Mixer tap

The replacement tap was only $97.  A bargain considering it is a Dorf.

General body statistics….

It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb). The average man’s penis is three times the length of his thumb. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s. There are about one [...]

Overconfidence

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The Art Of Existence, Les Kossatz

This reminds me of the shearing sheds we have in country Victoria.You can see it at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, between 22 November and the 8 March.

The address is: 7 Templestowe Road Bulleen, Victoria Australia

If you’re really clever, you would visit on the days they have Exhibition Tours.

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Microsoft Office Excel cannot find the data you’re searching for.

I’m doing some analysis of Help Desk data, and I often use Excel for this task.  Now I know a helpdesk caller did log a problem with the subject “five things I hate about my iPhone”.

But Excel couldn’t find it (see picture right).

The problem was caused by the Excel feature “Find [...]

Short collection of interesting things

The Three Laws Of Consulting, via Alik Levin’s MSDN BLog

“In spite of what your client may tell you, there’s always a problem.” “No Matter how it looks at first, it’s always a people problem.” “Never forget they’re paying you by the hour, not by the solution”.

 

Stop stealing my blog posts…..

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Rule .303

There was an episode of Law & Order SVU on recently, dealing with a teenager who couldn’t control his sex drive, and who eventually raped his teacher.

I’m sure the victim of a sex offender is never the same again.  Oh sure, there is counselling, but the damage to the soul remains.  In the [...]

Wisefaq Word Cloud

Just tapped my blog url into Wordle, and it generated this Word Cloud.  Interesting.

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The other chair goes round and round in circles.

From an office in Alice Springs.

Two kinds of government chair correspond with the two kinds of minister: one sort folds up instantly and the other sort goes round and round in circles.

- Yes Minister, Open Government

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