January 31, 2006 – 3:08 pm
A colleague called me over to look at their WinPC today. She plugged in her iPod and it appeared in iTunes, but the name and music were not hers! It was like it was someone else’s iPod. The music played, everything worked, but it was 6Gb of someone else’s stuff! Spooky!!
January 24, 2006 – 10:55 am
Has Google Maps just added another feature? They used to come thick and fast – but almost always on a weekend. Today I visited an old bookmark and found ‘We are sorry, but we don’t have imagery at this zoom level for this region.’, which was odd, because I know I had it at maximum [...]
January 18, 2006 – 8:56 pm
When you’ve ‘done’ with the caves at Buchan, what can you do? Well, there’s a very nice walk to a place called Granite Pools that’ll get your appetite up, but what do you do then? Well, we’d done the tourist walk through Royal cave – quite spectacular and beautiful – and then a good long [...]
January 10, 2006 – 7:54 pm
I’ve just seen the news report about a protest by Victoria’s Mountain Cattlemen – leading cattle, in defiance of the new laws, into the mountains in the Wonongatta Valley in the east of the state. I know it’s romantic, and it’s been going on for over a hundred years, but I’m afraid – at least [...]
January 3, 2006 – 7:31 pm
This is the section of The Westgate Bridge which fell while under construction on 15th October, 1970, killing 35 workers. We lived nearby and I was in school (grade 4) at the time, and I remember an announcement coming over the public address calling children whose fathers worked on the bridge to the office. Thought [...]
January 3, 2006 – 12:59 pm
Back at the coalface today, bit of a letdown after a fabulous 11 day break. A relaxing Christmas with family and far too much good food, but a few other items of note. Fly Fishing: those of you who know me well, will be aware that I don’t get out fishing anywhere near enough to [...]
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