I’ve had a pretty good week this week. Not perfect, by any stretch of the imagination, but pretty good. It began on Monday, when I had a job interview. Despite almost getting lost in the wilds of Doncaster, I managed to find the place, and spoke to the guy. It went quite well, I thought, ... [More]
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How did your Melways get like that?
You sometimes hear stories about how taxi drivers drive like maniacs. Certainly my driving instructor reckons I should be on the look-out for them (as well as people driving company cars from a certain well-known very large telephone company that recently floated on the stock exchange…) My own experience with taxi drivers is that some ... [More]
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The ups and downs of lifts
Well, with my current contract job expiring, ceasing to be, going to meet its maker, etc on Friday, I’m merrily job hunting once again. I wouldn’t have left it so late, but The Perfect Job(tm) reared its head last week and appeared to be the ideal way for me to continue bringing in enough dosh ... [More]
Last night I went out to dinner at Wolfgang Puck’s with a bunch of people I used to work with. We ate, drank and were merry, and then walked out onto St Kilda Road to find our various ways home. I suddenly started to feel really queasy, and said so. We were just about to ... [More]
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Driving hazards
Well, my second driving lesson was yesterday. Once again the fatalities were remarkably low (zero). I’m gradually getting used to this driving lark. The steering’s okay. And I’m a whiz with the indicators. Really where my problem is is the clutch. That and the whole gear situation. It’s probably just a matter of practice, but ... [More]
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The race for Richmond
This morning my train ran parallel to another one for several kilometres – I felt like I was in a Cadbury commercial. After watching the people in the other train for a bit, I was tempted to make a sign saying "Race you to Richmond!" to hold up to the window for them to see, ... [More]
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My Cup Day losses
Well, it’s been another traditional Cup Day. Traditional in the sense that I lost all the money I bet. Yesterday I put a bunch of money on five random horses, and the closest any of them came was fourth. D’oh! But there are compensations. I only lost $10. Crown Casino boss Lloyd Williams placed $500,000 ... [More]
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Live from Canberra
Is it just me, or does the Federal Government have absolutely no imagination? PM John Howard is trying his darndest to back Australia out of binding targets for greenhouse gas reduction, which quite frankly is pretty embarrassing to a lot of Australians, myself included. I mean, I can certainly commit myself to reducing my own ... [More]
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A confession
I have a confession to make – particularly to those of you reading who know me personally. This is not something that it’s easy to admit. I’m afraid my friends might not understand how I could change like this. They might desert me, but I have to face up to what I have done, right ... [More]
For ages now I’ve been saying that I should take the effort and learn to drive. Here I am, 27 years of age and I’ve never learnt. Hey, I never got round to it, okay? Well, I’ve finally decided that even if I don’t intend to go out and buy a car straight away, I ... [More]
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All the latest
From time I write a little piece updating some of the things I’ve mentioned previously. And right now seems like as good a time as any to do so. Our local "Variety" store, having proclaimed in July that they were having a "Closing Down Sale", closed its doors for the last time over the weekend. ... [More]
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Daniel the anarchist
While doing a little Egosurfing last week (Egosurf means to look on the Web for references to your own pages) I found this web page: http://www.ncs.gov/n5_hp/n5_ia_hp/html/eitr/apendx_a.htm Anybody who knows absolutely anything about HTML can spot straight off that it’s an extremely badly constructed page – in fact if you go to the page, it will ... [More]