But I’m so good at it… so… I just saw a newspaper from the 25th of March where a family got hit by a train in country Victoria. They were driving a large 4WD (a Nissan Navara), didn’t see the train and the driver tried to stop, left a 40m skidmark and hit the side [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Not wanting to be cruel…
Posted in General on March 31, 2008 | Comments Off
Saturday. Raining.
Posted in General on March 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ahhhh, I’ve missed the rain so much. I’ve missed the weather where it’s not so horrible outside that you can’t go out of the house if you need to, but just wet and windy enough to encourage you to curl up on the couch under a throw rug and get some reading/film watching/relaxing done. I [...]
A cunning strategy
Posted in General on March 28, 2008 | Comments Off
Chatting with Giz, I think I managed to work out the US government strategy to combat terrorism: Simply make the public too poor to be able to afford a plane trip – if you can’t fly to another country, you can’t fly back, meaning that a terrorist would have to use a plane filled entirely [...]
Back to School
Posted in General on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I finished my ITIL training today and did my first exam in (I’m fairly sure) 17 years. I actually got nervous – the reason being that I really couldn’t identify with the material. Plus, the lecturer was using new slides and misjudged the time required to teach the subject, leaving us short on time to [...]
A disconnect
Posted in Film on March 26, 2008 | Comments Off
Wow. I seem to have enjoyed Flightplan a lot more than most people did. After it was done I suggested that Jodie Foster did a good job, and that I couldn’t think of many who could have substituted for her. “Sigourney could have handled it,” I suggested, “except that she’s too old for the part.” [...]
Retail therapy
Posted in Film on March 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today I replaced my dear old Yamaha DSP-A1, with… another Yamaha! It’s the RX-V3800 (yes, an Amazon link for the Americans.. buy! Buy!), which does many wonderful things, most importantly it lets me use my old technology with the projector, so I can finally play my PS2 games again. Guitar Hero fights with M1k3y, ahoy! [...]
Easter
Posted in General on March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Amount of time spent today referring to each of my nephews and niece respectively as ‘the King/Queen of Pies’: 40 minutes Amount of time spent today thinking about Jesus: 0 minutes Oh. Yeah.
Could this happen here?
Posted in General on March 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Homeowners in the US voluntarily foreclosing their mortgages once the value of the mortgage exceeds their property equity. I really had no idea what the housing market in the States was like. I’m starting to realise how boned their economy truly is right now.
Inconsequential
Posted in General on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, damn it all. I had all these ideas for a blog post over the last few days and I think I’ve just over-thought it and fallen out of love with the topic (I was going to spout some uninformed ramblings about the future of cinema in this country). Or perhaps I’m afraid to commit [...]
Rsync: This is Your Life
Posted in Geekery on March 20, 2008 | Comments Off
A good explanation of the issues with rsync under OS X.
