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I was googling to try and find the name of a poxy show that was on in the 80’s where contestants dressed up and lip synched to popular tunes. Do you remember?
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Meanwhile I came across something even better. The Unofficial SOLID GOLD Web Site!. Like Countdown without the [...]


Posted at: February 29th, 2004 - 11:05 am - Number of Comments » 0

So Australia’s right wing economic ‘rationalist’ government is going to sort out the problem of an increasingly aged population placing a larger burden on the nations welfare and pension system. It’s an intelligent and well thought out solution :
Make them stay at work.
Why didn’t we think of that before? We won’t pay them a pension, [...]


Posted at: February 26th, 2004 - 12:05 am - Number of Comments » 0

Chicken Parmigiana is the quintessential Australian pub meal. But don’t you wish you knew where to find the best one? How do you know if you’ve had a good parma?
Well wonder no more, the Search for a Super Parma [see note] is now available to assist you in your Parma location needs. Chicken Parmas (Parmae?) [...]


Posted at: February 23rd, 2004 - 2:50 am - Number of Comments » 0

I know this has been done to death, but I have to note my observations. Mon and I were talking tonight, because I used the last of the toilet paper and didn’t replace the roll cos I couldn’t find it. I looked, and figured that maybe we hadn’t brought it back from staying at her [...]


Posted at: February 18th, 2004 - 11:00 am - Number of Comments » 0

Most people can safely ignore this post, full of web design geekiness.
So way back when, to lay out a page, you either made it one wide block and looked pretty plain, or you had complex arrays of table rows and columns and bits. And you still couldn’t get things to do what you want, and [...]


Posted at: February 17th, 2004 - 11:50 pm - Number of Comments » 0

How useful is this?! You see a font you want to use for something, but you have no idea what they used. Answer a series of questions such as “Does the ‘Q’ tail cross the circle?” “Is the ‘4′ open or closed?” and “Are the strokes upright or sloped?” to narrow down the font you [...]


Posted at: February 13th, 2004 - 12:30 am - Number of Comments » 0

Do you even remember Andy Capp? We’ve been staying at Mon’s Mum’s house while we sell ours, and she has a collection of Andy Capp comics. Dad used to have a heap, we kept them on the toilet windowsill when I was a kid, for perusal at the appropriate time.
Andy Capp is an ageless english [...]


Posted at: February 7th, 2004 - 12:00 pm - Number of Comments » 0

According to this article, Charlie Brown is an existentialist.
I talk a good game, but I really don’t know much about various philosophies. Looks to me like I have existentialist tendencies too. Here’s a sample :
Another key aspect comes from this monstrous freedom that abandonment allows, and this aspect is despair. In a nutshell, [...]


Posted at: February 5th, 2004 - 12:45 pm - Number of Comments » 0

Posted at: February 3rd, 2004 - 3:50 am - Number of Comments » 0