Izzie has been a busy little serpent. When not slinking about the city attending assorted culture vulture events or watching the full moon rising over the river, been pottering about in Cyberia doing studious stuff or making lame attempts to catch up on ridiculous amounts of tempting books.

Present reads include "Turing's Vision - the birth of ( Read more... )

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This is the time of year down under when folks start to think about their taxes and make a mad dash down to Officeworks to get some last minute items to claim. Officeworks and some stores selling tech toys stay open until midnight to make life easy for the hordes of disorganized or procrastinating goblins ( Read more... )

Izzie's been so busy in the Muggle world that the magical domains of Cyberia have been seriously neglected. So much so that I had 3 days left on a Vodafone recharge and 8GB of a 10GB allowance unused. Once midnight of the 28 day expiry period arrives, all those juicy unused gigabytes just turn into pumpkin puree. So that was just the temptation ( Read more... )

Be afraid. Be very afraid ( Read more... )

Happy Grinchmas

Ayn Rand makes Cthulhu look cute, cuddly and positively humanitarian.

I know which of the pair I would rather spend Christmas with

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The Witching Hour for the Goblins of Oz fast approaches. At the stroke of midnight a bright shiny new Financial Year begins. Just the perfect excuse for a certain serpent to dust off the cobwebs and make a squeaky clean new start ( Read more... )

It’s that time of the year again when both the state and federal governments put the final touches to their plotting and planning and preparations for the ritual of the dreaded annual Budget ( Read more... )

It’s hard to believe that it is exactly 5 years since the collapse of the Lehmann Brothers bank which ushered in the end of the financial world as we know it. Well sort of. A couple of minnows like Bernie Madoff got tossed on the frying pan while the sharks, giant squid and other big fishy goblins just continued with business as usual ( Read more... )

Izzie has been pigging out on what is possibly a last online seed buying binge.

As of Monday 1st July courtesy of the state government, there are now new fees for home gardeners who buy seeds from overseas or even interstate ( Read more... )