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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 |
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Taweb hasn't been feeling the love lately, so I have just spent a few hours cleaning up, backing up, patching and upgrading almost all of the bits that make up the website.
I'm using some new bits and pieces that I haven't used before, so you may notice some small changes to some url's and stuff, but I hope that nothing is broken. If you notice anything that doesn't work as you expected then please leave a comment on this story and I'll check it out.
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Saturday, 18 April 2009 |
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Unless you have been on another planet this past week then you would already know about the amazing Susan Boyle, but just in case you have, here is a link to the video.
I'd love to embed the video here on tasweb but for some strange reason Youtube won't allow it.
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 |
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 Andrea Badcock (Koopman) and I (Phillip Groom) were chatting over Facebook the other night and by the end of it we had agreed to organise a reunion for Queechy High School leavers in 1980.
I have put this story here as a bit of a place holder just in case anyone hears about this and searches for it in Google.
If you are a leaver from Queechy in 1980 or you know someone who is then please get in touch with myself or Andrea so that we can update our list to make sure that we contact you when we have some more details.
We are both on Facebook, so that's the best way to get in touch, otherwise you can send email to
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or use the contact us link on this website.
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Friday, 06 March 2009 |
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The server in New Zealand that TiM has so kindly allowed me to host Tasweb on for the past couple of years has been turned off. I've moved Tasweb back home again (my hall cupboard to be exact!). Everything should be exactly as it was, however it may be a little bit slower than it was before as it's now on the end of my home ADSL service instead of in an ISP's server room. TiM has kindly offered to host Tasweb on his new server in the UK but I think I'll leave it where it is for a little while.
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Thursday, 26 February 2009 |
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 I have removed the high score games from Tasweb.
They weren't seeing a lot of activity and the games themselves were taking up a lot of space on the server that is very kindly provided to me by TiM.
Never fear, the ridiculously popular Asian hairdresser, hairdressing, makeover, dressup etc games are still available. Just look for the links in the "Popular Stories" section on the front page.
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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It's been a while since I've provided an update, and there has been a bit happening, but I seem to have been doing most of my updating on Facebook lately. Emma and Brad both have Facebook or MySpace pages as well, so Tasweb hasn't been feeling the love.
I did stumble across this picture and thought it worthy of sharing. It appeared in today's Mercury newspaper and the incident happened at Marion Bay near where the Falls Festival is held each year. You should buy a copy of the paper or at least go to their website as they have a series of photo's there starting from before he hit the wave through to the final wipeout. The guy was OK, but I think he was a tad worried when this shot was taken!
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
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 This is old news, but I only discovered it the other day. Those that are old enough to remember when computers didn't know what graphics were will probably remember ASCII art. It's where you take a whole bunch of standard keyboard characters and put them all together so that when you look at it (normally from a distance) it looks like art (i.e. it looks like the graphics that the computers were too old and dumb to do).
Some clown has taken ASCII art to the extreme by coding his own version of the original Star Wars movie.
To view it you need a telnet client as you have to telnet to the server that then sends the simple characters to you. If you click on this link then it should all happen for you.
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Sunday, 19 October 2008 |
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 You have to kinda wonder just how low the Australian share market can go. The litlle graph on the left isn't broken, the value of my portfolio really has dropped that low. If you look at the starting point and then look at where it's at now you can see that I've lost quite a bit of value. I used to worry every time there was a bit of a dip, but now that it's plummeted I just think it's funny. I don't actually loose any money unless I sell, and I have no intention of selling right now. I know I've mentioned this stuff before, but I'm holding shares in Brockman (BRM) at the moment. They are an Iron Ore mining startup with 1.6 Billion tons of iron ore in the ground in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. They havn't started to dig the stuff up yet, but they do have over 1 Billion tons of iron ore in the ground, and 110 Million dollars in the bank. The weird thing is that their share price has followed the Australian market down the gurgler to the point where the company is now worth only 65 Million dollars. That means that if someone had a spare 65 odd Million dollars available and they could convince enough people to sell their shares at the current price then they would end up buying 110 Million dollars for the bargain basement price of 65 Million dollars (that's an instant profit of 45 Million dollars) and then have over one Billion tons of iron ore to on sell to someone else. That's why I'm not too worried. Sanity has to return to the market at some stage.
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