Today I was sitting in a shopping centre food court waiting for my wife to return. So I indulged in a spot of people watching. One particular person caught my eye. This woman had a hot chip in each hand and she was waving them both in the air. It almost looked like...

Just been checking out my apache logs. And there seems to be a lot of Blog Crawlers and other interesting access's going on. Probably just the mindless automatons sifting through things they can't comprehend. I wonder when their masters start to discriminate and value...

Just as I was arriving at Bunnings to look at items for my bathroom renovation. I noticed some charming individual had purchased a car battery, and decided to change it in the car park, leaving the old one in the car space. Should I be suprised? No, I suppose I...

One of the facts of our existence is we have only 70 or so years to live before we fall off our perches and join the newspaper and other items at the bottom of our metaphorical cage. However recently my siblings have decided to reproduce. Yay! I must say it's brought...

Written by James McDonald Monday, 11 December 2006 So we ended up going to see Al Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth”. If I can admire someone for the delivery of information then Al Gores presentation gets an A plus.I know a few people who "Don't believe in Global...

Following is a list of the opensource apps I use and the windows application that they replace. OSS Application Replaces Remarks The GIMP Adobe PhotoShop Feature rich image editor. Takes time to get the hang of all the little techniques but is very powerful. Scribus...

This last week has been difficult. Life has thrown a cocktail of death and accident at us.It's not easy to lose someone you love, but it's even more poignant when the loss is the first of such loses. All of a sudden the intellectual acknowledgement that we are all...

So here goes my attempt at blogging. Although it's not a big thing to put ones thoughts to paper sometimes it's harder because of lack of inspiration or imagination. Sometimes both

Since moving from Sydney to Singleton and then on to Telarah which is a suburb of Maitland I have sampled a large country town (Singleton) and then a small Regional City (Maitland). The advantages of living in Maitland are that... hmmm: Houses are cheap in comparison...