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(Caution, this post may contain tongue in cheek bullshit!) Ponder This.... what if our Air Conditioners are the direct cause of global war...

I couldn't find rules 1 to 4 ..... :-/

T his is our Butterfly that has resided on the front of our house for a few years now. You might think it is purely decoration, but it...

Hi all, I haven't posted to this blog for several years, (nearly 5!!!) so I thought I'd best keep it going. Incidentally my Vegemite...

Our bleeping Westinghouse refrigerator is having it's annual spack attack!  Seems to be a yearly event that we have to have major repair...

...just a quick post to mention I am toying with the microblogger Twitter at the moment....@ CessPitts. Can't say whether I'll sti...

I had to laugh the other day when Jimmy Buffett "walked" ( OK fell!) off stage. The doctor who just happened to be at the concert ...

.....following on from the last post re. android apps. I can now list a few favourites: games... angry birds, fruit ninja and anoduko ...y...

Ok, so I've finally got an android smartphone. A Nuvifone A50 to be precise, which has an inbuilt (satellite not mobile phone tower ) ...

Dilbert recently commented on people who crowd their browsers with useless toolbars at the expense of browser window space. I still repai...

...Garfield (our ginger Persian cat) is recovering well after having his right eye surgically removed by the Vet, a result of an out of cont...

... yet another "people power" generation copycat ... this one will give you a free meal if you generate enough power on a cycling...

ubuntu 10.04 LTS 'Lucid Lynx' ...coming soon...... LTS (long term support) versions are supported for 3 years (desktop) and 5 yea...

Sadly we have lost another of our long lived pets, Jack the Budgerigar. He passed away around midday today after 12 well lived years. Not a ...

Apologies to anyone who tried to access my "Vegemite and the Dark Side of the Moon" blog recently,  seems the "asteroids...

There is an ad on tele currently that appears to have borrowed my musings regarding treadmill power production, see my blog entry 18th Apri...

It is with a great sadness I have to inform of the passing of our oldest pet, Bingo. Not totally unexpected considering her age (17 years) ...

You'll have to speak up .... went to the AC/DC concert last night. . . My ears haven't recovered fully yet!!! Talk about a powerho...

Earth hour again approaches.... ...time to spend an hour with the family in the dark (or candle light) ...hmmm has anyone looked at the...

....just received a pic sent via MMS from Macca who must be on holiday in Rockhampton....   .... apparently it's the other left! Hey K...

...it's been nearly two months now since the Movember mens health fundraiser and today arrived on the doorstep a prize that I won throug...

Some of you may know I have this particular affinity with the number 47. This began many years ago when I was 19/20ish years old in the very...

I changed the template for this blog....thought it needed a change. I'm not restricted now by the fixed column size of the old templat...

...continuing on regarding our sick dog . Since my last post about her condition I found some info regarding feeding hints for dogs with the...

Earth Hour are running a campaign at the moment , counting down to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Vote...

..not me! the dog! Holly to be precise. Friday morning noticed one of the dogs had vomited up their dinner from the night before...I assum...

I reloaded my Linux box yesterday with the latest ubuntu release. (from scratch so as to format the drive using the new ext4 filesystem).......

The Pets in our house currently outnumber the Humans and on top of that the majority are minorities! The only true Aussie is Jack the Budgi...

I have joined my brother John in team Danger Mice to grow back my moustache to raise funds for Movember, the mens health fundraiser support...

For those following the Danger Mice Folding @ Home progress: I was reliably informed by email (thanks Pete) that we have surpassed the Mil...