It has been a tragic week in Victoria. Tears well up and my throat tightens when I listen to, or read of the trauma that people have been through. It’s heartening to see so many people pull together in times of greatest need. If you haven’t already – do get over to the Red Cross …
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hot, ain’t it?
All of south eastern Australia is bracing for another day of 40°+, it’s not uncommon to have one or two days in a row, but four!?! I always remember the hot weather never started until school went back, but this is a bit over the top! Thankfully, just two years back we installed air conditioning …
Women’s Semi Final, Australian Open 1992
Every January when the Australian Open Tennis is on, I fondly remember back to 1992 when, working for XPress Group, I was lucky enough to be handed a Press Pass and a Nikon F2 camera fitted with a new Kodak DCS-1 back. The camera, in turn, was connected to a ‘luggable’ hard disk with (B+W …
meet dora
Cats at our house have a good time of it. This little scrap – about 8 weeks old – came home from the Lort Smith animal hospital last Monday to join our little family. They say cats always land on their feet… she definitely has. Viv, the incumbent, has been like a saint. He doesn’t …
seams I’ve been let down
Three flat tyres in the last month! You start to curse people who leave broken glass on the road. Since I started spending a bit more on my tyres, the problem has almost vanished – in fact, apart from the most recent three, I think I’ve only had two others in the past year, so …
never buy lexmark again – ever!
My advice to anyone considering a new printer. Choose a Canon, or an HP, or a Fuji Xerox – anything except a Lexmark! About 12 months ago, I bought a new colour laser printer, a Lexmark C500n, having had a gutfull of expensive inkjets with drivers that don’t get updated. I wanted to get a …
there is sanity after all…
It’s quite natural to find stories/jokes/etc. about your own profession amusing. Those engaged in law enforcement all have their favourite cop show. Teachers just love Teachers and the priceless Gormsby. I got plenty of laughs out The IT Crowd. In true IT fashion though, my favourite piece of work that really tells my life like …
GMC bankrupt! is anyone surprised?
I suppose I have to admit when I first heard reports that General Motors and Ford in the US were close to bankruptcy I was a little surprised. Not surprised that such high profile examples of the US capitalist dream had gone radically sour, but surprised that the management of these corporations didn’t seem to …
The feral biker
It’s war out there, you know! This morning, as I rode my trusty treadly to work, I copped a bit of verbal abuse. Nothing terribly unusual about that, when the traffic is bad – bad things happen. This time it was different though, I was copping it from another cyclist. I’ll step back a moment. …
the other street view
…there’s another one? I hear you gasp! Yes, it seems the old one about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery has struck a chord at streetdirectory.com.au – and they obviously love Google! This is sort of amazing to me – I mean it’s incredible enough that a giant corporation like google pushes forward with …
a change in the weather
Melburnians are obsessed with weather. More accurately, we are obsessed with predicting the weather. Of course it’s a national joke that we can have four seasons in one day, but we don’t mind that as long as we can tell when those seasons will fall. Our chief tool in this quest, is the venerable BOM …
crisis, what crisis?
I am the only one that’s had enough of the ‘Economic Crisis’? It covers every newspaper and leads every bulletin. Apparently, it was caused by greedy people, but the general obsession with every rise and fall of ‘the market’ shows me we’ve learned nothing. More than this though, it’s made me quite angry that this …