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I was reading a forum discussion when someone mentioned the word "automagically". I thought that was a brilliant typo - but I was wrong. It's actually geek speak:

A computing slang term to mean something that is done by a computer program that cannot necessarily be seen happening, or which intelligently simplifies things of great complexity. For example if you had an application that loaded up a Microsoft Word document and turned it into a PDF file before displaying it on screen, you might say that the application loads a document and automagically turns it into a PDF; or one could say of a garbage-collected program that it automagically handles all issues of memory allocation and de-allocation.

--from an old page at Wikipedia

This is a calendar of the main annual events in Sydney. If you are looking for specific events in Sydney this page from the City of Sydney will be helpful to you.

January

Sydney Festival
Art, open-air concerts and theatre performances.
Various venues
Website: www.sydneyfestival.com.au

February - March

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
The world's largest gay festival, climaxing in a costume parade and an all-night party.
Various venues, parade on Oxford Street
Website: www.mardigras.org.au

Tropfest
February/March
The world's largest short film festival.
The Domain
Website: www.tropfest.com

Royal Easter Show
March/April
Traditional farm show held over 12 days.
Sydney Olympic Park
Website: www.eastershow.com.au

Here's a funny Youtube video of a trader at the Chicago trading pits shouting, "Who put this dick on my back?" over a business news report. Enjoy.

Technical analysis is the methodology used by forex traders to predict or weigh up the odds of future price movements and market trends by studying past market price action. The premise of this analysis technique is patterns within the prices would reveal possible trends, highs and lows based on predictable repetitive human behaviour. People are predictable and have habits: history repeats itself. Also, the price action in a chart reveals everything there is to know about that instrument since the current price action accounts for all the market factors and sentiment, supply and demand.

There are a few sub-branches to technical analysis:

• Oscillating indicators (RSI, Stochastics, MACD)
• Number theory including the mathematical Fibonacci numbers and the slightly mystical Gann numbers
• Elliot Wave Theory
• Gaps
• Trends and Averages

It isn’t necessary to use all of them at once. Perhaps the most commonly used are oscillators like RSI and MACD, Fibonacci numbers and Trends using Moving Averages.

Its no secret - everybody knows which seats on the airplane are the best seats. It's first class, then business class then there's coach aka economy class. Most of us have to travel economy class. Again - its no secret which seats are the best seats in economy class - the exit rows and bulkhead (the front) seats are the bes because they offer the most leg room. Aisle seats are great too (Have you watched those comedies when someone had to get up over people just to go to the bathroom?).

But no. There are other best seats in economy class. So if it isn't the bulkhead, the exit row or aisle seats, which are they? In every plane its different because of the different configurations for different carriers.

Jumper sucks. I actually didn't want to watch this because it got bad reviews. (perhaps that made me more cynical about the plot?) There was nothing else on and so I watched it. What is it with Samuel L. Jackson nowadays? Why does he do all these crappy movies now?

I guess, if you want to sit down and enjoy a movie, Jumper could be entertaining as it raises the possibility of someone actually jumping around the world - being able to teleport from one place to another.

Jumper is trying to be too many things. Is it an action movie or a thriller? Or is it a sci-fi movie? It tries to be all of them at once. And it sucks at all of them. Action is so-so. There is no "thrill" - very predictable plotline. And the sci-fi.... don't even get me started.

Jumper as a sci-fi movie... the movie synopsis says:

"A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them."

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Submitted by Marco on Tue, 25/03/2008 - 4:14pm.

On film or TV, Nora Zehetner (left) and Rachel Bilson (right) have an uncanny resemblance of one another. I think these two girls are lookalikes. It doesn't look like it in the photos (obviously the hair makes a big difference) but on TV they look like one another.

I don't normally write about cars on this blog, but I think this car deserves a mention. It's the Bentley S3 E - AND its not real. But it seems a team in USA are going to build this bad-ass gangster like car. High resolution photos of the Bentley car design below:

Rachel Lauren Stevens also known simply as "Rachel Stevens" was on April 9, 1978 and is an English singer, actress, and an occasional model. Rachel was former member of the successful pop group S Club (7), she launched a solo recording career and has released seven singles and two albums to date in the UK. Rachel Stevens was born in Southgate, London, Stevens attended Ashmole School in London. At the age of fifteen, she beat out 5000 competitors in a modeling competition sponsored by Just 17 magazine. Following her first modeling jobs, she studied at the London School of Fashion and worked in public relations.

At the age of nineteen, Rachel Stevens accompanied her brother to an audition in London for a new pop group, which was being put together by Simon Fuller, the one-time manager of the Spice Girls. While waiting for her brother to audition, she was approached by the judges. After many calls and auditions she was chosen as a member of the new group S Club 7, along with Tina Barrett, Paul Cattermole, Jon Lee, Bradley McIntosh, Jo O'Meara, and Hannah Spearritt.