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Google Liquid Galaxy

Google’s Liquid Galaxy is a series of eight LCD panels surrounding the viewer in a wraparound view of Google Earth. You can get really motion sick flying around the globe but it is very cool.

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Happy New Year

Best wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. We counted down to the new year in Pub Cardinal Akasaka after an all-you-can eat Shabu-shabu just down the road. Karaoke until 5am made it a very enjoyable night, although we’d all lost our voices the next day for some reason.

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Happy Christmas from Taiwan

I took a few days off work and we went to Taiwan for Christmas. It was great, even though it was unusually cold and wet.
The guided tour the first day brought us up one of the many mountains, then after lunch, where we unfortunately didn’t get to try the Ma Poo, we were just [...]

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Ise Jingu

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Halloween

More photos

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Ireland 2008

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How to fix txtsetup.sif is corrupt

The other day I was trying to get an unattended Windows XP CD to work in a virtual machine, but by mistake I ran it on my physical PC instead, doh! I thought I canceled it in time, before it had a chance to do any damage to my Windows installation, and I was able [...]

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Check out this MASSIVE Printer

I love how they made it look just like a normal desktop printer, just really really big.

Imagine trying to buy new ink cartridges for this thing.

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Links of the Day

Cool Eclipse Plugins to make development with Eclipse even better
300+ Tools for your Wordpress Blog
Brazilian Waxing O_o
Google Gears lets users use your web application offline
Member Management System with Scriptaculous is a comprehensive user management system
pQuery lets use use the power of jQuery with pure PHP
Asp.Net is a useful resource for ASP development
BlogDesk is a powerful [...]

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Fix for StatTraq Calendar bugs

The StatTraq plugin for Wordpress has a bug where the Year and Month time periods are not displayed correctly. Here is a fix for the problem.
Download this StatTraq Calendar Patch. Extract calendar.php from the file and copy it into your \wp-stattraq folder, replacing the file that already exists there.
Now when you check your StatTraq statistics, [...]

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