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 the ODPS site and then use *that* instead… or something.
Will have to organise the move first though. I’m going to make a start on that tomorrow.
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 few months no doubt.
In the end he decided to issue me a script for some stimulant or other… can’t recall what it was. I expressed some concern about these. He said there were minimal side-effects. I asked what about the chances of me going wacky and running down the main street naked except for two bananas sticking out of my ears… that’s e.a.r.s!!! That apparently would be a medical first… so look out for me in the papers.
Oh yes. Don’t look in the papers for a day or two. I dropped the script in the chemist and they were out of stock. The earliest delivery will be 11:00 a.m. or so tomorrow… so maybe I’ll make the evening editions?? 
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 at the beginning I mentioned the book of the site.
Getting back on topic, the issue with access was quite simple really. I show up online as ‘skyrider’… whilst the login username was actually sky_rider, with an underscore. Basically then not Blogger/Google’s fault after all.
Having said that, the comments about their appalling support still stand. I figure free or not, if your going to run a worldwide service then the support should be a priority, especially if you are going to tie it in to the rest of your business model! I wonder how many people furious with Blogger’s refusal to provide even minimal access to support have turned their ire to Google?
Anyway, after all that I doubt I’ll ever use the account much. It was handy to import it to provide updates to the ODPS site whilst I was rebuilding it, but outside that I’ve no real use for it. How many more places can I ramble after all? But at least it’s there.
Am now about to go see if I ever registered myself as welshdog
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 as I can tell I’d not be sufficiently better off in terms of audio reproduction buying the more expensive ones to warrant the additional costs involved.
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 send another one. Tried that… and I end up seeing a message telling me the new password has been went to my address at mstay.com… except I have never had an address there!. What is going on is anyone’s guess. It clearly recognises me as me… yet at the same time clearly doesn’t
So I went looking for help. Read the help files, went to the ‘contact us’ page… only to discover you *can’t* contact them directly but must go through a forum system. So I left a message there… only to have it deleted because I wasn’t able to log on properly… because I don’t have a password.
I tried again, and this time it recognised my main Google account address… then refused to accept my password for that too! 
At that point I decided to put it all in the ‘too hard’ basket for now and gave up. I’ll try again in a year or three.
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 the ‘good life’ surely? But I suppose it is.
In times gone by we had to ‘struggle’ so I had to keep my wits about me. There was a purpose to life. Now, the wife is earning enough to keep us pretty much with a decent standard of living and I’m just drifting.
I think i need a task related goal of some sort. Not sure what… and not sure I can summon the energy to follow it through… but I need something. Maybe I ought to take a writing course and write a book?
For years I had the notion I’d write a history of some the wife’s family since I’ve known them… but I figured it might be considered libelous… not to mention them not wanting their odd little ways discussed in public. Still, it’s an idea.
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 her recovery.
The news.com story says:
Rahma, one of nine children, was snatched from her bed through a window of her Sydney home at about 2am (AEDT) on November 10, 2005. She was sleeping in the bed with two of her sisters but was closest to the window. The flyscreen covering the window was cut open.
Admittedly the chances of her ever returning home are slim to nil, but at least there is *some* interest in her case.
If you have any suspicions regarding her whereabouts please contact the police.
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 horrors of internment under USA forces.
Maybe this national disgrace perpetrated on David *and* us by the US and Australian governments can be put to rest.
However… John Howard needs to know we will *not* forget the way he abandoned an Australian to torture .
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 become more alien to me as the years pass by. When I was a student I managed to keep my ‘finger on the pulse’ and had a fairly clear idea of the important social issues but as our level of affluence has grown I find myself distanced more and more from my roots in the working classes.
I wouldn’t say that the AUstralian version of the Big Issue is a socialist rag either… it’s nothing like, for example, Socialist Weekly which still manages to promote communist and the Marxist-Leninist perspective as if it was still a critical political philosophy… but it has its charms I think.
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 isn’t all bad.
However there are times when I want to watch or listen to things that they don’t… so when I walked up to Aldi supermarket the other day I was pleased to discover they had on sale some Tevion headphones… wireless ones! What’s more they were only $59.99. Next day I dragged the wife up and we bought two sets.
I make sure I check out the Aldi offerings each week – they very often have really good quality gear going for a song and apart from knowing what they sell actually works… which is good… there is the assurance that if anything goes wrong… they’ll replace or refund without question. I like Aldi… pity they don’t sell more foodstuff I like
Anyway. I set the headphones up last night and tried them out on my ‘Over the Hedge’ DVD. Magic. I’ll be able to spend the next however long listening to streamed music, Cd’s, DVD’s or whatever without concern I’m interrupting whatever it is the oldies are into.
Yes… all very well but why *two* sets you ask?Well the wife wants to play her new piano (did I mention the digital piano she got for Mothers Day?) and the headphones mean she can bang away as loudly as she likes without interfering with anyone… especially as she practices new unfamiliar pieces.
Works well all round I think!
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