Warnings today from Treasurer Peter Costello that the drought that’s devastating large areas of Australia is set to worsen this year bringing with it further deterioration in the earning power of our farmers. In fact he is predicting that without rain soon Australian farming is set to enter a severe recession. Coupled with this is … More Drought kills in many ways

Yet more on Bindi Irwin. Following on from my concern that the Awards night exposure might have been a bit much comes news she’s going to do a major show on ABC telling us all how she feels about her life without her father. This is *way* over the top… I think there’ll be a … More Bindi Irwin again – No I'm *not* obsessed!

Black groups are up in arms because Angelina Jolie has been chosen to play the part of Daniel Pearls wife, Mariane. Their complaint is that Marianne is ‘mixed race’ and Angelina is white. Well lets see now. For starters Mariane is not complaining at all and is quite pleased Angelina is playing her. Secondly… she … More Jolie Green Giant

Oh ma gawd… it looks like it’s gonna be a bad year. Already just a few k’s from us a couple of houses went up in smoke… drove past them today when picking up one of the eldest daughters friends… too close to them for comfort.. and not that far from us really. Now I … More I hate bushfire season.

The wife had a mammogram the other week and she sent me off to pick her results in advance of a weekend visit to the doctors… so off I went. I meandered around Westmead Hospital visiting around 10 departments before I rang the wife to find out exactly where it was she’d gone. She reminded … More What a morning!

So, up to three quarters of a million Iraqis have died since the Americans invaded their country in 2003. Since the idea was to liberate them… one can only imagine the joy with which they met their deaths. The US military is of course disputing the figures, because they include ‘natural deaths and deaths from … More Death is freedom…

Beginning to wonder if Bindi Irwin is being given too much expoisure by her family. Yesterday she went to the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards 2006 to present the top award. The gig was planned by her father as a treat for her to “meet the stars” and the family decided she should go despite Steve’s … More Handi, Bindi… tacky?

It doesn’t pay to be a homeless man in Brisbane… nor does it pay to to defend yourself when six… that’s *six*… policemen hold you down knee and kick you… even if you’re 65!! This is what happened to Bruce Rowe last Sunday at a shopping mall in Brisbane. The police claimed he was treated … More Homeless in Brisbane

Just downloaded and Installed Open Office from http://www.openoffice.org, where else 🙂 Never used it before… well not since it developed into something useful anyway… and so far it’s looking good. It seems to be able to open close and manipulate Microsoft Office 2003 files so it’ll do me for now. One the best things about … More Open Office – nice style

There’s something wrong with advertisers in Oz. The adverts they put out are dire. We have rehashed ads from other countries and nothing to do with Oz at all. The worst I’ve seen lately are for Nutrigrain which has some neanderthal eating cereal like a pig… for Nesquick (I think) that is *so* badly dubbed … More TV Adverts… god they're awful.