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Blue Valentine
Intimate In a word, it is just that. A story told from the time-disjointed perspective of two young hapless lovers, whose directions in life hit an abrupt cul-de-sac. One, happy to ‘be’ as he found his...
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Animal Kingdom (2010)
As an Australian, it’s taken me a long while to stand up and show some support for our particular breed of cinema – too often playing on the ‘mongrel battler’, the borderline psycopath or down-and-out...
View ArticleSoutherly Buster
Apparently it is tradition when Native Australians (Aborigines) greet each other to ask not where they work and what they do, but “what is your river?” and “what is your wind?”. As a Sydney-sider, the...
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Synchronizing Outlook Calendar to Google Calendar
I recently decided to publish (merge) my Outlook Calendar (Exchange) to my Google Calendar as a discrete calendar – that is, as a fifth calendar on top of my existing four calendars) – doing so would...
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Nokia Lumia 800 – 5 days of happiness
The Nokia Lumia 800 and Windows Phone Mango 7.5 make a formidable combination. Beautiful build quality, gorgeous display, immediate responsiveness and an extremely elegant operating system (clearly...
View ArticleDon’t use Cloudberry’s Cloud Migrator! (to Amazon Glacier)
Migrating content from Amazon S3 A word of warning about Cloudberry Migrator for those looking to use the service to migrate content from Amazon S3 to Amazon Glacier. I was enticed by Amazon’s low...
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Django Unchained: Quick Review
★★★★☆ Quentin Tarrantino can still make solid films. Christoph Waltz, who was mesmorisingly good in Inglourious Basterds, also commands your attention in this one. Jamie Foxx is brilliantly cast,...
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Jabees Stereo Earphones WE104M (in-ear headphone)
If you’re looking for a good set of in-ear headphones for your phone or music player, avoid these! Good Flexible flat siliconised chord volume slider Bad sound quality: woeful: muffled treble:...
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Top of the Lake: TV Review
Jane Campion has excelled with Top of the Lake. Confronting, emotionally brutal, but restrained. Elizabeth Moss’ Kiwi accent may be flawed, but she plays a solid lead. Peter Mullan plays a brilliantly...
View ArticleBeware “Cheap” Shopping Tours in Thailand and Asia
The Xile Holiday Travel Service don’t deliver on the bargain they promote This is a short word of warning to any potential customers of the Xile Holiday Travel Service Co. Ltd. (Suzhou City; also...
View ArticleConverting Thunderbird to Outlook (Office365/Outlook2016)
For posterity, and the benefit of others considering the same thing, some quick notes about the exhauting experience of moving 20 years of email in Mozilla Thunderbird (52.6) to Outlook 2016 (and...
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