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Winter Olympics 2010 in my city!

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Some photos from Sunday night when we WON GOLD!

Olympic Flame @ Vancouver
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Crane With Olympic Ring Coloured Maple Leaves
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The Olympic Rings
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A brief history of my cameras

I am not one for writing product reviews as the Internet is littered with good reviews, from the tech head perspectives to the real world usability perspectives.

My new favourite band

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Die Antwoord. Watch the videos and the secret chamber. South Africa rules!

Here is what my mouse does in one day

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How to remove a file in unix with a leading dash in it's name?

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That was the question I asked myself recently when I had a file called --exclude in the root of my filesystem. These commands all failed:

rm --exclude
rm "--exclude"
rm \-\-exclude
rm ??exclude

So I found the solution - so simple it embarrassed me. Just add the full path:

rm /--exclude

or tell the command line parser to stop interpreting options:

rm -- --exclude

Easy!

Apple is very pricey in South Africa

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New Photo Blog

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Whenever I feel the need to post an image that I want to comment on, I will do so here. Check back regularly for updates.

My second coffee table book just arrived

Before I show our book, first some background.

We had a couple of issues with the Apple book service. Using iPhoto to create the book is as simple as you can expect it to be. However, usually with simplicity comes a lack of power features. Some layout techniques are just not possible, and your options are quite limited. That being said, it was good enough for my first attempt at creating a coffee table book.

So when the book finally arrived, there were a couple of things that put me off and some things I liked.

Snow photos as I promised

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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned it started snowing in Vancouver (Surrey). Well I never got around to post some pictures, so here goes. These are from two separate days.

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The current state of SOAP

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