Category Archives: Admin

More government crap

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has selected me to undertake its ‘Economic Activity Survey 2009-10’. Bugger it. That means I have to fill it its twenty page form. Have to. Or do I? I have been carefully ignoring it for … Continue reading →

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Porting complete

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Finally, I’ve finished porting all the posts in my old, hand-marked-up blog, into this one, all the way back to July 2003. WordPress tells me that this will be the 703rd post. Here’s one of interest: an analysis of the … Continue reading →

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New Theme

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Now that, I think, is a nicer look. It would be totally happy if only I could: replace the ‘tags’ with ‘categories’, and insert the posting time. Unfortunately, editing these things eludes me. I search the entire theme for the … Continue reading →

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Poor netiquette?

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I was just having a little look-see at the stats for my website, and noticed that one pic was being used rather more often than any linking pages. Turned out that there is a live link on some Peruvian page. … Continue reading →

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Blue Collar Writing

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

When you are a sole operator in any kind of business you need to be kind of a jack of all trades. So while I have the ‘dream job’ of playing with gadgets and watching movies and listening to music, … Continue reading →

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Money, money, money …

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I have been meaning to do this for months. Here is a PayPal donate button to give me money. Do it or not as you see fit. Obviously, I’d appreciate it. (I don’t have a day job. For the last … Continue reading →

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Avatar gives 3D backwards recognition

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

CinemaSquid has posted the technical specifications of the Blu-ray for Avatar on the AV Science Forum here. Looks like it will be pretty good. One point that caught my eye was the disc title: ‘RED_BIRD_2D_WW’. Presumably ‘Red Bird’ was some … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray reviews

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve just added five of my Sound and Image and Australian HI-FI Blu-ray reviews to the relevant page. The reviews are: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Pulp Fiction Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Star Trek The Wizard of … Continue reading →

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Is there anybody out there?

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

To use a line from Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Would readers be so kind as to whack in a tiny comment to this post, just to say something like ‘I do.’ So far I know of only about six or … Continue reading →

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Am I to be forced into employment?

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I don’t normally comment here on politics, despite having very strong views on the subject, because it isn’t usually relevant to home entertainment or to me writing about home entertainment. But when Robert Gottliebsen writes that people like me are … Continue reading →

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