It’s strictly business.

I’m a little tardy with this one. Here is the full list of all submissions for Darren’s last ‘How To’ group writing project.

The idiot’s guide to racial insensitivity by Rob
How to Get Your Day Off to a Bad Start by Billy
How to explain RSS the Oprah Way by Stephanie
How to start a new life in […]

Satire: The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices.

This week I enjoyed reading Jack Marx’s piece on Ian Thorpe’s retirement, titled Dirty Pool, in which he talked about stripping Thorpie of his Australian citizenship. What I found so amusing was not the tongue-in-cheek nature of the article (I’m not a huge […]

Google buys YouTube for A$2.2bln - That’s a lot of money to pay for an asset that doesn’t generate a positive cash flow, is a service that has low barriers to entry, isn’t unique, is a legal liability, and has an operating history of less than 2 years. To say it is a HUGE gamble would be […]

This pic has been sanitised for the queezy. From my perspective, I hit a kicker, all good in the air and spotted the landing. Smooth landing is following by a double binding release and subsequent facial sliding resulting in injury to the mouthal area. When I look up all I can see is blood on my […]

Fantastic win for the Swans, but  we’re definitely not making it easy for ourselves. Too many missed opportunities and we were really lucky Fremantle made more mistakes than we did. Can’t complain too much. We’re into the Grand Final, to be played at the MCG next week.  I would LOVE to join the southern migration […]

The United States is quickly discovering that it’s “Axis of Evil” is actually more of a polygon, quite possibly a dodecagon, or a dodecahedron if you prefer to measure your evil nations in 3-Dimensions. The United Nations is slowly being taken over by voices that are rallying against the U.S., and we were treated to […]

HOT: Tickle Me Elmo Xtreme Edition
I just saw this on Fox News (Warning: Fox News may contain traces of nuts). Very fetch indeed. Me wantee.
NOT: Transformers
I love the transformer scene from Clerks II, even if it does smell a bit too much like a viral marketing plant, but I can’t get excited about a new […]

I’m pretty good at packing for ski trips these days. I do it a couple of times each year so it has become routine operation. Most of my ski clothes have been washed after my last trip and are sitting up the far end of of the wardrobe, with my boots underneath (with buckles done […]

HOT: The Daily Show
Loveable Jon Stewart never has an off night. Deserves so much more than cable. My only gripe is that the 30min time slot isn’t long enough. Throw in an extra field report and get the guest to stick around for a bit longer and you could let it run for the whole hour. […]

Sorry for the delay on this, I’m in the final throes of a project which has demanded 100% of my time and attention. It is one of those projects that has ended up looking nothing like the original specifications, largely due to having too much input from too many stakeholders. I wasn’t brought on […]

I spent a good day or two trying to figure figure out why I couldn’t get transactional replication working on a particular client’s instance of SQL 2000. Generating a snapshot would fail during the insert/update/delete scripting phase. Turns out there is a bug in the system stored proc “sp_MSscript_params”. I’ll write up the exact nature […]

Mr. Beazley has crawled out of his cave to make some, frankly, absurd comments as quoted in the article “Protect Telstra shareholders“. The Labour party has found a way to take a cheap shot at the government AND pretend to be standing up for the Aussie Battler. Mr. Beazley obviously has less of a clue than former Senator […]

Remember when you didn’t have to carry your personal items in a clear plastic bag when you jumped on a plane? You might think that 2 years after September 11 airport security might have improved. Check out these shots of an ATX form-factor PC I built into a briefcase back in 2003, complete with a 17″ […]

I’m going crazy here! How hard is it to get a copy of Small Business Server 2003 R2? If you believe Microsoft’s USA site, SBS R2 should have been released at the beginning of August. I know the product was recalled in July when some ‘non-final components’ snuck  into the release, but surely this […]

Twentyeleven waitress Michelle Stephenson in the Ikon apartments.
For the ultimate in apartment privacy, residents in the Ikon building at Potts Point soon will not even have to leave home to dine a la carte.
Dan O’Brien, who runs the Twentyeleven restaurant next door, is planning to introduce a room-service option, where residents phone in their meals […]