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Last time I told you that there were some awkward moments in making the switch from PC to Mac. But in spite of those, there are so many things I love about the Macintosh. Let’s start with the minor things.

Be Warned - Geek girls (and other readers of the gentle female persuasion) may be excited after viewing the following notices of clothing on sale! Boyfriends and husbands should watch for signs of wallet fingering and wardrobe shuffling and muttering – “There’s no room i here - what can i throw out to make room for all these yummy clothes?” Spyjournal takes no responsibility for sudden increases in credit card limits.

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Brisbane

Madaboochoo are having a massive warehouse sale where you could win $5000* worth of new season designer clothing.

All you have to do to win this amazing prize is come along on the day of the sale and purchase any item of clothing.

*Please see the website for full terms and conditions of entry www.madaboochoo.com.au

WHEN
Saturday 25th July, 2009- one day only.

WHERE
Unit 9, 21 Duntroon Street, Brendale, Brisbane

What ever you do or don’t like about the Rudd Government (or is that the Labour Government? We tend to blur these things, but we shouldn’t) this little story should give you some insight into the man Kevin Rudd. Now lets see if he follows through!

• A Prime Minister’s Conscience is Pricked.
• And the PM Website has been rebuilt using Drupal!

Update - the group 78 people were forcible evicted.

Mollom – the Drupal spam management system created by the creator of Drupal Dries Buytaert - has blocked 100 Million spams. We use it here but recently its been letting a few through on the comment system. so our apologies for that.

Robin Good reviews GoogleWave – article written by John Blossom

Windows 7 Media Centre background can be changed and more here

Jenine’s write up of the latest Girl Geek Dinner – with my piccies.

I have been building / rebuilding a lot of virtual PCs lately.

We use them a lot in our software development because we need to be able to develop in the same environment as the client has. Many clients are still stuck on XP and Office 2003. So we build a virtual machine that has this OS and Office installation.

I have been accepted into the Office 2010 tech preview, and was trying to build a Windows 7 64bit beta virtual machine to load the 64 bit Office applications into. I was unable to do so and it relates to something to do with hardware virtualisation. Personally I think this is just an issue with the windows 7 64 bit beta architecture because I was able to do it using a fresh real hard drive.

On the way I have found some tools and websites that have been helpful.

• VHD Resizer and the VM Toolkit
• Microsoft Tech Net – lots of resources here about Virtual Server 2005
• Creating Virtual Hard Disks