Fat enough for you?

Hot on the heels of my last post complaining about what a backwater the UK has become, is news of a Disco that has taken on board Homer Simpsons edict of “No Fat Chicks” and run with it barring them from entry to the club!
The manager of the club who it seems is no lightweight [...]

The theme thing.

Have you noticed just how few of the major blockbusters we see in the movies these days have a ‘theme song’ associated with them?
Some, such as the Harry Potter  and Lord of the Rings series had nice melodies that we could hum or whistle, some like Shrek 1 have soundtracks filled with old songs that [...]

Public Breastfeeding in Wales? Nope.

I was reading a little straw poll on the Wales Online website which asked a question I’d have thought shouldn’t even need to be asked today.
The question is “Do you think it’s acceptable for women to breastfeed in public?” The answer was so obviously ‘yes’ that I was amazed that the results of their poll [...]

Vale Randy Pausch

To add to the mixed news in today’s blog entries, we have to pass on news of the sad if inevitable death of Dr. Randy Pausch.
Some of you may remember Dr Pausch who made headlines a while back when, suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer, he made a life affirming lecture on September 18, 2007 called [...]

Angela vs Wendy

You want a discussion about diaphragms… or Brazilian waxing… or big cars… or plastic surgery…  or… ?? Well now’s your chance.
For those of you have listened to me ramble on incessantly about Angela Catterns (and occasionally Wendy Harmer) now is your chance to listen to those honeyed tones and find out why her voice is [...]

Death is never good news.

Last week we heard news of a man who was towing a boat in his car and for some reason swerved across three lanes of traffic into water. Onlookers, watched helplessly as the car slowly submerged as the guy frantically and unsuccessfully tried to escape from the car as it filled with water.
A policeman bravely [...]

Fording Jeremy Clarkson.

As you can tell from the paucity of posts recently, nothing much of note has happened in ‘the news’ for me to write about. Ok, I’ve had a bad case of flu but that really doesn’t excuse the lack of ’something to write about’ out there. And what there *is* isn’t worth commenting on because [...]

More Fings…. etc.

I was again having a ponder about how life has changed over the years when I began considering how much the mobile phone has become an integral part of life for many… if not most… of us.
Twenty years ago the wife and I lived in Central London, however she worked in Croydon which for those [...]

Vale Jo Stafford

Heard about the death of Jo Stafford at age 90 on July 16th while I was ‘off sick’ so wasn’t able to write about her at the time. However last night I was listening to a radio interview she had with an Australian DJ (Bob Rodgers) from 9 years ago or so and thought I’d [...]

Fings ain’t wot they used to be!

The old song by Joe Brown and the Bruvvers from lord knows when came to mind this afternoon when I downloaded and installed a new media player for my laptop. As part of it’s installation routine it went off and rummaged through the hard disk to unearth anything it thought I might like to play.
One [...]

Mr Technology puts the hammer down!!

I decided over the past few weeks I needed to upgrade the security of my home wireless network because it was on a relatively weak WEP system with a 10 digit password.
For reasons anyone with a little knowledge would accept, I chose the WPA and… to be safe… chose a 40 character alphanumeric password. Wonderful.
I [...]

Samsung Omnia (i900) update

Seen a price for an imported 16Gb version of the Samsung Omnia i900 which comes in at around AU$1018.28 which seems to me to be a pretty good price… especially bearing in mind my having bought the iMate JasJam for a similar price 3 years or so ago.
I’m not buying it at this price though. [...]

Hello world!

Well hello again. I’ve managed to crawl out of bed and am all bar ready to return to the blogshere to throw my opinions into the melting pot. Sorry for the self-indulgence of the past weeks, when I have flu I’m a pain to all around me so abandoning the blog for a few days [...]

Bought an iPhone - seen better?

So let’s see. Who got sucked into the hype and like a million others went out and bought an iPhone? Oops… you did?
Well, if you *did* rush out and buy one I doubt you’ll be too happy reading the rest of this article.
To be honest I was considering rushing out with the rest of the [...]

Bendi Bindi Back!

The miniscule Wildlife Warrior and merchandising machine known as Bindi Irwin will be ten years old in a few days (July 24th). The development of her fan base in the wake of father Steve’s death has launched her into ’superstar’ status. In fact, her fame has grown to the extent that the ‘Bindi Irwin’ name [...]

On the mend?

Well yes, I’m ’sort of’ on the mend. I can’t say I feel as bad as I did, but I’m still ‘out of it. I’ll take a few extra days off and try to make sure I’m back properly. No point trying to force things after all.
I’ve done very little posting in the forums. Hardly [...]

Sick as a Dog

Sorry to report that I’m still suffering with the flu I didn’t mention I had.
I came down with the Australian version of the lurgy a couple of weeks ago and I’ve gone steadily downhill since. Strangely even before it arrived I knew it was on the way.
Over the many years of my life I’ve discovered [...]

Life in the Kennel.

Please accept my apologies for not updating the blog as regularly as usual. The kids are home for what would be known as half term in the UK, but end of term in Oz, and so I’m a bit ‘pushed’ for time! In addition I decided now was a good time to start spring-cleaning and [...]

How’s your quality of life?

We’re quite remarkably well off by most standards. The wife earns a bucket of money, which of course we spend and enjoy pretty much, however the actual ‘quality of life’ issue still raises it’s head now and then.
In order for the wife to earn this small fortune she has to leave the house at 6:00 [...]

Angela’s Army

Had a nice email from Angela Catterns the other day in response to a ‘welcome back’ message I sent via her website. Today is her final day sitting in for Richard Feidler in his ‘Conversation Hour’ on ABC Local Radio 702 and I was prepared to say ‘bye’ for now. I’d even dug out this [...]

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