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		<title>Falling faster than gravity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This debate came about after watching Dan Henderson throw his fist square into the face of the cocky out-cold brit Michael Bisping. The notion that Henderson threw himself down to the ground faster than gravity was the point of contention with myself claiming that nothing could fall faster than gravity. The example of a soccer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the iPad will be awesome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a title, that’ll suck you all in.
Seriously though, I think that it’s probably something that needs to be covered. It&#8217;s undoubtedly a huge product which will be very influential for the world of technology. There are already literally hundreds of imitators which are poised to be released to take advantage of the hype. Which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=523</link>
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		<title>Site refresh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I figured it was about time to upgrade wordpress and update the style of the site. I doubt I&#8217;ll use it any more but it is an interesting exercise nonetheless.
I used http://www.colourlovers.com/copaso to come up with the colour palette and the side scrolling theme is based on wplatformer. Of course the underlying backend is still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=521</link>
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		<title>Collection: NYC Midtown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have spent some time lately touching up some images to put on the wall from my recent trip to the US. This collection of three is looking north towards midtown and central park from the Empire State Building.



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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=511</link>
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		<title>Great movies: Honey I shrunk the kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097523/
I have seen Honey I shrunk the kids a number of times. Unfortunately it was completely ruined by the sequels but as a standalone movie it was actually great value. There was plenty of safe fun, lots of non lame commedic situations and jokes and a cool look at the world from a different perspective. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=481</link>
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		<title>Great Movies: Flight of the Navigator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091059/
I was given this movie on vhs when I was like 7 or 8 and I found it confusing but quite incredible. The concepts behind space travel and relativity of time were simply amazing in a way that I don&#8217;t think I could experience any more. It was obviously ahead of its time and cutting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Projector is gone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.it something unpredictable but in the end is right. I hope you had the time of your life&#8230;&#8230;.



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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=479</link>
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		<title>Alpheidae</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something interesting I found while doing research for my corrosion assignment-
The &#8220;Pistol Shrimp&#8221; or Alpheidae has a special claw, just one special claw, that can cause a small pocket of cavitation.
This cavitation causes a shockwave of about 80kPa at up to about 4cm from the claw. That&#8217;s enough to blast a hole through shells!
This little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=476</link>
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		<title>Incredible story well told</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/22/star-simpson-one-yea.html
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=474</link>
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		<title>Blades epoxied</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Epoxied, getting ready for open day.

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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=466</link>
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		<title>More fauna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friendly kookaburra in the botanic gardens. 

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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=464</link>
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		<title>Vermin of the week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Duckies!
Outside the engineering building. 
Not going soft btw with all of these rainbows and ducks. I would have posted an Audi s5 but it was driving too fast. 

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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=462</link>
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		<title>Rainblown away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Definately the brightest chunk of rainbow I have ever seen. You could actually see the definition between blue and violet clearly. 
Also it looks like it&#8217;s falling near my place. Prizes for guessing the location the picture was taken st or finding it on street view.

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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=460</link>
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		<title>Turbine blades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blades for the hawt on the CNC machine




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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=454</link>
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		<title>Dirty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The car got pretty dirty on the way to paintball.



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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=453</link>
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		<title>Court Summons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got home the other day to a pair of quite concerned parents. I had a letter, addressed to me, with the insignia and address of the &#8217;sherrifs department&#8217; printed in the upper corner.
They hadnt opened my mail, something which happens occasionally (probably not as much as my friend who shares the same initials as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=442</link>
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		<title>Newsgroups for idiots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know there a lot of people who don&#8217;t know about newsgroups or have become completely frustrated in using them. The thing is&#8230; they&#8217;re great and probably provided by your ISP for free. Finally something that uses all the potential of ADSL2+.
If you are still confused with what im talking about, its like torrents but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=441</link>
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		<title>Arduino preface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was in year 10 (or 11, I can&#8217;t remember), the school ran an after school exracurricular class for electronics. On the whole it was pretty boring but I did learn some pretty cool things. I learned how to solder, got my TAFE certificate 2 for double sided and surface mount components. We did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=438</link>
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		<title>Global Transit Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It takes me 45 minutes to drive to work. 
This is interesting because I could reach any other point on earth quicker.
Let me explain:
If you drilled a hole through the earth and installed a set of frictionless rails (or some kind of vaccuum tube). The time it takes to go from one side of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=435</link>
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		<title>Something Special&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;The Avalanches&#8221; DJ &#8220;Dexter&#8221; performs a live at the wireless set at Triple J. This is incredible. Listen to it.
He covers practically every song genre, mixing it all together.
www.awam.com.au/storage/dexter
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		<title>Torrenting for Pros</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Follow this guide if you want to download movies, download tv shows automatically or access your download interface remotely.
I figure that most of my closer associates already know all about this stuff but for the benefit of all Ill share the torrenting set up guide used by pros in &#8220;the industry&#8221;.
1) Get uTorrent, its quicker, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=433</link>
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		<title>Quite Amazing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.sonnyradio.com/F15.wmv
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=414</link>
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		<title>Doodles</title>
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Concept car, drawn on my Toshiba m200, in a lecture (of course).
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		<title>New Toy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well a week old now&#8230;
Tamiya TA-05
White Ferrari 430




