in a podcast about the development community in Perth ...oh and me ;) Nick runs The Microsoft Developer Show over at The Podcast Network and have had quite a few good shows on in the time...
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Wed, Apr 4 2007 7:48

James Green shows talent...

James Green decided to congratulate me on my MVP award in his very own style: Brian. The babe they called 'Brian', He grew,... grew, grew, and grew-- Grew up to be-- grew up to be A boy called 'Brian'-- A boy called 'Brian'. He had arms... and legs.....
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Thu, Mar 29 2007 9:16

Microsoft Moves DBMS into the VS Developer Mainstream

Finally, some sense is brought back into the world! As most know by now, i'm VERY keen on ensuring that DB skills are constantly improved for developers and here is MSFT giving it a kick (somebody must have been reading my blog, right?) and going in the...
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Tue, Mar 27 2007 14:12

Is this normal, or am i being anal?

One of the tools i use is ReSharper - i love this tool and cannot...live...without...it.. A feature i really like is the code analysis bar on the right hand side of the code window. I especially love seeing the little square go green - and stay that way...
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Fri, Mar 9 2007 18:02

David L's thoughts on IT&T and having a career in it - and me looking at life

I normally read David Lempher's blog when nobody else is around to hear me laugh (eg. never at work because people there find me strange enough as it is already, without adding any more fuel to the inferno). Today i took an exception and chanced that...
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Sun, Jan 28 2007 20:49

Quality of code...is it a myth to expect a bug-free application?

I recently began communicating with an australian developer, Boyne Cutting , about a small side-line project we both had an interest in after I published some messages on the Port80 forums , an australian Web, Design and Development association, where...
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