Hmmm… no spam protection?

Just realised that without the plugins activated there is nothing protecting the sirte from comment spam arriving by the bucketful. Like it or not I’ll *have* to get on with fixing it all up… or we all know what the result will be… and it won’t be pretty!

Almost an ‘oops’ moment!

So I got an email telling me WordPress 3.0  in all its glory was released and ready for install/upgrade. So obviously… off I went to do it. The upgrade path for WordPress is remarkably simple. You click on ‘Automatic Upgrade’ and follow the screen prompts. All went well up until the last instruction which read [...]

Thinking it over…

On reflection perhaps the problem is actually just the title of the blog. Times have changed and I’m not really sure I *want* to ramble incessantly about ‘the world as I see it’. Perhaps I really should give up on the blog in this format and create a new one based loosely around my life [...]

It’s been a while.

If it isn’t obvious, I got ‘disenchanted’ with blogging a long time ago. I think I just got bored more than anything else, or perhaps I found soemthing else to occupy my mind/time/etc which ever, I just stopped almost a year ago. I came back a few months later to have a look around, but [...]

Anyone still out there… ??

It’s been a long time since I ‘blogged in anger’, months in fact. I’ve spent much of the last few months posting on the sister forum (Australian Opinion) mostly wrecking and rebuilding it. However I miss the old blog site where I can just say whatever the hell I like without having to take into [...]

Down we go…

Billions again wiped off the financial markets. The biggest drop in total sharemarket value in decades. Financial ‘experts’ all round the world perplexed and unsure what’s going on. Sound familiar? Maybe it’s ‘Wall Street 1929′ all over again! It’s nearly time to stock the cupboards, lock the doors and pass the ammo!

Insanity in the UK.

The level of bizarre behaviour of institutions in the UK is getting out of hand. Soon they’ll be on a par with the lunatics in the USA. Current in the list of oddities is the case of two grandparents who were told that they were too old to look after their grandchildren… and were then [...]

So much for that

I must have fallen out of the habit of daily blogging suring the ‘enforced’ break over the holidays. Yesterday for example, the site hardly entered my thoughts except at the beginning of the day when I realised I had no time to cough let alone write. Yet despite having my little netbook at hand all [...]

So close… yet… ?

Just for reference I thought I’d share a photo I sourced from The Australian newspaper showing just how close the fires were to Melbourne itself. You can see the burned out trees from the suburb of Kinglake and in the distance… near distance… the city itself.

Strange – tired again!

Overall I really had a good day yesterday working away until my back started to ache so sat down. There’s still loads to do as always but this morning I feel really exhausted… and this is despite getting back to bed for an hour and a half!! Obviously I’ve no idea why I feel so [...]

Another hot one coming!

Temeratures hereabouts are set to become the highest for a couple of years according to the pundits. They aren’t being ‘exact’ though but suggest we can expect readings in excess of 40ºC this afternoon. Since yesterday afternoon (at 6:30 p.m.) the car thermometer showed 39ºC I think they might be a little off with their ‘records’. [...]

Sympathy

Just dropping by to express my sympathy to John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston on the loss of their son Jett who died recently. I’d also like to express my condolences to the families of those children, numbering now almost 100, who have died as a result of the Israeli bombardment and subsequent invasion [...]

Still on holiday.

Just letting the reguars know all is well here and we’re enjoying the quiet of the holiday season. We’ve not been doing much other than relax but it’s such a novelty to be able to do it we aren’t bored at all. The regular routines will start to kick back in over the next few [...]

Happy Christmas Everyone!

We’d like to wish everyone who drops by a *very* happy Christmas and hope the New Year brings all your heart desires. I’d especially like to thank those dedicated garbage collectors who arrived at 4:00 this morning, for making that extra effort to ensure we were all up early enough to enjoy the whole day [...]

And in the UK?

In the UK while mayhem reigns on the streets those guardians of law and order have slapped a $150 fine on a pensioner because someone knocked a cigarette out of his hand! The ‘someone’ who knocked the cigarette out of the hand of Lazaris Michael (76) was a policeman who tackling a shoplifter. Before Mr Michael [...]

The Magic of Strictly…

New site set up for anyone interested. Not sure if anyone will ever visit it or comment… but it’s there just in case as much as a reminder that despite the doom and gloom pervading the worlds media, people *do* still care about each other! It’s called “The Magic of Strictly” and it’s purpose will [...]

Takes all sorts…

That ancient astronomer Sir Alfred Patrick Caldwell-Moore, aka just Patrick Moore is one of that odd breed of eccentrics Britain seems to throw up from time to time. One of his ‘funnies’ was a 1976 jape when he announced on BBC Radio that at exactly 9:47 a.m. next morning the planet Pluto would pass behind [...]

You have to laugh…

Yet another letter of the ‘Nigerian Scam’ type but it is *so* ridiculous I just had to share it… I might keep the name change tho!! Pasted in exactly as I received it: Dear Compliment of season Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and may offend your personality for [...]

Lucky Australia!

Looks like the skies will be smiling at us tonight. The configuration of Venus and Jupiter along with a crescent moon means we’ll get a smiley face in the heavens tonight!! Europe won;t see it because the moon will have moved position by the time it gets around to them, and the US will miss [...]

Customer Service is out!

I rang Customer Service at one of the local Shopping Malls (Castle Towers). The response was “I’m sorry, Customer Service is out today… please leave a message after the tone”. This conjured up all sorts of images in my mind… most of them bizarre. Still, nice to know that customers are so far down the [...]

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