Month: April 2008
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40 Tips for Optimizing Your PHP Code.
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On one hand, I hate being the type of person who orders a “decaf skim latte.” I mean, really, what’s the point? But on the other hand, it’s either this or nothin’. And on a rainy, crappy day like today, I just can’t take nothin’.
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Flemington MarketsLast week Eva kindly invited me to accompany her, Steph, and Kathleen to Flemington Markets on Saturday. I’d been to Paddy’s in Chinatown before, but this is the big market out near Homebush. It was INSANE. Hundreds of stalls with people selling fruit and veggies by the boxload, and it was all incredibly cheap.…
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This article about books written by computers reminded me of something… Oh, that’s right! The Great Automatic Grammatizator! The obvious next step is for this Philip Parker guy to start paying “real” authors not to write.
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I absolutely love this skirt, but all up with shipping it works out to about AUD $100. That’s an awful lot for a skirt you have to sew yourself… (Link to Clothkits courtesy of Alison.)
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As of today, I am officially FOUR WEEKS away from the Sydney Half-Marathon. I’ve already run three times this week, so I’m going to cut back the distance on my long run today and go for a timed 10K just to see where I’m at. Then I’m hoping to do my first 10-miler on Sunday…
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From Life in Chippendale: “Chippendale Property on the Rise.” According to today’s Sunday Telegraph, Chippendale was #2 on the list of best performing Sydney suburbs in terms of property value. Over the last 12 months, the median property value here rose by more than 25%. Sweeeeet. The actual median price in Chippo is around $640K,…
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Of Breakfasts and National DifferencesThe Snook made us oatmeal for breakfast this morning, so I was nomming my way through that when I read this thread on the great Full British Breakfast (which is more or less the same as a full Australian breakfast). Yum. Not something you can eat every day, but when you’ve…
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Cool. The SMH travel writer visited Sakai-san’s restaurant in Tokyo. I’d love to do that. And despite the guy’s protests about all the food in Tokyo being expensive, that dinner works out to about AUD$150 a head (including drinks!). You can spend a lot more than that on a fancy night out in Sydney…
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Wow. If Sartor’s new planning laws go through, I guess the gentrification of Redfern will get fast-tracked, huh? Some property-minded friends of ours were trying to convince us to buy there last year in the expectation of making a mint when Sartor’s plans to redevelop the neighborhood finally happen. Of course, they didn’t anticipate that…