I’ve been thinking about my medium to long term goals, and specifically how it relates to my home. My home is getting a little bit crap. The flat is a good size, in a good location, but it’s a bit rundown, mostly because my landlady, like most landlords the world over, is a little tight ... [More]
Went to glue something today, and discovered the tube of superglue I had wouldn’t open. Because the lid was stuck closed. Figures, I suppose.
On Friday night I arranged to meet a couple of visitors to this fair city. Nothing could be simpler than to meet up at the entrance to the Holiday Inn, right? Easy. It’s on Spencer Street. No problem. So my lovely companion (who I shall refer to for the moment as "C", since at this ... [More]
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Daniel the subversive
Letter, today’s Age.
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Alert! Alert!
I was in the Melbourne Central food court yesterday at lunchtime, pondering food court etiquette. The cleaners there seem to be very quick in leaping into action to clear and wipe tables. So should I take my tray away myself? Perhaps. Perhaps not. They also seemed to be equipped with radios. Very handy, cleaners having ... [More]
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My 17 inch is back
3pm. A while back I took the bigger of my two monitors to be repaired. It had been playing up – spontaneously turning itself off, then on again. So I looked at my various monitor-related bits of paper and discovered it was still under warranty, and that a mob in Hawthorn were authorised service type ... [More]
Years and years ago, Douglas Adams and John Lloyd put out a book called The Meaning Of Liff. Later on they updated it as The Deeper Meaning Of Liff. There’s a (possibly unintentional) reference to it in the opening titles of Monty Python’s Meaning Of Life. The book itself is a list of made up ... [More]
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RIP Number 2
Another goldfish died yesterday. I found in the morning, not moving at all. It wasn’t actually floating on top of the water like the last one had. I dunno – maybe it drowned? So now we’re left with a single, very lonely goldfish. Will have to see about re-populating the tank, I think. Isaac says ... [More]
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Hell on earth
There’s only one thing more like hell on earth than kids running around like maniacs in an indoor playground during a kid’s birthday party. And that’s kids running around like maniacs in your house during a kid’s birthday party. Jeremy’s fourth birthday party had been scheduled for a local park. Parks are a good place ... [More]
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Stand clear please
On Tuesday, I was working at home. My workmate Stanley needed to get some CDs off me. So I gave him instructions for getting to my local station, and said I’d meet him there. Good plan? Nothing simpler, right? Stanley had never been on a train before. Never. Trams yes, but not trains. Oh what ... [More]
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Vroom vroom again
This morning a good Samaritan leapt out of her car at an intersection to tell me I had no brake lights. Well, at least that they weren’t working. This put me into something of a panic, as of all the lights on a car, the brake lights are some of the most important. Screw keeping ... [More]
Even though I got a good eight hours of sleep last night, I’m still tired. Maybe I’m still playing catch-up for Saturday night (5.5 hours). I was in Geelong for dinner on Saturday night, and ended up driving back home late. I’ve been humming Area 7‘s Bogan song all weekend, so it was pretty funny ... [More]
Last night I went for a walk. Tonight there was little chance of that. After a hot muggy day came the cloud, then the thunder, then the lightning, then the rain, then more rain, then the hail, then more rain, and more lightning… You get the general picture.
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Annoying phone calls
11:30am. Telemarketer: Hello is that Mr or Mrs Bowen? Me: What are you selling? Telemarketer: Oh, I’m not selling nothing. Great. She followed on with some spiel about how my house was only one of five in the suburb to be chosen for a free offer… does anybody fall for this crap any more? 3:15pm. ... [More]
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Daniel’s instant movie reviews
We’ve started a mini-DVD swapping scheme at work, so this weekend I watched two movies I missed in the cinemas… Gladiator – great movie. Best bit was seeing "Clavdivs" – Derek Jacobi in it! That and looking at Russ in the Colosseum and thinking… Hey, I’ve been there! Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – yeah, pretty ... [More]
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One for the geeks
Properties… No, Disable… Arrghh! At work. Need to check the configuration on the server… okay here we go! Click, click, open Terminal Services, log on, click, start, Settings, Network, Local Area Connection.. Okay! Now to look at the Properties… click… Whoops. Got the other button. Disable. Disable network connection. When I’m logged on remotely. No ... [More]