Aussies lead the world in Firefox uptake

Go Aussies!  More evidence of how smart a country we are …. Australia has one of the highest rates in the world for Firefox usage.  Good to see 31% of us have ditched Internet Explorer and moved to a far superior browser.
Oceania (Australia and NZ basically) leads the world with 31%, followed by Europe 28%, […]

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Closer to God

An Air Canada flight from Toronto to London had to make an emergency landing in Ireland after a medical emergency … apparently the co-pilot suffered a breakdown, and had to be removed from the cockpit and restrained by other crew members.
According to a passenger:
“He was very, very distraught. He was yelling loudly at times,”
“He […]

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Smackdown

How’s this for a big smackdown?  Victorian premier John Brumby, talking about the importance of the controversial Port Phillip Bay dredging project, said:
“If you want Melbourne to be a backwater, if you want Melbourne eventually to be an Adelaide - as someone described it the other day - well, don’t do this project, and Melbourne […]

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You know Canberra is the porn capital of Australia when …

…. you start seeing things like “Mould a Willy” kits in a gift shop in the middle of Westfield Belconnen Mall.  Not exactly hidden away either, it was on display in the front of the store, so no, I did not have to go purposefully looking for it down the back of the store.  […]

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Smiley Saturday

Lightening has a thing on her blog called Smiley Saturday.   It is something just to lighten up the day and talk about something that makes you smile.  So I had a funny story, which we’d been having fun with today, so I thought I’d put it under the Smiley Saturday banner.
My (18 year old) […]

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Australia Day - a special place

Today is Australia Day, the anniversary of the day the first white settlers from England landed in Sydney in 1788. 
Inspired by this post in Aussie Bloggers  …. here is a photo of what I think is one of the most amazing places in Australia, Purnululu National Park in the Kimberly region of Western Australia.  […]

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Time to bring back the stocks

Two teenagers, 16-year-old and 14-year-old have been remanded in custody after being charged with numerous offences including break and enter, for looting houses that had been evacuated in the Queensland town of Emerald during the recent floods.  
The police say the teenagers will be flown out of Emerald tonight because of widespread anger in the […]

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OH&S - for suicide bombers

Let this be a lesson to all suicide bombers.  Be careful where you tread - slips and trips are a hazard in the suicide bomber business, and workplace accidents can have deadly consequences.
A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, […]

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Cloverfield

We saw “Cloverfield” last night.   I liked it - even if I felt queasy in the stomach almost all the way through it.  And thats nothing to do with gore or violence or anything like that.  The gimmick of this movie is that its shot to look like a home movie shot on a home […]

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Flying a kite for Kim

A bit of kite flying going on in the papers today, I think.  Some Labor Party figures, including cabinet Secretary John Faulkner, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith and Treasurer Wayne Swan, have been pushing for former leader Kim Beazley to be appointed Australia’s next Governor-General.
Bad idea!  Appointing someone like Beazley (who, by the way […]

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