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Month: September 2006
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Top fear
A survey says Australian children’s top fears are car accidents, bombs, burglars and terrorists. Some of us were talking on Saturday night about our fears when we were growing up in the early 80s. For many it was the fear of nuclear war. I remember lying awake at night thinking about it. Glad I was ... [More]
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European holiday
My camera’s gone on holiday. At the moment it’s flying to Europe via Singapore, for some time in England, Ireland and Italy. Just for a fortnight or so. Alas I’m not going with it. I lent it to Justine, whose camera has mysteriously disappeared. So if you’re travelling in Europe in the next couple of ... [More]
Occasionally on a Saturday night just before seven, I’ll be slumped in front of the telly, flicking from SBS over to the ABC to keep up my quota of TV news (which is somewhat lacking during the week). I’ll see the end of Gardening Australia, and ponder its tiddily-pom blandly inoffensive music, which conveys pretty ... [More]
The Long Tail, by Chris Anderson — Technology has made it cheaper to produce and store and sell many things. So niché products that never would have been viable before are now big business. That’s the premise. If that’s all you want to know, you don’t really need to read this book. At a pinch, ... [More]
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Out of control Inboxes
My three main Inboxes are getting out of control. While I manage to reply in a reasonable manner to most of the email I get that’s directed to me personally, I tend to get very slack at filing things away or deleting them, perhaps partly because I think at some stage I’ll need to find ... [More]
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Brown is the new blue
In an amusing conversation the other week: 25 is the new 18. 36 is the new 25. Cycling is the new golf. Dunno if all this is really true, but I’m discovering for myself that brown is the new blue. There was a stage in my life when I wouldn’t be seen dead wearing brown. ... [More]
Mr woolly jumper, what makes you think it is acceptable to floss your teeth on the train? Gross-a-rama.
I had a dream the other night that I was in a code review with some of the guys. For non-geeks amongst you, one of the key things about programming is to write your code in such a way that anybody else who reads it can understand how it works… and indeed so that you ... [More]
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Young Years
Marita was reminding me on Saturday of Dragon’s song Young Years (a discussion of various music lyrics that culminated in my car gaining the nickname Black Betty). Secret meetings at the river’s bend Simple days when I called you friend Came a time, we went separate ways — Dragon, Young Years As it happens last ... [More]
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Cool things in my house #27
High up in the bathroom is this: a towel rack. The lettering? NSWR. I’m guessing it’s a recycled luggage rack from a train up north. Cool looking, and functional too.
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Pluto aka Asteroid 134340
The grade 5 kids at the school were busy earlier this term building models of the solar system. Like many, Isaac’s was based on a spare hoola hoop, with planets of various sizes and colours hanging off it by fishing-wire. Most of the models came home a few weeks ago, but the best were called ... [More]