To add to the mixed news in today’s blog entries, we have to pass on news of the sad if inevitable death of Dr. Randy Pausch. Some of you may remember Dr Pausch who made headlines a while back when, suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer, he made a life affirming lecture on September 18, 2007 … More Vale Randy Pausch
You want a discussion about diaphragms… or Brazilian waxing… or big cars… or plastic surgery… or… ?? Well now’s your chance. For those of you have listened to me ramble on incessantly about Angela Catterns (and occasionally Wendy Harmer) now is your chance to listen to those honeyed tones and find out why her voice … More Angela vs Wendy
Last week we heard news of a man who was towing a boat in his car and for some reason swerved across three lanes of traffic into water. Onlookers, watched helplessly as the car slowly submerged as the guy frantically and unsuccessfully tried to escape from the car as it filled with water. A policeman … More Death is never good news.
As you can tell from the paucity of posts recently, nothing much of note has happened in ‘the news’ for me to write about. Ok, I’ve had a bad case of flu but that really doesn’t excuse the lack of ‘something to write about’ out there. And what there *is* isn’t worth commenting on because … More Fording Jeremy Clarkson.
I was again having a ponder about how life has changed over the years when I began considering how much the mobile phone has become an integral part of life for many… if not most… of us. Twenty years ago the wife and I lived in Central London, however she worked in Croydon which for … More More Fings…. etc.
Heard about the death of Jo Stafford at age 90 on July 16th while I was ‘off sick’ so wasn’t able to write about her at the time. However last night I was listening to a radio interview she had with an Australian DJ (Bob Rodgers) from 9 years ago or so and thought I’d … More Vale Jo Stafford
The old song by Joe Brown and the Bruvvers from lord knows when came to mind this afternoon when I downloaded and installed a new media player for my laptop. As part of it’s installation routine it went off and rummaged through the hard disk to unearth anything it thought I might like to play. … More Fings ain't wot they used to be!
Well ok this wordpress.com version of blog is still here tho not being used right now. The main blog is still where it always was at Opinion Australia so feel free to drop by and say hi if you’ve a mind to? And don;t forget the ‘sister site’, i.e. the more interactive Australian Opinion forum … More Still here!!
I decided over the past few weeks I needed to upgrade the security of my home wireless network because it was on a relatively weak WEP system with a 10 digit password. For reasons anyone with a little knowledge would accept, I chose the WPA and… to be safe… chose a 40 character alphanumeric password. … More Mr Technology puts the hammer down!!
Seen a price for an imported 16Gb version of the Samsung Omnia i900 which comes in at around AU$1018.28 which seems to me to be a pretty good price… especially bearing in mind my having bought the iMate JasJam for a similar price 3 years or so ago. I’m not buying it at this price … More Samsung Omnia (i900) update
