cloudy morning
We had an amazing blanket of clouds over the city one morning this week. This was my view while I made breakfast :)
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the creme de la crap of the web
We had an amazing blanket of clouds over the city one morning this week. This was my view while I made breakfast :)
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I hate Snapshots™ popups. Snapshots™ seem very proud of their creation, however I have never seen any possible reason you'd want these intrusive fucking things on your website:
All they do is get in the bloody way. Now, you might think why get angry? just click the handy-dandy little "disable" button! Then you realise the bloody thing doesn't work. The moment you clear cookies, sneeze or look away for five seconds the sods are back.
If you have ad blocking software you might be able to get rid of them that way; but I prefer to get medieval on Snapshots™ arse. I don't want to see them again just because I installed a new browser or something (I do that a bit, I'm a web developer and have at minimum five browsers installed at any one time).
Let's block these suckers at the hosts file level. First, find and edit %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts ... Commonly the directory is C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc and hosts is a text file. You may need to edit the properties to turn off "read only" (you can switch it back to read only when you're done).
Once you're in the hosts file, add these lines (of course you can edit the comment to taste):
# fuck off snapshots 127.0.0.1 shots.snap.com 127.0.0.1 spa.snap.com 127.0.0.1 snap.com 127.0.0.1 ixnp.com 127.0.0.1 direct.shots.snap.com
Save the file, happy days. As far as I know this works in Windows XP, Vista, 2000... probably all versions of Windows. The Mac equivalent has to be done on the command line, because apparently Apple thinks inside every GUI-loving Machead there's a UNIX geek trying to get out.
So anyway, get on in to your hosts file and consign Snapshots™ to the oblivion it so richly deserves.
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It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser ... I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down 'rewind' and releasing it randomly.
(funny and CC licensed, too!)

Voting closed tonight for triple j's hottest 100 of all time, so I thought I'd spend a few minutes farting about putting a vote in.
I don't really expect my taste to be all that much in line with the triple j voting masses, but these things are a bit of fun all the same. I did keep my focus towards the stuff that's less obscure and a bit more likely to actually add to the final result.
The 10 I voted for:
Some shortlisted tracks that didn't make it in the final ten:
...and then I had to stop, as time was short and voting was about to end. Really I could have kept adding songs for hours. Days from now I'm sure I'll still be thinking of things I could have added...
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One evening at the office the sunset was so glorious people just stopped to watch.
Shot through dirty double glazing, this doesn't really capture it.
I'm glad I work with people who appreciated the moment.
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From air steward uniforms to Corn Flakes cereal boxes...how has everyday design evolved over the last half-century?
Scratch the surface of the gorgeous place that is Sydney and you have a city whose beauty is all that is on offer. ... This is, without doubt, the most difficult, expensive and tough Australian city.
Microsoft has responded to the EU's antitrust investigation into its bundling of its browser with Windows by deciding to ship Windows 7 in Europe without Internet Explorer 8 installed.Realistically MS will just make IE8 an immediate update; OEM machines will probably get IE preinstalled anyway, maybe with Firefox as well. Opera will cop the bad press for daring to initiate the case and ultimately not gain much, really. Google will keep using their own monopoly on search to push out Chrome; and nobody will notice the irony. Anyone who really hates the whole thing should be pissy with the EU, of course.


Thick fog rolled in the other night. At first there was a weird sort of light amplification effect; then it went very dark and gloomy.
...and the usual view, for comparison:

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