Just been to see “Bride and Prejudice” at the Nova. It was great! what a laugh – what a riotous party of a movie. One of my criterias for music I like is that it should sound like it was fun to make – if you can hear the musician’s enjoyment coming through, it’s bound …
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upgrade time!
Ok, the observant ones among you will have noticed that my website looks different. I have upgraded the blog software, wordpress, which went swimmingly well. Not wanting to push my run of good luck too far, I am going to leave the look and feel for another day. Til then, you can enjoy the default …
holidaze
Norman Bay, Wilson’s Prom We got back from Wilson’s Prom on Friday and still haven’t accepted the fact that the holiday is over. It was blissful! For people who don’t know Wilson’s Promontory, it is the southernmost tip of the Australian mainland, so isn’t necessarily the first place you think of for a beach holiday, …
I don’t want a pickle…
…just wanna ride on my motor sickle – at least that’s how the Arlo Guthrie song went. Yes, my big new year’s present to myself is a motorbike. Not a great big prestige mid-life crisis motorbike, but a small, slightly gutless and not very exciting ‘commuter’ bike, (a Honda CB250). Still, it’s exactly what I …
there were fireworks
we don’t usually do the ‘stay up to see the new year in’ thing, but this year some good food, good wine and good company kept us going along easily… and it was worth the wait. Melbourne is pretty flat, but our friends have a second storey balcony and their house is perched on the …
on blueberry hill
today was warm, so we headed down the coast to Point Lonsdale – our current favourite destination. It has a combination of good snorkelling, some rockpools to ramble around and a couple of reasonable coffee shops. Anyway, the snorkelling was great – there were plenty of fish, one good stingray and a Leafy Sea Dragon, …
Crap service, Crap workmanship
In Chinatown the other day, crossing the road when I spotted this one. I really don’t know that there’s anything more to say. [edit] you just wouldn’t believe it… I wonder if he’s related? Thomas Crapper at wikipedia and snopes.
the heat is on…
Yoiks, it’s hot all of a sudden! 8:40pm and the WeatherPixie says it’s still 35°c. There is a storm building on the radar, but it’s about 200km. away so it’ll be three hours before it gets here, even if it doesn’t miss us. Today was my last day at work, I’m not going back until …
we’re going dynamic!
I’ve recently been lucky enough to participate in the recommendation of a Content Management System for the University of Melbourne. In the process I learned a little about CMSs so I thought it was about time I tried one out myself. I didn’t want to try Mambo. Partly because I knew people on the original …
Morally Bankrupt!!
I am so cross! According to the election result, more than half of the population of Australia have chosen to forgive John Howard for his lying, sneaky politics, his disrespect for human rights, his dragging us into an illegal war, his destruction of the health and education systems… </blood_boils> Why? – presumably, because they thought …
vika and linda play to packed picnic blanket!
There’s a park near us which was redeveloped about 18 months ago. For reasons unknown, it’s taken until today to officially open the facility. An auditorium is part of the facility, so musical acts were on the program – headed by the wonderful Vika and Linda. Well, I don’t know what happened to the publicity …
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naughty hyro, bad hyro! you made a mess!!
Back a couple of years, when I was ‘between jobs’ I targeted a lot of web and multimedia design studios that I thought were the ‘cream’ of the crop. One of them was Hyro. Good clients, nice work… definitely something to aspire to. I thought! Quick change to last week, when I’m getting quotes on …
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