This time I want to know about Monte Carlos.

It was always my considered opinion that they were the least popular item in the Arnott’s Assorted Cream pantheon. I won’t eat them, and they always seem to be the last thing left in the packet. Mon doesn’t know what I’m talking about, she loves them. [...]

Mark just pointed out that the Wikipedia article I linked doesn’t mention category numbers as such, but rather DECEASED, IMMEDIATE, DELAYED and MINOR. I must have imagined the connection between Category 4 and Deceased in my head. Teach me to post links without going back to reread them… I thought perhaps calling it Category 4 [...]

Sometimes I don’t want to go on a picnic, or down to the park to ride bikes or whatever, that will take up so much of my precious weekend. The things I have to do seem so much more important, I have all these jobs to get done, I don’t have half a day to [...]

Robert Mugabe, winner of fixed elections, architect of ethnic cleansing, despot….and completely under the radar of those defenders of liberty who were so concerned about the human rights abuses suffered by the oil rich inhabitants of Iraq.
A programme of demolition of shantytowns in Zimbabwe has left 2 million people homeless in the last month. [...]

Google Maps allow me to bring into stark relief the difference between the city I live in now
and the town I used to live in

It’s actually been ten years since I left there.
I miss the beach.

I have a folder in my email where things to blog pile up. Here’s a bunch to help you waste your Friday afternoon :
On All Saints this week, the ambo’s did triage and classed someone category four. Having read up on triage out of curiosity the other day, I knew what they meant. [...]

How do you stop a battery from leaking?
Make it sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Thankyou, thankyou I’m here all week. Try the veal!

I used to always have a few web/code projects on the boil. Most of them are of interest to me only, so it’s no biggy if they get left untouched for a year at a time or more. I seem to be busier these days, so things are pretty much untouched these days, other than [...]

There’s a tactic in Australian Rules recently called flooding, or defensive flooding. Basically as soon as you lose possession you send about 15 of your 18 players into your defensive 50. Probably wasn’t possible even ten or fifteen years ago, but the level of fitness is so much higher these days that players are more [...]

The back seat toughies narrowly won the ‘where do you sit in the class’ poll, although results were slightly skewed by Mark being 6 foot tall and sitting in the middle out of consideration for others.
This morning I noticed that Connor likes his Weet Bix crushed a bit before the milk is poured over them, [...]