Needless to say it looks a bit more beaten up now. Big race this Sunday!
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		<title>Think about this</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the same day 32 people were killed at Virginia Tech, at least 115 people died from a car bombing in Baghdad.
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		<title>Me Tube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch these things
http://video.google.com/url?docid=6204903272262158881&#038;esrc=sr1&#038;ev=v&#038;q=mario+frustration&#038;vidurl=http://video.google.com/videoplay%3Fdocid%3D6204903272262158881%26q%3Dmario%2Bfrustration&#038;usg=AL29H23XXriTaYL7vgvl8sRlH4ghcKWV_Q
also

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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=400</link>
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		<title>WiiBlog (4 of 3) : Photo Supplement</title>
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Dad and Nan playing bowling

Sister willing the ball to the right in bowling

I took the Wii to dinner at my wonderful girlfriends place last night. Needless to say it turned out to be a hit. Thats the mothers having a tennis battle.

The IR LEDs on my custom sensor bar.

You can see the sensor bar wires [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WiiBlog (3 of 3): Outside the box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had the Wii for about a week now, its been a lot of fun, especially with groups of people. However, as fun as playing it is. Its almost as much fun doing things with it which are not supported out of the box.
The Modchip &#8211; The first day after I got my shiny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WiiBlog (2 of 3) : The real world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday night, one of my guests that had been with us for the weekend had gone home and it was just the family and my cousin. That night wasn&#8217;t my first wii session of the day as I had got up at 9 for a quick session in the morning before church. The morning session [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=385</link>
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		<title>WiiBlog (1 of 3) : First Impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you will know it was my 21st recently and many of you chipped in for my group present: A Nintendo Wii.
While I didn&#8217;t know exactly what was in the box, the wii was one of the things I mentioned that I would like.
Before: I think I thought the Wii would be great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=384</link>
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		<title>My Wii Number</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2252 4776 6032 1169
Message me sometime!
w2252477660321169@wii.com gets sent straight to my wii and makes the drive glow!
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=383</link>
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		<title>Heavy Metal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lump suggested I write a blog about this and I thought. Why not, its been a while since I have written anything new.
Those who pay attention will remember that I am currently in the process of helping dad build his new boat. Its going well and is probably about 6 weeks off being in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=375</link>
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		<title>The only foolproof way of getting Vista on to the M200</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Depending on what your computer is at, installing Vista has varying difficulty. You can skip many steps if you already have Windows XP installed.
Requirements
-Toshiba M200
-SD Card
-Lan Cable
-Host computer
1) Download this bootable image, rename it to &#8220;$TOSFD00.VFD&#8221; and put it on your SD Card (must be fat formatted)
bootfile.txt
2) Pop it in the M200&#8217;s sd slot and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=369</link>
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		<title>Now starts here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

 


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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=367</link>
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		<title>True Comedy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=362</link>
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		<title>For a limited time only</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I debated putting this on my blog in fear of people search engine-ing it but I figure if I keep an eye on my key words ill be fine.
Click Here
Tell your close friends but keep it underground- this wont be around for long.
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=361</link>
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		<title>Lessons Learned 2006: Don&#8217;t Trust Anyone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted on how business is going for a while. It&#8217;s going ok but a lot has changed since I started it a few years ago.
I used to accept cheques. For me, it was a convenient way to get paid as it could be written to the cent and was easy to do. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned 2006: Shit happens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can drive as carefully as you want, it doesn&#8217;t stop people from hitting you.



