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 different genus to the one chosen since it might be linked more closely with something that talks thru it’s backside.
Maybe it’s name should have been Elseya Howardii ??
Story here: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22339658-29277,00.html
Part of the upset was that like many others I saw her as a figurehead of some sort, thought what exactly the thinking was behind that I don’t know. Maybe she epitomised for some of us the stand against the traditional class ridden structures of society… weird bearing in mind what she was and her position in ’society’. Maybe she was seen as a rebel… or a fighter against the faceless bureaucracy… or maybe just as a well loved but badly wronged woman. Who knows. Regardless of the who’s or why’s.. I was sorry she died.
I’m also sorry that the cause of her death, the consort of the king-in-waiting, felt she could accept an invitation to the memorial service for her. Luckily the Queen saw sense and told the old bag to stay away. Had she appeared there may well have been riots. Ten years ago or not, Diana’s life and the indirect cause of her death are well remembered.
Will the feelings still be as strong in another ten years? I have no idea, but I *do* think that Camilla will never replace Diana and as long as she lives there will be a large portion of the public who revile her.
She may be right, maybe not. I think the ‘rot’ started when we made the decision I wouldn’t work but stay home and ‘keep house. Well ok this has been my lot in life for the past 25 years or so… and I’ve not worked since, except for odd times here and there. Thing is… in effect I’ve locked myself in a gilded cage!
I’m so relatively unskilled that even if I *do* work I can’t earn enough to compensate for the massive increase in tax the wife pays. So you say… why not do voluntary work. To which I answer that doesn’t solve the problem. Part of the issue is that I have no economic independence… I’m entirely dependent on the wife’s goodwill!
Ok there’s not a lot of chance she’ll dump me before I croak, but that’s isn’t the issue either. It ain’t about her it’s about me! Basically I have no ‘control’ over my own destiny… simple as that!!
Question is what to do about it… and that’s where things aren’t either clear or easy. I’ll just have to work on this awhile.
What hooked me originally was that a paediatrician was actually promoting a specific baby food product… which is to say the least unusual. After several tries I worked it out but it was very cleverly done… as sneaky and underhand as it was.
I wonder what the product was?
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 time to time, called alt.fan.harry-potter. It’s redundant in that the books are now all ‘out there’, there is no mystery about who did what, and there will be no more books in the series! Still, it’s an interesting project that will take weeks or months to get fully implemented.
The second is a site belonging to the girl who handles my training at the gym. She actually paid someone to create a site for her a year or so ago and it was dire… I mean *dire*. What she wanted was a ‘recruitment site’ where personal trainers could go, register, and find work. What she got was an almost blank page with little of interest on it anywhere!
Anyway, I managed to volunteer myself to try to create something for her that actually worked. I made a start and knocked up the basics of a site called Fitness Recruiter for her, but can’t say I like what I’ve done so will probably start over… partly because I don’t much like the software I used 
Either way it will will take a while to get both sites set up properly… using time I don’t have… but I suppose it’s harmless fun in its own way.
Bearing in mind how little time these kids have to practise together as as group it’s amazing the level of performance they produce. Admittedly they are the best around for their ages, but even so the level of ability of their teachers has to be marvelled at as well since it is they who manage to get them performing as a cohesive whole. Obviously the music selection heavily influences the outcome as well and again I think it was all done very well indeed.
The daughter performed well both with her flute in her band, and the combined choral group but I must say I thought both the the boys choir and second string ensemble were exceptional.
Overall we had a very enjoyable, if late, night. After three very hard days rehearsing and playing culminating in the performance and a ride home that saw us arrive just prior to midnight, the daughter is very tired. I *was* going to wake her early to get to school for her flute lesson, but on reflection I might let her have the extra 30 mins sleep. Both she *and* her sister will be like bears with sore heads as it is so maybe those few extra minutes will help temper their tempers.
Next years HICES will feature years 7 – 9 and as the daughter will be in year 7 next year she might go again! We can but hope… and nag her to practice. 
Note: HICES is an acronym for ‘Heads of Independent Co-Educational Schools’ – what this has to do with the music is anyone’s guess!
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 why the 2 hour job I was quoted for (at $88/hour) has so far taken 5 days with nothing being done and am awaiting the response. The owner, Michael McGoo, has usually been right on the ball with support issues… especially bearing in mind that hosting companies rise and fall on their reputations.
If I don’t get a satisfactory answer I’ll be dropping a few choice posts into whirlpool.net.au which is *the* forum for discussing Internet issues around these parts.
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 hate computers – tho I also wish I knew more about the mechanics of databases etc, then I’d not be so reliant on other people!! 
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 takes for the new DNS to propagate.
Have fun – cya soon 
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