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15 May

We have doors and Cupboards!

Published by Simon Lindsay

After not much action for a few weeks, everything started happening at once!

A couple of pics attached

 

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House
11 May

Twitter + Drupal + Pidgin

Published by Simon Lindsay

You've been hearing a lot about it in the news, and you're only going to hear more and more. If your business isn't looking into twitter, you're missing a boat thats growing massively - http://xlnk.me/16.

There are ways you can take advantage of twitter, the great thing about twitter is that you dont have to have a long spiel about what you've been doing. This, and other "blogs" i've done do take time, and a real concerted effort to do. Twitter "tweets" are a lot more casual.

09 May

Had enough tree planting for today!

Published by Simon Lindsay

We had about 435 to do, i reckon we got about half done this morning.

My knees ache. my back aches. Argh, i'm getting old.

If anyone is interested, we planted tubes of:

ACACIA brachybotra
ACACIA calamitolia
ACACIA hakeoides
ACACIA pycnantha
ACACIA sclerophylla

DODONAEA viscosa spatulata

EUCALYPTUS brachycalyx
EUCALYPTUS incrassata
EUCALYPTUS fasciculosa
EUCALYPTUS socialis

MELALEUCA lanceolata

Oh well, time to go for a ride on the mighty Husky I reckon!

 

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Trees
07 May

Picked up some trees, ready to plant this weekend.

Published by Simon Lindsay

Went to Trees for life this morning and picked up a bunch of trees from their excess stock to get our planting really started.

That should keep us busy for the weekend!

Took a couple of snaps of the back of the Forester filled with them.

Not sure how we're going to get all of the family home tonight, since trees are taking up the whole car.

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Garden, Trees
06 May

Helmet ejection system

Published by Simon Lindsay

Shockdoctor - http://www.shockdoctor.com have released a new product that can helps remove helmets in the advent of a serious accident.

http://www.xlnk.me/p

It is so simple, but so effective. If any sort of spinal injury is suspected, it allows the Helmet to be pushed off by the internal bladder.

Like a lot of great inventions, its very simple, and yet very clever, and very well priced as well for something that could save your life.

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Safety
02 May

Jetfire Heater

Published by Simon Lindsay

As we're living in a shed at the moment, and we needed a heater, I thought something a bit "industrial" would be ok. After some research, we purchased a "Jetfire" heater, which sure does throw out a lot of heat!

Trouble is, our shed is like 3.6metres high, so lots of warmth is a the top. Still, a HEAP better than no heater at all, with the nights getting closer and closer to 0C

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Shed, Gadgets
01 May

The Hunt for Gollum

Published by Simon Lindsay

Hunt for Gollum gets released for free on the 'net this weekend.

I hope their servers don't melt down. Checkout the trailers:

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Movies
26 Apr

Road trip

Published by Simon Lindsay

Had to travel yesterday for my Uncles funeral, 960km in a day isn't bad. On the way we stopped at a park and walked the dogs around for a bit, and found these massive moths on the back of the toilet block.

They look big and scary enough to make up quite a story:

Here you see the Australian vampire moth, known to suck blood from other less dangerour Australian animals like Kangaroos, Koalas, Tasmanian Devils and more.

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Travel, Bugs
26 Apr

Created some garden beds

Published by Simon Lindsay

Last Sunday I cutup a small tank with the angle grinder to make three small garden beds. Check them out in these photos.

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House, Yard

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