What shape is this?

Shape? Currently my Broadband Connection from Telstra is ‘shaped’ to 64 kp/s down from 4.5Mb/s… this is *slow*. Using the net for the next few days is going to resemble jogging through treacle – Working hard and getting nowhere!!! I’m quite seriously re-considering asking the wife if I can sign up to Virgin Mobile Broadband [...]

Drip, drip, drip, drip…

That ‘dripping’ is the sound of the steady erosion of privacy and individual freedom as the UK descends still further into the realms of Big Brother and the advent of the Police State. Bizarrely, to me at least, it’s a Labour government that is currently creating a Data Communications Bill to be presented as part [...]

Yet more cause for concern.

This blog is becoming a locus for doom and gloom lately! Today’s warning is that the effectiveness of nanotechnology use may in future be mitigated by its propensity to damage our health. New research is beginning to identify links between the tiny creations and serious illnesses such as mesothelioma! The suggestion that we are building [...]

More rubbish about rubbish.

Despite my complaints about UK rag, The Daily Mail in the last post, I *did* read several of the stories. One that caught my eye was yet another story about the bizarre garbage collection laws currently being enforced in draconian style by kerbside Nazis. In this particular case a 22 year old woman has been [...]

On the media’s tale.

I’ve been perusing the UK papers again and have spent a while looking through The Daily Mail which I’m sure I remember as a right wing, but basically even handed paper with some good editorial comment. The online version seems to either belie this memory, or the social situation in the UK has deteriorated to [...]

Joan Jackson who she??

Until a few minutes ago I hadn’t heard of Joan Jackson who died aged 92 on April 11th. At least I *thought* I hadn’t, yet after reading the story that went along with the headline that attracted me, I soon learned I was mistaken! Joan Jackson was in fact *the* Joan Hunter Dunn made immortal [...]

Not more mice?

I’m beginning to wonder if we do in fact have more mice in here than the one the cat (re) captured and killed the other day. Now and then she hangs about around the kitchen staring underneath the fridge which is usually a sign of something… though we’re yet to discover what. Today she again [...]

Chubby buns?

The UK papers were awash a few days ago with the stirring words of the Duchess of York, a.k.a. Fergie as she defended the honour of her daughter the Princess Beatrice a.k.a. ‘chubby buns’ who is getting a lot of flak (she says) because of her size and shape, i.e. errr… cuddly (?). Well you’d [...]

Save Steve’s Place!!!

Please sign the Save Steve’s Place petition and stop the miners wrecking this wildlife preserve!! If we can do it we need to act now… every vote counts. Please send this to all your friends asap!!!

Vege Chips.

We’ve got a product here called Vege Chips. I assume the same or similar products are on sale around the world and all would be carrying the same implications of ‘health’ and ‘wellbeing’ resulting from eating them. The selling points on the pack are that these things are Gluten Free, and contain 40% less fat [...]

Life is a strange thing.

Just chatting to the sister on Google chat about the pictures she uploaded to the gallery of our mother as a young girl. It made me think just how ‘sad’ life is in general. Perhaps sad isn’t the right word, but it’s how I felt. In mum’s pictures she’s there as a young girl with [...]

Traveler DV-5040 versus The Flip

I saw an advert today for The Flip which is billing itself as ‘The World’s Simplest Video Camera’. Well of course this is all marketing hype par excellence. The basic features of “The Flip” are very similar to another tiny video camera… which of course I bought a year or more ago… called The Traveler [...]

Rape of the fair country.

Despite Kevin Rudd’s government having excellent environmental credentials, it seems that Cape Alumina, a mining company might get mining rights to hack a huge hole in the area Steve Irwin bought as a permanent wildlife reserve. Seems there is bauxite under the ground and in Australia whilst you might own the surface you bizarrely have [...]

That’s Safari…

For preference I use Firefox as my browser of choice. It’s fast, easy to use and filled with features some other browsers don’t have. However, because I play with web pages I have to have the other major browsers available to ‘test’ that all I do looks similar in all of them. The newest kid [...]

Boy, do I do some strange things.

In other place I was just rambling on about some of the symptoms, well the effects, of Asperger’s but left off just as I got to ‘inter-personal’ relationships because the post was getting too long. However, I can come up with a very concrete and personal example of how embarrassing it can be… that’s embarrassing [...]

How peculiar!

I changed the settings as said, so that now anyone going to lewmat.com or lewmat.com/forum is sent to the forum site regardless… and all works as it should. Except… when I try to access it using the *laptop* – it says it can’t find it!! Why is this peculiar? Because in the  Firefox, Safari and [...]

Lily Allen – again?

I see Little Lily Allen is back in the news and not for her singing. Yet again the silly girl has given the photographers a field day by (unintentionally?) letting them take photos of her ‘going commando’, i.e. sans underwear. Stripping her top off in a pool was one thing. In these new shots she’s [...]

A bridge too far?

The forum bridge to the gallery seems to be causing trouble so I’m thinking maybe we remove it and if there are a few photos we want to show each other but not the world, we upload them directly to the forum instead? So what I’m considering is this. Currently if you go to the [...]

There’s a nip in the air

This morning we went off to the bus and the air was definitely chilly. Not because we were quarreling, but because the temperature was showing as 3ºC… and this when it’s not quite winter. Just for good measure the air conditioner in the car seems to have developed a ‘delay’ setting, perhaps *because* it’s so [...]

Members only!

Forum is up and working… if you want to join ask Carol for login details and how to ‘join’ – I’m off to bed I’ll add more themes tomorrow… I like the ‘Lord of the Rings’ one but it might not be to everyone’s tastes I suppose… tho I think all but Dad have read [...]

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