Archive for February, 2005
Blog people.
It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote. Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs. In that case, their rejection of my view is quite understandable.
Upgrade.
Well, Wordpress 1.5 is pretty good. A few improvements have been made, especially the way WP deals with comment spam. Small improvements, but better than a kick up the cakehole.
For those of you thinking about using it or upgrading from 1.2, the Template system is complicated (for numbnuts like me anyway) but can be figured out pretty easily by using the Wordpress Codex. Sitting down looking at php tags isn’t the most constructive way to spend a Saturday but at least I’ve got the cricket to listen to on the radio.
Upgrading stuff is fun isn’t it? I upgraded my mobile phone after I ran over my last one. My new phone has a digital compass on it. While reading the 96 page booklet that came with the phone, I noticed it stated that using the compass drains the battery very quickly. Fucking great! So if I get lost in the bush for 10 days I have to take the charger with me. If it wasn’t for the fact that I need a mobile to make a living, I’d be a much happier man without the prick of a thing.
As far as consumer electronics goes my life has a great potential for ‘upgradation’. While just about everyone I know has gone on a spending spree over the last 4 years, I’ve managed to limit my spening to a CD/MP3 player (which is stuffed), a cheap PC and a mobile phone. The fridge is rooted, but it keeps the food and beer cold. The washing machine requires constant assistance when doing its job, but it washes the grundies. The jug and toaster are entering their teenage years, the video is going to high school next year and the tv, well, it is so old it has now developed artificial intelligence. Whenever something decent is on the box it decides to pack up and go to lunch. Robbers must hate people like myself and my wife.
Plumbers.
The best bumper sticker I’ve seen for a while…
Watch and learn.
The television news is getting very hard to watch as I’m turning into an even more cynical bastard than I already was. I really should go and buy one of those foam rubber bricks to throw at the tele each night from 7-8pm. Y’see, I gave up on commercial television news about 8 months ago because it is shite. Now I watch the ABC from 7-8pm while in the midst of a feeding frenzy. Kerry’s good value. His ears do distract me but I like him. He goes for the jugular a little more than other current affairs hosts. 9 might as well have Richard Wilkins hosting ‘A Current Affair’ and 7 should just shut up shop and save their shareholders’ money. Either that or exist solely to replay old episodes of the Tellytubbies. Anyway, now I’ve been banned from watching all news broadcasts by my wife because last night I said the ‘c’ word 21 times during one current affairs interview (so I’m told…I certainly didn’t count, I was on a roll…unstoppable).
It was Ruddock’s fault (7.30 report last night). He just makes me shiver. That face. That snarled lip. That unmistakable, slowly spoken, cold-as-ice voice. Oeerrr. He’s Monte Burns to a tee. I bet he even has an assistant that looks like Smithers.
Day in pictures.
22 year old graffiti on the Merri Parade train overpass.
Outside a gallery of Australian painting the graffiti reads, “bushrangers need bush.” Rathdowne Street, Carlton.
Crowds takeover a parking station in order to get a glimpse of Chinese New Year celebrations.
A Chinese dragon.
Chinatown looking very busy.
A holy looking George W.
Behind Chinatown in the laneways.
A typical Melbourne doorway.
Keep your distance.
Next time you travel, whether it’s to work or to shop for your food, have a look around you. At the signs. Signage. There’s signs for petrol prices and big furniture warehouses. Billboards selling cars and insurance to match. On highways there’s signage telling us how far it is until we reach the next fast food stop and billboards reminding us of which brand of cola suits us best. Bus stops tell us how to get rid of back pain, train stations how to maintain erections and tram stops (Melbourne-centric) tell us which mobile phone company to utilise. (more…)
Nudge.
How does this more thing work? (more…)
The house of cards.
Australia now has its own deck of cards.
Funnily enough, this was taken on the side wall of a house in Doon St. Prahran. I thought the Prahranese were to busy drinking expensive coffee to indulge in political graffiti campaigns. Oh well, there must be some thinkers left down there. And that’s good!
Search requests - because I have nothing more to say.
So amusing/bizzare are some of the search requests that land on this blog, I just had to post some here (leaving out the worst ones - I don’t want to attract any more bored sex fiends). Some of the best:
startup hunting and fishing company - Easy. Buy a gun and a fishing rod.
inventions to stop wheelie bins blowing over - Bricks???
health and safety risk assesment for kfc - Well it ain’t safe for chickens, I know that much.
big pictures of tower of pizza - Has Pisa been renamed?
Some of the others:
a funny horse that s sings
aerobics naughty gallery
aerobics oz style
aerobics oz style masturbate
anton enis sbs newsreader
arthur fonzarelli pics
articles on taxation system of indian states
asian supermarket brisbane
axl rose
bat fuckers
boning room colac
boonie for pm
brussell sprouts history
cheap rooms collingwood
condoleeza rice lies
dunlop volley shoes
fishing the mouth of mulwala canal
footscray
funny after taste in mouth
funny conversation icebreaker
galahs
german athletes
gnome chompsky
golfball customs tariff number
grab em by the goolies
home reposession services
homemade-aquarium
horse pictures poo
horse racing commentators in australia
horse riding melbourne per hour
hottest day in australia
how horses got their mouth
how tall is eddie mcguire
i am so strong
i hate liberals t shirts
i hate real estate agents
julie anthony afl grand final pictures
juno roxus
kerry o keefe book
kerry o keefe quotes
kfc kuwait
malaysia cereal popularity
male pubic hair design
mary kostakidis fan mail
melbourne shithole
my house keeps making a sqeaking noise
noiseworks
noiseworks tsunami
photo taken of escalators at myer melbourne
pics of pistachio nuts
picture of yellow shorts
pictures brazilian pubic hair styles
pictures of deaf people or pictures of sign language stuff
pictures of homemade generators
pictures of homemade water generators
pictures of the horse meat on the news
piecost
plastic tubing for chairs plastic tubing for chairs
profiterole pile
road bridges for sale
seventies hair styles
sharehousing london
sid vicious stencil
slurpee machine for sale
tism - he ll never be an ol man river download
tofu woolworths australia
tounge fetish
tourette syndrome barbie
truck sqeaking
upstairs leaking toilet
vb s shout
wedding jitters
what is the coolest backpack?
what is the meaning of brainiac
when summertime starts in uk
whipper snipper problems
womens armpits
They don’t make ‘em like they used to.
Most technology has a purpose, and a fairly useful purpose at that. Mobile phones have become more of a fashion item rather than a useful communication device. Particularly for under 20s, who you are is reflected by your phone model, phone colour and ringtone. Well I just want my mobile to let people tell me what they want and when they want it. Running a small service sector business is so much easier with a mobile phone. I don’t know how anyone coped 15 years ago, but they did.
This is my phone, my beautiful Nokia 5100.
I ran over it in my van the other day 15 months into my 24 month contract with Optus. It wasn’t working well anyway, but that’s no excuse to run over it I suppose. It just fell out my pocket and I didn’t realise until there was a crunch under my front wheel.
So if anyone has a good second hand phone with the ability to store names and addresses for a reasonable price, send me an email. My email address is in the left hand column somewhere.