Archive for November, 2005



Migrating from Blogger

Published on November 30, 2005

Well I seem to have successfully migrated my data over from blogger thanks to this guy and this guy.
They’re doing a fine service!!
Update: Because I’ve always used Haloscan Comments with blogger (hell, blogger didn’t have comments when I started using it!) the comments haven’t come across so I’ll leave my blogspot where it is so […]


Movember has come to an end

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‘Tis a sad day but the fucken thing is giving me the shits


Tom Green

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Tom Green has a song on his debut hip-hop album called “My Name Is Hammy”
Fuck!


Ahhh Office Antics

Published on November 29, 2005

I couldn’t help but be humoured by this:
Photocopier supplier Canon is warning customers to take better care of their office equipment during the Christmas period, claiming that the festive season traditionally leads to a 25 percent hike in service calls due to incidents such as the classic backside copying prank.
Such a stunt, a mainstay of […]


Blogging predicted in 1837

Published on November 28, 2005

By a Russian:
Prince Vladimir Odoevsky, 1803-1869, was a gifted man. Apart from writing philosophical books, stories for children and composing pieces of music, he also wrote science fiction, trying to imagine what his country would look like in 2,500 years, in 4338.
The fact that among other utopian inventions Odoevsky described something very close to the […]


Gimp

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In my experimentations with Dad’s web site over the weekend I properly used Gimp for the first time. Gimp is an image editing program that is as good as any of the Adobe suit stuff - and it’s free and open source.
Gimp’s only downfall is that it’s a bit of a bitch to install, […]


Dad’s Christmas Pressie

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Many of you probably don’t realise that my old man runs his own vineyard and winery.
This year he goes full commercial and I’m oh-so-proud of the old diamond.
So for Christmas I got him this: dinnygoonan.com.au.
It’s not finished yet and I’ve lots of good ideas for it - but Merry Christmas Dad!


Moving

Published on November 27, 2005

Hi all. I’ve finally moved to Goonanism.com/blog.
I’d like to thank all those that pop in from time to time and particularly those that link to me.
If would be greatly appreciate if you could update your blogrolls with my new address, or if you’re so inclined, add me to your blog roll.
See you over at […]


The moving blog

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Well I’ve finally done it, I’ve moved to my own hosting and here is it - welcome aboard!!
Naturally there are plenty of thing I need to sort out on an administrative level.
I’ve got to try and get all the posts from my Blogger account, I need to sort out themes and preferences and so on.
I […]


My Thesis

Published on November 25, 2005

Well this blog was started to track my thesis, and now, quite some time later, I’ve finally got a mark:
H2A
I feel really strange. I worked on it for 18 months and it’s taken 5 months to get a mark, but I’m happy with a H2A.
Maybe now I can start working on learning to spell.