My car broke down about 95% of the way home from work this afternoon. I had just pushed it around the corner off the main road when someone I didn’t know came over and helped push. They only lived a couple of doors down the street and helped push it in front of their place. [...]

In the news this morning was a mention of a cyclist who got annoyed at an overtaking bus and who when the bus next stopped to pick up passengers and he caught up he actually smashed the bus mirror and attacked the driver. The news column also mentioned that this occured on a T-Way (which [...]

There seem to be all sorts of unusual names being given to children lately (or perhaps not so recently since most of the ones I hear about are actually people in their twenties or so). One particular area of confusion seems to be betweenwhat have traditionally been boys names and what have been girls names. [...]

After 28 years of appearing live every Saturday the Hey Hey show finally left television back in 1999. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the end of the show that so many Australians grew up with they brought back the cast, crew, and some of the guests that had appeared on the show during its [...]

Just thinking about theclaim in the Star Trek TNG opening – “To boldly go where no one has gone before.” Something that they never showed at any time during the entire series. There was not one show where someone hadn’t got there before them. Of course it would have been a boring show if they [...]