7 years ago today, I started blogging.
I removed access to my archives a while ago cos I was a bit mean to Telstra back in the day, and I didn’t really want that to be seen as being written by me as an employee of the company. So it was safer to abandon them.
But it’s a good thing, cos re-reading some of my early blog posts in 2003 makes me hugely embarassed that some of that trash made it onto the web!
Jenny posted this. I thought it was cool, and so I’ll join in…
A – Age: 24
B – Bed size: Queen
C – Chore you hate: Guess I don’t really hate any… I just tend to avoid them all. I’m not keen on gardening.
D – Dogs’ name: Don’t have one, and no great desire to ever have my own.
E – Essential start your day item: Coffee. Every weekday morning without fail. I usually go without a morning coffee on weekends.
F – Favorite color: Green
G – Gold or Silver: Silver
H – Height: Have no idea really. A bit under 6′ maybe?
I – Instruments you play: Piano, guitar, bass
J – Job title: IP Solution Specialist
K – Kid(s): none at this point in time.
L – Living arrangements: A house in Westleigh with wifey, and we’ll hopefully own it sometime in about 20 years.
M – Mum’s name: Julie
N – Nicknames: Jimmy
O – Overnight hospital stay other than birth: none
P – Pet Peeve: Ignorant drivers, arrogance
Q – Quote from a movie: Just taaaaap it in, give it a little tappy, tap tap tap-a-roo.
R – Right or left handed: Right
S – Siblings: My sister, Jenny
T – Time you wake up: Alarm will usually go off from about 6am. Sometime between then and 7am is when I actually get up.
U- Underwear: Bonds
V – Vegetable you dislike: Squash, zucchini
W – What makes you run late: myself – distinct lack of time management
X – rays you’ve had: I think I’ve had a hand xray, and dental, and that’s about it.
Y- Yummy food you make: I really enjoy making new things – stir fries especially, using whatever sauces/flavours I can find. Recipes are boring.
Z – Zoo favorite: Haven’t been to the zoo in 20+ years I don’t think.
I did very much enjoy the end of GNW this week:
We leave you with the good news for the week ahead…
Qantas will release it’s yearly results from a hole in the baggage compartment.
Rio Tinto will also announce its yearly results; apparently executives are down.
The World Air Guitar Championships will be held in Finland, which is where Neil & Tim come from.
On Wednesday, it’s the national day of Afghanistan – there will be fireworks!
And the Bodypainting Championships in South Australia will go horribly wrong when many of the painted bodies are recognised by grieving relatives.
Collection of recent iPhone pics…
Just posting a picture of my breakfast this morning to test out Lightbox – this very cool plugin to enable some nice picture displaying on your blog.
I do love parliament and the sledging that goes on:
“Last week, Clare Werbeloff shot to international fame after she went to extraordinary lengths to get herself in front of the camera … to get that few minutes of fame,” [Anthony Albanese] said.
“But unfortunately when you look for the substance it wasn’t there … just like the leader of the opposition.” [smh]
And this morning, Merrick & Rosso were talking about sledging in sport. And I thought this one was a beauty:
Mark Waugh: “Look who it is! Mate, what are you doing out here? There’s no way you’re good enough to play for England.”
James Ormond [little known English cricketer]: “Maybe not, but at least I’m the best player in my family.”
Based on my twitter profile. From my TweetStats, here.
Want to know how a sample of Cairns residents are going to be spending the KRudd money? It’s gold.
Click below to see their answers. Make sure you check out the Corey-looking guy on the end – Bogans at their best!
[apparently from the Cairns Post - but found in an email forward]
To play my entire iTunes library would take 11 days, 9 hours, 9 minutes and 19 seconds.
On the back of my last post, this only seems appropriate.
I’m in two minds; a lot of the stuff in this video, while hilarious, is very true of Twitter. And I see a lot of myself in it to.
But it made me laugh. A lot.
I’m glad I’m not the only one a bit confused by this whole Freeview thing…
I may be a bit late jumping on the bandwagon… but this is the best idea I’ve heard since Mark Skaife decided to retire.
Australia Day has had its day. We need Australia Week – a seven day lamb-athon to properly celebrate our great nation. Instead of one public holiday, we need seven. Instead of one lamb barbie, we need 21 lamb meal opportunities – not including snacks. Which imbecile thought one day was long enough anyway?
If you still call Australia home, stack the fridge full of lamb, take the week off, and celebrate with me. Any boss that won’t let you is a bum. Just chuck a week of sickies instead – what could be more Australian than that?
Awesome.
Get in quick for some amazing savings! Surely they can’t keep things discounted this much for long…
I really, really want Guitar Hero World Tour for my Wii. Looked at the tracks a couple of weeks ago, and it’s way better than any of the other Guitar Heroes… Living End, Sublime, Bon Jovi, Lynard Skynard… brilliant tracks! Not to mention the inclusion of drums and vocals. On Saturday, Micah brought over his Wii to B2’s house, along with his guitars and drums, and we rocked out for a while. It’s definitely more challenging than the older Guitar Heroes as well, which is cool.
Found this on YouTube… awesome.
Widget city… there’s so many of them. And a lady in the background says random facts every now and then. Quite fun for a few minutes of time wasting :)
And now some random pictures that have made me giggle for the last few hours…
Mr Rees impressed the Shebang panel of Marty Sheargold, Fifi Box and Paul Murray with his knowledge of his local electorate of Toongabbie, getting four from four questions right.
The Premier was able to name the chicken shop on Cornelia Rd, the area’s colloquial moniker Toony, the public school on Fitzwilliam Road and the cost of a chicken schnitzel at the Toongabbie Hotel.
That’s impressive.
I wouldn’t have known how much a chicken schnitzel was at the pub. I would’ve known the other three though. And as for the moniker… How do you really spell it? Is it Toony, Toonie or Tooney?
[quote from smh]
Oh I remember these… and remember laughing so hard at them for so long. And now he’s back doing some enforcing against Sarah Palin. Very humourous :)
I still reckon there’s nothing like the original though…
Love it.
One of the best ads I’ve seen in a long time. Who’d have thought a gorilla at a set of drums could be so awesome.