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Comment Re:Why always Australia? (Score 1) 564

by nicoleh on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @09:00PM (#14729019) Attached to: Toxic Toads Taking Over Australia

NZ has had their asses kicked due to the introduction of mammal species such as ferrets, weasels and possums. They have been isolated for so long that they do not have any native land mammals, so the devastation they cause to local fauna and flora has been of extremely high proportions - and is the main cause of the endangered status of many species of Kiwi.

Journal Journal: Livejournal - it's what's for nerds.

Journal by nicoleh on Wednesday January 05, 2005 @09:28AM

Ok, ok. So there's all this big nerd news that SixApart (a bloggythingish companytype doover) have plans to acquire Livejournal. (Although, y'know, it can't be that big if'n it's not been Slashdotted yet. Har.)

Journal Journal: Firefox 1.0 released!

Journal by nicoleh on Thursday November 11, 2004 @10:25PM

Mozilla has released Firefox 1.0, with a reasonable amount of fanfare and attention in the press. I'm still running 0.9.3 at home (not sure when sarge will have 1.0 available to apt-get; i'm going to be keeping an eagle eye out for it, though), but I have been fortunate enough to have my work machine updated to run the very shiny 1.0.

Journal Journal: gnusto; or, how to play games while looking productive

Journal by nicoleh on Tuesday October 26, 2004 @02:13AM

gnusto is a tidy little Mozilla extension which lets you play a veritable assload of text adventure games in the Z-Machine format. Although the mozdev.org site lists bugs and whatnot, i've not had any technical troubles with the two games i've tried sofar (Zork 1 and Metamorphosis). User end issues, on the other hand, are sur

Journal Journal: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Journal by nicoleh on Sunday October 24, 2004 @09:12AM

There are certain people i'm ashamed to have as internationally-known Australians. Rupert Murdoch is certainly one of them.

Journal Journal: We have the power!

Journal by nicoleh on Thursday October 21, 2004 @06:09AM

Someone's gone and invented a gadget that you can use to turn off any television. Fried. Fucking. Gold.

Journal Journal: Spread Firefox

Journal by nicoleh on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @10:44PM

It appears that there's a campaign going on at the moment to Spread Firefox, and they're trying to raise money to get a full page ad in the NY Times. I'm thinking of making a donation, if not for the ad, then for the rest of the campaign at least.

Journal Journal: I'm swirly!

Journal by nicoleh on Sunday October 17, 2004 @08:23PM

You are Debian Linux. People have difficulty getting to know you. Once you finally open your shell they're apt to love you.
Which OS are You?

I didn't even cheat, honest. I'm just that rad. And it's kinda scarily true.

Journal Journal: Linux offered pre-installed on desktops!

Journal by nicoleh on Thursday August 05, 2004 @08:32PM

Today I discovered a company in Victoria who provide the option of all flavours of Linux installed on your desktop/notebook. That is totally and utterly rad!

Journal Journal: New discoveries on the internet - well, for me anyhow.

Journal by nicoleh on Monday July 12, 2004 @09:42PM

So, i'm hideously behind in the times and only just disovered (or actually bothered looking into) Wikipedia. I'm a bad geek, I know.

Journal Journal: Multiple Microsoft Mishaps

Journal by nicoleh on Monday July 12, 2004 @09:17PM

It seems that in addition to the IE vulnerabilities (that also affected Mozilla), other MS products are having problems as well.

Journal Journal: I find this too amusing for my own good

Journal by nicoleh on Friday July 02, 2004 @08:53PM

Would you like to invite Microsoft to use Gmail? Would I ever!

Journal Journal: I'm always finding phenomenon a bit odd.

Journal by nicoleh on Thursday July 01, 2004 @08:51PM

Fox gets the clue that blogs are 'where it's at'. Well done, Fox. Well done. The SMH article's a pretty interesting and funny read, and I particularly enjoy this moment: Incredible. I wonder what burgeoning technological trend Rupert Murdoch's news machine will uncover next? Mobile tar-tar-telephony? The rah-rah-radio? Far-far-fire? The devil may have the best tunes but it'll be a long time before he works out how to u

Journal Journal: The problem with museums

Journal by nicoleh on Monday June 28, 2004 @12:28AM

Computer Museum's future in doubt. After seeing CIRAC at the Melbourne Museum, and the rest of the computer bits and pieces and info on display with it, this kind of news makes me very sad, especially seeing as there really aren't many other museums and collections devoted to computing history in Australia. (There's one at

Journal Journal: Copy protection plus added extras

Journal by nicoleh on Saturday June 26, 2004 @08:49PM

Beastie Boys accused of having spyware + copy protection on their new CD release. So it appears that "in some territories" it's EMI policy to have copy protection on their CDs.. I wonder if that's the case here in Aus?

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