Orange Juice Snobbery

Wednesday, 31 October 2007

Ho, Ho, Ho, Halloween!

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Despite there being no tradition of Halloween in Australia, you can't blame a few kids getting it into their heads that donning a witch...
Sunday, 28 October 2007

Books, glorious books!

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I don't know where it was first coined, but I first saw the word "biblioholism" in the book Biblioholism (whaddya know?) by T...
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Saturday, 27 October 2007

Railing against CityRail

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Now as a non-driver I've always relied on public transport and walking, much to my detriment. My feet show huge sores that are mocked by...
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007

"The Used Ink Tank is Almost Full"

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Message from my printer. Phew. And I was starting to get worried about all this artificial intelligence hype.
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Saturday, 20 October 2007

The Biggest Number in the World

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Column Eight (Sydney Morning Herald) mused a bit about what's the biggest number in the world. "There's no biggest number"...
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Friday, 19 October 2007

Election '07: I like worms

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Mr Rudd has just agreed to an election debate with Mr Howard, and there's going to be a worm. At first Mr Howard didn't want the wor...
Thursday, 18 October 2007

The whimsical contradictions of pollies pushing for power; or Election '07: now even I've started a diary

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I just received an email from Senator Steve Fielding of Family First, urging us to put Family First. And to give him my telephone number so ...
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Wednesday, 17 October 2007

Ode to the dastardly less or fewer Coles Express Lane

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When it's 12 Items or Less, It's FEWER! When it's Coles Express, It's FEWER! The signs are so meaningless They should say FE...

Sweet Ever-child

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Is it just me, or does the word "child" seem kind of incongruous here? Apparently she's a young, early-twenties inexperienced ...
Saturday, 15 September 2007

Politically Correct Comedy

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There was an episode on Kath & Kim recently where the foxy ladies waded into the election debate. Brett gets fired from work under the n...
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Monday, 10 September 2007

I guess a case of do as I say, not as I do?

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In today's Daily Telegraph: Don't be selfish: have kids Pope's blunt message
Friday, 7 September 2007

Wonka Wisdom

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I must say I must be the coolest person ever. Or at least close to. I just received my Borders Shortlist (sign up at the Borders Book Webpag...
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Thursday, 6 September 2007

Baby Games

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Over on TimT's blog he's pining a bit for kids' game shows and giving us the latest rundown on the Einstein Factor for kids. ...
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Isle Of Ignoramus

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Recently, the International Committee On Citizens And Immigrants came together to discuss a serious matter seriously, not just swap Iced Vov...
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Tuesday, 4 September 2007

Infuriating bits of technology

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A laptop has been frustrating Mr Coffee lately. Laptops are very good at that. They are very infuriating creatures, because just as you are ...
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Maria
Maria’s first real recollection of the wonders of manipulating technological beasts come from vague memories of dubbing Kylie’s ‘Locomotion’ from one cassette to another. Thankfully for all concerned, she’s never figured out how to audio stream it onto a personal blog. Her own flirtation with blog-posting has been recent, short, violent and intense, as all good affairs ought to be. Longer lasting loves have been sustained with orange juice, chocolate and the colours green and purple. She has been criticised at length and often for her verbosity and the frequency of her opinions. She is still constructing her official 300, 000 word response to her critics.
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