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The Photo Album is back up after the upgrade to the new server. It only took me two weeks (or was it three.) It actually only took a couple of hours of actual time. I didn’t want to reload all the photos, so a lot of time was spent in UNIX, looking around to see…

We all know that statistical analysis is used to prove all sorts of things This article [subscription required] in the April 2005 issue of Harvard Business Review discusses the perils of benchmarking. chriscurnow.com has long disliked the notion of benchmarking. We…

One of my favourite commentators is back on his hobby horse again this morning. I am referring to Dr Kevin Donnelly’s piece Give academic excellence in state schools a sporting chance in The Age this morning. Dr Donnelly opines that “Competition and…

Thanks to Scribblingwoman for the link to this 1960 classic I had never heard of. You can even download the movie! I’m looking forward to it.

This is really therpeutic – or else it’s just plain addictive. Whichever way you like to look at it, chriscurnow.com MkII is making progress. I’ve tweaked the templates and the style sheet. It’s getting more and more like I want it to look all…

OK, we’ve got all the old chriscurnow.com posts imported. Don’t ask me what went wrong – I just didn’t read the manual properly – doh!

Whoa, If you are seeing this it means I have finally succeeded in upgrading chriscurnow.com! It started with a new iMac G5 to replace the ageing Titanium Powerbook which I was beginning to become concerned about. A couple of times it didn’t start up neatly and I…

Our first full day on holiday and Melbourne recorded it’s coldest minimum between Christmas and New Year since 1968. It got down to 9 degrees. It was snowing in Alpine Victoria! We had the wood heater going over night. Tuesday wasn’t quite as cold but it…

Guess what Elise got for Christmas (1.4Mb – requires Quicktime) – an iPod (I might get around to doing a WMP version if there is any interest)