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Posts from August 2005

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31 August 2005 @ 5pm

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Out of Gas

Metro Atlanta could be a dry city, gas wise, by Labor Day, the AJC predicts…


Picasso

Got a spare $129,999.99 and a Costco membership card? Why not buy a Pablo Picasso original… This is an original crayon on paper drawing by Pablo Picasso. The front of the work is signed and dated (May 27, 1958) by Pablo Picasso. The authentication is a hand written and signed declaration by Picasso’s daughter, Maya on a photograph of the actual drawing. She is the world’s utmost authority.


Internet Gaming Parents Face Jail

Two young parents who were addicted to internet gaming have been jailed for three months after they admitted neglecting their four small children. The neglect of the children, all aged under eight, came to light earlier this year when a neighbour spotted two of them standing naked on a window ledge, it also emerged that the 28-year-old man spent all his waking hours playing online games. His wife also became engrossed in internet gaming.


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30 August 2005 @ 12pm

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When the Levee Breaks

I love Hurricane Season, especially on The Weather Channel, the last few days has been enthralling TV watching time, mainly because The Weather Channel has psychotic meteorologists like Jim Cantore and Stephanie Abrams who go above and beyond the call of whatever duty meteorologists have…


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29 August 2005 @ 11am

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Roomba!

Yesterday we got a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner from iRobot, and it’s awesome! Seriously awesome..


Human Cannonball

David Smith has an unusual way of crossing the Mexican border into the US - as a human cannonball. Mr Smith was launched head first across the border between Tijuana, in Mexico, and the US city of San Diego. The event is the first of a series of public art projects in the two border cities run by the Insite network.


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27 August 2005 @ 10pm

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Favouritism

I’ve now managed to find a way to display which of my posts are my favourites… You may have already noticed the little heart icon by now.


Felix and Sally

Now, a little bit of backstory… When I moved in with Robyn I brought Sally with me, he was given to me by Erika as he was on his last last last last last last chance with them and was most likely to be given back to the place they got him from as he had become a very anti-social cat… He was fine when we lived in Marietta, he wasnt very social, we put that down to him being the last cat but he would hang around with Piggy, but when we moved to the lake he became a whole different cat…


Google Talk Hack

Google Talk’s First “Hack”! How to Broadcast MP3’s, Podcasts and other audio over Google Talk. I was trying this today, pretty cool stuff, you just need to remember to change your settings if you want to listen, otherwise you’ll relay the sound around and around…


Doom Trailer

Yahoo! has the new Doom trailer starring The Rock. Looks pretty good, especially the first person segments… Of course, it could be horrifically bad also.


Beatsie Boys

The Beastie Boys offer up acapellas of their songs for remixing purposes. Now, if only I had the skillz (what skillz?) to pay the billz…


Google Talk: A Quick Review…

I’ve had a chance to play with Google Talk now, and I’m mightily impressed…


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23 August 2005 @ 11pm

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Even More Google Talk

After connecting via Jabber, I got a nice message from Gmail.com…

This lead me to go to talk.google.com for myself…

The download of the IM Client worked, but alas the tease was all too great…

There is a moral in there somewhere, I guess I’ll have to wait til tomorrow like the rest of you…


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23 August 2005 @ 10pm

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More Google Talk

Thanks to Titus Barik, I’ve found out the new Google Talk service due to launch tomorrow, is running today via Jabber and the Trillian plugin…


Google Talk

Google plans instant-messaging service which may or may not include VOIP to rival Skype. Easily the worst kept secret on the internet… All will be revealed tomorrow I guess.


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