If you perform a genetic modification to a food crop, are you applying a vegie patch?

So that’s it for Howard, and we’ll gloat a bit more in a sec. For those of you on the right, it’s OK, I’m sure you’ve been paying lots extra into your super, and your investment properties and trusts will tide you over during the long dark economic night of Labor rule, and you [...]

You’ve no doubt seen the ads that the Liberal party are saturating us with, informing us that 70% of the Labor frontbench is made up of ex-union officials that will be ‘an anti business disaster for Australia’. I felt Labor missed the opportunity to point out that 100% of Coalition frontbenchers are focussed [...]

Went to the zoo the other day and saw the new Orangutan habitat. It was great, and the apes are clearly loving it, plus they enjoy showing off for the visitors.

This guy was sitting right outside the window playing cute for the cameras. Click the pic for a full size version. [...]

Doing somethingin Word the other night when Connor knocked on the wall of the study while I was editing items in a list. Sprinted quietly to his bedroom and he was asleep, no drama, came back to the computer and saw :
5. blah blah blah
6. | <-cursor
7. etc etc
with no idea what I had [...]

If you perform a genetic modification to a food crop, are you applying a vegie patch?

You may have noticed that Telstra/Sensis don’t know how to design a website – Sensis sites are monstrous obscenities with terrible layout, which take upwards of a minute to load even on a 512K connection with a decent computer. AFL, NRL, and the White and Yellow Pages sites are all frustratingly slow, with animated ads [...]

My ipod died for real a few months ago. Like, they sorta crash and you can fix them sometimes, but this time there was no resuscitating it. So I got by for a while with an old 256 meg usb thingy I have for these kinds of emergencies, but the interface is whack [...]

The news headline ad that says what is coming upon the news tonight of course began with footage of Remembrance Day ceremonies. Solemn faced veterans and families, and people in general, remembering men and women who gave up the comfort of civilisation and went into hell. Whether they were right or wrong, we [...]

The view from the front seat of the HJ as we came round a bend on Lilydale-Swansea road the other day, as taken by Ash on my phone.

Man…