We're on a W-class tram, the old wooden ones with the nice seats that were comfortable in the heat and whose brakes didn't seize up - but let's not get into that. You could still get on these things and do a tour of the Melbourne CBD on them before COVID struck. Anyway, there's me and Mum and
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So…today would’ve marked thirty-one years of service for, in, at, with, to, on behalf of and because of the ATO. It’s reasonable to suggest that eleven of those would have been without promotion, because it was eleven years before I actually got one. Now, some of that is due to not applying for any promotions, first because I only had the job on ( Read more... )

From time to time as life goes on, I have made numerous visits to various educational institutions, in order to educate myself-or at least to credential myself in something I already know. Collingwood TAFE in 1986 is an example of the former ( Read more... )

Who reading his isn't familiar with PayPal? Mum and the FGM, possibly. Well, there was a time when I wasn't familiar with it either but, similarly to good ol' LiveJournal, I was introduced to it by deslea who seems to latch on to every Internet trend in a nanosecond and isn't remiss in proselytising them as soon as she gets within cooee of a forum to ( Read more... )

So, if you've been following along, you will have noticed a few errors in the last posts. So I'm just doing a quick update to correct some of these errors. I went hack and edited the actual code for "Darren's Rare Working Photo II" and in a minute or two I'll add the photo you should've seen at the end of "captlychee and the Sunny Day"What I discovered in ( Read more... )

So, the weather on the ABC News was predicting a frighteningly hot day with babies being boiled in the car, old people collapsing all over the place, species facing extinction, extinction facing them back, brownouts, blackouts and interruptions to power supply, three quarters of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse turning up to glare balefully at we ( Read more... )

Have a look at this page here: http://www.users.on.net/~hippy/default.htm and have a look at the link 'Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs - a eulogy'. I'm rather proud of this page because it utilises colours I obtained by scanning the original cover of the book.(ISBN 10: ( Read more... )

One of the 1,602,775 things in the world that totally piss me off is my inability to get these e bloody
tags sorted out. If you have a look at my previous post you'll see what I mean. The explanatory comparison of Þ (thorn) and Ƿ (wynn) are supposed to be side by side, goddamnit, and not one above the other ( Read more... )

So, as you may be aware, or may have been made aware by the sudden appearance of a notice about it on your machine's taskbar, Microsoft has brought out another version of Windows. windows 10 it's called and Microsoft claims it will be their last instantiation of the operating system. What will they replace it with? I don't know. Stop bothering ( Read more... )

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So, I was stumbling back from the supermarket a few minutes ago when I got to the front door and, looking down, spotted something I hadn't spotted before:


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