It’s alive
Published 29 October 2006My cockroach friend is awake and attempting another escape. I can hear it thrashing about inside the coke can sat near our network router.
I’m too scared to touch the coke can in case it miraculously passes through the aluminum and goes for my throat.
Telstra’s at it again
Published 29 October 2006…actually, I don’t know if Telstra’s commandeered a domain before, but hey, they have now.
In a post from the whitepage.com.au site that will probably vanish by the end of the week:
It’s with bitter disappointment that we announce to you the news of the recent WIPO (world governing body that determines the ownership of domain names) order to transfer WhitePage.com.au to Telstra Corporation Limited.
Now it’s not half obvious that whitepage.com.au is one ‘s’ away from whitepages.com.au (which has a shitty search engine, if you ask me. You didn’t? Well, too bad).
What grubby bastards Telstra are. Australia’s only local free blog provider gets royally told to fuck off and will probably decrease the chances of a similar service starting up for us down under. It’s not as though blog provision and an A-Z of names are competing industries, or that telstra was going to lose ONE MILLION DOLLARS (/Austin Powers) because of cyber-squatting.
While I signed up for a whitepage account, I did it more on principle and to support Aussies; a year ago I still had a relatively hack-free domain of my own. We gotta show the man that we aren’t gonna take their shit.
Because it’s not like there’s anything else the budget could be used for
Published 28 October 2006” Every Australian school will be eligible for a $20,000 grant to employ a chaplain – on condition the government is happy with its choice of spiritual guidance provider.” – Chaplain grant for all schools – Sydney Morning Herald
What a fucking joke. This grant is apparently available to government and public schools for application – Most private schools that are run by a religious congregation already have chaplains or spirtual leaders in their school communities. Offering them the chance for a grant to pay the bill will only increase their already healthy profit margin. Catholic schools, where fees are lower and government subsidised, have a spiritual and counselling guidance systems already in place, as well as details pastoral care policies. So why not just make this available to government schools?
Better yet, why not go for non-denominational, not-discriminatory-to-non-christians counsellors? When I was at school there was a culture of fear of seeing the counsellor, what makes John Howard think a spiritual guide will make difference? Why not spend some money on programs to make counsellors more accessible to kids?
Better yet, why not spend the money on improving the wages for Australian teachers, or – for something completely out there – the Australian medical system? Fuck knows we need it.
It’s not half obvious that he’s trying to improve his profile with the upcoming election…
Renovations, week 13
Published 28 October 2006
Our entire ground floor has been gutted and rebuilt from the floorboards up. Today is the end of week 13.
Today we have realised that we can cook for the first time in our new kitchen, something we’ve been wet-dreaming about while we’ve been cooking food on a camping stove in the makeshift kitchen in the garage.
I say we, when really it’s Dan and his mum who do all the cooking in this house. I just watch with amazement and clean up the mess. I can’t cook to save my life.
They’re not the only ones who have a new toy to play with today, though. The kitchen sink is also in and ready for crazy washing up goodness. I’ve never been so excited about washing up before. I’m sure the novelty will wear off soon enough.
Tomorrow starts week 14 of renovations, and hopefully everything will be done by week 20.
Bloody bloody BlogSpot and Netvibes
Published 28 October 2006Is there something wrong with NetVibes? Why am I constantly getting timeout errors? Their blog hasn’t been updated, so I dunno what the fuck is going on.
And BlogSpot sucks. All I want to do is add some blogger blogs to my Netvibes setup (provided the page actually fucking loads), but apparently RSS feeds are a paid feature on blogger accounts.
Screw you, BlogSpot, and kiss my arse. If WordPress.com can offer RSS feeds TO EVERY MEMBER OF THE SITE, why can’t you do it? Bastards.
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