I was socialising a bit on Saturday, and met an elderly couple who I’d heard were a bit quirky, particularly in the food department, but who in person seemed quite nice and normal. Until someone mentioned airline food. These two were visiting Australia from (insert name of far away continent here – heck, they’re all ... [More]
Month: November 1999
Went to a bit of a buck’s night on Saturday. A bit of a pub crawl through the city. There was one casualty of the evening, and it all happened before we even started! By the time we were in the restaurant chowing down some delicious Mongolian food, our missing comrade had already managed to ... [More]
Typos
At work today, typing mid-sentence I started to type the word functionality. I stopped after a few letters, because it was all coming out wrong: the first letter was missing, and the order of the next four letters got muddled, resulting in a word that quite definitely should not be in a system design document…
Vale George’s
George’s has closed its doors for the last time. If you think this is old news, if you think I’m really slow to be telling you months and months after the fact, then I should mention that I’m not talking about George’s Department Store, the up-market shop in Collins Street, Melbourne, that has been yoyo-ing ... [More]