OK, so I havent been to the dentist in a few years. I've been a vewy naughty boy.

Turns out I had a massive cavity in one of my teeth, ended up with about 1/2 of it being a metalic filling, the other half tooth.

My new dentist is far better than my last one. I didn't feel a thing while he carved out 1/2 my tooth.

Since it is half machine and half human, I shall call it Darth Tooth.

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Orson Scott Card, writer of some really great science fiction (Ender's Game etc) has reviewed the new Joss Whedon movie, Serenity - the movie version of the tv show Firefly (which I only ever saw one episode of, but which I'll be chasing up after seeing this movie this week.. damn it was awesome :-) Makes good reading and the movie, good viewing ;-)

The review

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So I added 200 photos to the gallery, then told the whole office about them.

They were photos from Monday night's netball game, which was my first attempt at indoor sports photography. I didn't do too badly, and I certainly learnt from the experience.

The photos are here.

Finally a site for those of us with severe Civilization addiction! See others with the same affliction and share their experiences!

http://www.civanon.com/

(The movie is particularly informative!)

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Another update! Release notes from Sid Meier himself!!

Civ4 Release Notes

Made In China. no thanks. check out these two video clips of a crash test.

External view

Internal view

This weekend marks the 150th birthday of railways in NSW. Central Station was host to a large display of locos and rollingstock on display this weekend. I spent about 6 hours there yesterday and still didn't manage to see it all.

Pictures can be viewed in My Gallery, and more information can be seen at the Railcorp website.

I belong to a group called SAGE-AU - The System Administrators Guild of Australia. SAGE-AU recently had it's annual general meeting in Perth (which I didn't attend).

They've made a calendar featuring pictures taken at the event. I always thought I looked like a geek, but I'm normal compared to these guys!

First it was the toy MLRS, now it's a balloon. This time it's from Diskcovery, a documents and data management company.