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Archive for November, 2005

27 Nov, 2005

Firefox unfriendly sites

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Uncategorized

I hate that web developers only develop for IE. It shits me on so many levels. My mum has been having issues for ages trying to get to the Westpac Altitude points website. At one stage, it would refuse to even let her try and log in because it would only allow IE, based on [...]

25 Nov, 2005

Ode to the Parma

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

Stretch and J-Unit decided to write a little prose about our favourite parma to the clueless guys at superparma.com.
I have to reccomend the Big Arse Chook Parma at the Metropolitan Hotel in North Melbourne. I have tried many on your list (including 1-3), and none of them come close to the parmalogical magnificence that [...]

23 Nov, 2005

Monday night is Parma night

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

This coming Monday (28th November) is going to be parma night. The aptly named ‘Big Arse Chook Parma’ is a delicacy that can only be experienced (for $12!) at the Metropolitan Hotel in North Melbourne.

The Big Arse Chook Parma
Come one, come all to Parma night at the Metro. Let me know if you want to [...]

19 Nov, 2005

I scored a UPS!

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Geek| Gentoo| Linux

I scored myself an APC Backup-UPS RS 500 the other day. It’s a small unit designed for running pretty much one machine on it.

The nice thing about this is that it has a USB interface which I have connected to my server hosting andybotting.com, and allows me to monitor it using apcupsd software. It [...]

09 Nov, 2005

An update for the last couple of weeks

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Geek| Linux| Personal| Work

Haven’t blogged for a while, so he’s a quick update of what’s been going on.
At work late tonight, helping out because of a function. It was supposed to be finished at 9pm, but it’s now 10:15pm and they’re still here. Let’s bring on the tear gas and tasers
We started getting pissed off with [...]


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