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Puffing Billy, Australia’s oldest surviving steam railway and the last of the experimental narrow-gauge railway lines built at the turn of the twentieth century to help develop rural areas.

The 25-kilometre journey winds through thick forests and lush fern-filled gullies from Belgrave to Emerald Lake and Gembrook.
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Yes, I have actually been busy since we arrived home from our holiday in Robe, primarily doing work on the home network which I have avoided for quite some time, but as always it’s amongst other things such as a new kitten, Caitlins Birthday, helping my Brother in-law out, Connor starting back at school and Caitlin starting at school for the first time.

As you have probably noticed by the lack of updates on the website I’m a bit bored with “Technology" at the moment and even taking any photos.

I’ve had a new server at home to replace the existing file and print server for the last 4 plus months but I just haven’t been able to find the energy or will power needed to deploy it. The old server has a nasty habit of locking up which is a right pain because the MediaPortal PC which is connected to the TV gets rather grumpy whenever you try to access files on this server.

This combined with the fact that the Domino web server was almost out of disk space which made updating the website take 10 times longer than it should and that my desktop desperately needed the removal of Vista and a reinstall of good ‘ol XP. (In my opinion Vista is without a doubt the worst Operating System ever created by Microsoft, far worse than even Windows ME and I blame this as a major contributor to my lack of interest in my PC’s of late.)

So anyway it all started because I went to turn the cartoons on for the kids the other morning only to find that the MediaPortal PC wouldn’t boot. As far as I can gather the PC had filled up with dust, overheated and then spent the night rebooting causing XP to corrupt itself. So after messing around trying to fix it I gave up and reinstalled XP and everything is up and running again.

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The picture folders of Caitlin & Megan have been updated and includes Megs 2nd Birthday Party and Caitlin in her School uniform.

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Holiday to Robe South Australia

This is our second visit to the Robe Long beach Caravan Park, this time we spent 18 days there and unfortunately the weather was a little disappointing. Of the 18 days there was only a couple of days that the wind wasn’t blowing a gale and only a few where the temperatures peaked above the mid 20 Deg’s.

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Heading out prior to Xmas to have a look at the ready made cubby houses as a possible Xmas present for the girls, we were blown away at the ridiculous prices they were.

After Catherine and I talked about it we decided that a “Fort” style would be a better option, cheaper to make and less grief as it wouldn’t require building permission.

So with only a rough plan in my head we headed down to the timber yard and returned home with a mass of cheap and nasty treated pine sleepers, fencing rails and decking.

The trouble was as I started building the cubby/fort the design became more and more elaborate, with a crows nest arrangement between the trees leading to a flying fox, multiple stairs etc. As it is very unlikely we will move any time soon I wanted to make it as strong and lasting as possible and with all theses factors this is where the issues began …. The sheer lack of time.

Everything is mitered and/or checked-in; its plumb, level and square, all the edges of the timber is routered round and smooth and all of this is time consuming to say the least. Unfortunately just as I started the construction Ray had the pre-Xmas rush happening as well so I was working 7 days a week leading up to the Xmas break.

So currently at the time of writing it is still not finished and I estimate that another 3 days will be required to finish it off.
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2007 Xmas parties, Xmas Eve with the Herman family, Xmas Day with the Arber family and the Sunday before Xmas with the Lay family

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With the warm weather coming so early in the year, a quick visit to the beach with the girls (including the dog)

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Speaking to Stevo’ on Friday afternoon he enquired if we were intending on going on the trip being organised by Dean to Cobaw State Forest, I haven’t been on the AULRO forums much of late and to be honest hadn’t seen the thread regarding this. I mulled it over for a while and to be honest the thought of getting out for the day was tempting to say the very least, being stuck at home job hunting is starting to take its toll on me.

Catherine was out with the girls for Friday night drinks so when I rang her about 11pm and asked her if she was interested she said yes, a few drinks and a not so clear head she failed to ask what time we would be leaving the following morning, I also believe that Cath agreed because she knew I wanted to go.