Yes, I had a car crash in 2006. The end to the era of the Laser, a car which was purchased for $2. Thats not to say that it wasn&#8217;t an extremely valuable car because I really relied on its convenience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=356</link>
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		<title>eBag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My iBook
My Gym Machine 
Update coming soon..!
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=355</link>
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		<title>/blog now with more!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes you may have all noticed the lack of posts despite being on holidays. I have been waiting for the long process of changing hosts and nameservers to sort itself out. You would not believe how much of a better deal my new host is compared to the old one so I will demonstrate.
Feature &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Vista, the good bad and ugly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its been a whole week now that I have been running Microsoft&#8217;s latest iteration of the behemoth that is Windows. Its pretty safe to say that 98% if not 100% of you reading this are using windows so whether this whole Vista thing is worth it is pretty relevant.
I was lucky enough to have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I just finished World of Warcraft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must admit that it has been a great game. Its deep, expansive content is simply amazing.
However&#8230; There is only one way to actually win and finish the game and thats to beat the addiction. I was pretty addicted at one stage there to the stage I was causing concern for those around me. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Satisfaction for Speed:Carbon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just completed the latest Need iteration, Need for speed:Carbon in less than 24 hours. Thats right, I started at around midnight on Tuesday, the day of my manufacturing exam and finished it at about 6:00 on Wednesday. I didn&#8217;t play the whole time, rather the game is actually fairly short. I would put the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best of the worst</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paying for SMSes is for chumps. Read on.
 Now. This site that I am about to give you. Is the worst site on the internet. Its slow, its got blogs, its got profiles. Its like myspace but worse.
However, this is all just frivolity and if you ignore all of it you are left with one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=343</link>
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		<title>Battery Hen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ordered some Ni-Mh Batteries off eBay&#8230;

Thats 50 of them, obviously I don&#8217;t need 50 batteries- If you want some. If you want some email me and come and pick them up sometime.
Prolink Branded
2500mah &#8211; 1.2V
Ni-Mh Rechargeable
$2.80ea
I haven&#8217;t had a chance to test them yet but I have 2 on the charger now (I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S2-2006 Exam Procrastination 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My sister&#8217;s iPod mini wasn&#8217;t working and its out of warranty so I decided to take it apart.

Generally you can replace the batteries in these things to revive them so I think Ill give that a shot. However, a bonus that I knew about but had forgotten about is the goldmine of a CF Microdrive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scary Layout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry to all of you IE users, I didn&#8217;t realize that the page layout had boned up with the use of my huge but wonderful images. It should be fine now.
The other alternative is to just suck in your pride and get Firefox v2. Its pretty good and with its help I hope to drop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuk Tuk Final Renders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate to put MORE uni stuff up. Seems like all there is lately but here it is:

The Tuk Tuk. If anyone wants a read of our 160 page report on everything about it then put your email in the comments.
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=334</link>
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		<title>DFM / DFA pen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Made with only 4 parts (only 2 of which are to be manufactured) with super high DFM and DFA ratings I give you my manufacturing assignment group&#8217;s pen:
Rendered in 3DS Max, model in Solid Edge v18

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		<title>Long Term Sustainability of Biofuels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With significant investment in biofuel the questionability of it as a sustainable alternative fuel should be addressed. Compared to traditional petrochemical fuels biofuels have relatively low energy returns as well as only marginal emission reductions. Biofuels also require significant expanses of fertile land to grow sufficient crops for processing, reducing the capability for food and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Folds Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did have a huge writeup on how good Ben Folds and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra was but unfortunately due to a brief wifi outage I lost it and all of the interesting anecdotes such as:

Getting told off by a security person, during the solo in &#8216;philosophy&#8217;. (I was sitting in the middle of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall for Jungle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week we went to see the Whitlams live at the gov.
It was great, here are some pictures.

For the 4th or 5th song (of what seemed like hundreds) they played a breakbeat version of &#8220;Fall for You&#8221;. Laying in bed this morning I decided I really liked it so I mixed up a version.
So here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GCalSync</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was always my intention to follow up my phone post with some detailing the usefulness and importance of some of the functions however Lump&#8217;s recent comment has prompted me to write this one now.
One of the forces that persueded me to get a new &#8220;device&#8221; was that its too hard to carry around and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=302</link>
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		<title>Pure Candy(bar) k750i</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remeber my v3 Razr? Now that I have got rid of it I can admit that it was pure arse.
The menus were slow, the features were few, the processor was slow, the bluetooth was intermittent, the reception was poor, it frequently dropped calls and on top of all that it made me look like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More TukTuk Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may need VLC to view this
tuktukmovie3.avi
If you dont have VLC you may as well download it anyway. Its probably the best video player out there at the moment. Plays back practically anything and makes watching half downloaded *.avi a diddy.
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		<title>Latest Project Pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy!

