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Aww damn.. just realised that here in Brisbane, Aust, the show goes live at oh-my-god (0600) in the morning Friday, just as I'm heading out the door to work, and ends about half an hour after I get to work.. thank goodness for the playlists.

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Diziet Sma wrote:
Why do you all have to live on the wrong side of the planet?
Will you put us all up if we move? :)
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...and do they do 'Watneys red barrel' in your local pub? :)
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Diziet Sma wrote:
Why do you all have to live on the wrong side of the planet?
Thanks for the offer :D . I'll be bringing Mrs SandJ, too. Expect us by the end of the week. Do we need to bring anything, besides a slab of tinnies? :wink:
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SandJ wrote:
Diziet Sma wrote:
Why do you all have to live on the wrong side of the planet?
Thanks for the offer :D . I'll be bringing Mrs SandJ, too. Expect us by the end of the week. Do we need to bring anything, besides a slab of tinnies? :wink:
I hope you like cats as-well, I'm bringing two....very good ratters. Can I borrow your surf board?
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Diziet Sma wrote:
Why do you all have to live on the wrong side of the planet?
:twisted: I'll wait till the temperature in Norway again drops below zero (although it did snow on Saturday). Gives you some time to plan ahead. There are 5 of us, no pets. :wink:
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Guess I walked into that one.. :lol:

SandJ is welcome, as at least he appears to understand Aussie protocols.. 8)
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Diziet Sma wrote:
SandJ is welcome, as at least he appears to understand Aussie protocols.. 8)
:P I paid attention to Sir Les Patterson and Kevin "Bloody" Wilson taught me everything else I need to know.

Edit: I hadn't realised it is Kevin's final UK tour this year; I'll definitely be going to that.
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I'm technically still Australian... still more than a year to go before I'm even a permanent-resident Pom, despite having been here eight years (long, boring story). I know the protocols but my witch drive is busted.
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Talisker wrote:
I'm technically still Australian... still more than a year to go before I'm even a permanent-resident Pom, despite having been here eight years (long, boring story). I know the protocols but my witch drive is busted.
I'm technically still a Pom.. Been a permanent resident in Oz since '66, though.. and could not imagine calling any other place 'home'.. :D

Holding up under the "weather" ok, I take it? :lol:
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Diziet Sma wrote:
"weather"
Spent no small part of the weekend in a tent on Salisbury Plain, getting rained on, now that you mention it.

Downside: not much skydiving. Upside: I brought this here laptop and got to play Oolite instead 8)
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Talisker wrote:
Downside: not much skydiving. Upside: I brought this here laptop and got to play Oolite instead 8)
And you were the envy of your companions, no doubt!.. 8)
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Reasons XML file formats are awesome #57:

Dumping your save file to a terminal to look at it.

Then, cleaning out various bits and pieces, you make a slip of a shell substitution (beware !$ in the wrong terminal in a hurry) and delete it!

No, you don't have backups.

But, you do have copy and paste!

Disaster and dropping Oolite in despair (on the upside, I do have an almost unplayed install of Avadon: the Black Fortress kicking around) averted.
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Hi Guys - I wondered if you can tell me if it is normal for a PM to stay in your outbox for approximately 2 hours.

I sent a PM earlier this afternoon and have just checked - it is still in the outbox !
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