After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, Melbourne scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago. Not to be outdone by the Victorians, in the weeks that followed, a Sydney archaeologist [...]

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Now as you probably know I’m not one that usually subscribes to conspiracy theories, (for example, I don’t believe that the British Royal Family had anything to do with the tragic death of Princess Diana, apart of course from ordering it, using their loyal subjects) but there has been a recent pattern of events here [...]

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I needed to do some development and testing in IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, however I was unable to get the bugger installed in my development environment (on Mac OS X 1.6 … well it has only been out for a week ) VMWare Fusion had to come to the rescue. Although IBM do not [...]

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It is well known that humour is regional, but this is the first joke that I can say is truly Queenslander: At a national conference of the Australian Hotels Association, the general managers of Cascade Brewery (Tasmania), Tooheys (New South Wales), XXXX (Queensland), CUB (Victoria) and Coopers (South Australia) found themselves sitting at the same [...]

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I couldn’t resist re-posting this joke which is going around, its just so true sometimes … A man in a hot air balloon, realizing he was lost, reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended further and shouted to the lady “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet [...]

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