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coolumbla said:
isnt the beach every other week at the moment?
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I am in Bathurst currently - it's snowing somewhere nearby! Certainly not on a beach... Although next week I go to London. But that's not a beach either! :cool: So maybe one week in 4?

On a completely different topic, I may be exposing my inner aviation geek yet again, but it was pretty exciting to use runway 25 for the first time in SYD yesterday :mrgreen: Albeit mildly offputting as a BA 747 taxied just past my REX Saab as we held on the apron... size difference impressive up close!
 
Weird flight tonight.

Crew took a while to come out with meals and then no sooner did they finish serving they started cleaning up. I went to the toilet down the back and waited for the crew serving meals and when I came out 1 minute later 2 trolleys were used to collect so waited ~10 minutes to get back to my seat in row 6. Asked for a wine and was refused (didn't have a drink earlier) as they were preparing for landing. Seat belt sign did not come on for another ~10-15 minutes.

Why is this inconsistency so hard to shake? By the way I have no recollection of this crew before and most were middle aged and older.
 
JohnK said:
Why is this inconsistency so hard to shake? By the way I have no recollection of this crew before and most were middle aged and older.
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Sounds like the 763 crew I get to Darwin often.
 
120k+ rows in Excel (extracted from an Oracle DB) wrangled into 66,164 English-Chinese translation units!

Now to make Notepad++ run a macro through 85k lines of XML and process the resulting ~40k lines against two translation memories.

Not that I expectto make sense to anyone ....
 
Apparently it's International Bacon Day, not something I suspect will spread to the Middle East or some of our Asian neighbours.
 
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Katie said:
120k+ rows in Excel (extracted from an Oracle DB) wrangled into 66,164 English-Chinese translation units!

Now to make Notepad++ run a macro through 85k lines of XML and process the resulting ~40k lines against two translation memories.

Not that I expect to make sense to anyone ....
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I think what you've said makes sense to me. I didn't know Notepad++ does scripting, otherwise something like Python, Perl or even Java might be easier to rip through that XML right now.
 
First day of spring and Sydney had ice/frost on the golf course this morning. Almost slipped on the bridge walking across the creek on the 1st....
 
First day of spring in CBR and it was minus 7, this morning it is a relatively warm minus 3.

Still, it is bright and sunny.
 
anat0l said:
I think what you've said makes sense to me. I didn't know Notepad++ does scripting, otherwise something like Python, Perl or even Java might be easier to rip through that XML right now.
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In Notepad++ you can record a macro & run it. But it seems to take ages for what I'm doing. Mr Katie showed me how to record a macro yesterday. *blush*

I would use a more useful language if I knew one. I stopped my IT studies & coding career at Turbo Pascal.
 
Be careful if you use Linux/Mac and open source software

'FIRST ever' Linux, Mac OS X-only password sniffing Trojan spotted ? The Register


All the hackers need now is to synchronise a hack of the major repositories (apt-get/yum/fink/zypper, etc) and wait for someones to type "sudo apt-get install|update or equivalent"


A quick Google search will show all major Linux organisations have suffered hack job in the past.


It's just a matter of timing and synchronisation...
 
mrs.dr.ron said:
When I went to school Wattle Day was the 1st August.
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It was the Mexicans over the border attempting confusion:

In 1916 the date of Wattle Day was changed in New South Wales to the first of August. This was done because wattle blooms profusely about that time in the surrounds of Sydney. However, the change led to some confusion which persists to this day; note that the nationally agreed date of Wattle Day has been the First of September throughout Australia since 1992.
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About Wattle Day — Wattle Day
 
Woke up at a stupidly early 5:00am so I could go for a run in the annual Bridge to Brisbane 10km fun run, it wasn't much fun at the 8km mark but I did manage to finish the course in under 60 minutes, probably a few seconds slower than last year.

Now I can go back to drinking all the beer that is in the fridge that I haven't touched for the past few weeks.
 
deft said:
Be careful if you use Linux/Mac and open source software

'FIRST ever' Linux, Mac OS X-only password sniffing Trojan spotted ? The Register


All the hackers need now is to synchronise a hack of the major repositories (apt-get/yum/fink/zypper, etc) and wait for someones to type "sudo apt-get install|update or equivalent"


A quick Google search will show all major Linux organisations have suffered hack job in the past.


It's just a matter of timing and synchronisation...
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I believe you.

Whatever you said :!: :lol:
 
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