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WARNING: Spoiler ahead. Read on at your own risk. Straight after the MBF‘s Friday night activities, nearly a dozen of us went to the Randwick Ritz to watch the Matrix Revolution, starting at 9:30pm. The movie runs a bit over two hours. And the first conclusion I had after watching the final episode of Matrix [...]

Okay. I have installed the whole Mac OS X from scratch, and I’ve lost all my fink packages. Instead of installing the latest 0.6 from source, I decided that I would like to try something different. Darwinport comes to the picture. Instead of using Debian’s dpkg to manage source/binary packages, it uses BSD’s port system. [...]

I rang up the mortgage broker this morning to cancel my pre-approved loan, as my financial situation has changed, ie getting a better deal. I thought he would be quite disappointed as I would imaging it is a lot of effort getting all the documents sorted out for your client, yet he did not get [...]

Recently the Internode ADSL forum on Whirlpool has been stormed by people from other ISP, trying to educate its users how expensive their current plans are. At the same time, Internode has been introducing heaps of value added features like ever growing mirror server, email virus and spam filtering and free Internet radio with a [...]

There is an article on blogs4God, written by Jen Kibler-McCabe, titled scare tactics. It started by analysing the reason why Luther nailed 95 theses – the fact that the Catholic church at that time is selling the indulgences using scare tactics, i.e. if you don’t buy, you’ll burn in purgatory. Jen then moves to the [...]