Transport blogger / campaigner and spokesperson for the Public Transport Users Association / professional geek.
Bunurong land, Melbourne, Australia.
Opinions on this blog are all mine.
Final word for now about the election. There was much discussion with friends on Saturday about the perils of who to put last — particularly in the Senate, where every man and his dog was in the race, including parties nobody had ever heard of before. Do you put the racists last? Or the nutbags? ... [More]
I got my sausage at the polling place sausage sizzle, so I was happy. There seemed to be a few wedding parties about during the afternoon. I guess they’d managed to find church halls that weren’t being used for polling. (One wedding party on the steps of St Paul’s in Bentleigh were memorably sipping from ... [More]
“My father Sydney was a watchmaker from Nottingham, and my mother Verity was – well, she was a nurse, actually.” — John Smith/The Doctor, in the episode Human Nature, 2007. For all you did, thank you, Verity.
…before election day. I really liked the Kevin Rudd interviewing himself clip, but I think I like this one even better. Very funny stuff.
Oh, nice. That treacherous Liberal Party has turned Glen Waverley into a suburb of Beijing and instigated the genocide destruction of our white Australian identity. Vote 1 Neil Henry Smith One Nation to enforce a 100 years moratorium on coloured immigration. — One Nation candidate for Bruce’s pamphlet, as quoted in The Monash Journal. (via ... [More]
Anybody else spot this long column advert on page 8 of The Age today? I wonder who wrote it, and if things went to plan and Madeleine read it this morning over breakfast? Intriguing.
So after pondering how heat-efficient my house is (at least for summer), and my water consumption, I was thinking about the rest of my energy use. Since I don’t have air con, I’m hoping the house is fairly efficient, despite heavy use of two computers. Recent bills show usage at around 8-10 kilowatt hours per ... [More]
Summer is coming. You can tell because it’s baking hot in the sun, the flies are much more plentiful, and outside in the evening when all should be still, instead you can hear the hum or household air-conditioners echoing across the ‘burbs. Yesterday I spent most of the day at home, as one of the ... [More]
Eh? From last Monday’s Herald Sun: Melbourne restaurant manager Monique Moussi rented out her home in Seddon, on the city’s edge, in favour of a fast-paced and closely networked lifestyle in the fashionable Docklands precinct near the city’s heart. She’s far too busy running the family restaurant, Medici’s, to maintain a house and garden, and ... [More]
If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the short Doctor Who charity scene just released… You can also watch it and find out more detail at the BBC’s web site. And don’t forget to donate here to Children In Need. My response (after you’ve watched it — spoilers!)
The No Junk Mail sticker is very effective. I rarely get anything — notable recent exceptions being an ALP brochure about the local candidate, and Coalition brochures with lots of red ink slagging off the ALP. I wonder if electoral material is exempt? (Local sitting member Andrew Robb looks a bit like an older Kevin ... [More]
OMG, the teenagers really do say “random”. I heard it twice on the train yesterday. They didn’t seem to be referencing Summer Heights High, either.
So I’ve been having these headaches, regular ones, a piercing pain through the top-left part of my head, from my temple down to my jaw. They come and go several times a day, mostly in the morning, every hour or two for about 15-30 minutes each time. Sometimes they’re early in the morning, waking me ... [More]
I’m told some people are having trouble reading this web site. Some text goes under the right hand navigation. It seems to be a problem with Internet Explorer 6. Not sure why it’s happening more right now than usual. Until I get it fixed, those affected can try this workaround: Select all text (eg Ctrl-A) ... [More]
As of this morning, I have a baby niece. 3.5Kg, named TBA Isolde Isolda. Mother and baby doing well. Woo hoo! PS. Tuesday 10pm. Picture:
What did you do in the war, grandad? Sunday is Remembrance Day, when we pause to remember the generations of young soldiers who went away to war to fight for the freedoms we enjoy today, many of them paying with their lives. Those of us young(ish) adults no longer have the threat of world (or ... [More]