Pollarity XI is over, 7 out of 10 hygeine experts agree that rinsing your hands with water after using the toilet is clean enough. Obviously they will be cleaner if you use soap, cleaner again if you use hot water, and even cleaner if you soak them for 30 seconds in isopropyl alcohol. But the [...]

One of our dear readers, a non-guitar-player, wrote in and asked what the lever thing on a guitar was for. It’s called the ‘tremolo bar’, or possibly ‘vibrato bar’. Normal guitarists call it a wah or whammy bar – basically what it does is lift the bridge up and down – the bridge is the [...]

We had our parish mission a few weeks ago, I was asked to do a write up for the parish news of one of the nights. Each night related to one of the readings of Lent, this one to the Transfiguration. In our lives, it is very hard to find time to spend with God, [...]

Last Summer a bunch of us at work got gym memberships, and started working out a few times a week for our lunch break. I didn’t lose much weight or gain much tone, but it was fun, and I miss the endorphins from a good hard workout. I haven’t had time or energy for much [...]

Peter McGiltonmakes incredible looking guitars. Apparently they sound good too. They make awesome art pieces, but I don’t know that I would play one. Apart from their being too beautiful and expensive to feel right about playing them, you have to be really insanely good to play such an ostentatious guitar without looking like a [...]

Ever notice when people are in their cars, they think they are completely insulated from the world around them? The way that people drive is affected by that – the lack of concern for other people, merging selfishly etc. It’s probably worse in modern cars which are so well sealed from road noise – people [...]

I went and saw the Pope when he came to Australia. I don’t really remember it, other than it was a big field and we were miles from the altar. I think Dad was in the choir. Plenty has been written about him in the last few days (the Pope, not my Dad). You can [...]

Pollarity X is over, the public has spoken, or at least 6 of them have, and they love novelty ties, with 100% of voters choosing the ‘fun’ option. The latest pollarity is inspired by a discussion at our house the other day. Specifically as to how clean do your hands need to be after you’ve [...]

In movies, Biometric Authentication looks like the height of security technology. In reality, the failings have already been proven. Trusting biometrics implicitly means that once you crack the system, nobody asks you any questions cos you clearly passed the expensive new hi tech scanner, so you must be allowed to be doing whatever it is [...]

How does international mail work? Like when I send a package to Krygystan, and I give Australia Post $23.75 to send it, where does that money go? Does Australia Post have a price by weight/volume for every country in the world, and every package is individually measured upon leaving Australia, and arriving at Krygystan, to [...]