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My Note book computer broke down recently. It is about a year and a half old and under extended warranty through Harvey Norman. I called the warranty claims hotline on Monday the 11th and they took my details advising that the transport info would be sent out and arrive mid week. They also told me to pack it up and have it ready to go. Well that’s the first delay; an expected two to three days

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Photo gallery works in XP also. Its a free download from Windows live.

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I certainly like the Photo Gallery software that came with Vista. The application allows you to organise your photos quickly and with relative ease by integrating its features with the Operating System. You can select a group of photos as you would normally within a folder, and then do batch operations. So with the required images selected you can carry out any of these actions; rename, delete,

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We do have quite a variety of needs in the crags around Coffs (Glenreagh) but if you can’t buy the whole set of Black Diamond Camelot’s (http://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/gear/camalots.php) then the low to midrange sizes would be the best starting point, such as, .4, .5, .75. To be noted is that the range of cracks that they can be used in is quite wide so there is overlap in sizes giving you

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Reading an article recently about web sites and if they are genuine. Well I would not be so wary of unprofessional sites but my experience has led me to be wary of the more professional when someone is trying to ‘rip you off’. The issues that I look for are; Links to other sites; a contactable web master; prompt reply to an email query, no bad mentions of the site via a Google Search; contact

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There does seem to be some problems with installing Explorer 8. I have heard on the grapevine instances of computer lock ups etc. Certainly wise to use the system restore before installing any new programs. My first hand experience is with web sites. It seems that some sites won’t run properly in Explore 8. The reason for this would seem to be incorrectly written code in the site files. Some

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2nd April 2009Back save and sound – Van went well

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28th April 2009Camped in a caravan park at Port Sorell to freshen before the boat across the Strait. Last night we stayed at the west side of Lake Barrington at a camp site. A fresh -7 with some snow reported in the heights. Being only 50 odd k from Table Mountain we decided to go for a look, to see the after effects of some evening snow fall. There was snow on the high peaks and some left around

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26th April 2009Well it’s was finally time to pick up the van after the incident couple of months ago. We flew from Coffs to Sydney then on to Tassie on Anzac day. Left Coffs around about 4.30pm and arrived about 8.30pm. We had a short stopover in Sydney, only about an hour as the plane from Coffs was ½ hour late. Spent the night at Hobart Central City backpackers, not recommended, as they

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How about his eTag system – certainly citified with little thought to the country person. I’m all for the e bit which should make a system very versatile but ...I popped into an RTA just out of the big smoke on our travels to the apple isle. Gave them the story that we would be passing through Sydney and Melbourne so what could we do if we go through the electronic tolls. I was pretty much

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Day 21 Tuesday 17th FebruaryBack home in Coffs today which will see me chasing up insurance and trying to recoup some losses from the breakdown which is significant. The repairs are going to cost $4000, booking changes on the ‘Spirit of Tasmania’ cost $60 so far, air fares home just under $700, another, $200 accommodation waiting for a flight, a week holiday to pick the van up, and airfares to do

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opposite - getting a tow Day 20 Monday 16th FebruaryWe hitched a ride on the shuttle bus in to Hobart and spent most of the day wandering around the city streets and shops. The airport is 16k form Hobart and there was not much to do at the Airport Hotel. We arrived back at the hotel around 5pm and kicked back into a restful night before our plane ride home tomorrow on flight Virgin DJ 1165 from

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Day 19 Sunday 15th FebruaryWell today turned out to be rather undesirable. We pulled over on the side of the road for a quick toilet break. On moving off I drove over a rock (didn’t see it) which scarped a little underneath. It didn’t seem to be an issue so I drove on. 50m down the road the oil light came on indicating some problem. I stopped, checked the oil and water, looked underneath and all

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Day 18 Saturday 14th FebruarySlow start to the day and then a walk towards Mount Rowland for a couple of hours. Interesting walk with the fauna changing from wet to dry rain forest and then the cooler plants of the higher regions. We returned to the van for lunch and then left to check out some markets at Sheffield. Sheffield is known as the town of the Murals and they adorn the walls around the

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Day 18 Saturday 14th FebruarySlow start to the day and then a walk towards Mount Rowland for a couple of hours. Interesting walk with the fauna changing from wet to dry rain forest and then the cooler plants of the higher regions. We returned to the van for lunch and then left to check out some markets at Sheffield. Sheffield is known as the town of the Murals and they adorn the walls around the

