Archive for November 2007

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Update Woes

I installed the latest updates for Wordpress and Coppermine the other day. Unfortunately this time it hasn’t gone all smoothly. It appears my Feedburner feed is now broken and Coppermine isn’t able to access the SQL database anymore so none of the pics I’ve hosted are appearing. I am working on it, hopefully it will [...]

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1 Month from Overland Track

I went to book the bus from Lake St Claire to Cradle Mountain today and found that there is no bus service on the day we need it. We could charter but the standard fees were 4 times more expensive and might have been even worse considering we need it on a public holiday. So [...]

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Making It Happen - A Travel Plan

I’m working on a more detailed and useful plan now, if it looks familiar it’s probably because I blatantly ripped it off from Dave, why? Well the layout was simple enough and very easy and useful to follow, so planning and keeping track of things is just much easier. Obviously it is a work in [...]

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Review - Raichle Mt Peak

I’ve had my Mt Peaks for about a year now so I think I can give a fair review of them.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get the XT GTX version which I think would have been better simply because of the different leather used.

My Mt Peaks were comfortable even brand new not that it took [...]

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Crayons and Travel Plans

Back in March I vaguely outlined my travel plans, since then a bit has changed. All going to plan with work September ‘08 will be the month I leave. I’ve created a map giving a general idea of the parts of the world I want to travel to and how much but I don’t have [...]

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Cultural Etiquette in Australia

If learning that it is not a good idea to handle food or shake with your left hand in Asia, or that in Australia the ‘thumbs up’ gesture is considered obscene is a good sign of an interested traveller then it might be interesting to find that in Australia at least you’d be wrong about [...]

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I’m Out - Earth Bound

Still no contact from Eric. Everything seems to suggest that our attempts to contact him are being ignored rather than them not reaching him. As far as I am concerned Eric has abandoned the project without so much as a single word of his intention to do so. Personally I feel that some of the [...]

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