Author Archives: daz

Winter in New York

By daz | Published: January 17, 2010

Today, I went to look at some accommodation. I also visited Times Square and the International Center of Photography. Tweet This Post

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The League of Nations United Nations Building Good afternoon. A quick blog to let you know that I am alive, despite what was a hellish commute to New York City. By the time I emerged from JFK airport, I resembled Homer Simpson when he runs the Springfield marathon in that episode way back years ago. Big [...]

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Preparations complete.

By daz | Published: January 13, 2010

Unfortunately, Pebbles, I’m not sure I’ll get you through customs. Well. Not long now. For better or for worse, I am prepared. My baggage is probably about 5-6kgs overweight so looks like I’ll have to cull. I have all the important stuff including several new Nintendo DS games and a copy of Slaughterhouse 5 to read [...]

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In the beginning

By daz | Published: January 12, 2010

Welcome friends and strangers, old and new. After what seems like an eternity of preparation, I’m almost ready to leave Brisbane for New York City this coming Thursday morning. I’m flying direct to New York via Seoul, hopefully avoiding North Korea’s Taepodong missile ‘tests’. I’m doing an internship at a certain international organisation for two [...]

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Red Alert

By daz | Published: January 7, 2010

Hi all. DM.com is changing. I’ve removed all the previous content excepting the tech tips. The old content will be edited and moved to a new home. This web page will get a face lift sometime in 2010 and serve simply as small place on the web with some information vaguely related to myself. More….soon. [...]

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Ever wanted to retreive the label information of a textbox control in Ms Access?

By daz | Published: December 8, 2009

Been a while since I’ve written one of these things. Truth is, I haven’t been doing much Access databases in some time. However, I’m back in the fold, writing a small Access 2007 app and reacquianting myself with its nuances and idiosynchroses. In the process, I stumbled across a small little feature that, while obvious [...]