Archive for March, 2005
Angels & Demons
Just finished reading Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons. I liked Da Vinci code but think Brown’s first book was even better.
If you also read Nick Hodge’s web site you may be thinking that the entire Adobe Pacific team is reading Dan Brown.. well, most of us are! Still I agree with Nick that the books […]
Posted: March 30th, 2005 under Movies, TV & Books.
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RIP Paul Hester
RIP Paul Hester, drummer of Crowded House, who was found dead yesterday in a park in Melbourne. Always the prankster, always making people laugh. Such a great loss.
Posted: March 28th, 2005 under Music.
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Eskimo Joe live
Just got home after watching another of my favourite bands, Eskimo Joe, live out at Blacktown RSL. WOW! What an awesome gig. I’ve been a fan of EJ since they used to play live years ago on the ABC’s Recovery show on Saturday mornings.
I’ve been playing their latest album “a song is a city” so […]
Posted: March 26th, 2005 under Music.
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New Garbage song
One of my favourite bands, Garbage have released an awesome new song “Why do you love me”. With a new album due next month, and hopefully a tour shortly after, I’m very excited!
Posted: March 22nd, 2005 under Music.
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Eclipse & Livecycle
Installing and configuring the Eclipse IDE is a document published on Adobe.com that outlines the process of downloading the Open Source Eclipse IDE, installing the J2EE Lomboz Open Source plugins and configuring the development environment for use with LiveCycle. This is a great read that gets you up and running fast.
Posted: March 22nd, 2005 under Adobe, Technology.
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Do more with PDF
Read & Create PDFs but are not sure what more you could do with Acrobat?. This animated demo explains some of the new functionality in Acrobat. Give it a look, there are so many useful tools that you can use in your every day work.
Posted: March 22nd, 2005 under Adobe.
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Film makers book
I picked up a great book last week and am trawling through the 600 odd pages absorbing as much as possible. Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint is a book aimed at independent film makers who have a small budget. It is a great read, and I’m picking up lots of tips and tricks of the […]
Posted: March 21st, 2005 under Movies, TV & Books.
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Getting back on the musical bike
For the first time in almost 12 months, I teamed up today with some friends to make some noise in a nearby Rehearsal Studio. For those of you who are unaware, I play Bass Guitar amongst other things and for 3 hours i was able to forget about everything but the music […]
Posted: March 19th, 2005 under Music.
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Ugly Naked Guy comes to Sydney
If you’ve watched Friends, you’ll know what i mean. This morning while waiting for my turn to present at an Adobe Event, I happened to look out the window across to the hotel rooms only to see a man walking naked around his room, with the curtains open. Not a pretty […]
Posted: March 17th, 2005 under Miscellaneous.
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The Szulc’s put on a Red Hat at home
The Szulc house now has a central file server. I found it to be an ideal solution to have a central place on my home network to store all our mp3’s (from my large CD collection i previously mentioned i was digitising) as well as photos and video.
Now any connected device can […]
Posted: March 14th, 2005 under Technology.
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