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July 31, 2008

Phantom of the Opera

Laurent surprised me on Tuesday with two tickets of The Phantom of The Opera (musical). We watched the show in Lyric Theatre (Star City) last night. It was a great show, and I finally got the chance to watch...
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July 30, 2008

Prison Break seasone finale tonight

Tonight is the big night. We have two episodes of Criminal Minds, followed by two hours of Prison Break (season final). It was a great episode last Wednesday. Last week on Prison Break, Sucre got the model number of the...
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July 29, 2008

Starbucks not shinnying in Australia

I was a bit surprised with the Starbucks Coffee news today. This popular American coffee giant chain is shutting down 61 stores in Australia, leaving only 23 stores to remain open. That is almost 700 jobs gone, and about three...
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July 28, 2008

Limelight @ Criminal Minds

New episode of Criminal Minds is on Channel 7 tonight. Tonight on Criminal Minds (season 3 episode 13, Limelight): An auction for the contents of self-storage facility in Philadelphia uncovers a room full of items that might be indicators...
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July 27, 2008

the week it was, 27 July 2008

A Qantas airline exploded in air while flying back from Hong Kong. ABC correspondent Peter Lloyd was arrested in Singapore on drug charges. US Presidential Candidate Barack Obama was welcomed in Europe. Here's the weekly The Week It Was. As...
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July 26, 2008

Obama is popular in Europe

Perhaps many of you would not be surprised by this. US Presidential Candidate Barack Obama was extremely popular in Berlin. “[Barack Obama] is as popular in Europe, as George Bush is unpopular.” The reporter says. There's the clip. (Click the...
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July 24, 2008

the Quarter Pounder equation

I am not a big fan of McDonald's Restaurant. However, I do eat in McDonald's. Particularly at the time when I am in a unfamiliar place and don't feel like to try something I am not familiar with. In Melbourne,...
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July 23, 2008

Under & Out @ Prison Break

Last week, I was in Victoria, and I did not watch last week's Prison Break. Don't worry, it was recorded by EyeTV Diversity on my Mac. I should have time to watch last week's episode before 10.20 tonight. (The usual...
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two Criminal Minds

Double doses of Criminal Minds tonight! I have no idea why Channel 7 is airing two episodes in one go. New episode of Criminal Minds is on Channel 7 tonight at 8.30. Tonight on Criminal Minds (season 3 episode...
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July 22, 2008

invisibleSHIELD for iPhone 3G

Well, since I got my iPhone 3G on the first day of sale, I've been using it extremely carefully. In fact, I've been using it with the plastic wrap on when I was in Melbourne last week. Thanks god the...
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July 21, 2008

True Night @ Criminal Minds

New episode of Criminal Minds is on Channel 7 tonight. Tonight on Criminal Minds (season 3 episode 10, True Night): The BAU arrives in Los Angeles to cover the crimes of a serial killer when multiple brutal murders have...
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fines on annoying pilgrims is unconstitutional

A belated news, that is important to mention. I was in Melbourne last week to avoid Sydney's Would Youth Day lockdown. On Tuesday 15th July, World Youth Day Protesters have won the right to annoy pilgrims by successfully challenging...
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July 20, 2008

the week it was, 20 July 2008

The news of the week? World Youth Day in Sydney. What else? Australia might have our first saint. Industries welcomed the plan of carbon trading in 2010. Electricity bills will rise by 16%. Angelina Jolie had a textbook caesarean. Here's...
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July 18, 2008

Sony PS3 HDD upgrade

Well, the Sony PlayStation 3 only comes in 40GB hard drive now. But if you plan to use it for media centre and many other things, 40GB is pretty much not enough. After asking for opinions, I decided to get...
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July 17, 2008

Sony PSP

For some unknown reason, I bought another Sony product on the Saturday before iPhone 3G was released in Australia on 11th July. That was 5th July. In order to prevent Don from calling me rich, I decided to push back...
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July 16, 2008

Prison Break, Dirt Nap

It was a great episode last Wednesday. Last week on Prison Break, Susan took Linc to LJ, giving them one minute together in order to keep Linc motivated. With the help of Whistler, Michael managed to get the general...
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Penelope @ Criminal Minds

If you like Criminal Minds, you will like two new episodes of Criminal Minds in one week. New episode of Criminal Minds is on Channel 7 tonight at 8.30. Tonight on Criminal Minds (season 3 episode 9, Penelope): The...
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July 15, 2008

WYD = SYD lockdown

Some news on the World Youth Day. Sydney will be full of people, but not the regular people/visitors. Many of the Sydney's business are suffering due to city lock down. No parking, no buses... not many people will go...
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July 14, 2008

