For the first time on this blog, here is a quote of the day; Phillip Lopate. “The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and ‘have fun’.” …
Category Archives: General Musings
I love my job
I may have mentioned here before how much I love my job, but for those with short memories – its great. So great in fact that a colleague and I have today started an e-mail phrase contest. Its quite simple really, all you have to do to win a point is include a selected phrase …
Commodore 64
Mum, get my old Commodore 64 out of the loft. Apparently I can press it into service as a web server. Don’t believe me? Have a look here. Every time I stumble across one of these web sites (usually via the lovely people at Metafilter) it brightens my day. It reminds me that there are …
Another productive day
Another productive day at work. All I’ve managed to achieve is to transfer some pictures from my new camera to my laptop, copy them to my web server and include one of them in this post. Here you see a picture of my beloved fiance doing what she does best, reclining on the sofa with …
Digital Camera
Today I went out and bought a digital camera. Well, to be precise I purchased a Canon Digital IXUS V from the lovely people at Paxtons. I got a digital camera so that I could take lots of quick photos and easily post them on the web, either here, or at my other site. We …
For my beloved.
An entry for my beloved. You can now play your favourite computer game on line. Courtesy of the lovely people at Flash Arcade (and one of my hard working colleagues), here is Bubble Trouble.
School Announcements
At the moment I drive to work. On my journey I pass a public school. I’m not sure of the terms here in Australia but it would be called a junior school in the UK. The children they teach range (I guess) from 5 to about 12 (when they go to high school). I quite …
One more thing whilst I
One more thing whilst I am here. I promised two weeks ago to update my style sheets to make this web site slightly easier on the eye. I’ve reviewed my HTML and CSS and, surprisingly, it is a bigger job than I thought. The result is that I will need to perform at least the …
Its the end of summer
Its the end of summer and it is raining. This caused my tennis game to be cut short last night. Which was not nice. Even after nearly six years in Sydney I still have trouble remembering that Summer is actually the rainy season. Roll on Autumn – which either begins tomorrow or around the 21st …
Every Tuesday morning on the
Every Tuesday morning on the Triple J breakfast show Adam and Will invite the lovely boys from Tripod to compose and perform a song in under an hour. Today’s subject was the potential meeting of Bill Clinton and H.M the Queen who are both going to be in Australia this week. Their work was an …