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Archive for December, 2005

29 Dec, 2005

Now that Xmas is over…

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Geek| Personal

… life can return to normal. I’m not going back to work until the 3rd of Jan, so i’m taking it easy for the next couple of days.
I got a Canon IXUS 50 from my family this Christmas which was nice. My Dad did some research on the internet for me about digital cameras and [...]

23 Dec, 2005

Xmas time in Melbourne and BBQ’s

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

It’s been pretty crazy around the city the last couple of days with everybody finishing off their last minute christmas shopping. Jezza and I were walking down Bourke Street yesterday, and it was just a sea of people.

Christmas time at Bourke St, Melbourne
Things I like about Christmas:

Presents! Everybody loves presents!
Turkey for Christmas lunch. Then turkey [...]

19 Dec, 2005

Sunday session

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

Went to Stretch’s organised Sunday Session at the Belgium Beer Cafe on St. Kilda Road. I had invited a heaps of guys from Big T, but none of them showed which was kinda dissapointing.
Anyway, we started at 12pm and had 2 rounds, between four of us before Shane, Adam, Simmo and I pushed on [...]

14 Dec, 2005

Mick’s bucks weekend.

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

I haven’t been doing much apart from work, sleep and playing with my new powerbook for over a week now, but I had to blog about this.
The weekend before last, we had Gab-fest ‘05 (being Mick’s bucks weekend). On Friday, Tim, Tom and myself kidnapped Mick from work and we started driving, not telling him [...]

01 Dec, 2005

This graphic is somewhat disturbing

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal| Work

This is me doing a blowfish on the Innovation Centre machine room window

01 Dec, 2005

Powerbook!!!

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Geek| Personal

My Powerbook is here!
For reference for anybody else, when ordering stuff from Apple, you can track the delivery of your goods by using the Apple Delivery Number as quoted in your email confirming that your stuff has been shipped.
Apple uses StarTrack Express for their deliveries, and you can use your Apple Delivery Number as [...]

01 Dec, 2005

Queen Vic ‘Night’ Market

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Geek| Personal

Shane and Kel came over last night and we walked down to the Queen Vic market, to test-drive their summer Night Market. I heard good stuff about it from Stretch, but it wasn’t really that good.
Most of the market is roped off, because they have stalls where you can buy beer and food (which [...]

01 Dec, 2005

The Gradiators

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Uncategorized

Well done to the Gradiators for making it to the volleyball grand final.


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