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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=291</link>
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		<title>Visionary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next time you are at my place you will be able to see the google lava-lamp that shines upon you as a beacon of my ingenuity. Look upon my google tshirt and know.
http://studenttabletpc.com/2006/08/mindmanager_add-in_contest_winners.html 
I dont know if they knew I was from Australia when they made the competition but it didnt say anything about US only. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=285</link>
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		<title>7,800Mhz Triple Core</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you read my last post you would know some stuff at least about my current rendering obsession:

Unfortunately this stuff takes FOREVER to process on my lazy 3.2Ghz A64 so what I got instead was a 7.8Ghz supercomputer.
No I didn&#8217;t just drop a few thousand (or hundreds of thousands) of clams on a new computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rendered Impossible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What has been my project lately?
Have a look

Thats a rendering of my group&#8217;s current uni project. A 1L Biodiesel TukTuk. No seats or any interior yet, no doors either.
I am really quite new to the whole rendering thing and the above model is only my 2nd full scale model ever. The first that I did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beating the Petrol Pump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am one who likes to work out ways to &#8216;circimvent&#8217; the system. When it comes to day to day things like paying for parking or bus tickets, you know that I always have something hatching.
Petrol is one of the biggest weekly costs for me and many others in these times of high petrol costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Tench: Never ever again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I dont know how many people caught David Tench tonight on tv the other night but it was ruddy awful.There are shows that are bad but this was on a completely different level. Unfortunately I downloaded it and was watching it in bed and I actually got up and turned it off, going from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=276</link>
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		<title>The art of Procrastination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anybody who really knows me will know that I am THE best procrastinator ever. Those who dont know me would probably agree if they noticed that (the now defunct) PlanetLAN website recieved a major upgrade before the semester 2 1st year exams or if they saw the outstanding number of suplementary exams that I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=258</link>
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		<title>Syndicate!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know you must think that I work part time at google or something but this is really something worth hearing about.Google Calendar

Google calendar does not look like much at first glance. The reasons why you would use it over any other calendar are not immediately aparent. I only heard about it on a engadget [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=260</link>
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		<title>Got Milk?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always felt that I was alone in my enjoyment of browsing through the rediculous range at Amazon.com. I really do enjoy clicking around and imagining owning some of the more rediculous items.

I saw this a while ago thanks to the Stumbler thing but obviously the craze has grown since and especially since it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=275</link>
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		<title>Gnarlswriter V2!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The general concensus was that it was great but needed a few minor tweaks. When I was making it, I had to keep my speakers down because it was quite late at night and hence didn&#8217;t pick up any of that low frequency warbling that anybody with their bass boosted will hear. This latest version [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=272</link>
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		<title>V3iva Las Vegas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may want to know what this is all about&#8230;
Buy my phone :
 http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;ih=018&#038;item=280014216670&#038;rd=1&#038;sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&#038;rd=1  


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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=269</link>
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		<title>Clubbing for seals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then a song comes along that really hits your groove. &#8216;Greenskeepers &#8211; Lotion&#8217; was such a song and I figured it would go well as a club mix. Enjoy my latest mix, try and guess the song I mixed it with.
Greenskeepers &#8211; Lotion (awam club remix).mp3
4.4MB &#8211; VBR mp3
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=262</link>
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		<title>Picasso but not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of the most impressive applications that I have been using lately have come out of Google. Its not supprising that they produce such high quality apps because they are good at their R&#038;D but this post isnt about the company no matter how much of a pedestal it is on.
The most impressive of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=259</link>
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		<title>Most annoying thing in the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Of WarcraftWorld of Warcraft is undoubtedly the best game that I have ever played. So much so that I fork out $20 a month to play it. Its huge, its stunning and has a complexity that you wouldn&#8217;t believe unless you see if for yourself. Infact, I think the whole game is very much like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=256</link>
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		<title>The Scary Door</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster or some sort of weird mirror. These are just examples. It could also be something much better. Prepare to enter The Scary Door.
I hope everyone likes the new page. I felt everything needed a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=255</link>
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		<title>USB Hand Warmers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who has been following my USB Memory Stick story, here is another interesting chapter.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/lexar-recalling-66-000-defective-jumpdrives/
Turns out they are being recalled for becoming excessively hot. Luckily mine is one of the safe serial numbers however it puts a dampener on the whole cheap usb drive thing.
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=254</link>
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		<title>Anti-fire-virus-wall 20008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When im with customers they are always asking me: What virus/firewall software do YOU use?
This is usually when they call me up because their $80 copy of Norton Systemworks 2006 failed to update the subscription after being installed for a week.

