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Wanna Be Surfer Dude
2008-04-15 13:23:00
Christies Beach South Australia March 2008
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Latest Australian Tourist Advert
2008-04-14 04:01:00
I have been here for five years now and no bites yet.Lara Bingle, where the bloody hell are you?Thanks Absolutely True
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Bloggers You Are All Appreciated Today
2008-04-14 03:33:00
Pissed off? Burned Out? Uninspired? Exhausted? Blogged Out? Unappreciated? Uncommented? Nobody Reading Your Blog? All of the Above?Fear Not! Today Darren has proclaimed to be Unofficial Blogger Appreciation DayAllow me to say that I agree. You are all appreciated. Thanks to all the people who have commented, complimented, criticised, encouraged, laughed, enjoyed, provided feedback, linked to me, provided inspiration...And now your reward. Something upbeat needed.Bring it on Sir Cliff!Now doesn't that feel better.OK. Get back to the keyboards now.
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Photo Hunt : Twisted
2008-04-13 21:54:00
My mind may be twisted, but that is difficult to portray in a photograph.Take my kids to the park on the other hand, it is easy to demonstrate that they are twisted.photohunt
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Working Class and Small Town America Not Barracking for Obama
2008-04-13 05:42:00
Senator Top End of Town Obama has announced a new break through strategy to change the way he is viewed in small town and working class America .At a recent fundraiser,he explained his struggles appealing to working-class voters by saying they were frustrated with the loss of jobs under both Republican and Democratic administrations over the last decade, adding: "It's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment."Obviously a battler image will endear me to Americans from the school of hard knocks said Senator Obama.Meanwhile Former President for Life and his Wanna Be President for Life had no comment. We will reserve judgement on this one they said.
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Sports Injury Earns a Dollar
2008-04-13 04:36:00
Ryan started soccer football practice this week and his mate managed to hit him in the mouth with the ball when he was shooting for goal. He managed to dislodge his wobbly tooth and Ryan ended up swallowing it. He was sure it was stuck in his throat and was bummed when I told him as a joke that he wouldn't be able to prove to the tooth fairy that it had come out. I took this photograph instead and gave him a dollar.Funny we were talking about getting hospital cover for just this sort of occurrence just this week. It would more than likely be for them rather than us. They are both entering a dangerous age for accidents.
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Well If I Do Say So Myself
2008-04-13 01:28:00
Colin Campbell --[noun]: A master blogger'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.comBy comparison, James is a Dance Involving Little or No Clothing. Interesting.Thanks, the Banshee Like Jams O'Donnell.

China is Getting Ready
2008-04-12 16:18:00
Kiwi Pulse has more and the background to the campaign.
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Warhol on Ice
2008-04-12 14:34:00
Haven't done this for a while. Here are Ryan and I being Way Cool Man. Or should that be Chillin' Dude?Thanks Nunyaa and Kate for reminding me and for the chance to join in.
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Work Transition Ongoing
2008-04-11 08:28:00
In consulting there are always peaks and valleys in work load. If the valleys go on too long, you lose your job. The key is to hang in their when things are a little quiet. I got lucky today. Two of my colleagues decided to tidy up my work area. You should have seen it before, but it certainly didn't look like this. I wonder how long I can hold this together. This is exactly what happened when my wife first moved into my apartment in Singapore. A big clean out. Thanks Michelle and Jessica.One of the photographs is my desk. The other is Jessicas, which looks like this all the time.
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Star Wars Death Star Final Assault Ends in Court Fight
2008-04-11 05:45:00
Two examples of nutty lawsuits. How much money does George Lucas need?The lawyers working late that night were preparing to do battle with the opposing legal armies of George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars films, over who owns the copyright on the stormtrooper uniforms, the headgear of the imperial fighter pilots and the helmet designed for Luke Skywalker as he led the final assault on the Death Star in the first film of the original trilogy. Lucas?s business empire claims that it owns all the rights to the uniforms, while the lawyers at SimmonsCooperAndrew will argue that the rights are in fact vested in an obscure prop designer from Twickenham who made the first helmets and suits for the 1977 film. And in Australia, Darrell Lea Chocolates have fended off Cadbury's in an attempt to get them to stop using purple in their marketing and wrapping materials.The Federal Court has dismissed an application by Cadbury Schweppes that the use of purple by Darrell Lea amounted to mislea...
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Google Related Fatwa Imminent
2008-04-11 05:08:00
I noticed yesterday that I had a lot of google image hits for "sexy hijab" and found that I rank highest in google image search for that term. Scary stuff.I will have to be careful that I am not fatwa'd.
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Not Too Keen For Work Today
2008-04-10 23:48:00
OK Maybe not too bad by comparison.
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If You Can Read This It May Be Safe To Drive
2008-04-10 23:40:00
Unfortunately some people will be too pissed to read it.
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What Would You Do If You Had a Spare Million or Two or Three?
2008-04-10 05:29:00
Doubt if I would buy a camel.
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Yes, You Can Miss Your Own Funeral
2008-04-10 04:21:00
As someone who is habitually late, this appealed to me.
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I would prefer to be served medium rare
2008-04-08 21:30:00
Created by OnePlusYouThanks katekatekatekate
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Stockbrokers of the World Beware
2008-04-08 07:47:00
I am not sure that there would be too much Arbitration and Mediation if this guy shows up at your office.Melbourne underworld identity Mick Gatto has flown out of Australia on a mission to recoup ''millions'' lost by clients of failed stockbroker Opes Prime. Speaking on 3AW this morning, Mr Gatto, whose private company Arbitrations & Mediations fixes ''sticky problems'' said he and two associates would go to Singapore and would be ''darting around all different countries'' in an attempt to recover the money. ''A couple of people have approached us and asked us whether we could assist them,'' Mr Gatto said.I have recommended him to our Accounts Receivable Department for some of those tardy payers.Gatto said the company provided a simple service where ''we go and see the client and we say... 'we really think that you should pay, and it's all done amicably and 9 times out of 10 it's settled and the client's happy and we're happy and of course the bloke who ow...
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We're All Republicans Now
2008-04-08 05:35:00
President John McCain?King Kevin Rudd?
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Queensland Healths $100,000 Supersize Me Ambulance Service
2008-04-08 01:36:00
Following up on Ian, Crapmeister in Chief's thoughts on Queensland Health who failed to come to aid of one of their employees, a remote health worker who had been raped, we see that there has been a change of heart when it comes to their customers.Queensland Health was forced to charter a Hercules aircraft from the Defence Force because it had no ambulances or planes big enough to transport a 240kg patient. Even though the woman was deemed well enough to travel by road from Mount Isa to Townsville the Queensland Ambulance Service had no vehicles capable of carrying her. She was even too large to be safely carried in King Air light aircraft operated by the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A Defence Force spokesman confirmed a C-130 Hercules was despatched from the RAAF base at Richmond, Sydney after a request from the Queensland government. The cost to taxpayers was not disclosed but a Hercules aircraft costs about $13,000 an hour to operate, putting the total cost of the nine-hour op...

