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One of the problems with giving police extreme powers is that on occasion they tend to use them badly. Whilst APEC was on this week, a guy walking across the road in front of a motorcade was arrested in front of his 11 year old son and spent 22 hours in a cell with no … More APEC extremists.
Spent this morning again at the gym. Arrived early with the youngest daughter for her skating lesson at 7:00 a.m. and the wife dragged me off for a brisk walk around the lake having also made me stagger down (and up) a long flight of stairs. The wife wanted to go round a few times … More Here we go again!
Facebook, that ubiquitous networking service, has, in its wisdom, decreed that breastfeeding is immoral!! A letter they sent to this ex-member includes the following Please note, nudity, drug use, or other obscene content is not allowed on the website. Excuse me? Breastfeeding is obscene? Or are they suggesting it constitutes drug use?? Or is it … More Breastfeeding still an issue
Because we’re likely to be inundated with visitors over Xmas, if my eldest daughter in the UK can get her act together in time, we’ve made a start of cleaning up the old ‘computer room… currently the kids play lounge. It’s a pretty big room with space for double bed, 3 piece suite, largish media … More Just searching.
I’d not realised until now that it’s possible to embed video from YouTube into WordPress! For security reasons the developers have always shied away from allowing arbitrary code to be inserted in any of the posts but they seem to have overcome the problem and we can now add movies on an ad hoc basis. … More Here's a new trick!
The death of Luciano Pavarotti at age 71 one is a great loss to the world of music. I was sitting in the car outside the daughters school yesterday waiting to collect them and the 3:00 news came on to let us know he’d died an hour or so before. Pavarotti never really recovered from … More Pavarotti gone.
I’ve been trying to work out with the support guy why despite a software update the WordPress installation showed an earlier version number. Easy once you know why. We moved all the sites to a new server… but until the DNS is changed it still points to the old server… and of course… the old … More Me a silly billy.
Here’s a sight I’d rather not have seen. On the rooftops of Sydney someone waits with gun assembled and ready for use… just in case they get the word to fire on some terrorist suspect or over eager protester. I smudged out the face of the policeman near the gun. I figured he had enough … More The rooftops of Sydney
On and off for years I’ve tried to find a supplier of this lovely little tree. It’s a flowering cherry… a Prunus Ama-no-gawa… which has a distinctly odd columnar shape. I think my father had one in his garden at one time though I can’t be sure just where I first saw them. Either way … More I need a cherry.
As the start of the chaos hits home, it’s good to recall the wife’s comment on my post yesterday. She said I am pleased to report that as my bus wound its weary way through the city to get me home, there was no sign of those ghastly fences. Hence the main purpose of the … More More on APEC
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