Saturday 12:00. Put a bunch of whites in the washing machine. Put soap liquid in. Close machine. Turn dial, ready to start. 14:00. Open machine. Pull washing out into a basket. Notice it seems remarkably dry. Must be because it’s a hot day. Don’t have time to hang up yet, so leave in basket. 14:45. ... [More]
The new Melway. Not just a street directory, more a way of life. On Friday afternoon I headed over to Chadstone to buy the presents I didn’t get given for Christmas. You see, in our family we freely admit that we’re crap at choosing presents for each other (at least most of us are – ... [More]
Well Christmas Day was cold and wet. Certainly very un-Christmas-like. But we all piled over to my mum’s place to unwrap presents, stuff ourselves full of food, and generally had a good time. Which we did. Especially on Isaac’s new pogo stick.
Getting into the Christmas spirit. Since it’s Christmas Eve, I wore a Christmas hat for much of the day… out at lunch, on the train home, that kind of thing. I discovered last week that wearing a silly hat can make some of my workmates laugh, and it seemed like a small price to pay ... [More]
It’s almost Christmas. I’ve got all the presents. Haven’t wrapped them all yet. Soon. Very soon. On Friday night I went out with my sister and some of her friends to see the second last Mavis’s concert. The Mavis’s are a band that I’d heard of, but if I passed them in the street, I ... [More]
Bloke on the train this morning in a pinstripe suit. His phone rang. "Hello? …. WHAT?! You’re kidding! Really?….. Oh you have to be joking!" What corporate crisis could it be? Creditors out of control? Administrators called in? Business collapse? Industrial disaster? Or something bigger? Breaking news? Bin Laden captured? Or another terrorist attack? The ... [More]
The Age, Tue 18/12 I wonder if anybody in a position of power ever takes notice of letters to newspapers? I’m pretty damn pleased with myself. Managed to get just about all my Christmas shopping done yesterday. Not that there was a humungous number I planned to get, but it was all a bit intimidating ... [More]
Nothing much happening at the moment, and I’m struggling somewhat to think of anything interesting to write in this diary thing. I mean sure, I could write about what I’ve been up to, but given that it was all so dull, would anybody be the slightest bit interested? I doubt it. I did realise over ... [More]
The book I went to see Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone last night. Great movie, very enjoyable. Of the people I went with – some who had read the book, some who hadn’t – all of them seemed to like it a lot. I had arranged it all, e-mailing around a few friends last ... [More]
Letter in The Age, Thursday 29/11/2001. I feel a bit stuffed. Last night I was over at Josh’s place, watching the first double episode of the new Star Trek – Enterprise – The Generation After Voyager, over a few beers. Before we got started, there was also a side-splitting conversation with Josh’s mate Pete, about ... [More]
They say that computer programming can be more of an art than a science, and that might well be true. In fact, dealing with computers sometimes seems like an art – a black art to be precise. There are times when they appear not to follow any kind of logic whatsoever, just the opposite you’d ... [More]
I woke up at 4:15 to try and catch the Leonid meteor shower. Judging from reports in the paper, it promised to be a truly spectacular display, with hundreds of meteors streaking across the sky. In fact, judging from reports this morning, it was. Just a shame that from where I was, there was a ... [More]
Last night I thought I’d go see Lantana. All day I had kept hearing people say it’s really good. I’d had lunch with Mike, and he said he’d seen it and that it was probably the best Australian film he’s ever seen. After lunch I went to buy the soundtrack (because I’d heard it’s really ... [More]
I had a dream last night. It’s reasonably rare that I remember them, so I thought I’d document this one: I had gone over to Elizabeth Street, something to do with my shoes, perhaps getting them fixed? It didn’t happen, but I was heading back to work on Exhibition Street. I saw a tram coming, ... [More]
Naturally I lost all my money in the Cup. It’s what usually happens. In fact, if I could bet that I’d lose all my money, I’d clean up! Just encountered a bloke at the supermarket who had abandoned his two small baskets full of groceries at the checkout and gone off somewhere. I took his ... [More]
Synergy. Alliances. Leveraging. Wanky terms, certainly. But powerful tools in today’s competitive environment. Well, so the marketing people with pony-tails and silly names tell us. What am I on about? Well, this web site, like many others, has a links page. On it you can find references to various other related sites, something which has ... [More]