My choices:
Antivirus &#8211; Symantec Antivirus Corporate (Standalone Install) 10
It uses a small 5 meg of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=203</link>
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		<title>Passing By</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next time you find yourself way ahead in an exam flip over the work book and read the exam policy however for some extra fun replace the work examination with extermination.
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=253</link>
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		<title>Getting Hit On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[50,000&#8230; Its one of those numbers you use to exaggerate something. This number, in this case is no exaduration.
It is, the number of hits this site has had in the last year.

Acutally it really annoys me when people boast about how many hits their site gets. Its definately the most impressive of statistics in that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=252</link>
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		<title>Sketchy Details</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to put a few of my drawings from my sketchbook online before I put it in my shelf. You can really see the progression (they are ordered newest to oldest). I know many of them are impossible and some defy various physical laws but I still have some favourites in there and I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=242</link>
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		<title>Tough World (cont2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matchbox thumbdrive&#8230;

&#8230;full size of the red heads chick after the jump
 
When the plug is pushed all the way in the back end is flush with the end of the box.

Pushing the other end in as far as it will go extends the plug of the USB drive from the other end of the box.
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=251</link>
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		<title>Tough World (cont)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I made my new USB drive into something different.

The Smirnoff Red Label USB Drive.
More photos after the jump.

It fit supprisingly well into the lid and I cut wedges in the overlapping bit such that it folded in neatly. I didnt take any other photos but its about 6mm thick which means its smaller in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=244</link>
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		<title>Glass with care!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can only assume what that warning is supposed to mean. When I worked at maccas they used to have &#8220;EGGS WITH CARE&#8221; printed on the box. Does that mean that care is something that is included in the eggs? No, they want you to not drop the eggs.Anyway, thats not what I intend to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=209</link>
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		<title>Tough World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well its been only an afternoon since I have had my new USB drive and I have allready broken it open.

Full size images after the jump&#8230;

Amazing what they can fit 1gig into these days. I am thinking of making a really cool case to replace the silver spraypainted crappy job that its insides came in. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=207</link>
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		<title>Bargain!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always like to provide consumer tips to my readers.
Officeworks is selling USB drives with capacity of 1GB for a bargain price of $49.95
Strangely they have their 512MB model priced at $79.95
Unfortunately its not the best designed USB flash drive with the lanyard attachment on the lid end however the brand &#8220;Lexar&#8221; is reputable and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=204</link>
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		<title>Gheeeeeey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those interested I was an extra in Dave Leung&#8217;s &#8220;Life Impact&#8221; add which can be seen here: AU Life Impact
For anyone who takes the time to look, you can barely see me at all so its safe to say I havent sold out at all to the Adelaide Uni propaganda.
Not like this guy anyway..

&#8230;who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=202</link>
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		<title>Electricity, water, broadband</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It would take a very stubborn person to disagree with me when I say that every house in Australia should have access to broadband internet.In fact: I would go as far as saying that broadband should be one of the necessities of a house that goes along with things like running water, electricity and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=200</link>
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		<title>Nuclear Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the ~hullabaloo~ about nuclear power in Australia about at the moment its a wonder why the reasons as to why a nuclear power station has been found to be unfeasible in the past are no longer a issue.You see, Australia has big problems when it comes to power in comparison to some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=199</link>
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		<title>Complete list of software I own</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Programs

Macromedia Studio 5 &#8211; Academic Licence
Front Page 98
Windows 98 (OEM)
Windows 98SE (OEM)
Windows 95 (OEM)

Games

World of Warcraft
Need for Speed IISE
Fantasy Pinball
Battlefield II
Plus a few games I got with my video cards

And thats it&#8230; I would never pay for anything else and if I had to, I would change to open source.
There may be a few more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=198</link>
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		<title>Online Desktop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It occured to me on the bus today, that the requirements for a computer system have gone backwards over the past few months.
The truth is that the average computer user doesnt need more than the most modest of computers to run the majority of the programs that are out there. In fact, these days, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=195</link>
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		<title>Hot Foot Shuffle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ghetto foot heating.

