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Category Archives: General Musings
Bizarre
You can’t make these up, really. An office wide email was sent around the place where I am working this morning. It said; "Would the person who left a box at reception please come and pick it up" Which was innocous enough. Until the follow up arrived in my in box about five minutes later; …
Progress
We have given the real estate agent notice on the lease of our house. The date of departure was largely determined by the dates of our free holiday. Did I mention that it is free? I did. We are leaving for "The Greatest Country in the World"™ on the 20th of June so we are …
Tautology
Once more the Australian banking system has singly failed to demonstrate its user friendliness and general dedication to customer service. I phoned the "customer care centre" of the Commonwealth Tossers with a simple query. Whilst I am overseas, I said to the badly programmed robot on the other end of the line, I would like …
Bite Me
Now, whilst it is true that I am occasionally grumpy I wouldn’t describe myself as excessively bitter. The reason I say this? I had to think twice about getting an email address from biteme.com. Of course, it could just be that I am a skinflint and don’t want to pay $2.00 (US) a month for …
Oh No, Please Save Me
What is this all about? You move twelve thousand miles and are still forced to watch this steaming pile of garbage. Life is not fair. <edit>The woman who is under the impression she is going to become my wife has just uttered the words "fun" and "Eurovision" in the same sentence. If that isn’t grounds …
New Adventures in Thumb Twiddling
OK. I haven’t been working today, so Bobo will want to know what I have achieved. I have found out that Manly Pool (actually more accurately known as "The Andrew Boy Charlton Swim Centre") is closed from the 21st of June until the 19th of August this year for its annual winter holiday. I hear …
So funny.
So funny.
Its the Internet, silly
This one is really for Mrs Palmer. Courtesy of the lovely people at MeFi and inspired by the generous spirit of Big Brother may I present you with "Which maid of honour is going to be made a goner". I have now started working on the code to implement a similar feature on this web …
Reasons why I choose to live in Australia
Number 4 in an occassional series: According to the Bureau of Meteorology metropolitan forecast for today eighteen degrees celsius is "cool" Would anyone in Blighty like to disagree?