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Watched the Korean movie Red Eye, a horror film set on a train

The cast was good and I really enjoyed the train setting having travelled on trains in Korea many a time.
It brought back pleasant memories of train journeys to Seoul sans ghosts.
So would I recommend you to go out and get this movie? [...]

Yesterday I attended the funeral of Uncle “Digger” in Lake Bolac.
It’s pretty close on the heels of my father dying. It seem only yesterday that life was full of weddings. Now the previous generation is getting into their seventies and nature is taking its course.

I was surprised to learn that Uncle Digger worked, turned up [...]

I have changed hosting providers to dreamhost and I will have more to say on that later, all positive!

I have the wordpress blog up and running now, just a few tables have to be restored for everthing to be like it was.

The table post2cat contains a list of all entries (posts) and their categories. I [...]

Well I am back from my father’s burial.
Dad, died on Sunday, 12th of November, 2006. He was buried on the following Thursday.
We had a memorial service for him at the Uniting Church which was well done.
Relatives and friends from all over the state attended.
It was an excellent opportunity to remember the attributes that made up [...]

Today, I lost something irreplacable

My father died this Sunday, the twelfth of November, 2006. May he rest in peace.

While he wasn’t the sitcom sort of Dad, … I still loved him dearly and I shall miss him.

Just before I left Korea I received official confirmation of passing the black belt test.

When you get your black belt you get three things:

(1) an ID card (this one with fake birth-date)

(2) A new dobok (uniform) and off course, (3) the black belt

2006-02-06 Snowy day in front of Yaeum Middle School, Ulsan.jpg

Originally uploaded by Stephen Hucker.

February in Korea is the beginning of the end of the cold season, but Ulsan got hit with snow.
This was a good thing as it was only the second time that year [...]

I have just installed Python 2.5 for Windows.
I was waiting for the Activestate edition, but they have not finalized it yet.

So I have downloaded

python-2.5.msi – The official installed from the python website
pywin32-210.win32-py2.5.exe – win 32 com extensions and development environment
BeautifulSoup-3.0.3 – A screen scrapping library

Included in the 2.5 release is built in support [...]

Have you ever received one of those jokes in the office which has been sent to everybody?
Whoever sent it has CC everyone so you can see all their names and email addresses.

STUPID and INCONSIDERATE

It’s even worse when it has been forwarded several times and there are literally hundreds of email addresses. Bad manners, and bad [...]

Part of this video was shown on the National TV channels here in Australia. It was too “shocking” to show the entire clip.
It off course concerns the tragic death of Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irving. He is only a few weeks gone from the mortal coil and already South Park are making fun of him.

I wonder [...]