skateboarders vs. priest
Posted on July 31, 2007 - Filed Under News | 1 Comment
Hi Boz this is a story that came on the news here last night we didnt get to see the full video seems it shows the Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, Very Rev Geoff Baron, confronting a group of youths riding skateboards on the church property. but here it is on Youtube watch […]
Read More..>>Trillion-Dollar Decision
Posted on July 25, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News | 1 Comment
Hi Oz I read in The Australian today an article dated last month that for Australia, carbon trade would be huge. “AUSTRALIAN financiers stand to benefit handsomely once a carbon emissions market is introduced, says Ziggy Switkowski, head of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. Dr Switkowski told The Australian that both the nuclear […]
Read More..>>Dust Plumes from China to North America
Posted on July 22, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism | 2 Comments
Hi Oz! Seems everything these days, we can just blame China. 🙂 But since we’ve been warned, I just better give the news straight out. From the Wall Street Journal: “An outpouring of dust layered with man-made sulfates, smog, industrial fumes, carbon grit and nitrates is crossing the Pacific Ocean on prevailing winds from booming […]
Read More..>>Pupil Browse Porn on Donated Laptops
Posted on July 20, 2007 - Filed Under News | 1 Comment
Oz, Now, this can sure be filed under, “before donating, add child filter.” This news story is from Reuters, Oddly Enough Section: “Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday. Efforts to promote learning […]
Read More..>>i will see your new orchid
Posted on July 19, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News, Personal | 1 Comment
and raise you a … new orchid Hi Boz after reading about that new orchid you posted i by chance came across this article i was reading about how slow T rexes really ran it is about a local hammer orchid that deceives a male wasp into having sex with it by pretending to be […]
Read More..>>Big Belly
Posted on July 18, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News, Technology | Leave a Comment
Hi Oz This was an interesting find on ZDnet: Big belly is a solar-powered trash compactor, recently installed in Chicago Park District, to keep the beaches clean and safe. It kinda looks like a normal trash bin, but this one holds 4-6 times as much. “According to the Chicago Park District, the BigBelly compactors, built […]
Read More..>>Sweaty Feet Orchid
Posted on July 18, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News | 1 Comment
~Oz I know how much you like your native orchids, I thought I would share a fairly new one found at Yosemite, by Botonist Alison Colwell. “The new orchid species that flourishes only in the wet meadows of a beloved portion of Yosemite National Park. Botanist Alison Colwell said the species’ tiny, tennis-ball yellow flowers […]
Read More..>>Gore – Greenie or Doofus.
Posted on July 17, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News | 1 Comment
Oz I know you have a heart for endangered species. Who doesn’t? So I hope you excuse my sarcasm and bite here. I just cannot believe that Gore just completely preaches basically just to hear himself talk, as what he says rarely matches what he does. Can you believe it, he recently hosted his own […]
Read More..>>China’s Three Hour Limit?
Posted on July 17, 2007 - Filed Under News, Technology | Leave a Comment
Oz! I’d love to be a fly on the wall of more than a few teenage boys when upon, for the first time, reaching three hours of video game play they see this announcement: “Stop and do suitable physical exercise” A new rule has gaming companies install a program that insists that players enter an […]
Read More..>>Tintin, an adult graphic novel?
Posted on July 17, 2007 - Filed Under News | 1 Comment
Hi Oz! Do you remember Tintin? I never heard of Tintin until I went to Europe to live for a year and became a great fan of the books. (Later on, the HBO movies). It might interest you to know the title, Tintin in the Congo, has been removed from the children’s section of Borders […]
Read More..>>Hurricanes a la Mediterraneo
Posted on July 16, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism | 1 Comment
Hi Oz An article in Reuters says that global warming may trigger hurricanes over the Mediterranean Sea. There was a line in the article that interested me: “Most models in our study show increasing storm intensity and if you combine this with rising sea levels, as are projected, this could be damaging for many coastal […]
Read More..>>PM for myspace
Posted on July 12, 2007 - Filed Under Humor, News | 1 Comment
g’day Boz i thought you may be interested in this (and any one else that may be intereseted)(well it made sense to me 🙂 ) i know you have liked some of our Prime Ministers policies, especially on illegal immegrants, and migrants that dont want Australia to be Australia but want to change it to […]
Read More..>>Norway
Posted on July 11, 2007 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
Oz! I don’ t know what in my net travels led me to a Norway’s online newspaper, but once I was there, I found myself clicking on one story after another. The first was that Norway can claim the most millionaires in the world (per capital)! It goes on to say that one out of […]
Read More..>>The Customer Isn’t Always Right?
Posted on July 11, 2007 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
 Oz 1,200 Sprint Customers will soon be without phone service. Sprint-Nextel is disconnecting more than 1,000 subscribers on grounds the clients call customer service too often and make “unreasonable requests.” This will sure make someone think twice about wanting good service and complaining if they don’t get it? The fact that Sprint can just […]
Read More..>>Hell No
Posted on July 10, 2007 - Filed Under Humor, News | 1 Comment
Oz, I bet there is a lot of REAL news going on over there, but, I thought it would interest you what FOX NEWS selected as the story out of Australia to pass on to Americans. Seems there is this little 5 year old boy who was being made fun of at school. So the […]
Read More..>>The Ridiculous
Posted on July 9, 2007 - Filed Under News | 1 Comment
Hi Oz We have 12 million people crossing over our borders illegally, while here driving drunk and killing our own, pollute and trash our borders, and take our jobs. Law enforcement seem powerless, government and business just look the other way, yet, let a 70 year old grandma who is unable to afford to water […]
Read More..>>New Terragens
Posted on July 8, 2007 - Filed Under Personal | 1 Comment
I’ve been sick with a cold and little energy to do much. I’ve been using this time opening up the Terragen 2 program up again and trying new things. You can see the more of the new (and older ones) » HERE
Read More..>>its raining again
Posted on July 7, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, General, Humor, News, Personal | 1 Comment
g’day Boz this is the second Sunday in a row its rained i dont know who organised the weather this year but they sure mucked up the weekends its only supposed to rain when i am at work or asleep anyway i took advantage of it to do some stuff on my site and to […]
Read More..>>Beatles Lyrics: UE Challenge
Posted on July 7, 2007 - Filed Under General, Personal | 1 Comment
This week at the Unique Weekend Challenge is Beatles Lyrics. I went way out on a limb I think with this one: “Carousel” from Sun King Here comes the sun king Here comes the sun king Everybody’s laughing Everybody’s happy Here comes the sun king Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon Mundo paparazzi mi […]
Read More..>>I Feel Pretty!
Posted on July 5, 2007 - Filed Under Humor, News | 1 Comment
Oz! I know I have mentioned to you about one of our democratic candidates, John Edwards, charging outrageous sums of money to make speeches on poverty, and also I have mentioned to you about his $400-$1400 hair cuts. I couldn’t resist to put this YouTube video on of Mr. Edwards primping before he went on […]
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