Overheard on the Triple J breakfast show this morning. The presenter Adam Spencer was interviewing Shannon from Cockatoo, Victoria, their eleven year old punk "correspondent" <Adam>Have you got a pet? <Shannon> We’ve got five chooks, a dog and a cat <Adam> Which one is the most punk? <Shannon> Er, the cat <Adam> The cat, and …
Category Archives: General Musings
Alternative Blog
Nothing to see here today, all of the action is over at Andrew Channels Dexter Pinion. [ mental note, time to change the name of my alternative blog ]. Suffice it to say that I am now an xhtml and cascading style sheet guru. Go on, ask me anything. If you are really lucky I …
Phrases I Hate
… and that you should never use in my presence. Number 1 – "Going Forward" Number 2 – "Touch Base"
Evangelise this
Oh good, we are now going to be evangelised to via email.
My own dilemma
Can not resist IQ test. My score was 121, which means I only got 58 out of 70 questions correct. There go my dreams of joining Mensa.
Dedication
We went to lunch with some friends yesterday. The gentleman of the couple (we will call him "Chris" to conceal his real identity) is a definite gadget bloke. He has classified his seventeen gigabyte MP3 collection in every way imaginable. He has catalogued it in a database. Admittedly it is only Microsoft Access, but its …
Hot Off the Presses
This is what I do in my spare time; PythonCard release 0.6.6 Announcement PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform desktop applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Release 0.6.6 includes 30 sample applications, new additions include a source code editor and a sample for creating flat file databases. This release also …
Philosophy
Courtesy of Stavros the Wonder Chicken and Accordion Guy I tried out Battleground God. Here are my results; Congratulations! You have been awarded the TPM medal of distinction! This is our second highest award for outstanding service on the intellectual battleground. The fact that you progressed through this activity being hit only once and biting …
For Uncle Baldy
I would like to introduce you to the delight that is headshaver.org. [from MetaFilter]
Winner
Blimey. I got a phone call yesterday to tell me that I had won a holiday. A seven day, all expenses paid skiing holiday in New Zealand. It came as a bit of a shock, but a very pleasant one. When I bought my digital camera I entered a draw. Well, what do you know, …