How would you describe your style? Do you have a style at all? Just about every style of dress you can think of is described here. I’m sure there’s a description for people who wear big yellow shorts in there somewhere (via readingrobot). Lately you could be mistaken for thinking I was beamed in from the 70’s. Dimmeys in Richmond has had loads of corduroy clothing for sale…cheap. If my dress sense makes a fashion statement, that statement would be “I don’t care if they’re crappy, they were only $9.95.”
Monthly Archive for July, 2003
Last weekend I changed my email address to avoid spam. It’s my own fault. In the early days of having the domain name I put my email address in the comments section of many blogs, thus my address was harvested by the evil bot empire. Changing my main email alias has gotten rid of that problem. The ultimate way to get rid of a spam problem is to do what this Russian Parliamentary Member did. It’s one very effective way of letting people know you don’t want their unsolicited email (via light from an empty fridge)
Webcam images don’t do justice to the objects they film. People look pasty and white, parks look yellow instead of green – but this webcam image of Melbourne today tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
For those of you interested in downloading fonts, here’s some olde worlde computer game fonts.
Nuerofeedback could be the way of the future as far as musicians are concerned. OK, fair enough.
Another article explaining how innovative blogs are…hasn’t there been enough of them already?. (Boston Globe)
If you’re a hairy bastard like me you’ll want to know how to shave your face for less money. Name branded razors are very expensive, but this fella has given me a good excuse to go for cheap razors. Make sure you scroll down to Step 7, the “action figure razor holder.”
The above links are just what you all needed to know. You’ll be happier for it. You know you will. Yes, blogs are a powerful medium aren’t they?
Could the rumours be true? The Pixies are contemplating a reunion? Or is Frank just beating up publicity for his upcoming world tour (which includes Australia).
I thought I was slack at getting web pages up online. Check out soonish.com.
Tamesapien dot com has been going since April 2001 and I still haven’t got past this blog. Most of the other links are incomplete, neglected and very poorly laid out. I have started scanning loads of pictures and standardising their size using an ancient version of Photoshop. Thus, by the end of this year there should a ripper of a gallery section for everybody to see. It’s hard to find the time to do all the work you see, as I don’t work in front of a computer all day and don’t get the chance to do little bits of design work here and there.
AOL are going to start offering blogging software to their customers. Here is a story about it from the BBC website. My favourite quote in the article is, “Instead of calling them blogs, however, it will call them AOL Journals, partly because a survey revealed that many users found the word “blog” confusing.” Huh?
One of the first blogs I ever read, notsosoft, has shut down. The author has started up a new site, meish.org.
I have thought about doing that recently. I have thought about just not paying my host and letting this whole thing disappear. But I like pissing around with the web. And anyway, if I get another domain and start afresh I’ll be alienating all 10 of my readers. Bugger that! I’ve learnt so much so far. 3 years ago I would’ve laughed my guts out if someone said it was possible for me to design a page using CSS.
Around 140km to the north-east of me there is a dam that was built in 1952 that is drying out. The water level is so low at Lake Eildon that ghosts of the past are returning to the open air after years of sitting under many metres of water (from ABC’s Landline). Old road bridges, houses, bottles, beds, tables, farm machinery etc. are sitting around looking as if they were abandoned yesterday.
If there’s any other bloggers out there who use Moveable Type and are having random bursts of comment spam lodged onto old posts, I’d like to hear from you.
From what I can gather, this post on the MT support log gives as much detail into solving the problem as is possible.
Much has been said of chemical/biological/nuclear weapons and Iraq over the last few weeks. Take a few minutes to read what John Howard actually said just days before the start of Operation Dust ‘n Dollars.
Rural broadband problems. Not in Australia, in Britain. Does this sound familiar? England is a small place and has a fully privatised BIG telco. BT. What hope do Australian rural areas have of joining in on the information age if Telstra is fully sold off?
Yeah, whatever. It’s Wednesday night and I’m over the hump. Only 16 hours of work to go before the weekend. The end is in sight for another week. Mmm what to do. I think I’ll be exploring my next holiday destination…Chile. Yep, late next year it’s Santiago and surrounds. Either that or Lakes Entrance.
A tug a day keeps the doctor away. I’ll be OK later in life by the looks of this story.
Phil Cleary has decided to use LaTrobe University’s servers to promote his new talkback program on 3AK. I remember emailing him a long time ago (2 years is a long time for me) giving him some feedback about the VFL and how they wanted to introduce a Tasmanian side. They did, and he kept my email address so he could send me some unsolicited email.
Dear Friend
You might have spotted a piece in the Green Guide and the Herald Sun indicating that I’ve recently taken over as presenter of the Morning program on Radio 3AK – 11 16 on the AM band.
The program runs from 8.30 am to 12 midday and we take talk back.
The talk back line is 1300 72 11 16.
