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I'm in my 40's, living in beautiful sunny Canberra, Australia's capital city. Married, with 2 kids. Somewhat quirky, some would say black, sense of humour. Probably too much of a cynic, a bit of a sarcastic bastard. This blog is for my musings, ranting
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Avoid food poisoning with your iPhone
A new iPhone application lets you see restaurants and cafes in New South Wales that have been fined for breaches of food safety standards. The application, FoodWatch NSW, brings the Food Authority’s name-and-shame list to your fingert...
You really do have to wonder sometimes
You have a baby. Its crying. How do you quieten it down? Shake the crap out of it, right. Thats what some brainiac thought would make a fun game for people to play on their iphones and ipods. Called Baby Shaker, people who downloade...
Social networking your way to the dole queue
Something that really shits me is people’s employers getting all touchy about what the employees have to say on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. In some cases employees have been sacked, or at least threatened with disciplinary acti...
Would you like a bigger penis?
I hate spam, its fucking annoying. But, to give some credit where its due, I did find this one amusing. The use of the 8 and 0 is particularly creative. Technorati tags: spam, penis enlargement...
About bloody time!
Leading mobile phone manufacturers announced on Tuesday they had agreed to produce a standardised charger for the industry. Hoo-bloody-ray …then we won’t have umpteen chargers sitting around the house/office but never being able to find th...
Facebook follies
A former student at a high school in Florida is suing her school over disciplinary action taken against her for “cyberbullying”. Katherine Evans, who recently graduated from Pembroke Pines Charter High School north of Miami, Florida is suin...
Marriage broken, not the iphone
Nice try, but fail! A woman in America discovered a photo of her husband attached to an email sent to another woman on his iphone. The content of the photo, in the wife’s words: “It was a close-up shot of him pleasuring himself taken at the e...
Snail mail spam
In my letterbox today I found a letter telling me I’d won 785,510 euros in a Spanish lottery. All I have to do to claim my winnings is send my bank account details and an authorisation for General Security Company SA to act on my behalf in proces...
Yeah, right, pull the other one
I just don’t believe it. Pornography is not the most popular thing searched for on the internet. This is according to Google’s new search analysis tool, Insights. More Australians use the web to find games than adult content....
Blue Screen of Death - Olympic scale
Is this the biggest BSOD ever? It occurred during the Olympics opening ceremony last Friday night. One of the computers used to project images onto the roof of the stadium blue screened, and the moment was captured for all to see. Technorati Tags...
Not an iPhone
I got a new toy today. One of these....
Getting a head start in IT
Information technology students at universities are outsourcing assignments to cheap code cutters in places like India. Typically, assignments are put out to tender on the internet sites and coders bid to complete them.Students can pay anywhere from ...
