A few weeks ago I came across the $100 hand powered laptop, for children in developing countries. What the? Is this what the starving masses have been crying out for? “What’s a laptop? Can I eat it?” Not just poverty and starvation either, how about we buy children freedom from being kidnapped and [...]

Mon and I aren’t naturally tidy people. It doesn’t help that we both work, stupid people we are, so by the time we deal with the kids of an evening, we are too knackered to do much more than just stay on top of kitchen and laundry, let alone getting the house to display [...]

Prosperity doctrine is quite big in Australia. Give to God so that God will give back to you. God wants you to be rich. Why wouldn’t you follow a religion that offered to make you rich on earth? It’s not because we are all greedy bastards who want to be rich though.
It’s because [...]

From an email Mon sent me :
Year 1981

Prince Charles got married
Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe
Australia lost the Ashes
Pope Died

Year 2005

Prince Charles got married
Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe
Australia lost the Ashes
Pope Died

In future, if Prince Charles decides to re-marry and Liverpool wins another
European crown …… someone really should [...]

Talking to a user on the phone today, I said something like “Well, when I fly out the door at 5pm and 5 seconds, the other [IT guys] are still busy with stuff cos they are so devoted and I’m, well, I’m a total clockwatcher”. A friend was in the office and said [...]

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice…Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance – how violently I hate all this; how despicable and ignoble war is…I would rather [...]

From The Age :
Ms Bishop said she had no problem with members of other faiths adorning themselves with religious symbols, such as Christians wearing a cross or Orthodox Jews a yarmulke.
“I have no concerns about people who wear a cross or people who wear a skull-cap because I haven’t heard any leaders of those communities [...]

A crikey.com.au subscriber recently sent an email to Bronwyn Bishop’s office to clarify her position on the Muslim headscarf, posing this question “I am a Jewish constituent and I am wondering if your view that the head scarf not be worn at school also applies to the Jewish skull cap.”
Reply from Bronwyn Bishop’s office:
Dear Writer
Thank [...]

Just near my house is Club Kilsyth. Well was anyway. This morning we could smell smoke and thought oh dear, someone’s house is burning. We heard sirens so we figured they knew. The smoke got really bad, it smelled kind of like a coal fire but stinkier. Then we heard some [...]

The iTunes Music Store. Finally available in Australia.
$1.69 per song, $16.90 per album.
You probably wouldn’t pay $16.90 for a download of a new popular album, when you could get a CD for $20 at Big W, and you get a CD you can hold and look at the pics and usually lyrics and stuff. [...]