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Date: 04/11/2007



 

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    NRL Grand Final 2009 – I won tickets
    September 30th, 2009
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    Rugby League Grand Final tickets. Not just any tickets mind you. Corporate Box tickets. Corporate Box tickets with rugby league legend Mark Geyer (MG). Corporate Box tickets with cricket legend Stuart MacGill. Corporate Box tickets with radio and TV personality Gus Worland. With that thoroughly deserved gloat out of the way, I’ll shed some light on how it all happened.

    Three weeks ago I started a new job in Sydney. Having worked from home for much of the past three years, this was a step into the normal



    Posted in Football, Lucky, Miscellaneous, Rugby



    Fun Tech Stuff for November
    November 11th, 2008

    I’m going to try and post some fun tech gadgets I’ve played with or am playing with recently and give a little write-up of each.

    Lately I’ve been a bit more obsessed than normal with trying to get all the stuff I like to look at on one page. This could be via iGoogle, MyYahoo! or whatever. I’ve also been doing some web work for my cricket club and am back in that mode of making sure the site looks the same cross-browser.



    Posted in Miscellaneous, Programming, Random



    Launching a new cricket site
    October 27th, 2008

    I’ve dusted off my old PHP cricket statistics website code, added a few necessities and am about to launch Butcher Cricket (presently http://ndcc.mike250.com while in transition from development to deployment). This is my brainchild from 2 years of work back in Colorado where I needed a cricket database but found everything out there useless or rediculously high priced. It all started with www.coloradocricket.org which I am proud to say runs independently by a group of cricketing volunteers.



    Posted in Cricket, Design, Miscellaneous, Programming



    08.08.08
    August 7th, 2008

    I won’t be rushing off to get married. I’m already married. And I’m not superstitious. In fact I find a bit silly that couples are pushing to make sure they get their slice of luck; especially since a quarter of couples who did the same on 07.07.07 are already divorced. I also personally find it rediculous that some spiritual leaders are being so religious as to hold meetings and prayers to perfectly coincide with the number 8. Pretty sure God isn’t into the religious following of numerals.



    Posted in Miscellaneous



    The petrol price debate
    May 30th, 2008

    Time to get it right; just did the maths. Had a nice debate about fuel costs with one of the engineering guys Bryan, he’s driving to Austin Texas to live there (and working remotely like I do). Fuel price came up…

    Outside right now it is $4.11 a gallon

    We are paying $5.67 a gallon in Australia if it’s $1.50 a liter, which is roughly what it’s been hovering around. If the US dollar is what it is now then yes, we pay a lot more in Australia.



    Posted in Miscellaneous, Random





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