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No password, no chugga-chugga! April 28, 2006

Posted by Dale in : Blog Roll, Funny Pictures, Humour, Quotations, Web links , Comments

Guide Dogs Victoria


If you’re in Melbourne on Sunday 30th April, you could do worst than visit the Guide Dogs Victoria Open Day. See here.

Since Cazzie reminded me of Douglas Bader.
When he visited a New Zealand school kid, in 1954, who had lost his legs, Bader’s advice to the kid was:

Good luck, old lad. Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that.That’s nonsense.

Make up your mind, you’ll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

Website of the day - My Cat Hates You


I need the password monkey-boy

Four female comedians I’d like to have a coffee with. April 10, 2006

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Tracy Harvey
I’ll always remember the way she made me feel when I saw her “What is this Thing called Love?” piece on The Smallest Room In The House.

Kitty Flanagan
What do you call it when someone is so talented you remember who they are, but forget their name? Kitty was in a British comedy series called “The Sketch Show UK”, and I thought “That’s Kitty Flanagan!”

Corinne Grant
Apart from her comedy, it must be her country girl looks. Why, oh why has she traded jeans for dresses? (on The Glass House)

Mary-Anne Fahey
Pig-tails, freckles, Kylie!

Better to have and not need… - on self reliance, and the lack of, these days April 2, 2006

Posted by Dale in : Beta Testing, Vista, Windows , Comments

Spent the last day looking at Windows Vista Beta 2. It’s amazingly stable for a Beta program.

Things I don’t like:
* Office update doesn’t work
* Some programs which worked under Windows XP don’t work here
* Not a whole lot of driver support yet.

Things I like:
* Security is much better.

I’ve blue screen’d it once so far in 24 hours. By installing software I just knew it would barf at. System Restore saved me.

For a beta product, it’s good.

Better to have and not need, than to need and not have…
Saw this in a security presentation some years ago, and was reminded of it when Cyclone Larry barrelled though parts of Queensland.

When I was living in the north, I used to keep a “cyclone kit” with 2 weeks worth of supplies. Soon as a cyclone watch was declared, straight down to the local servo to refuel both cars. Rest assured, if a cyclone was going to hit, it would be straight into the cars, heading down south.

Miranda Devine sums it up:
Australians, especially outside the big cities, used to pride themselves on their self-reliance and resilience, forged in a hard, unforgiving land. Now, according to images beamed back to Sydney, they have become helpless victims. A category five cyclone comes to town and it’s all the fault of Queensland Premier Peter Beattie and Prime Minister John Howard.