Teletubbies ride again?

Is he is… or is he not… and what does it matter whether he is or not? I don’t care much either way… least of all because it’s the Poles who are complaining about Tinky Winky’s potential as a gay icon

At first I thought this was just another way of getting some free [...]

Times they are a changing

In these parts the local councils combat fly tipping (i.e. people dumping rubbish anywhere illegally) by arranging to collect any and all rubbish put out by households at set times, usually a couple of times a year. There is one of these events in progress as I write and people are piling their junk at [...]

The Good Old Days

This is going to date me pretty severely but it’s something I’ve been mulling over for some time. My basic question is… “Where did it all begin to go wrong?”
What is ‘it’ you ask? Let me explain.
When Adam and I were still young lads, what constituted a ‘workday’ and ‘conditions of employment’ were, for the [...]

Missing girl!

The picture below is of 12 year old Satra Mohammed of Dharruk, Western Sydney who went missing last night around 5:00 p.m. The police are very concerned for her safety. If you see her please contact authorities asap.

Source: SMH.com.au
EDIT:
Luckily she’s been found safe and well…
Update: smh.com.au

Stream of consciousness

As I sit here rambling away I occasionally sit and wonder who apart from me actually reads any of it and why they really think. I know the wife does, and occasionally the Phantom, my sister and my nephew Mark. No idea who else really… even though we’re getting 400 – 500 hits a day.
(Hello [...]

Two more days!

The oldies fly out on Friday back to the questionable warmth of the UK summer. Gonna be quiet here for a few months… but no doubt they’ll be back for Christmas. The old man is already saying he’ll be flying out on December 3rd, but who knows what’ll happen between now and then.
We celebrated his [...]

Freebie photo storage – nice!!

Now here is a *really* nice little freebie!!
Not content with giving you 2.5 Gigabytes of free email, Google are now providing all users with a minimum 1 Gigabyte free storage for photos.
Basically you download their free photo organiser Picasa 2 and join up with the free Web Album service. To use it, you click [...]

The way forward?

A new advance (?) at the Mayo Clinic is the workstation treadmill. This new device finally and literally makes people able to work whilst losing weight. The idea is simply that you work whilst you walk on a specially designed workstation attached to a conventional treadmill.
According to researchers who admit they weren’t exactly over zealous [...]

Lady Di – not forgotten.

We’re only at the end of May but it might be a good time to remember that on 31st August it will be 10 years since Diana’s untimely death. She’d have been 46 this year.

I’ve said before that I’m no royalist and have, in jest, oft repeated the mantra “They’ll be first against the [...]

Wanna laff?

Try this… so true… so true.
My life in a cartoon
Pillpusher.

Service with a smile

Service with a smile? Actually I was laughing with hysteria. Ok it’s the weekend but should it *really* be so hard to get some response from the car lease company, or the manufacturers support site?
Apparently yes. I rang around the people I needed to call… and got no help at all. I’ll try again on [...]

Pirates of the Caribbean III

So Johnny Depp rides again in PoC III and the burning question is if the hype is matched by the flicker? Well we went to see it this arvo and I can categorically say… yes… and no.
One of the problems they had was matching the sheer exuberance of the first movie. Their other problem was [...]

Life’s like that.

I zoom here… I zoom there… I seem to zoom everywhere. Until tonight.
After driving around like a maniac since 2:30 p.m. taking kids to skating and Guides and then picking up new desks… and then the wife… and then dinner… I got home around 9:15 p.m. As usual, I reversed up the drive… more essential [...]

ODPS Blog

Just created a sub-domain on my reseller account and installed Wordpress there. Nothing to look at really but if you fancy a look it’s here.
It’s only there for comment, news etc. on slang… to complement the other site really… but who knows what might come of it!
Now… where’s that advert template gone… ??

Damn cold here!

Just for a change it’s not particularly warm right now. This might have something to do with it almost being winter… and possibly something to do with being out walking the wife to the bus at 6:00 a.m. but either way 4ºC is too damn cold for me!
This week I started wearing a ski jacket [...]

Clumsy little me

I went off to my ‘main domain’ to upload a photo album… after certain people spent a year nagging me for photos of the kids etc… only to find that somehow I’d ‘mislaid’ three sub-domains and the entire directory that contained them.
Have sent in a ’support ticket’ asking if they can restore any and/or all [...]

Modafinil blues

Went to the pharmacy to collect my new medication this morning. Turns out to be something called Modafinil which I’d never heard of before it was prescribed.
However, according to Wikipedia (see link above) it seems it is a multi-purpose drug being used to combat daytime sleepiness without producing a ‘high’… but is also being prescribed [...]

I need software!!

Like me, I’m sure a lot of you wander around the web and come across all sorts of odd stuff. I’m looking for a specific type of software and because it’s a real niche area it’s not something that’s easy to find even by searching via Google et al.
What I want is software that will [...]

Stuff to do.

Over the past few days I’ve been quietly working away on the ODPS adding in the words we received during the past year or so. I started with 200 or so and have got 119 left. Oddly most seem to have been submitted to the ‘Seedy songs and Rotten Rhymes‘ section with only a few [...]

Justice is an odd bird

Last year we wrote about a little girl who was given methadone instead of cough medicine and subsequently died. At that time we not only spoke about her by name, but published a photo of her. Today a story (here) is being run in the local rag and her name is being suppressed for legal [...]

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