Olympic Spirit Alive and Well
2008-04-08 00:48:00
Tell it as it is Lord SebastianHe said organisers of the French leg of the torch relay through Paris should "get rid of those guys" because the Chinese officials "tried to push me out of the way three times". "They are horrible. They did not speak English ... I think they were thugs." A spokeswoman for the London 2012 Olympic s confirmed that Lord Coe, the 1980 and 1984 Olympic 1500m champion, had made the remarks. Doesn't sound too diplomatic.
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John Howard's New Career
2008-04-08 00:43:00
Diplomat to DictatorsThanks to the unrivalled Bill Leak, back after a break.
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How Fast Can You Blog?
2008-04-07 23:10:00
Scientists are working on the even faster internet.The internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, ?the grid? will be able to send the entire Tellytubbies Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds. Perhaps it is so that bloggers can burn out faster.They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece ? not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment. Scary stuff. How much did you say it cost aga...
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Twiggy No Thanks
2008-04-06 14:46:00
Nunyaa raised the question a few weeks ago and James also asked for input.Sixty thousand sex obsessesed males discerning readers of FHM have voted and the verdict suggests that men prefer women more full in size than women themselves perceive that men would like.Professor Marika Tiggemann from Flinders University said that the results supported academic research on the topic. "We find women want to be thinner than what men find attractive," she said. "Men's idea of what is 'thin' is larger than that of women. Unfortunately, a lot of people think being thin demonstrates being in control or being disciplined, while being fat is a sign you're weak."Plenty other opinions in the article. Me I have no comment. I am married and my wife reads my blog from time to time. My interest is purely academic. I also only read those kinds of magazines for the articles.

Can We Have the Gun Now Mr Heston?
2008-04-06 12:10:00
Charlton Heston: Great Actor and Gun Nut

Who wants to be Millionaire?
2008-04-05 13:30:00
And live in Zimbabwe?If you did, then this humble millionaires residence wouldn't be bad. Unfortunately, a mean dictator lives here and has to be kicked out first. No wonder he is keen to hang in there.And he is so humble as he disclosed in a recent interview.How would you describe yourself in a few words?"I feel I am just an ordinary person. I feel within me there is a charitable disposition towards others, just as I find charitable positions towards me from others. And I don't make enemies, no. Others may make me an enemy of theirs, but I make no enemies. Even those who might do things against me, I don't make them enemies at all. No."Astonishing. Everyone in the country is a multi millionaire and (almost) everyone is miserable.The government just issued a $50 million dollar note, which is just about enough to buy three loaves of bread.I think I will stick with being a multi thousandaire.
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Photohunt: Glass
2008-04-05 12:29:00
Currently I prefer my glass full of South Australia's own Coopers Pale Ale.I definitely prefer it full to empty.photohunt
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Job of the Day: Late Night Arctic Circle Kebab Salesman
2008-04-04 10:33:00
Doing it tough in Longyearben is an Iranian, who is providing a valuable late night service to frozen drunks in the Arctic Circle .How the native of hot and bustling Tehran went on to win the unofficial title of "world's northernmost kebab seller" comes down to the vagaries of early 20th century geopolitics. Under a 1920 treaty, Svalbard is an international zone under Norwegian sovereignty that requires no tourist or resident visas. So when Norway rejected Ariaiwand's asylum application in 2003, he fled as far north as you can fly on a commercial flight - to this land of legal limbo. When he arrived in Longyearbyen, the main settlement of about 2,000 people, he had no job or accommodations. Left behind on the mainland were his son, then 15, and ex-wife, who both won permission to stay in Norway. Realising his stay could be a long one, he went into business last year as a kebab seller, opening The Red Polar Bear in his bright red truck parked on a public lot at the centre of tiny Lo...
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Donating Online to the Homeless
2008-04-03 08:23:00
The Big Issue taken to the next level for homeless people. Forget the Big Issue. Just go straight to Cash/Credit or Debit. Guilt free giving. Non of the Will Work for Food baloney. Just Give.Thanx Max
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Happy Birthday Doris Day
2008-04-03 02:45:00
What a fantastic singer. Born this day a few years ago. Happy Birthday Doris Day.Too bad this song was appropriated by drunken football fans.
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