Fairfax newspapers have decreed that the era of the ‘broadsheet’ newspaper is over. Soon all the remaining broadsheets will be converted to tabloid format… or be closed down. Personally I far and away prefer to broadsheet format to tabloid. That extra area of newsprint is so much better for presentation of serious news. Ok there … More It approaches… the end of the SMH as we know it!!

Caught a promo for some modelling show on Foxtel the earlier tonight and up popped some reference to “the famous Janice Dickenson”. I had the idea she was one of these people famous in their own minds and nowhere else. Then I looked her up on google images… and discovered I was right.,, more or … More Janice who?

For some reason unknown to me, our kids school has chosen today as the return after the Easter break. It isn’t a general thing. Some schools returned Monday, others Tuesday… ours on Thursday. So they are there today and tomorrow… and then it’s the weekend. Hardly seems worth it really! The eldest is excited either … More Back to school – just.

I was discussing with my father the Laurence Binyon stanza used repeatedly at memorials for the fallen service personell of whatever war or conflict they fought and or died in. I used the stanza in its exact format and spelling, i.e. : They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age … More Contemn? Damn right!

We’ve had an epiphany… or something. Either way we now have a clear, clean boring, uninteresting… oops… err… very readable typeface and layout. I hope this will reduce the whinges about the look and feel of the place. Well it might do until I can find some other wacky way out theme to install 🙂 … More From the sublime to the ridiculous.

Reading the Phantom’s comment on ‘Soup Glorious Soup’ reminded me of one of my pet peeves. Something I rant on about constantly is sloppy grammar in speech. And of all the culprits, the ones that *really* set me off are news reports that make no sense. Typically of course, right at this moment I can’t … More There are times I'm a pedantic bastard.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. Laurence Binyon – For The Fallen (1914)

The blog looks fantastic on a 22″ widescreen monitor… but I have no idea what it looks like on a smaller standard screen. Some feedback on the appearance would be appreciated… please? 🙂

Gosh… it turns out that capital punishment by lethal injection appears to be even *more* “cruel and unusual than anyone thought. You can read the full story here. Basically it appears that the drugs used to sedate the condemned before the lethal cocktail is injected quite often doesn’t work. In fact, the situation is so … More Death by legal torture?

On the way to the station the wife was querying the origins of the word tattoo and where the practice originated. I thought it was common in the stone age… but she thought it might have required metal so perhaps might have originated in the iron age. A Wikipedia article says the word tatoo is … More Tattoo?