24 Feb 2007
| I just was looking through some paperwork (room cleaning goodness…) and discovered an RTA paper, which reminded me that I didn’t get my eyes tested when I got a new license last week. So I could be driving blind and they’d never know, heh. : |
I <3 government agencies. (Bondi Junction, in case you were wondering).
(And, just for the record, my vision’s completely fine… the door hiding the eye test was open a tiny crack and I could make out one of the letters on the bottom line okay)
24 Feb 2007
I know this is an old story, but I stumbled across it again today & found the phrasing amusing:
“They revolutionised Britain’s music industry, conquered America and now the Beatles are set to dominate the download charts after settling a trademark dispute with Apple computers.â€
Apple computers can be used to settle trademark disputes! Yes, even lawyers can use them!
Heh.
23 Feb 2007
So some American rocks up and Sydney stops. There were more police than civilians in some parts of Sydney last night (Circular Quay), public transport is stopped, private vehicles are allowed in, and it must have cost an absolute fortune in overtime.
All for some American power-behind-the-throne. If he’s going to be the key string-puller, he should at least stay invisible so we don’t need to concern ourselves with his (admittedly unwelcome) presence.
They were blocking all useful traffic (but letting private cars through? Bizarre…), and claimed to have been using sniffer dogs on the cars they were letting through. Yeah, right. I didn’t see a single dog last night. I was wearing a backpack the whole evening. OH, LOOK, THERE GOES A TERRORIST!
No-one stopped me…
Then, after having blocked off half of the northern CBD, police stop a protest from going ahead on the grounds that it’s going to cause traffic chaos. Like that was a consideration a few nights back.
And, whilst I’m on this little soapbox, what on earth is a “lawful protest” about? “Oh, here you go, protest in a nice little out -of-the-way place where no-one can see you, much less be seen by the person you’re protesting about/to. Just… stay away from the Rocks and everything’ll be okay.”
Because I’ve seen so many rabid gun-toting uni-students trying to blow up the US puppetmaster. Nevermind that Australia has far-more-sane gun-control legislation than the US does… John Howard isn’t the centre of all this rubbish when he travels to the US, even, and yet over here we’ve got to keep unarmed protestors a good couple of kilometers from their target in case they pull out… well, something.
Meanwhile, I don’t know whether I should be satisfied or frustrated that I was wearing a conspicuous black backpack all evening around various protest sites and didn’t get glanced at once.
Go home, Cheney. You’ve wasted enough of Sydney’s time and resources already.
23 Feb 2007
I just did the maths and figured out that if I were to spend an average of 0.4 seconds checking each spam message that evil people threw my way, I’d have already saved two hours of my life because of Akismet’s filtering.
Two. Hours. I only started using it on the 13th of January — that’s a little over a month ago. Just using Akismet wins me back half a day every year! (Probably more, coz 0.4 seconds is for scanning over each spam message, not including the time it takes to flag legitimate messages that wind up in mod queues and save them)
23 Feb 2007
After staring at a file with intent thoughts of opening it for a good two seconds, you wonder why the computer’s not responding. Then you realise people normally use an input device other than their mind to achieve such mundane tasks.