Lucky @ Criminal Minds

New episode of Criminal Minds is on Channel 7 tonight. Tonight on Criminal Minds (season 3 episode 8, Lucky): When a homicidal Satanist commits an extremely violent murder in Florida, the BAU flies in to take the case. The...
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Bastille Day and Wendy's at La Perouse, 2008

14th July is the French revolution day, commonly known as Bastille Day. I joined Laurent again to celebrate this day in La Perouse, south-eastern Sydney. La Perouse is named after a French captain Jean-François La Pérouse, he landed in Australia...
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July 13, 2008

the week it was, 13 July 2008

The so called ‘Jesus Phone’ (iPhone) released in 22 countries on 11th July, and I got one on the first day of sale. Nothing else is that important in my opinion. Here's the weekly The Week It Was. As usual,...
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July 12, 2008

1.5 TB hard drive from Seagate

Well, you can never have too much storage. Seagate has announced the first 1.5TB desktop drive and the first 500GB notebook drive. The Barracuda 7200.11 should be pretty speedy, with four platters spinning at 7200 rpm, 3Gbit/sec SATA, 16M or...
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July 11, 2008

I got my iPhone 3G!

If you have been reading my blog for the last days (or perhaps weeks), you should notice that I've been talking about iPhones and iPhones. I guess none of you should be surprised that I got an iPhone 3G...
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July 9, 2008

Boxed In on Prison Break tonight

The second settlement of Prison Break (season 3) returns tonight! Last time on Prison Break, Susan faces trouble from the Company. Susan decides to take Whistler out by her people, she's dumping Michael and Linc. Michael sensed The Company...
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Identity @ Criminal Minds

On Monday, one of the original BAU team member, David Rossi, returned to BAU, he's reason? To finish unfinished business. New episode of Criminal Minds is on Channel 7 tonight at 8.30. Tonight on Criminal Minds (season 3 episode...
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Vodafone releases iPhone 3G pricing

Naturally, I'd prefer to stay with Vodafone for the iPhone 3G. Vodafone (Australia) finally released plans for iPhone 3G. Vodafone provided 8 new exclusive plans for iPhone 3G. According to Vodafone, those new plans provides “heaps of credit to talk,...
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crunching with PS3

Well, I've been doing something very contributing to the society with my PlayStation 3. How? The PS3 has been on most nights running Folding@home project. Folding@home is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding...
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July 8, 2008

the count down...

Today is 8th July 2008, one month to go until Beijing Olympic; one week to go until World Youth Day to be held in Sydney; and most importantly, 3 more sleeps until iPhone 3G released in Australia and many other...
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July 7, 2008

About Face @ Criminal Minds

New episode of Criminal Minds is on Channel 7 tonight. Tonight on Criminal Minds (season 3 episode 6, About Face): David Rossi is a familiar face to some of the team, led back from retirement by "unfinished business". Rossi's...
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exciting week

Well, today is not the Desperate Monday as channel 7 has finished airing season 4 of Desperate Housewives. However, there are two things to get excited this week. On Wednesday, the second settlement of Prison Break (season 3) will return...
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July 6, 2008

the week it was, 6 July 2008

Climate change is a diapolical policy problem. The notorious paedophile Denis Ferguson was surrounded by angry locals. Here's the weekly The Week It Was. As usual, the clip is available in the usual H.264 format. Why do I use H.264...
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July 5, 2008

free upgrade

We all love free upgrades. iiNet sent me an email informing me that they now provides additional download quota for my account. Previously, I had 20GB download quota during peak hours (midday to 2am) and 40GB quota during off-peak hours...
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July 4, 2008

WYD to be worse than APEC

Remember this? During last year's APEC summit, (thanks to the visit of US President), NSW Police enjoyed the unprecedented untouchable power. NSW Police could do pretty much anything they want that they never enjoyed before. It will be worse...
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July 3, 2008

Optus released iPhone 3G prices

Optus has released the pricing for iPhone 3G following Telstra's surprise news few days back. Compared to Telstra, Optus is much more clear with the plans. Anyway, to get an iPhone 3G outright (no contract) with Optus, 8GB iPhone 3G...
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posted by Antony at 10:51 PM | read this blog entry and Talkbacks (1)

July 2, 2008

TiVo is coming to Australia

Finally, we will have TiVo in Australia. (Yes, I know it is well behind the United States.) Exactly, what is TiVo? I don't know exactly, all I know is that it's an electronic program guide with digital recording (DVR,...
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posted by Antony at 9:01 AM | read this blog entry and Talkbacks (2)

July 1, 2008

Telstra to sell iPhone 3G confirmed, price released

There's an update on Telstra to sell iPhone 3G news update I first mentioned 10 days ago. Yesterday, Telstra has confirmed that they will sell iPhone 3G and has released the price plan. The cheapest plan for iPhone 3G from...
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