Notice how I only block off half of the vent so I still get some heat above the desk.


I estimate K=0.6, elbow joint


You can also see the switch that was previously used to warm my feet.
Please disregard messy desk.
Materials:
2 Plastic garbage bags
~5M of regulation tape
Results:
Foot temperature before heatpipe = 104K
Foot temperature after = [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=192</link>
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		<title>Secret Agent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it turns out that the mission was possible all along!
I didn&#8217;t see that one coming as I watched MI:3 this morning as I ate my breakfast in a preliminary procrastinate before my day of hard work.
MI:3 was a bit of a challenge to watch because of two reasons. The 1st is the fact that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=184</link>
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		<title>Football is for armish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look, I have no idea what FIFA stands for but the whole world cup thing is on/coming up. I dont know.
Either way, I thought I would whip out the latest incarnation of the game: FIFA:2006 Germany World Cup. Currently the worlds #1 selling game. I really liked old Fifa 2003, it wasnt trying to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=182</link>
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		<title>Wikipedia Races</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I sat in the comp science labs yesterday having a mahjong race with anz I noticed a different kind of race going on behind me&#8230; a Wikipedia Race.
Now now that I have heard of it it seems obvious. What you do is nominate two seemingly unrelated topics then have a race with another person [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=180</link>
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		<title>Flickering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If anyone is interested in following the construction of my Dad&#8217;s 26&#8242; boat you can look at the flikr album
here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/96136643@N00/sets/72057594137119472/
I am really quite impressed with the interface of flickr. I was never impressed by livejournal or any of those other blogging ones as there were always so many amazing bomebrew alternatives but flickr does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=183</link>
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		<title>Copy right?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well it seems that the gov&#8217;t has finally got around to changing our copyright laws to make it legal to use VCRs.
Yes thats right, until this new copyright reform goes through it is still illegal to use your VCR. The only problem is&#8230; the new laws will only allow people to watch their recorded program [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=181</link>
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		<title>People who don&#8217;t suck read&#8230; Achewood!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Especially this recent story line
http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=04052006
If you like that then I suggest you go back and read the ~Great Outdoor Fight~ storyline.
Also&#8230; Sorry I have not updated for so long. I have no excuses.
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=179</link>
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		<title>Hilltops and Valleys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I havent written a music related post for a while which is why when I listened to the most recent contribution from our favourite local success story, The Hilltop Hoods. I felt I had to share my thought with you, my reader(s).
The album &#8220;The Hard Road&#8221; is named parallel to the 3rd track &#8220;The Hard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=177</link>
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		<title>Ecomentalist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course im not the kind of person who will rave about saving the environment and I dont usually care for those conspiracy theories about events that will be changing our world. However, I do know these two things as facts.
1) We (as a world) are currently taking as much oil out of the ground [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=176</link>
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		<title>Y2K all over again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate missing the bus. I always sit at home feeling guilty for missing the lecture I should be at. Sometimes I skip lectures and that slides freely off my concience.
Why did I miss my bus and inherent lecture? Because of the stupid daylight savings mixup.
Now, normally I dont have any issues with daylight savings. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=172</link>
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		<title>The Cupboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a treat for you all tonight I am going to take you on a guided tour of my cupboard.

1 &#8211; Older books and manuals. The Netscape Communicator 4 book I won from a under 16s web development competition in &#8216;98, I have never used it but I keep it for sentimental reasons.
2 &#8211; My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=171</link>
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		<title>Shawshank Installation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=169</link>
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		<title>Football Tipping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you know me then aparently you qualify for footy tipping:
www.footytips.com.au
and join the  &#8220;PlanetLAN&#8221; team or leauge or whatever
On the same note, people will notice planetlan.awam.com.au has been taken offline. Sorry to all involved but I think we have all moved on. Good times though, good times. I still have it as an offline [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=168</link>
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		<title>The diary cover that wasnt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t seen the diary cover for the Adelaide University Union diary its a piece of rubbish. Looks like somebody juxtapositioned a few images then scribbled with the mouse.

Click for full detail
This is the cover that I had ready for submission but never got around to submitting. I spose I thought somebody would have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=165</link>
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		<title>Trainspotting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The down side of coming off world of warcraft was that I knew I would need to mix with my friends again in a state of full consciousness. It was awful: they reminded me so much of myself I could hardly bear to look at them. Take Sick Boy, for instance, he came off world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.awam.com.au/?p=161</link>
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