• Well, just the other day I saw my first Australian kangaroo, nice and easy. Two of them hoping through a suburb.

    They are just like the dear in Canada, you have to be careful when driving because if they get in front of you, they don’t move.

    Another interesting little animal we have here is called the red back spider. They bite, and when they do you’re either dead or disabled for at least 3 months.

    So you kind of want to stay clear of them. One thing that is definitely different over here is that you have to watch what you’re doing. Not checking closely before lifting something off the ground, can kill you.

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  • Australian slang, and slobering of the english language. It’s going to take a little while to get used to how people talk. For the most part they’re easy to understand, but I find myself often asking them to repeat what they just said, simply because one important word is missing from my vocabulary, and cannot be aided by the remaining words understood.

    But I’ve had a few comments where they like my Canadian accent, so it seems true. The only reason we like other people’s accents are because they’re different, something outside of normallity. Isn’t that true with people as well. We are attracted to those who stand out, who are different, not those who just try to blend in with everybody else. One of the reasons I have not been trying to pickup the aussie accent. It’ll come soon enough.

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  • Ended up in Auckland, NZ in time to watch the sunrise, so I got to see it before any other country! :)
    Although overall the wait there (8hrs) felt rather long.

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  • Uncategorized 20.08.2008 No Comments

    Just posted by Schrep, some awesome patches have landed in the mozilla firefox tree for version 3.1, looks like it’s going to be another break-away release!

    Remind me why everybody doesn’t use Firefox?

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  • Bringing again into activity and prominence.

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  • Uncategorized 15.08.2008 No Comments

    Installing Debian Lenny in VMware Fusion right now. It looks really good.

    If I really like what I see, might consider adding more information here.

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  • NerdFest 2008 in Kingston Ontario is going really well. Perhaps if I had a camera other than the one on my laptop you might see some good photos here, but they’ll be coming through other sources. Although here’s one of me wearing me new Astaro shirt!

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