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Archive for May, 2008
Saints be praised!
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008US petrol hits 99 (AU) cents per litre
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Random places in the US are lamenting that petrol has now reached US$4 per gallon. To put that in a more local perspective, it’s 99 Australian cents per litre.
Wahoo!
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008It’s in Nebraska apparently.
You only get one, it better be good
Monday, May 19th, 2008My blog currently seems to be attracting ads for things like LifeArt coffins. Yes, they can do custom coffin designs.
The week, redux
Sunday, May 18th, 2008- Dinner at The Vic, with geeks. I can highly recommend the chocolate fondant. It was somewhere between cakey and saucy and it was fabulous!
- Puggle completing the same jigsaw many times
- Catching up with Redbraids, discussing emma_in_oz’s birthing
- One step closer to a new car
- Pimping the blog for the benefit of the search engines
- Fetching Bilby’s bed frame. It used to be mine! Soon she’ll be all grown up
- Made Jamie’s chicken with potatoes, cherry tomatoes (peeled! At least until I gave up), and oregano
- Move the compost bin to the middles of the ‘herb’ spiral (closer to the house). Redistributed some of the old compost.
- Craft day, and a trip to the park with Puggle and Bilby.
- Said goodbye to Mum, who’s off to Europe for a month.
Facebook’s expensive death of a million cuts
Saturday, May 17th, 2008So, word on the street is that Facebook is having growing pains, seeing as pretty much everyone who knows anyone is using it, they’re having problems getting their server infrastructure to cope with the load. Plus, the vulture capitalists want some payoff, at the same time as more capital’s needed to buy the farm (server farm, that is 
. Blog articles such as this one, for example. I guess that’s why Google started out with the invite-only idea for Gmail and Orkut.
Vroom!
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Things to add to the birthday wishlist… Some Sunday driving. If you have the means I highly recommend it!
The Transperth Gauntlet
Thursday, May 15th, 2008I got on my bus home tonight to notice that the rear section of the bus had its windows covered with fine steel mesh (as used on security screens). I had a sudden fear that I might have accidentally got onto an Australian Corrective Services bus. To prevent a few individuals from scratching their baby scribbles into the bus, half the passengers have to travel like criminals, barely able to see out the windows. Where’s Clint Eastwood when you need him?
Stop Australian Internet Censorship
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Visit nocleanfeed.com to get informed as to what you can do to stop Stephen Conroy from crippling Australia’s internet access.
Forbes Richest fictional 15
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Tony Stark makes it in at number 8 on Forbes fictional 15,behind Ritchie Rich and Scrooge McDuck.
