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Archive for March, 2006

18 Mar, 2006

Go Catters!

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

Go the Catters! They finally break a long 43 year premiership drought, against the Adelaide Crows, in Adelaide. The odds were against them: playing interstate, many of the big forwards out with injury, but they managed to get the points. Read about it at the GFC website. I hope this translates to a very good [...]

16 Mar, 2006

Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

Melbourne was really busy last night with the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony going on. The streets were packed around Federation Square and along the Yarra as people were getting together to check out what the fuss was all about.
Me, Shane and Bek walked into Fed Square and met up with J-Unit and Ruth. Watched the [...]

15 Mar, 2006

Stuff is going on

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

Plenty of stuff is going on. Here’s just a little about what’s happening:
Gnome 2.14 is released today. Very exciting. It’ll probably only take the Gentoo guys 6 months for it to be marked stable. I might have to do the package.unmask thing.
I tried out the Kororaa (Gentoo-based) live CD, with the new XGL stuff in [...]

03 Mar, 2006

Goodbye Big-T, hello VPAC

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

It’s official. I am leaving the Big-T. It’s been fun, but now it’s time to move on (even if it is back to VPAC ;))

Sol to Andy: ‘Peace out’.
Big-Ups to Tom for the pic.

02 Mar, 2006

Krispy Kreme in Melbourne

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal

Krispy Kreme are open soon in Melbourne, and had a big publicity event, giving away 10,000 doughnuts. It started at 10am, and we probably got there just after that, but it looks like we were way too late. There were people lining up everywhere, even out on the streets.

Instead, we went to Max Brenner, and [...]