I’d like to think I could make this an alternative to Neil Mitchell (3AW) and Jon Faine (ABC). I’d be delighted to have you listen in.
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve spoken with Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock, Opposition Shadow Treasurer Mark Latham and a host of other federal and state politicians, the Anti-Discimination Commissioner Pru Goward, Senator Natasha Stott Despoja and many other people from all walks of life.
I’m always looking for good stories. If you have any, please pass them on.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours truly,
Phil Cleary
0418 xxx xxx
Somehow I don’t think it was spam in the truest sense becuase Phil sent me his personal mobile number in the email as well. Woops! I might tune in tomorrow morning and double 3AK’s ratings anyway. That or leave him 63 talkback style “Hi I’m Mavis from Preston and my rubbish hasn’t been collected this week can you help me” messages tonight from the payphone around the corner. I’ll forgive him this time, only because I like the way he calls the VFL games on Saturday afternoons on ABC television in Victoria. Other than that, I hate spam.
Request a Rant™ is happening this week over on Channel VM. When he rants the earth trembles…watch out world.
Simon Crean was almost history at lunchtime today. He opened the door of his car on Collins Street today and I nearly knocked it off with my van. If I did hit the door I think I would’ve solved Simon’s bad poll ratings for good. C’mon punters, when I’m going down the road just watch when you open the door – everyone knows that white vans don’t swerve to avoid idiots. That means YOU Simon!
Apart from nearly destroying the hopes and dreams of Australia’s Labor Party faithfull (I could be included in that…not sure just yet) today was an outstandingly uneventful day. My beloved Richmond have had their season snuffed out for good…again, and suddenly it looks as though I’m going to have an extra 4 hours per week to do other things each weekend in place of yelling at the television or getting cold light beer spilt on me in the outer. I don’t mind getting beer spilt on me at the footy, just as long as it’s proper beer, not that light stuff. The tram ride home isn’t any fun if the beer wrung out of my jumper into a cup is of the low-alcohol kind. Ahem…
Philip Morris have invented another parent company to conceal their identity. They now have one of those snazzy new iNames…Altria. Vegemite seems even yuckier when you know it’s made by a company called Altria. Actually, no, that name creates a feeling of comfort. It sounds like one of those planets in the Star Trek series. You know, like the planet where Spock smelt the flowers and turned into a hippy.
Does anyone want to remember this? Thought not. (thm 19 Feb 2002)
The Chinese know how to do things BIG. The first of 26 hydro-electric generators has fired up on the Three Gorges Dam. When the dam is producing power at full capacity, it will produce ½ as much electricity as the whole of Australia does. From one dam! One damn big dam! The only problem is that they have 1.2 billion people and we have 20 million. Sorry to bore you but I have a fascination with big engineering projects. It’s probably not healthy y’know.
As well as a fascination with the above stuff I have a fascination with maps. I just HAVE to have a map of wherever I am or will be. For example, last Christmas I visited Sydney for the first time and didn’t get lost once. I spent about 20 lunchhours in bookshops studying the Sydney UBD just so I could find Darlinghurst Road from any point in greater Sydney. I was disappointed when I got there too. It wasn’t half as seedy as I imagined it to be. In my eyes, the judge of a good city is how dodgy it’s dodgy parts are. Anyway, this bloke has taken his love of maps to the next level and has caused a little trouble. Sean Gorman has mapped the entire communications infrastructure network of the USA. A quote from the Washington Post article says – Invariably, he said, they suggest his work be classified. “Classify my dissertation? Crap. Does this mean I have to redo my PhD?” he said. “They’re worried about national security. I’m worried about getting my degree.” For academics, there always has been the imperative to publish or perish. In Gorman’s case, there’s a new concern: publish and perish.
This morning I had a shower and then a shave and was disgusted at what I saw in the mirror at waist level. A penis! The shock, the horror. I think I’m going to have to send the Office of Film and Literature Classification – (OFLC) an email so they can consider the banning of mirrors. I’m sure mirrors won’t fall outside their jurisdiction, after all they screen computer games for nastiness even though that’s not mentioned in their official title. Maybe they should change their name to the Office of Film, Literature and Computer Game Classification – (OFLCGC) or alternatively Office of Regulation of Grossly Affronting and Sinful Material (ORGASM). I just don’t want to be exposed to such a sight in my bathroom mirror ever again. Terrible.
Funnily enough I recently watched Romance on World Movies (Australian cable tv channel) last week and found it to be a very interesting film. It was banned from being screened at Australian cinemas in January 2000. I don’t know if World Movies showed an edited version but it definitely wasn’t worthy of being banned.
John Howard is at it again in his blog. “I’m so over Telstra. I wish we could just sell the bugger, already. Don’t the losers in the bush get it? If we actually wanted to hear anything they have to say, then we’d give them decent phone and internet services.”
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