I might be losing weight since the weather got cold, what with freezing my arse off every morning. Welcome to winter. Since my evil scheme to get us out of this cold house by the onset of winter hasn’t come off, yesterday I went and bought an extra heater, to prevent the family freezing to ... [More]
A bunch of Year 12 boys from my old school on the train yesterday morning, jabbering away loudly like teenage boys do. “Yeah I got all sorts of weird shit with the co-efficients. Did you put c squared over x?” Then more talk of mathematical terms I couldn’t fathom. Ah, not the usual talk of ... [More]
I was watching something on TV early on Saturday night when an advert for Grease — The Musical came on. And I pondered to myself that Grease was a fine idea for a movie, but really, was there the need to ram it into the ground by endless adaptions into other formats, such as musicals? ... [More]
Dear Blogger users, I’m increasingly reading blogs through an aggregator. This is a software tool that grabs text from lots of different web pages and puts it in one place for me. It saves me time, and allows me to read more blogs in less time. More people are using them all the time. To ... [More]
I can see trouble brewing. They’re not saying so in the adverts yet, but Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith has gained an M rating from the Office of Film and Literature Classification. Unlike MA, this is not a legal restriction on kids under 15 seeing it, just a recommendation. But it may cause ripples ... [More]
If you were listening to the radio on Tuesday afternoon after the state budget was announced, you may have noticed that it wasn’t me doing the media for PTUA… I’ve bowed out as my real work is getting too busy to be able to do media effectively. Chris did the budget comment, and did a ... [More]
I hadn’t noticed this before: you can now get a deerhunting game for the XBox. Obviously there have been 1st person shooter (FPS to those in the know) games for quite a while now, usually despatching alien monsters or WW2 German guards into the afterlife, but this is the first time I recall seeing a ... [More]
The kids did a walkathon for their school on Thursday, each racking up six laps of the 1km circuit. Not bad at all, and all for a good cause. But it does remind me of the issues of of exercise like this. Done regularly, long walks like this are good. Done occasionally, bad. I try ... [More]
I was going to write a thorough, if slightly moaning, analysis of why my footy-tipping strategy, which saw me win one competition and draw another last year, is failing completely this year. Instead, I broke a glass in the kitchen and consequently have no time for that, as I spent that time ensuring the kitchen ... [More]
You can now watch BBC1 and BBC2 live, online. Pretty cool huh. Assuming they re-broadcast everything on it, they must have done some homework on rights clearances. I know the Beeb have a deliberate programme of making material available on the net to UK residents but not to the rest of the world (the UK ... [More]
It may be costing $700 million, and it may be causing untold confusion and inconvenience while it’s being built, and the new name might be silly… but damn, that rolly roof is impressive. Click here to see it bigger (and unencumbered by the blog navigation) (Yeah, there’s a slight glitch in the picture where a ... [More]
So, Hazelwood, the state’s dirtiest power station, and the nation’s heaviest polluter, is likely to keep churning along for another 26 years, happily burning filthy brown coal for electricity. Surely it must be time to not just research, but actively build alternative, sustainable electricity generators. The irony is some people are vehemently opposed to wind ... [More]