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"Totally delicious backroom bistro spot. The menu was short, concise, and the specials were excellent. Chefs make the food from scratch in a well equipped kitchen, visible to customers. Food today…" - Rob Schonberger

"Great bike store. Good service, and they're happy to work on anything and everything . Patient, quick, honest. Good times." - Rob Schonberger

"This is easily one of the less exciting places to go for dinner. The food is not really up to scratch, given the prices at all. The music? Too loud and really not quite interesting enough to make up…" - Rob Schonberger

"Normally, for me, buying glasses is an ordeal of style choices. I've spent days in many shops trying on glasses before choosing a pair. I told Dr Rosen as soon as I got into the store what sort of…" - Rob Schonberger

"OK, So this review is about a delivery experience; Firstly: The pizza was great; I had a spicy one, and it was cooked just right; Very Tasty, but we kind of knew that. I had it delivered though, and…" - Rob Schonberger

"So, I went here twice in a week. Both times, my pizza was spectacular, the service friendly, and fast. I had 4 different pizzas and they were just fantastic: I was amazed how fast they came out from…" - Rob Schonberger

"It will give me great pleasure to write to his American health insurer to say its services will no longer be required. I won my final battle the only way I know how: I left the country." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

hands up if you have a blog. - Rob Schonberger

"A Palestinian group claiming responsibility for the attack, which killed a Thai labourer working near the Gaza border, linked it to clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police in Jerusalem earlier this week." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

"HAVE always been a firm believer in Jean-Paul Sartre's saying that ''hell is other people'', which is why I don't like going to places where there are lots of people. But then the people of Paris decided to transport all these marvellous masterpieces to Canberra. Quelle horreur!" - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

if only we knew why - Rob Schonberger

"A three-year-old US toddler has died after shooting herself with a loaded gun that she mistook for a Wii controller, media reports say." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

Guns are awesome. I love guns. - Rob Schonberger

"AUSTRALIAN scientists have shown that humans can detect a sixth taste: fat. And it appears that those people who are highly sensitive to the taste of fat tend to eat less of it, and have significantly lower body mass indexes." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

"A WOMAN has failed in her bid to have the Family Court stop her former partner from encouraging their six-year-old daughter to call her stepmother ''Mummy D''." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

"A North Korean colonel who spent two decades going on European shopping sprees for his country’s rulers says the late dictator Kim Il Sung lived in luxury while many people starved in his impoverished communist nation." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

"Some of the most recent findings come from an Australian study published in the journal Circulation in January. It found that for every hour that a person spends sitting in front of the television, their individual risk of death from all causes rose 11 per cent, their risk of death from cardiovascular disease rose 18 per cent and their risk of dying from cancer, 9 per cent." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

"The sanction will be difficult to police given that Israelis enter the United Arab Emirates on second passports because the UAE does not have diplomatic ties with Israel. The Emirates will "deny entry to anyone suspected of having Israeli citizenship", General Tamim said, adding that police would "develop skills" to recognise Israelis by "physical features and the way they speak"." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

"There's a bit of a buzz about the six-star green-rated Darling Island building that houses Google's new Australian head office. And it's not just the buzz about Buzz, Google's new location-aware social networking tool. This buzz is coming from the just-opened Signorelli Gastronomia on the ground floor and it's about the oldest social networking app of all: the working lunch." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

"The persistence of this affliction — and the fact that it seemed to be heritable — posed a serious challenge to Darwin’s new evolutionary theory. If depression was a disorder, then evolution had made a tragic mistake, allowing an illness that impedes reproduction — it leads people to stop having sex and consider suicide — to spread throughout the population. For some unknown reason, the modern human mind is tilted toward sadness and, as we’ve now come to think, needs drugs to rescue itself." - Jim Norris from Bookmarklet

Quick note & mistake: They talk about Professor Joe Forgas, who is actually from the university of New South Wales (my university), not South Wales, which isn't really in Australia. Also: Joe's a great lecturer! - Rob Schonberger

"''Having sex and having babies is what young women are about, and their instincts are suppressed in the interests of society's timetable,'' she said." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

Although Quicksilver had lots of neat options, I mostly just used the app launcher. I've instead been using Spotlight for a year or two. I disabled dictionary (defaults write com.apple.spotlight DictionaryLookupEnabled NO and then restart spotlight) and turned off a lot of the other random results. There's also Google's quick launcher, written by the Quicksilver author after he joined Google. - Amit Patel

Thats what I use it too, primarily. Quick app launches, and every now and then a little itunes control; I'm certainly not a power user. I'll take a look at the 'upgrade' he wrote, but I suspect i'm going to go back to Spotlight, I think. On 28/02/2010, at 3:38 AM, Amit Patel wrote: - Rob Schonberger from email

this little pamphlet appeared in my mailbox this morning - Rob Schonberger

oh wow, I didn't realise the geotag came through so prominently. d'oh? - Rob Schonberger

"So today, we talk about how to increase your productivity tenfold by revolutionising the traditional calendar layout. Take a calendar. The sequence of days isn’t continuous on the page: it’s broken when months change. You have to turn the page, or switch columns. So if some period of time in your overloaded planning spans across a month change, your calendar becomes messy. You have to write the same thing on both months, you lost track of how long it actually is. It’s a disaster. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a view of your calendar where the whole year is on one page, organised in a continuous fashion?" - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Alex, that'd make it useful. And this is supposed to be useless ;) - Amit Patel

"Anyone with email will know about spam attacks. But shocked bus passengers were literally attacked with Spam in Sydney's inner west today." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

"The bonds are guaranteed by the New York-based MBIA Insurance, which is believed to have bought in excess of 70 per cent of them in order to reduce the amount of money owed on the project. MBIA will have to repay the interest and the principle on the bonds that it does not own." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

"THE ESPRESSO DRINKER - James and Moore describe the espresso as "the unfiltered cigarette of the coffee drinking world". Espresso drinkers tend to be moody, hard-bitten and hard working. They are into leadership and fast goals. They don't suffer fools but are hard living and prone to "night-time shenanigans, followed by a rather louche attempt at day time repair". The espresso drinker can be an experienced, exciting and consummate lover but is not known for reliability or unswerving loyalty." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

"Central Park is coming to Sydney - and, like Manhattan's famous open space, it will be off Broadway" - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

"The Blue Banana (also known as the Hot Banana, European Megalopolis or European Backbone) is a discontinuous corridor of urbanisation in Western Europe, with a population of around 90 million." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

"It was a startling piece of news that designer jeans labelled "Made in North Korea" were going on sale in a trendy Swedish department store on December 1 last year. The communist state has been firmly closed to the West for over half a century, rejecting consumerist decadence in pursuit of its own noble philosophy of self-reliance called "juche"." - Rob Schonberger from Bookmarklet

I had a visit from the Ambien walrus on a flight from Sydney to LA once. He kept making the playing cards on the little video screen in front of me dance around and leave trails, when all I wanted was to go to sleep for a couple of hours :) - Joel Webber

This sort of thing is why i don't like taking sieeping tablets. The cartoon just made me laugh out loud though. - Rob Schonberger