Travelling on business
I am currently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for work. I called home last night and spoke to my wife. She asked me what was the weather like here? I didn’t know … between going from the airconditioned hotel next to the airconditioned office and eating lunch and dinner in the airconditioned shopping mall also attached, [...]
Never in doubt
If there was ever an Oscar that was a certainty, money in the bank if you bet on it, it was the best supporting actor award that Heath Ledger won today. I mean, he was very good in the part, and most likely would have won on his own merits, but dying between making the [...]
INXS = pathetic
I read that INXS singer JD Fortune has been sacked from the band, apparently due to his drug use. Fortune won his place in the band in a TV contest. That says it all, I think. INXS should have quit when Michael Hutchence died. Their continued attempts at existence beyond that point have been simply [...]
About bloody time!
Leading mobile phone manufacturers announced on Tuesday they had agreed to produce a standardised charger for the industry. Hoo-bloody-ray …then we won’t have umpteen chargers sitting around the house/office but never being able to find the one that fits your phone. The standard shape to be adopted by 17 manufacturers including Nokia, Motorola and Samsung [...]
Singapore bound
I’m off tomorrow for a few days work in Singapore. Yay for me, I’ll have a couple of days over the weekend to do some shopping and have a look around. Technorati tags: work, travel, Singapore
Young wife exercises old husband to death
No, not in the way I bet you’re thinking! Christine Newton-John, 41, pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in an Ohio swimming pool by repeatedly refusing to let him leave the water. Surveillance video showed her pulling James Mason around the pool by his arms and legs, Middlefield police [...]
Firebug
One of the regrettable, and I suppose, inevitable, truths about the Victorian bushfires, is that some of the fires were undoubtedly deliberately lit. Now, one alleged arsonist has been arrested and charged by police. Brendan Sokaluk, 39, of Churchill, is alleged to have deliberately started the fire at Churchill in Victoria’s Gippsland region. This fire [...]
Tough Guys …in mankinis
A week or so ago the Tough Guy challenge race was held in England. This race, over a tortuous 13km obstacle course, has been run since 1986. This year it attracted some 5,000 competitors. They run over the course, through manure, ice-cold water, sewer pipes and even more mud, as well as flames while dodging [...]
Wanker of the year
In the light of the bushfires in Victoria comes an early contender for wanker of the year. The Catch the Fire Ministries has tried to blame the bushfires disaster on laws decriminalising abortion in Victoria. The evangelical church’s leader, Pastor Danny Nalliah, claimed he had a dream about raging fires on October 21 last year [...]
Bushfire tragedy
Its hard to imagine anything worse than losing friends and loved ones, not to mention everything you own, in a fire. Certainly, Australia has been touched by tragedy in large proportions this weekend with the bushfires in Victoria. At the time I’m writing this, 84 people have been killed, with the final toll expected to [...]
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