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Archive for May, 2005

31 May, 2005

News Flash

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

The new name for a blog is now: bloggity-blog-blog
Thanks to Nelsie for clearing this up.
Btw, here’s a photo of Andy and Nelsie.

19 May, 2005

A rebuild for SPEED

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Gentoo

After recently getting my insanely fast ADSL connected last week, I wanted to rebuild Gentoo on my desktop machine. I found the document Installing Gentoo 2005.0: Stage 1 NPTL on a Stage 3 Tarball on the Gentoo forums and thought it sounded quite interesting. The document outlines step-by-step how To Build a Fast and Bulletproof [...]

13 May, 2005

Why everybody should pack up and move to the city

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Geek

Since moving in at North Melbourne, I signed us up to iiNet’s new broadband2 light plan. What makes this special is that iiNet have been installing their own DSLAMS in the close-to-city areas, including North Melbourne, and I happen to live about 1km from our exchange.
Since ADSL has been available in Australia, Telstra have [...]

10 May, 2005

The 411 for the last week and a half

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

Just a quick update on what’s been happening.
Leachy and Hayley’s wedding was great, and I have even put my photos online. Some funny stuff in there.
Moved into the new place, and it ROCKS! Thanks to Dad, Mum, Michael, Bek, Stretch and Jay for lending hands. I even had time to go to the footy that [...]


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  • Last day at VPAC today. In other news, my train is late because it was waiting for an ambulance at North Shore for a passenger. 4 hrs ago

  • Should re-read my tweets before posting. 2 days ago

  • I'm taking the train from Geelong to Melbourne, so I did the City Loop crush again this morning because. No wonder everyone looks depressed. 2 days ago

  • Just had the fire alarm go off in our building. We did pretty well to get out of bed, throw clothes on and get outside in record time 1 week ago

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