Damir Dokic… professional loon?

It’s amazing people still take an notice of Damir Dokic. He wrecked the career of his tennis playing daughter Jelena, was banned from virtually every tennis court on 5 continents because of his behaviour, moved the family out of Australia (his adopted land) to Croatia, drove Jelena to distraction on so many occasions she now [...]

Water theft on the increase

The depth of the drought affecting the bush can be seen by the increase in water theft. Many places in the bush depend entirely on rainwater capturing it on roofs and storing it in tanks, or collecting it in dams to use for stock etc.

With so little rainfall in recent months… years even… dams and [...]

I love my PDA…

I’m waiting for Dire Straits to bring out a new version of “Money For Nothing” and maybe Sting will sing this new refrain instead of the original. Anyway… I have my new PDA. So far I’ve not a clue how to use it properly… but *this* time I’ll be spending a lot of time learning [...]

All Blacks throw hissy fit

Over in Wales… the Land of the Free… the Welsh Rugby Union decided it was their turn to ‘display’ their national pride last and asked the All Blacks if they’d mind doing their Haka after the UK national anthem… but before the *Welsh* national anthem so that they could ‘answer the challenge’… which after all [...]

Der fuhrer says… ??

Pope Bennie is mulling over the possibility that the rules on condom use might be relaxed thus saving untold millions from heartache and despair. Well almost.

Still unable to show any comprehension whatever of human nature, Bennie is still insisting on celbacy as the natural form of contraception but is showing signs that marriages in which [...]

P-plates, tickets to death.

Some of the everyday tragedies repeadedly in the headlines around Australia are those reporting the deaths in ‘accidents’ of P-platers.
For those outside Oz, our system has three levels of driver. In the first two the driver has to display a label appropriate to their level of skill. First is the ‘L’ which covers all drivers [...]

Ashes to Ashes

On top of yesterdays embarrassment comes todays total humiliation for the English cricket team as Australia brushed them aside like flies round the dunny.
In answer to Australia’s opening innings of 602 for 9… the Poms response was a pathtic 157 all out. To add further insult… the Aussies in their second innings reached a seriously [...]

Here’s a weird thing!

When I looked at the archives via the calendar… none of the pictures showed up. Obviously needs some investigating or it makes it all a bit weird. In the meantime… well in the meantime what? Does it make that much of a difference?? Dunno yet… be nice if it all worked properly though eh??
Also discovered [...]

Blast from the past.

Well well… I found a copy of the old header… enlarged it a bit… bit too much maybe… and away we go.
Ok it’s a bit fuzzy so I suppose I’ll have to rummage around for the original if I can find it and then we can use that… but for now??
Do I like it?? I [...]

Theme Change

I was never over-enamoured with the previous theme… over the weeks I’ve tried a few otehrs… including the Anaconda theme… but this current one which is a ‘3ColumnK2‘ implementation… is far more functional than either the previous one or the Anaconda.
Ok I’ll accept that The colour scheme of the original was better suited to [...]

Boofhead Botham

A few days ago Ian ‘Beefy’ Botham declared the Australian cricket team was the “Dad’s Army” of world cricket… well maybe they *are* a bit long in the tooth… but as always the statistics tell all.

End of second days play and the score is Australia 602 for 9… and England 53 for 3.
I hope the [...]

Stress relief headaches?

After four years hard slog (for her *and* us) the wife has finally completed the last assignment of her MBA and will submit it this morning. She spent yesterday at home working… both ‘real’ work and polishing up this last piece of coursework.
As written up earlier… we also went out for the first time in [...]

Ho-hum another 150 dead in Iraq

Same old, same old. Another 150+ martyrs die in the cause of freedom ‘George Bush style’ as suicide bombings wrack… or wreck… Sadr City, in Bagdahd. Yet again the forces of freedaom were helpless to prevent the sectarian violence that is tearing the country apart.
I still occasionally wonder how many of those millions killed or [...]

Fun turns to ashes,

Part of the pleasure of the Ashes cricket test series over here is watching and listening to the ‘Barny Army’ that follows the English side around from game to game. The ‘Mexican Wave’ and the bugle calls add to the gentle pleasures for the crowd and relieve what can after all be occasionally… how can [...]

The Hills Grammar School - Music Cafe

Just returned from an evening of music at the daughters school… and damn good it was too. The eldest one was in both the flute ensemble and a violin ensemble. The violin was a bit squesky… I think there were too many kids in it who’d not practised enough… but there were only four in [...]

Lactivism… the new fight?

Yet again a nursing mother has been subjected to humiliation simply for feeding her child the way nature intended. Admittedly this was in the USA… and we all know what double standards they have in matters of life and death.
This time a mother was feeding her baby in an airplane… in a window seat… with [...]

Diet history and update.

The Phantom over in sunny London was querying how this diet works. I think I confused him when I went on the high carb diet a week or so ago.
Basically… fat boy here had ballooned in size over the past years to a huge 160 kilos. I visited a diet specialist in January (2006)… who [...]

Smoke plume fills the sky

In case you thought I was exaggerating the pollution the smoke is causing from the Blue Mountain Fires, I took a few snaps from our upper floor window. I don’t think any of them really convey just how bad it is, but they’ll have to do.

As limited as it is, I think this one really [...]

Qantas for sale?

It would appear that the wife will be leaving Qantas at just the right time. Moves are afoot that might see a onsortium of Australian and foreign venture capitalists to purchase up to 49% of the company giving them effective control.

The shares have climbed from a low of $2.95 earlier in the year to a [...]

PDA update

No word yet of whether the insurance will cover the PDA or not. On the assumption it *won’t* I went off to look at the iJam JasJam… which is the Telstra ‘NextG’ offering. This is the only one easily available (i.e. via rental) that is similar in spec to the one that I lost. It’s [...]

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