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D-Wars

I saw the Korean movie “D-WARS” yesterday. To say it was a disappointment would be to give to much credit to it.
Don’t waste your money on this movie. All the money seem to have been spent on the CGI (which was great in parts) and very little to the story line, which we have seen [...]

Christmas Holidays

After Boxing day (Dec 26) I have been watching the Korean drama “Jewel in the Palace” 대장금(大長今) / Dae-jang-geum

… The story is about a young girl who enters the Korean imperial palace as a kitchen hand (a female only [...]

Installing WordPress on OS X Leopard

### ARTICLE IS NOT FINNISHED – WILL FOLLOW UP AFTER CHRISTMAS ###

There are many fine tutorials on the net for installing PHP, MySQL and WordPress on OS X.
The problem is none of them by themselves got wordpress working on Leopard.

I got it working on Tiger (OS X 10.4) by using the following article:

http://maczealots.com/tutorials/wordpress/

This article gives [...]

Brazilian JiuJitsu

I have just started training in Brazilian JiuJitsu. This is an offshoot of Judo which concentrates on ground work, specifically submission wrestling.

I have a few old  injuries which have flared up because of the stress on the body, e.g.  such as pushing my opponent down in the photo.

Hopefully with patience, and a good training program [...]

Firefox 3 on the Mac

Proto theme for Mac OS X firefox 3.0b2 running under OS X Leopard.
It looks much more Mac like, a good thing (although I am still a big Opera fan)

Migrated website

I have moved the website from dreamhost.com to jumba.com.au

Probation is over

Today marks the official end of my probation with Australian Tax Office.

A Taxing opportunity

On the 10th of May, I started work with the Australian Taxation Office.
I work in the Client Contact section in a call centre
If you ring the ATO you might get me answering on the telephone.
My job is to help people with the basic tax questions.
On the Wednesday the 30th of May I will actually [...]

Vista Installation

Summary:

Upgrade versus Full Editions
You can use an Upgrade version of Vista to install on a empty PC
Legal ? … not sure, but it is an official Microsoft technique
So potentially you could buy an upgrade version of Vista rather then the Full version.

Activation
After using Vista for 30 days you must Activate it or Vista will drop [...]

Got a job!

Last Monday, the 12th of March I started my first job after arriving back from Korea.

I am now working for the Department of Justice, Victoria

I also started studying Hapkido again.