June 2006

Aussie geeks celebrate

June 19, 2006

While Australia’s world cup soceroo’s went down to Brazil yesterday (not a bad performance BTW), we enjoyed a win in the 4 legged robotics soccer cup. Congrats to the folks at University of Newcastle on the win, beating out another Aussie team, University of New South Wales, my old alma mater. While the NUBots beat [...]

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Gatesy stepping back

June 16, 2006

Personally I would have done it years ago but it seems Gatesy has announced plans that he is stepping back from his day-to-day responsibilties at Microsoft to pursue his philanthropic ventures worth an estimated $29 billion. Rumour has it that he will be handing over responsiblities to flemo.org although these are just rumours at this [...]

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Erase your hard drive – especially if you’re a dodgy bastard.

June 12, 2006

Getting a lot of unwanted online attention, Amir Tofangsazan sold a dodgy laptop on ebay after neglecting to send it for several months. Laptop guy swapped out the hard drive and discovered the inside world of dodgy Amir so in retribution, set up a blog in his honor. Gotta love it.

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Aussies win!!

June 12, 2006

After 32 years in the soccer world cup wilderness, the Soceroos beat Japan 3-1. The whole game was viewed on espn360.com. Sweet site, even sweeter game.

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