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Goodbye weekends hello house hunting – week 1
So the decision has been made to make the foray into the crazy realms of the Sydney real estate market, the objective to find a place to live in. So with that means a lot of spare time surfing domain.com.au … Continue reading
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When social media works
Kudos to the @Optus social media team for utilising social media channels effectively to help their customers. I’ve had this ongoing saga for a few years where my internet drops out when the weather is extremely hot (around 35+ degrees … Continue reading
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Wisdoms from a fortune cookie
Fortune cookie words of wisdom are awesome.. these are a few of late (not that I make a habit of eating fortune cookies or anything :-p ) There will be no harm in asking If you put little effort in … Continue reading
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Simple RegEx and Closure example in Groovy
I’ve been intermittently reading Groovy in Action for the last few nights and whilst it all seems pretty straight forward, for me the real grasping of an understanding comes by writing some code to affirm what was read. That posed … Continue reading
Installing Groovy on a Mac
Having heard about Groovy and Grails for the last few years but not having actually had a look at it I installed Groovy on my Mac the other week for a bit of a play. It’s always good and fun … Continue reading
Online shopping, intentional GST loophole or convenience?
So over the last few weeks, there’s been a bit of an uproar over the fact that GST is not applicable for overseas online purchases under $1000. Some of the bigger sized retailers have even gone on a campaign saying … Continue reading
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Easy integration with Spring Integration
So I’ve had the opportunity to use Spring Integration recently and I thought I’d do a blog post about it – partly for my own review/recap/learning but also for anyone out there looking to play around with it. In a … Continue reading
Back to WordPress
So after a bit of procrastination I finally bit the bullet and attempted the migration of my website back to using WordPress as the CMS. For those tech dudes out there, or those who follow my happenings, you might remember … Continue reading
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As 2010 comes to a close…
Well it’s the 1st of December and the end of 2010 is almost here. I think that feeling of the year going by faster each year you get older definitely holds true.
So what has 2010 been for me? 2010 has been a mixed bag of things. Some good, some not so good. But coming up to the end of the year I’d have to say for the most part things have worked out all right in the end. And I guess ultimately I’m happy with that 
If I had to pick two highlights of the year, I’d reckon I’d have to pick the big trip of USA2010 and finally making a decision on my pottering.
All in all, I’m looking forward to 2011! And if I don’t post again before the end of the year… Merry Christmas & Happy New Year (though if you’re reading this blog I’m fairly sure I’ll see you before then :-p ) Continue reading
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