Moving right along…

Well ‘moving right along’ is what we wish we *could* do but the New South Wales government has turned its back on hundreds of thousands of people encouraged to move to North Western Sydney on the promises or increased and improved infrastructure… including a rail link to carry people from the areas they live, into [...]

In the news…

These are a few of the headlines I’ve found ‘of interest’ but haven’t had time to write about. You might notice that a lot have been gleaned from the online Site of the Daily Mail. I find it hard to believe this right wing rag could be producing so much ’social comment’ but there it [...]

Shouldn’t humour be funny?

For the past few days I, along with vast numbers of people in the English speaking world have been utterly bemused, mesmerised perhaps, by the recent ‘goings on’ at the BBC involving the much loved 78 year old veteran Actor, Andrew Sachs… perhaps more popularly known and loved as the inept, bumbling waiter in the [...]

Hello… Ian?

Yes it’s that time again when an ancient pagan sacrificial ritual is again resurrected, morphed into a quasi-Christian ‘festival’… only to be morphed once more by children into an excuse to get free goodies!!
Indeed… Halloween is once more upon us.
As a ‘festival’ it means little in the UK outside the religious significance, as far as [...]

Something’s bugging me!

Out in the garden last summer the air was green with these little bugs. They are around a centimetre long at their largest and seemed to be congregating from choice over the orange tree.
Clearly odd little sap sucking leaf hoppers of some sort but my dilemma is what to do with them? If I leave [...]

So I was born in 1947… yes?

I was reading some of the interesting clippings from UK papers that my father sends me, and one of note was the dreadful winter of 1947… the year I was born.
Naturally I remarked to the wife that you’d think I’d remember something that dire even at such a young age.
Being the mathematician she is, she [...]

Dog days.

The Dog’s birthday on Monday last – I turned the corner to see “61 years old” on the calendar! Bearing in mind I expected to be dead by age 30 this could be worse… could also be better I suppose. Kids bought me a couple of interesting gifts. Eldest bought me a copy of “Marley [...]

We seem to be back!

After an extended absense during which a large portion of the house was cleared of accumulated junk… as per pervious messages… I think it’s safe to come back.
Loads has happened in the world that’s worthy of comment but I don’t think I’ll be covering much of it, there’s been enough said as it is. [...]

Yet more apologies for the absence.

As I pointed out a few posts ago, over the years the I’ve accumulated masses of computer gear, and being a bit of a magpie (not to mention being quite poor for large chunks of my life), I find it hard to throw anything away… just in case it might come in handy.
We’re a little [...]

Caved in – bought a HTC Diamond.

After months of waiting and searching around I decided in the end the Samsung Omnia wasn’t go to arrive in Oz anytime soon. Besides which there were a few issues that were concerning me about it which left me balancing between choosing it, or the new HTC Diamond as my replacement PDA.
In the end Telstra [...]

Spring into cleaning!

A couple of months ago I decided it was about time I took our house ‘in hand’. I’ve done next to no real maintenance in years and my growing collection of the bloody useless has slowly mounted up until I couldn’t see the floor for the mess! Since it’s Spring over here I figured this [...]

Don’t mention the air-conditioning!

As you may recall I’ve been wittering on periodically about the breakdown of all our aircon machinery in both car and house.
You might also recall that I took the car to the service station to be sorted out and was told the system simply needed re-gassing to ‘fix’ it, and also had arranged for a [...]

I’ve been converted!

A short while ago I bought myself an external SATA HDD Docking station and a couple of SATA disks to allow me to put my money where my mouth has been all these years and finally back up my computers the way I nag everyone else to!
One thing that occurred to me after receiving it [...]

Go Logistics – just *go*!

I mentioned that on Friday small parcel we were expecting had done it’s part to uphold the credibility of “The Jinx” and arrived whilst we were away and therefore was returned to the depot by the delivery guycompany. The result was that instead of a 24 hour turnaround, we had to wait until today (4 [...]

The perils of daylight saving.

Daylight saving started here yesterday… and ended in the UK (or is it the other way around?) anyway the clocks went forward by one hour. Went forwards everywhere… except that is, at our house.
Normally I’m up coughing with the sparrows resetting all the timepieces around the house to the correct time which as you will [...]

I should so lucky.

The converter was despatched this morning. This afternoon we went shopping. When we got back – there was a note saying they’d tried to deliver the thing! Agghh… !!!
By then it was 5:30 p.m. and they are closed over the weekend… and of course on Monday which is a public holiday… and there would be [...]

More on the weather.

I mentioned a few days ago that both the air conditioning in the house, and in the car had failed. I took the car in to be repaired this morning and left the house at 7:30 a.m. I looked at the temperature gauge and it told me it was already 27ºC. By the time I [...]

One step forwards…

Wrote this up on the ‘Family Forum’ but figured it deserved to be out here as well. Nothing important really, just an update on the development of our technological setup here at home.
It’s all down to me having discovered a few weeks ago a small utility that allows me to backup all my data online. [...]