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29 Nov, 2008

Thailand Trip (part 2)

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Personal| Uncategorized

Got a taxi from Stable Lodge to Bangkok airport early in the morning to fly to Surat Thani. Surat Thani airport reminds me a lot of Avalon Airport. Pretty small and smells funny. Once we grabbed our bags, there was a guy selling tickets to Ko Samui. Perfect.

Air Asia plane at Surat Thani
We jumped [...]

27 Jan, 2006

Mick and Jen’s Wedding: Before

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Uncategorized

Mick, Tim, Tom and myself went out for dinner, played some pool and generally loitered around, before the big game tomorrow (Mick and Jen’s wedding)

The kick-off is at 1pm. Go team!

21 Jan, 2006

Hot

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Uncategorized

I am hot.

01 Dec, 2005

The Gradiators

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Uncategorized

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

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 [...]

29 Sep, 2005

Xen is cool

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Uncategorized

Xen is one of the coolest open source projects I’ve seen. Like I said in my previous post, it’s a way of doing a VMWare style of virtualisation on x86 hardware. Like the Xen guys say:
Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of [...]

13 Sep, 2005

The Linksys WPG54G Presentation Player

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Uncategorized

This device is labeled as a presentation player, but it is really a VNC viewer in a box! As most of the Linksys devices around today, it runs a customised version of Linux, just waiting to be hacked…

As the software shipped with the WPG54G is Windows only, some workarounds are needed to get it to [...]

11 Sep, 2005

Me and my mate Dave

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Uncategorized

Had a BBQ and some drinks last night for my birthday. Sat around and watched some Chappell show and Team America: World Police. Some very funny stuff right there. Simone also bought a new digital camera for her trip, so today we went down to St. Kilda and walked along Acland St. and checked out [...]

14 Apr, 2005

Testing thumbnails

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Uncategorized

I needed to test thumbnails by image upload. So, here’s a photo of my dad on a scooter

Dad riding a scooter