ODPS Blog – use it or lose it.

I figured… I have it… use it! I’ll add a link on the site… after all… if people visit it… and maybe click on an advert then it’ll earn… won’t it? Well for starters the damn ads won’t work! Gawd…. I hate blocker. I think maybe the best bet would be to install WordPress on [...]

Hi-ho, hi-ho…

Decided this morning, like a good pair of curtains, I needed to pull myself together so I girded my loins and dragged my sorry carcase off to the Diet Doctors for some motivation and advice. Explained my theories about testosterone… and as usual got sidelined. Will have to follow that up again over the next [...]

Update on Blogger access

Well well… would you believe I finally got in!! Seems the last posts I made were on May 14th 2005… over 2 years ago. Anyone with the slightest interest in the old blog can see it here. Actually, whilst it may not be rivetting reading for most, I found it interesting if only because right [...]

A little more on headphones.

I checked prices in Tandy to see how much we’d saved by buying headphones from Aldi instead of a ‘normal’ retail outlet. The cheapest wireless phones in Tandy were $100. In Harvey Norman they were $250 and above. I tried out the $50 ones I bought from the supermarket and they work fine. As far [...]

Bugger Blogger and their lack of support!

I have, or rather had, a Blogger account. Oddly enough, when I visit other peoples blogs, like The Phantom’s the Blogger system recognises me as ‘skyrider’ and lets me post. However, when I try to access the blog itself it won’t accept the password! Easy as you might think… get then to reset it and [...]

Where is it?

Where’s what? Where’s all my ‘get up and go’ gone? Back twenty years I was full of vim and vitality racing around college doing this that and the other… loads of work, loads of fun. All these years down the track and I’m overweight, depressed, and bored rigid. What happened? Can’t be too much of [...]

Spare a thought for Rahma.

The worlds attention has been captured by the disappearence of Madeline McCann but Australia has it’s own missing child who has received minimal publicity. Rahma el-Dennaoui went missing aged 19 months in 2005 and no trace has been found of her since. The magazine, New Idea, has posted a $20,000 reward for new leading to [...]

Welcome home David.

After years of torture and abuse at the hands of the Americans David Hicks has finally been returned to home soil. True under the terms of a biased and illegal trial he will have to serve 9 months in an Australian prison. However, this is a small price top pay for his release from the [...]

The Big Issue

Does anyone else but me buy the Big Issue? I can’t claim to read every issue avidly, but whenever I’m passing someone selling one I’ve not read I always buy it… and of course read it! I find it full of interesting comment on the political and social scene generally from a perspective that’s sadly [...]

Phoning my head.

As said repeatedly over the last six months… the oldies are here. I might also have mentioned that they seem to like watching programmes that drive me bananas. Things like Judge Judy, Weakest Link and Eggheads litter my evening viewing… tho that gives me an excuse to play with my new toy… this machine… so [...]

Who’d have dogs?

It’s bad enough I’m allergic to the dogs, but they compound things by being generally gross around the place. You might be able to forgive them licking themselves in all sorts of exotic places at inappropriate times. You can even understand the constant scratching and the smells emanating from various parts of their body… including [...]

Gym-jams

As I wrote a few days ago, in a moment if mad weakness I joined a gym… again. On my way out yesterday I noticed a little motto above the door which reads ‘Stay Focused’. The extent of my interaction with the place was that when I read it I didn’t see that… what I [...]

Thanks to the Phantom – again!

Yet again the Phantom has appeared from the mists of cyberworld, and rescued our losat posts from vanishing into nothingness. I’m sure the world at large will be eternally grateful that these displays of my erudite inanity and excruciatingly unfunny witticisms will be preserved for just that little bit longer They are on their way [...]

Neighbours moving on…

The Beeb has finally decided Neighbours has priced itself out of their market and is abandoning the bidding war that’s been going on in the UK. What baffles me is why it should be such a big deal to begin with? Why on earth would 5 million people tune in to watch the antics of [...]

It’s true it’s true!!

Was last in the UK 3 years ago for the parents 60th wedding anniversary so natch took the kids. Stayed in London one night and when we woke next day the youngest was covered in lumps. Went to reception… played hell about bed bugs… and left in a huff. Over the next few days we [...]

Another perv wanted!

This is the picture of a guy wanted for sexually attacking one of two teenage girls whilst in company of another man. One guy held her down while another jabbed his fingers into her… a third man filmed it all on a mobile phone. There are some real sicko’s about! If you recognise him… or [...]

Paris… how good is she?

Wow!! Paris Hilton the ultimate vacuous party girl and soon to be jailbird is *so* ‘good’ her 45 day sentence for driving misdemeanors has been reduced by half! Despite not yet having actually set foot in jail… her ‘good behaviour’ has paid dividends!! One has to ask if this good behaviour might have included the [...]

Brilliant Becker.

Yes I *did* say ‘Becker’. No idea if it’s been seen in the UK but this was the sort of show that brings hope that somewhere in that morass of below mediocre crud spewed out by the TV industry is some real talent. The scriptwriters had a field day with the cast bringing out the [...]

Right… RSS feed sorted!

Finally started using an RSS feed to send messages to mysself. With luck this means I’ll always have a backup of some sort if the worst should happen… again

Daughters musicology exam.

Had a call from the eldests musicology teacher. Your child is quite brilliant… but remarkably erratic. Well thanks we knew that. Also whilst she is not only more than able to keep up with her teachers train of thought and leap ahead of her very often… when it comes to writing it all down… she’s [...]

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