So I got to work packing for the trip, its amazing how time consuming getting ready for these things are when your packing for 2 little ones, lunches, snacks, bottles, changes of clothes, sun cream, hats, coats, drinks, dummies, nappies, wipes the list just goes on and on and crawled into bed around 12:30am just as Cath arrived home.

Waking to the alarm a bit after 5:30am we got to work, getting dressed then packing and loading the stuff into the back of Sall, then waking the girls, sorting breakfast and hitting the road about 6:40am. The plan was to meet at the Village Green Hotel car park at 7am but we needed to fill up with petrol first and 90 litres on these low flow pumps is all to time consuming.

Arriving at the car park Peter and Lyn were already there in their 80 series Landcruiser and Darren and his little one were there in his Pathfinder, we were just waiting on Stevo and Annette in their Disco1, time to crack open the thermos and have another shot of caffeine, I was sleepy and my eyes felt gritty.

Hitting the road the plan was to meet at Carlsruhe Servo at 8:30am, having a V8 and the fuel bill to prove it and with Tomtom set with our destination I decided to set cruise control and take the lead, leaving those with fuel economy to battle up the inclines.

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Stevo and I convoyed together from home at about 10:30am Friday morning chatting along the way via the UHF all whilst the rain came down by the bucket load. Stevo was optimistic that the rain would be clear once we made our way over the Black Spur, although I was doubtful to say the very least. Yet he was right about 50KMs out of Marysville the weather began to clear and stayed fine upon arriving at Stones right up to the time we began to setup camp and once again the heavens opened up. As luck would have it the weather cleared just as soon as we sufficiently drowned and our camp was setup!

We headed out for a bit of an explore before it got dark and I cease to be amazed at how Lake Eilden’s water level has dropped, we came upon a camp ground with toilets that was used for boats which is now currently an estimated 3KMs from the water..

Heading back to camp Stevo amazingly spotted a Bowerbird nest along the side of the track. Ray turned up at the campsite first followed by Gavin a little later we had an amazing dinner of roast pork, vegies with gravy or apple sauce all cooked in the camp oven by Stevo.

Saturday we began working on the hut, Ray and Steve cleaned out the dirt and rubble around the fireplace before Stevo was alarmed by the presence of a fictitious snake. Gavin and I leveled the high ground areas around the outside of the hut creating a full away from the hut and Jason and his son Noah arrived to help with the timber slabs on the chimney, before Clarkie and Justin also arrived.

Jason had to leave early to get his son off to work, Clarkie and Justin needed to find some tracks in Toolangi. Stevo and I left Saturday afternoon and on the way out spent an hour or so wandering the old mine shafts littering the hills on the way out and Ray & Gavin spent Saturday night at camp and headed out on Sunday morning. ]]>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:44:21 +11000http://www.weaselsnout.net/web/pics.nsf/CommentsRSS?Open&id=05F071E5236E80D4CA25737D0001CEC8http://www.weaselsnout.net/web/pics.nsf/PostComment?RunAgent&id=05F071E5236E80D4CA25737D0001CEC8http://www.weaselsnout.net/web/pics.nsf/d6plinks/MARR-77RUSLTechnologyMatthttp://www.weaselsnout.net/web/pics.nsf/d6plinks/MARR-77RUSLhttp://www.weaselsnout.net/web/pics.nsf/d6plinks/MARR-77RUSL

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This is one of those projects that i have had on the cards for so long i cant remember when i started it....

The Idea
Some years ago i read on the Internet some one who had turned a laptop into a Digital Picture Frame (DPF) of course now you can buy small versions at your Kmart, BigW etc.

The Laptop
I had an old laptop which i scored as a spoil of war in 2002 when the company i was working for went belly up. Since then it has slowly disintegrated, the screen hinge broke, the chassis eventually has cracked form the weight of the screen, i spilt coffee on the keyboard so this gave up the ghost along with the usb port and the CD Rom died years ago.

So simply it was stuffed and has been sitting around in my parts box unused for a year or more now

This laptops main feature is the 15" screen with a resolution of 1400x1050 ideal for a DPF and it has a P3 500mhz cpu with 256Mb of Ram which is enough grunt to run Windows making life simpler.

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