hi there!
I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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I never thought this day would come, and it still isn't really here yet, but it's a promising start. I stumbled on to it while trying out their new 'beta' timetables (which are horribly broken in Firefox 3), so I assume it will be improved and officially announced soon. It works a lot...
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Between watching the two grand finals this weekend (boring matches, but awesome results for Victoria ), I managed to get some time to start poking around with Python , a programming language. And what better way to learn something than using it to tackle a pet peeve. So I wrote a python script that extracts...
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I posted this on the aus-dotnet mailing list a few weeks ago, but didn't get many responses so I'm gonna repost it here and see how it goes: The list seems a bit slow this week, probably because all you guys are still recovering from Code Camp, or have decided to use your sick leave to take advantage...
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Opened without much fanfare (well, nothing I saw on mainstream media/blogs), the myki discovery centre has opened at Southern Cross station . Even the press release was hidden in the 'latest news' section of the myki website; nothing was changed on the front page to tell people, but I digress. What's...
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After a blistering hot night (never dropped below 27 degrees apparently), we've finally gotten some much needed rain. It's our early Christmas present from the big man above . Hopefully it'll fall in the right places to: put out the bushfires and let all the fireys (local, interstate, international)...
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Joining the guys at gnoos , an aussie-centric blog search engine, is Chinswing , which are general discussion forums with a twist - you speak your thoughts instead of typing them. Finally we can get the human-ness back into the web (yes I know, youtube has had video comments for a while now, but some...
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Waking to a non-hangover morning (damn its annoying having a car sometimes), I was instead greeted by smoke, firey burning smoke, not the kind you get from cigs (which I was also smelling of from the night before). Feel sorry for all the asthmatics out there - it was bad enough for my hayfever to get...