With recent accusations that IBM punch-card machines were used by the Nazis to more efficiently bring about the Holocaust, I was just pondering how companies who have had less than illustrious histories document events they’d rather forget about. WW2 footage often shows German forces driving Mercedes trucks. In their truck history, they talk about the ... [More]
Last night I found myself watching some of the Concert For NYC, in particular The Who’s performance. I’m still not going to splurge out on their forthcoming concert (dubbed rather cruelly by one friend as “Who’s left?”). But this four song performance from 2001 is great music. And remembering it in context, very moving, a ... [More]
The problems with going to the movies at Chadstone on a Friday night are: There is no parking on the “entertainment precinct” side of the centre at 8pm on a Friday. Well that is, there are plenty of parking spaces, but every one of them is taken. There are, of course, no buses running. Oh, ... [More]
Before the bank changed the credit card bonus points regime yesterday and halved the number of frequent flyer points you can swap them for, I swapped almost all of them. I was kind of hoping I’d have enough to one day go over to Europe on points. Or if part of a bigger expedition, at ... [More]
And now, courtesy of my day off yesterday, here is my fridge. Move your mouse around over it to see the captions. Ren reckons this would make a good Meme. Yeah, why not. Go for it guys, do your fridges this week, Trackback/leave comments. And I’ll come up with another one for next weekend.
I’ve got the day off. I’ve got the day off. I’ve got the day off. And you probably haven’t. Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah.
SMS used to be exciting. It could be a greeting from my jetsetting sister, anywhere in the world… or my mate the tour guide, also in exotic places. It’s lost its mystique. Particularly on weekdays, it’s no fun anymore. Here’s why. I know it’s optional, in these dark days certainly useful, and it’s all part ... [More]
Tony pointed me to an interesting article on Charles Wright’s Bleeblog about “Zero-Day holes” — security flaws that may have been in products forever, with not even the manufacturer knowing. Not entirely surprising I suppose. From time to time we hear of some research company telling us about the latest problem they’ve found in Windows ... [More]
Crisis on Friday night when a certain girlfriend lost her handbag. It hasn’t shown up yet either. Perhaps the taxi driver liked the look of the two books contained within. And the glasses. Finally watched Bowling For Columbine. I can’t think of much to say about it than probably hasn’t been said before. I’ll just ... [More]
I’m always more than willing to steal a good idea when I see it.
Tempo. It must have made their day when ten of us tramped in off Degraves Street, followed by mild panic when no table proved quite big enough to accomodate us. But we managed to squeeze in somehow. The chef probably reacted with some incredulity when faced with seven orders for the Lasagne, whose reputation preceded ... [More]
A flurry of activity at the school yesterday when I dropped the kids off, as a film crew had arrived to record a public service advert to go to air later in the year. SunSmart, or healthy eating, or exercise, one of those types of things. They had wheeled in actors to play the main ... [More]