Obese Soldiers

Defence stands by obese recruit policy:

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Date: 2010-10-21 23:03:54, 14 years and 39 days ago

Away on Holidays

Sorry for the lack of posts recently; I've been up north in Townsville for the last two months. I have had access to the Internet (I've even been working), but I just haven't been able to get up the motivation to post. Hopefully I'll get up a ten things update and at least one real post (I've got a few book and movie reviews I want to post, so probably one or two of them) this week. In the meantime here's a picture of Florence Bay on Magnetic Island I took over the weekend.

Categories: Meta
Date: 2010-10-20 23:03:53, 14 years and 40 days ago

Poor Octopus

Exhausted octopus dies picking Oz election result.

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Categories: Humour, Linkage, Politics
Date: 2010-08-26 23:03:54, 14 years and 95 days ago

Speedup of Trac Static Content

At work I recently spent some time working on getting our hosted Trac to run faster. I found one simple little trick that gave up to a 20% speed improvement, so I thought I'd share it here.

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Categories: Computers, Linux, Work
Date: 2010-08-25 23:03:54, 14 years and 96 days ago

The Stupidest Thing on the Internet Ever

A review God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science. I strongly recommend reading this post; It's both entertaining and educational. Note the title of this post is not a reference to Author himself, but rather something he talks about in his post (about a third of the way down).

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Date: 2010-08-12 23:03:54, 14 years and 109 days ago

Henry Review Income Tax Recommendation

Apparently the Coalition is thinking about looking into implementing one of the recommendations of the Henry Review [of the Australian taxation system] for a [pseudo-]flat tax rate. I think this is a great idea, and I hope they do implement it.

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Categories: Linkage, Politics
Date: 2010-08-09 23:03:54, 14 years and 112 days ago

Astronauts' Insurance

This is rather interesting.

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Categories: Linkage, Oddities
Date: 2010-07-29 23:03:53, 14 years and 123 days ago

Mountain Lions

Look at the cute little Lion; isn't it adorable? :-)

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Date: 2010-07-13 23:03:54, 14 years and 139 days ago

Cardboard Wars

This is pretty cool.

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Categories: Linkage
Date: 2010-07-07 23:03:53, 14 years and 145 days ago

Damn

Damn:

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Date: 2010-06-08 23:03:53, 14 years and 174 days ago