Peter Costello sucks us dry.

Lucky us. Peter Costello, our Treasurer, has unveiled the final budget surplus which is one billion dollars *more* that he’d anticipated sucking out of us. Seems the surplus for 2005 - 06 is a total of AU$15.8 billion dollars.

So which bum is the Treasurer?
In the meantime hospitals are closing, schools are underfunded and the roads [...]

Images?

You may have noticed I’ve started to move away from the ‘pure text’ offerings of the past and started adding photos. This is really because I think there are some things that require a permanent photographic record and while I’ve strained to *not* do it I suppose fighting against the tide just puts me in [...]

Electric Car - conspiracy?

Conspiracy theories abound on the web but there are times when you really have to wonder if there is some truth in some. A case in point is the release in Australia of the Reva Electric Car.
This wonderful bit of kit is built in India and has been selling well all around Europe. It’s been [...]

Vale Steve Irwin

Thing about not updating the blog too often is that I miss writing about things that are important to me. One of the most recent events to have upset me was the untimely and unexpected death of Steve Irwin.

The wife and I were latecomers to Steve’s shows and as such perhaps I wasn’t best placed [...]