Archive for August, 2010

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

A Communications Nightmare

Imagine if a political party were to decide that it is going to cost too much to upgrade the roads to allow for all the cars and trucks that will need to use them over the next few years. Instead they propose getting rid of all the cars and trucks and making everyone use a [...]

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

LOL

One of the problems with abbreviations such as this is that they can mean different things to different people. What this particular abbreviation means depends on the age of the person receiving it. To older people this is the abbreviation for “Lots Of Love” while for younger people it means “Laugh Out Loud”. So now [...]

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Moorebank Intermodal and the Election

I spent a couple of hours last Sunday at the first rally protesting against this totally stupid idea of setting up a major freight terminal in the middle of a residential area. Prior to the speakers actually taking to the stage to have their say I spent about half an hour talking with the labour [...]

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Survivors

I first started watching this show when it first came out. Unfortunately, after I had seen the first five episodes I moved half way around the world and never saw or heard anything more of the show until recently. I say unfortunately because I thought that the five episodes that I was back in 1975 [...]