What is the “Aussie Spirit” we keep hearing about, and why isn’t it at my local bottle shop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is the “Aussie Spirit” we keep hearing about, and why isn’t it at my local bottle shop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-4e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":820,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/nearly-on-way-to-the-mysql-conference\/","url_meta":{"origin":262,"position":0},"title":"Nearly on way to the MySQL Conference","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-04-18","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow morning (11.5hrs time actually) I'll be on a plane to SFO (then down to Santa Clara) in preparation for the MySQL Conference. So, if you're in the area - give us a buzz. My aussie phone will work, as will traditional email. Also on IRC... should be easy to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "life, the universe and everything"","block_context":{"text":"life, the universe and everything","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/life-the-universe-and-everything\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":312,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/09\/big-clean-up-and-office-supply-shop\/","url_meta":{"origin":262,"position":1},"title":"big clean up and office supply shop","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-12-09","format":false,"excerpt":"since my office is moving out of my bedroom and into an actual room, I went and did some office supply and furniture shopping. I hate traffic. I REALLY hate traffic. It's boring, slow, not fuel efficient and really wastes your time while you're sitting in it. I haven't driven\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1289,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/the-passing-of-a-faithful-bottle-opener\/","url_meta":{"origin":262,"position":2},"title":"The passing of a faithful bottle opener….","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-12-08","format":false,"excerpt":"Sadly, after many years of service (over 5), my Microsoft VisualStudio.net bottle opener is no longer functional enough to keep on my keyring. See image below for the arrow pointing to where too much metal has chipped off that it no longer can open all beer. It is a sad\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "life, the universe and everything"","block_context":{"text":"life, the universe and everything","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/life-the-universe-and-everything\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/pic-0028-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":321,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/17\/currently-listening-to\/","url_meta":{"origin":262,"position":3},"title":"currently listening to…","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-12-17","format":false,"excerpt":"Cat Stevens. really enjoying it too. haven't listened to him in ages. I've raided my dad's CD collection (vinyl collection is good too, but harder to put onto an iPod[1]) [1] these days I wouldn't automatically buy one though - Apple is proving monopolistic and evil with their DRM and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":403,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/still-recovering\/","url_meta":{"origin":262,"position":4},"title":"still recovering","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-05-17","format":false,"excerpt":"taking a while to get over jetlag. also a bit sniffly - i bet that isn't helping. I'm only a couple of hours off local time now. It could also have something to do with how easy it is for me to sleep in my own bed. for some reason,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":827,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/26\/zeroconf-conferences-and-privacy\/","url_meta":{"origin":262,"position":5},"title":"Zeroconf, conferences and privacy","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-04-26","format":false,"excerpt":"So, probably like lots of people - i run a few web apps locally that I use for various purposes. In my case, this also includes some cool custom developed things. I also use Zeroconf to easily discover all this foo around a network. I run my critical mysql install\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "life, the universe and everything"","block_context":{"text":"life, the universe and everything","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/life-the-universe-and-everything\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}