There are some things which deserve to be illegal. This is one of them. I was just on a SKYPE call with a friend of mine – and someone in the background comment that it was the captain speaking, and …
The roof of the new Westpac building in Kent street in the city has a sculpture on the roof… But this is something different… it is a Life Size Barometer. In the USA, Coca Cola has released a new drink. …
Not sure where I saw it, but it looks like Australia is going to introduce a DO NOT CALL register for all telemarketing calls in Australia, and all calls from overseas on behalf of Australian companies. And there would be …
News.Com.AU is reporting that officially the new Simpsons Movie is actually being made, with a release in the middle of next year. One of the graphics that has been released shows Homer in a Christine Keeler position behind a chair. …
Finally home after a 6:30 meeting at the church. I learned so much about what is happening in the Child Care arena… And what is happening with church finances… More soon.
Windows is starting to annoy me. Take the following example from a piece of software I am working on. This is a toolbar that should be all on one line.Can you see the minor problem? How did I get to …
I had a phone call from the preschool… I am on an interview panel tomorrow for some new staff members… Something that I volunteered about because I have never been on a panel and I thought it would be good …
Daylight saving has lots and lots of advantages. For better or worse, the sunrise and sunset times change throughout the year, and it makes sense to vary the time of things in relation to these. But what this does mean …
During my run today I did some more thinking about the movie ‘V for Vendetta’… The more I think about it, the more I feel that this movie (or the comic that it is based on) is a possibility to …
The I, Cringely article on PBS.ORG has some interesting microsoft facts. The first thing is that the co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, owns a large number of microsoft shares, but has a ‘collar’ on them so he is protected from …
Begin an rant… And more… on VisualStudio 2005. The first thing I wanted to do was to create a new thread to do some work. So the first thing that I need to do is to create a thread – …
I did about 3km in my run. Not bad. Near the end I started to feel out of breath. I will have to take note of that in the future and see if I can run without feeling that way. …
I am busy getting through some email messages… So many to go through. Sometimes I just need to spend some time going through messages that I have promised to come back to. Things like my ISP changing the dialup options …
It has not been reported widely, but there was a satellite outage over Australia over the last few days. Many of the Foxtel/Austar and NZ SkyTV channels were off air after an Optus satellite had some issues following slightly adjusting …
I am not sure what is going on with my Internet access at the moment… The speed seems fine, but HTTP (web) traffic seems really really slow. I suspect that there might be a faulty web proxy somewhere, but I …
