I had a card from a former workmate today… Letting me know in verse what had happened during the last year with his family. Not quite in iambic pentameterbut close. Anyway news there was that his son, Tim Addison, had been drafted to the Western Bulldogs with the AFL. Knowing how much his father loves AFL I can only guess how proud he is.

Google has released their 2005 Zeitgeist list which details the most popular searches during the year in a number of categories, and plots their use over the year. This is an interesting piece of social history. O’Reilly also has a story that delatils how to use Google as a proxy to bypass corporate filewalls on various sites

News.Com.Au is reporting about a New Zealand fishing trawler that managed to capture a giant squid. The squid is now frozen in a block of ice and on show in Melbourne. Meanwhile, News.Com.Com have released a story about how a shop selling modded X-Box’s in the USA has been raided. This activity would have been legal here in Oz. What would not have been legal would be the copied games on the XBox that the mod-chip allowed.