Summer is on the way!

Interesting day today. The eldest daughter finally had her Black Belt test and seemed to pass well enough to gain her belt – she’ll find out in a few weeks after her holidays. We were a little concerned about her because they were wearing their thick black outfits and the temperatures were steadily rising! When [...]

Lappie blues

Finally fixed the laptop. After some prevarication and testing I decided the wireless card might be faulty so  managed to force myself to get out and buy a new one. This time instead of the Netgear WG511T which worked well for several years, I bought a D-Link DWA-610 ‘Wireless G Notebook Adapter’. Installed it, connected [...]

Vale Paul Newman

Sad to hear of the death of Paul Newman who succumbed to cancer last night. Paul was 83 and apart from his roles as an actor was a recognised humanitarian and all round good guy. At last known figures, his foundation had given away $220 million – mostly earned in profits from sales of his [...]

Girl Guides – Jamboree 2008

Jamboree 2008 is in Tara, near Warragamba Dam and lasts from 27th September to 6th October. They ran from 1966 as ‘musters’ but the name was changed in 2001 to bring NSW into line with the other Guiding groups. They’re held every two years unless there’s an international Jamboree happening and the kids love them! [...]

Wordweb utility – it’s an essential!

This utility is such a ‘must have’ I rarely remember to tell anyone about it! Sounds silly I know but it’s *so* useful, essential even, that I honestly forget that it isn’t a part of the basic operating system! The thing is called ‘WordWeb‘ and it sits quietly in your taskbar until there is a [...]

Events Calendar working!

Heirem finally got the widget working in the sidebar so many thanks to him for his efforts. I’m no coder so have no idea what it was he did… but I’m glad he did it. I’ll populate it as the year progresses. For example, it might be a good idea to add in aniversaries and [...]

Verrrry interesting!

Had an interesting comment this morning from a guy called James who lives in Cardiff. It went into a thread I’d rather wasn’t messed up so I’m going to pass on his sentiments here. James also uses the ID ‘welshdog’ and has an address at hotmail.com, but that particular version of the name isn’t mine! [...]

Events Calendar

We’ve spent a little while trying to set up a new ‘plug in’ which is an Events Calendar. The idea is that impostant dates, like anniversaries or forthcoming items of interest will be flagged. It’s supposed to have a widget over in the right sidebar but as yet I can’t make it function. Still working [...]

Have they gone yet?

Was clearing out some of the old posts the other day and found a few from the time we had that spat with the poison dwarf and her familiar. After some digging around I discovered I *was* able to publish them again… but with a ‘private’ tag which effectively stops outsiders from viewing them. So… [...]

16 Days in Beijing

Well… it’s only 1433 days to the next Olympics and if the cringe factor is anything to go by then they’re in with a chance of pulling off something special. I remember well the way our mouths fell over with total embarrassment when the Sydney ‘exhibition’ athletes came riding into the stadium at Nagano on [...]

I updated a page…

I’m ‘Welsh Dog’ and I live here. Actually not so far off the truth, I *do* spend a lot of time here messing about so if you drop a comment in you’ll likely get a response pretty damn soon! If you accompany the comment with the offer of a free beer or three the response [...]

Chaaaarrgge…. !!

Was it just a few short weeks ago that I was standing in the local Dick Smith’s shop (electronic stuff) holding in my hand a battery charger? Was it only a few short weeks ago I put it back on the shelf because it was too expensive… and anyway I’ll never nee one will I?? [...]

The Soap Opera continues…

I’m not sure if I’m following the soap opera properly. Can you give this synopsis a run through and see if I’ve missed anything out?? I suppose the opening act in this ‘comedy of errors’ would have to be the collapse of the Liberal Party at the last General Election, and expulsion of John Howard [...]

Railroaded again?

No sooner had the new State Premier of NSW emerge from the debacle of his predecessors ignominious departure, but he immediately put his foot back in it with his attitude towards the pet project of the voters of North West Sydney where, coincidentally, I happen to live. Some background might help here, not about the chaos [...]

Life changing experiences

Most of the media commemorations of the 9/11 attack on New York were written and published yesterday… ours memory is slightly different so waits until today to write. It was seven years ago this morning that I switched on the television. The wife was on a business trip and I never sleep well when she’s [...]

Now is the time to say goodbye…

Long ago in a far distant time, in the 1960′s I think, long before Dudley Moore had become Dudley Moore… or died of course… there was the brilliantly dangerous show “Not only but Also” starring Pete and Dud. They’ve little to do with this post other than contributing the subject line and the immortal words [...]

How’re you going to enforce that?

A court in New Zealand has reportedly banned any reporting of a case on the internet. I’m not entirely sure why, but I think he wants to stop people being able to research the information before the case comes to trial! What *I’m* wondering is how exactly the court intends enforcing the decision in jurisdictions [...]

‘Twas Fathers Day yesterday!

Yes, yet another Hallmark Day has come and gone and I’m here to tell the tale! The kids outdid themselves… in some ways. In others, well same old same old. The eldest daughter bought me a clock… much as she did last year! Perhaps she thinks I have some sort of fetish? It’s a nice [...]

Two years ago…

It was two years ago that Steve Irwin (The Crocodile Hunter) was killed by a sting ray and started the rise to fame of little Bindi. Since then the Irwin family has been in the news here on and off… admittedly more on… with various issues, problems, and triumphs. For months we’ve carried a link [...]

Still here… somewhere.

Was looking today at the new Chrome Browser by Google and I have to admit to being *really* impressed!! The screen ‘real estate’ is being used to far greater advantage now I’ve lost those controls I only ever used once in a blue moon, and those additional search boxes that cluttered the place. This browser [...]