Elseya irwini

The Elseya irwini is an interesting new turtle discovered by Steve Irwin and his father and named after them.
Apart from being on the endangered list it’s one major claim to fame is that it can breathe underwater through it’s backside.
Personally I’d have thought being able to breathe thru it’s backside would place it in a [...]

Bye- Bye Lady Di.

Ten years has past really quickly. I was driving my brother-in-law down from his weekend stint in periodic detention ‘At Her Majesty’s Pleasure’, to our house in Penrith when the news cam on the radio. He’d heard it but I hadn’t. I was very upset at the time and I suppose underneath the layers of [...]

It don’t rain…

On a continuing theme from yesterday my kids are driving me crazy too. Try as I might they simply will *not* do what they are asked, or told no matter how urgent it is or even how much they personally will benefit from it.
Dunno why I’m so annoyed… I doubt I was any better when [...]

Misery your name is Dog

I’ve come to the conclusion that I *really* don’t like having so little control over my life or the way I live it. The wife seems to think it’s because the kids tend to ride roughshod over me not matter what I tell them… or ask them to do. Also that for some reason I’m [...]

Advertisers stink!

Some of the tricks advertisers pull have to be seen to be understood. This particular little trick took me several views to catch.What we had was a woman identifying herself as a ‘paediatrician *and* young mother… ” etc who went on to describe the sort of nutrition a young child needs. As she bends over [...]

More IT doings.

As if I haven’t enough to be going on with online (let alone of) I somehow seem to have managed to get myself mixed up in developing two more sites.
The first site, called Magic Muggles, is a little redundant already in that it’s going to be the ‘web presence’ of a newsgroup I frequent from [...]

HICES Music Festival 2007

We were out last night listening the the eldest daughter performing as part of a group of about 300 music students known collectively as the HICES. It’s an annual event and places are hotly contested amongst students of the schools involved.The group, all drawn from years 5 - 8 of Independent Co-Ed schools across New [...]

Jumba Hosting problems.

I opened the reseller account with Jumba because they promised a great service level.
So far the sites have been offline 4 days, they’re not moved and there will *still* be propagation to consider when they *are* moved.
I’m starting to think I got rooked again. I sent a ’support ticket’ into the parent company (AussieHQ) asking [...]

Move delayed

No sure why exactly but the move to the new hosts has been delayed… so I *could* have been typing away for the past few days and discussing all that’s been happening.
Instead of which… well hmmm. I understand the move will be made tonight so I’ll hold off posting for another day just in case.
I [...]

Opinion Australia is on the move!!

This will be the last post for a few days. The sites will all be moving to their new host over the next few days and I don’t want to lose more posts than I have to.
I’ll be back either on Monday 27th August, or towards the middle of next week depending how long it [...]

Pea and Ham soup (2)

I thought I’d share with you a simple recipe for pea and ham soup that I’ve been using lately. For preference I’d make it with what are known in Australia as ‘Blue Boilers’ referring to whole dried peas, but since they are both hard to come by lately for some reason, and need soaking overnight, [...]

Pea and Ham Soup

Ok, before you start… I apologise for the length of this post. I got a bit carried away
Even so, there’s really nothing quite like a big bowl full of pea and ham soup to warm the cockles of your heart of a cold winters day. As a matter of fact, I was virtually [...]

I like music

As we drove up to school this morning we were listening to Classic FM, as we do. Kids were wittering on about listening to the local pop station but suddenly up came The Moldau by Smetana. I think of all the music I’ve listened to over the years this probably speaks to me more closely [...]

Dire Driving

Was on my way to drop one of the kids off at her Guides meeting. While on a divided road downhill doing 70 in traffic *in rain* I was overtaken by a guy on a motor bike. From the size I’d say it was 250cc or less. He was doing at least 90 swerving between [...]

Yesterday

Strange day yesterday
The wife stayed home to work to get work stuff done ‘without interruption’. For the last few weeks she’s been under pressure to get a major report out because this is the time of year when bonuses and salary increases take precedence. I can see the point. With constant interruptions it’s easy to [...]

IT reconfiguration underway at last.

At long last, I’ve started rationalising our IT configuration which has been in a dreadful (and expensive) mess for some time. Again this month we’ve reached the download limit of our Internet account (12 Gb) and the ISP has ’shaped’ the speed down to 64K which is totally unacceptable. As part of a general shakeup [...]

Oh what a beautiful morning.

Ok I know I’m blowing around like the weather we’ve been having but we really really did have a lovely morning. Started as usual in the dark with the usual visit to the rail station to drop the wife off for her trip to ‘The City’ and her daily doings.
Then I turned the car round [...]

Free Childnet filters!

In an effort to help protect children, the Australian government is offering free internet content filters for all Australian citizens.
Copies are free and if you need one they’ll even post you a copy (which is the option *I* chose! :)) If you live in Australia and would like a free copy… or if you just [...]

Germaine Greer - a nasty old bag!

I have no idea why this woman keeps getting media space. She is just pointlessly offensive towards anyone that will earn her a few inches of column space.

She had a go at Steve Irwin after he was dead.. and is now hacking at Princess Diana calling her a ‘devious moron’!! Well pardon me… Germaine Greer [...]

More on the daughter

So we all get up, wife goes to work, I jolly the kids along because today is the day the eldest goes back to school. However we have to visit the Orthodontist first to let him give her a check up first.
Still, I make her get ready for school… after all it’s just a few [...]

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