Year: 2000

To my utter astonishment, the plumber bloke turned up. He came on Wednesday, which come to think of it, wasn’t that much of a surprise, given that he was due last Saturday. It seems like about a tenth of people in service industries have no idea what time or day it is, and just do  ... [More]

On Friday Iris and I got a little culture: theBatsheva Dance Company’s Anaphase was on at the State Theatre, and very good it was too. On Saturday we took the kids to Luna Park for a bit, then got them back to their mum’s place so I could lie in wait at my place for  ... [More]

I’ve got way too much damn e-mail. Outlook tells me that something like 200Mb of my hard drive is filled with the bloody stuff. It would take me years to read all that. Oh, about 90Mb of that is supposedly Deleted Items. I suppose it’s useful to have that stuff temporarily stored so I can  ... [More]

Simmering away… and very useful as a sundial, too. If you look too carefully, you’ll see spotlets of it on the wall – the product of careless stirring. A vital ingredient if you can’t be bothered doing all the little fiddly bits yourself: Mr Newman. (I hope the cheque’s in the mail) Mmmmmmm… SpagBol…. Most  ... [More]

A reply! From: Jenny <surname and e-mail address vanquished into the ether for obvious reasons> Sent: 10 October 2000 08:47 To: Daniel Bowen Subject: RE: shower gel Very Funny….I’m almost faintly amused. Meanwhile, my search is over. They’ve been found, and what a relief. Yes, my sunnies turned up. My precious Raybans. *sniffle* I’m so  ... [More]

I think my life is a bit too enjoyable at the moment, which leaves me in a bit of a quandary. Usually I like to have a good whinge about something. But right now, there’s not much to whinge about, and I’m sitting here on Monday night, wanting to send at least a token diary  ... [More]

I’ve been playing around with GuruNet. It’s a very cool little program that sits in the background on your computer, just waiting, just itching for you to Alt-Click on a word to find its definition. It can look up entries from a dictionary or encyclopaedia, maps, weather reports for cities, and so on. I was  ... [More]

It’s been a pretty busy week. But it hasn’t been particularly funny, which is usually what I look for in what to write about here. Well, either funny or tragic. Keeps people interested, you know. But nothing of any note on either count from this week really springs to mind right at the moment. Oh, my  ... [More]

Both bad news and good (no, great) news. First the bad. I am feeling something of a sense of loss right at the moment. Something very dear has gone from my life: my sunglasses. My precious sunglasses. Very precious actually, more precious than I’d like to remember, so I’m trying to forget how much they  ... [More]

Pictures: Channel 7 Big banners… international flags… …smoke… giant inflatable globes… does it get better than this? I think not. Well, Olympics fever has officially hit the country. Iris and I went to the Olympic soccer on Wednesday. Along with 93,250 of our closest friends, we squeezed into the MCG. There was a great atmosphere.  ... [More]

I had cause to go into the city today. It may seem like a bad idea to go to a client meeting at the offices of (insert big corporation here) on a day when anti-globalisation protestors have flooded into nearby streets to protest the World Economic Forum being held at (seemingly quite appropriately) the casino.  ... [More]

I’ve had a cold for the last few days, which I must say is an absolute delight. There’s nothing nicer than having almost constant coughing fits, interrupted only by the dribble of snot coming out of my nose. See, it’s even delightful reading about it! There is a bright side though, it brought back happy  ... [More]