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Having the sum of five hours of travel to and from work each day leaves me plenty of time to think when I’m not sleeping. The most recent thing I was thinking about was how the promise of fast ADSL speeds are used against consumers. ADSL2+ speeds can be anything from 1.5Mb to not quite . . . → Read More: The Rort That Is ADSL Last weeks Q&A, wherein they discussed Euthanasia, was one that I’ve been mulling over since. Most of the discussion was your usual crap that serves no purpose but one of the panellists briefly touched upon the informal euthanasia which is currently practised by hospitals. This made me think of my mum. My mum had cancer . . . → Read More: Dealing with life On my way to work yesterday I accidentally got onto the wrong train and ended up at North Ryde station. The last time I was in the area was when I was working for Gateway and the train line was in the planning stages. What a sexy station though, it makes me want to live . . . → Read More: Train Woes To those of you who don’t have the Priority Inbox in your Gmail yet, I need to tell you something: I have it :p Everything seems much closer After visiting the optometrist he suggest I get glasses because I am far sighted. While my vision is not that bad, I get headaches after looking at anything close for extended periods such as a monitor. It was interesting during my vision test when he had me hold a card . . . → Read More: Seeing Everything New In Part 1 of my epic weekend I discussed Saturday, but Sunday was much more involved because we spent the day at the zoo. I’ll admit I grudgingly dragged myself from bed early on Sunday so that we could get to the zoo when it opened. We’re talking me waking up on Sunday the same . . . → Read More: The Epic Weekend – Part 2 I knew going into last weekend that it would be a busy one. Saturday morning I we were straight off to watch my nephew play soccer in the grand final. It was a tense game with neither team scoring and even after an extra 5 minutes each way they still couldn’t break each others defences so it . . . → Read More: The Epic Weekend – Part 1 Those of you who still visit my blog, something I try to do myself occasionally, will have noticed there is a new advertisement on the right. Those of you who deign to read my musings via an rss reader (which is my preferred way of keeping up with sites) will also have noticed ads. After . . . → Read More: Google Adsense When I first heard about the National Broadband Network I was excited, and who wouldn’t be with 100Mb (which is magically turned into 1Gb) access for all? Then the details started to filter down and over time my excitement has diminished to the point where now I personally think the NBN is a mistake, at . . . → Read More: NBN I really love Q & A on the ABC so was surprised to see a special Q & A on last night after Dick Smith’s documentary about resource waste/management and population control. As usual they had a loudmouth on the panel, this time in the form of John Elliot, who with his tiny world view blathered over . . . → Read More: Q & A Dominates |
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