I was watching a new episode of ‘My Family’ on the ABC, and I was having a great time watching it. This episode had the two main characters house-sitting in a new ‘designer’ apartment with no door-handles, voice activated lights and security systems. They ended up actually trashing the place… I am not sure I would have reacted any differently if I was in such a place… They even had an old fashioned chase in the foyer shaped like a rabbit warren.

In the SMH today is an article in the ‘PS – Private Sydney’ section of the paper about newsreaders. There is a quote at the end of the article that I loved… ‘Others don’t have it so good. Making economy class look more like first class was Nine’s Sharyn Ghidella, who regularly has to suffer the staring hordes in the budget end of Qantas flights, even though she is the airline’s official in-flight newsreader.‘. I just find it slightly strange that the newsreader would need to see herself on the screen in the economy section…

The SMH also had an article about the proble that has just been launched for Pluto. It turns out that NASA added a small extra payload to the probe – they added some ashes from the man who discovered Pluto in 1930. The widow of the discoverer was there for the launch too. Finally, Alitalia was forced to cancel 130 flights today and warned of delays on other international and internal services as cabin crew and pilots continued industrial action. While a strike that disrupted flights on Thursday and yesterday was suspended until Monday, some staff still stayed away from work, while unions were holding mass meetings. This has been going on for some time, and relates to a desire to rationalize the Alitalia business…