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Day 17 Friday 13th FebruaryHad not realised it was Black Friday otherwise I may have done something more daring. We did go to the Devils Gullet lookout after our excellent tour through Kings Solomon’s Caves. The caves are a world renowned dry cave with great colour and limestone structures, the pictures we took certainly not doing it justice as the environment is magical. Leaving the Mole Creek

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Day 16 Thursday 12th FebruaryTelstra Mobile Phone and Optus wireless internet access is good at low head.We visited the Fairy Penguins last night. At around dusk the birds, about 300 to 400mm in height, exited the waters of the bay and waddled up the sand and rocks to their burrows and young ones. They did not seem to be bothered by our presence as they came within a few feet of us. Some only

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Day 15 Wednesday 11th FebruaryToday we are doing the loop around the Tamar River. Going back from Point Beauty we stopped at the world’s first Sea Horse farm complex, Sea Horse World, to view the fascinating world of the sea horse. Their Pièce de résistance is a Dragon Seahorse, a creature that looks like a horse shaped piece of seaweed, growing up to 45cm of which they had two. These two cost

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Day 14 Tuesday 10th FebruaryToday we continued our travels across to Launceston and then further North along the Tamar Valley to a Caravan park at Point Beauty on the banks of the Tamar River. Along the way we took in the views, (pic shows hay bales)lunched at Bridport on the sea, viewed the Scotsdale Eco Farm, and took in the lavender farm which unfortunately is not at its best at this time of

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Day 13 Monday 9th FebruaryWe continued on to St Helens and then to the Binalong Bay and then a great free camp site at the lower end of the Bay of Fires. We did a couple of walks in the area taking in the scenic atmosphere. Orange coloured smooth boulders adorn the shoreline and make for pleasant rock hoping along this picturest coastline. Later in the day our camp was visited briefly by a

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Day 12 SundayLeft New Norfolk reluctantly and headed for Port Arthur (some ruins shown). We spent half a day taking in the significance of the place, taking a short tour, and harbour cruise. It was a coolish day around 19 deg and windy. After Port Arthur we headed up the East Coast and pulled into the Mayfield bay conservation area a free camp site. We are parked a few meters of the beach taking

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Day 11 SaturdayWell the climbing (bouldering) was a bit ordinary as the rock was choss, breaking off periodically and climbers find that a bit unnerving. I still managed a few moves and stretched the muscles so it was good. We left early for the Salamander Street markets although the weather had turned a bit sour. Except for the heat wave in Melbourne the weather has been excellent, but today it

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Day 10 FridayLaundry day, well for a couple of hours, and while the drying was happening a stroll along the banks of the Derwent was beckoning. Some pretty good looking rocks along the way are calling for some attention and a boulder might be on the cards later today. A lovely walk was had and then later into Hobart to the Cadbury factory. Essentially the Cadbury factory was a shop with a brief

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Around Queenstown

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Strahan

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Day 5 – SundayWoke 5.30am Breakfast and off to the docks to catch the boat. We arrived about 6.30 and drove on to the boat going through checkpoints asking if we had any firearms, gas bottles. Although we were one of the first to arrive we weren’t the first to get on as the cars, vans, and other types are sorted into lanes and ushered on as required; We eventually were allowed on to

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This is the boat to Tassie !!

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Day 4We used this day to see a bit of Melbourne. We checked out the Queen Victoria Markets, various streets around the CBD and the Treasury Gardens. We went down to the docks to make sure we knew how to get on the boat which will happen tomorrow morning. We walked around this area, taking photos and relaxing. It is still a bit hot though for any serious walking so we took it easy. The best way to

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Day 1 – Wednesday 28th Drove from Coffs to head towards Melbourne. Stopped at Raymond Terrace to get an Etag for Sydney and Melbourne. More on Etags in another section of the blog. We spent the night at a rest stop just past Goulburn. Easy driving although we were on the road for 10 hours. and camped at a service centre overnight. Great amenities.Day 2 – Thursday 29thDrove to Seymour, 100km north

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House mail boxes, the old style ones that are next to the road are generally too small for the majority of letters. We have a bricked in locked mail box, nice and secure built especially for the job. Yet the mail won’t fit in the box, the letters always protruding out, so anyone can come along and pull them back out from the front. Why would you design mail boxes that don’t take the letters?

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Isnt it a bugger that word 07 by default has a line between paragraphs. It seems to me after a search through Google that many people agree with this. It would not be so bad if the 'fix' was obvious. See the itelya forum for a solution if you have not figured it out yet. I guess to figure out why this is the default you have to look at the bigger picture and the straetygy behine the 'file system'

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Whats happening at the moment - well its getting things organised for a trip to Tassie in the next couple of weeks.

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