3 in a row
Posted on August 2, 2007 - Filed Under News
hey i am on a roll 🙂Avon descent
Posted on August 2, 2007 - Filed Under Personal
this weekend is the Avon Descent weekend a race down the Avon and Swan River (its the same river, but changes its name for some reason) about 134 kilometres, some of whichis white water you can use a power boat or paddle a boat last weekend i went to some rapids not far from where i live, Bells rapids there were a few guys in paddle craft honing their skills in the rapids plus some guys whom it seems go to play in the rapids just for thefun of it anyway it was a good excuse to take photos and hone my skills at moving subjects in bad lighting (it was a rainy day) although i did enjoy it enough to go both Saturday and Sunday 🙂 Sunday i only took my Haminex 400 mm screw mount lens and was surprised at the images it turned out the photos (some at least) are on my site
the real photos are here
g’day
Posted on August 2, 2007 - Filed Under General
yous all how y goin wanna come over for a barbie and a kick of the footy, a couple of beers and a spin in my Holden? its byo though 🙂 no worries she'll be right mate 🙂my last post
Posted on August 1, 2007 - Filed Under General
as an Englishman Seeing as i have lived here for nearly 40 years i figured i should become an Aussie so i am off to be naturalised wish me luck i hate hospitals lol and i will see you all soon Mate 🙂skateboarders vs. priest
Posted on July 31, 2007 - Filed Under News
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 it then read the news article http://www.cathnews.com/news/707/164.php does the news article really tell what should be the real news heres the link in case the youtube thingy dissapears (again) hereTrillion-Dollar Decision
Posted on July 25, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News
Hi Oz I read in The Australian today an article dated last month that for Australia, carbon trade would be huge.Not that I totally understand all of that. The article mentions going nuclear a lot as well."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 and renewable energy sectors would become economically viable with CO2 (carbon dioxide) priced between $20 and $50 a tonne. At those prices, Australia's 560 million tonnes per year of emissions would cost between $11 billion and $28 billion - if every tonne were costed - generating a market worth between $4 billion and $9 billion."
"There are a bunch of models which say, if you take climate change seriously you will reduce the economy by 5 per cent by 2050. "On the other hand, on $125 billion (of GDP) in 2050 the cost is $2 trillion. There is no precedent for a government to make a trillion-dollar decision".More on the Article HERE
~Boz
Dust Plumes from China to North America
Posted on July 22, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism
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 Asian economies in plumes so vast they alter the climate. These rivers of polluted air can be wider than the Amazon and deeper than the Grand Canyon."
"There are times when it covers the entire Pacific Ocean basin like a ribbon bent back and forth," said atmospheric physicist V. Ramanathan at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif."
On some days, almost a third of the air over Los Angeles and San Francisco can be traced directly to Asia. With it comes up to three-quarters of the black carbon particulate pollution that reaches the West Coast.
This transcontinental pollution is part of a growing global traffic in dust and aerosol particles made worse by drought and deforestation, said Steven Cliff, who studies the problem at the University of California at Davis.
So where comes the climate change?
The article continues:
"Over the Pacific itself, the plumes are seeding ocean clouds and spawning fiercer thunderstorms, researchers at Texas A&M University reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in March.
The influence of these plumes on climate is complex because they can have both a cooling and a warming effect, the scientists said. Scientists are convinced these plumes contain so many cooling sulfate particles that they may be masking half of the effect of global warming. The plumes may block more than 10% of the sunlight over the Pacific.
But while the sulfates they carry lower temperatures by reflecting sunlight, the soot they contain absorbs solar heat, thus warming the planet."
~Boz
Pupil Browse Porn on Donated Laptops
Posted on July 20, 2007 - Filed Under News
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 with laptops in a primary school in Abuja have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with explicit sexual materials," NAN said."The article goes on to say that NOW, the laptops as part of this plan, would be fitted with filters. Something very wrong with donating laptops abroad, to CHILDREN, and no one thought ahread of time to provide them with filters. Article here ~Boz
i will see your new orchid
Posted on July 19, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News, Personal
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 a female wasp i really do find orchids fascinating 🙂 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070717-orchid-wasp.htmlBig Belly
Posted on July 18, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News, Technology
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 by the Seahorse Power Company, look like mailboxes and are very easy to use. “They have a pull-down handle on a small door at the top, ‘like a mailbox,’ "Photo gallery here ~Boz 🙂
Sweaty Feet Orchid
Posted on July 18, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News
~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 weren't what first led her to it, but rather the smell of sweaty feet the Yosemite bog-orchid emits to attract would-be pollinators" or to use her words, -- 'Eew, what's that?'" said Colwell, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey in El Portal. "It smelled like a horse corral on a hot afternoon."
The plant, which is the only known orchid species endemic to California's Sierra Nevada range, grows in spring-fed areas between 6,000 and 9,000 feet, Colwell said. All nine sites where the orchid has been spotted are in the park.Photo and article here ~Boz (Don't think of sending me any. Pink Fairy Orchids will be fine)
Gore – Greenie or Doofus.
Posted on July 17, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News
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 daughter's wedding. On the menu at the reception? Chilean sea bass - arguably one of the world's most threatened fish species; unless people stop eating it, it may be commercially extinct within five years.
According to the Daily Telegraph:
"Also known as Patagonian toothfish, the species is under pressure from illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities in the Southern Ocean, jeopardising the sustainability of remaining stocks. The species is currently managed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Marine Resources, the body which introduced a catch and trade documentation scheme as an attempt to tackle illegal poaching of this species."Let's go out on a limb and say that he really doesn't believe what he preaches, why would he, in the name of all that's holy, would he constantly bend the rules for himself, knowing that he is a public figure? I guess the answer to that, is, he like many of his 'kind', feel they are the elite, the exception, that they are above the rest of us. Their actions are and likely will continue to be, the proof of who or what they think they really are. If it's an 'honest' mistake, then, he is a Doofus, he should give up and let someone else head the cause, but face it, those $100,000 speaking fees, are way too hard to turn away from. Irritated, ~Boz
China’s Three Hour Limit?
Posted on July 17, 2007 - Filed Under News, Technology
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 ID number. At the end of three hours, they will get that prompt. If they stay on, the scores get slashed in half, to an eventual wiping out of points if they stay on as long as 5 hours. Read more here: China Cracks Down on Teens Playing Video GamesÂ
Tintin, an adult graphic novel?
Posted on July 17, 2007 - Filed Under News
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 Bookstore in Britain because of allegations of racism, and will get the same treatment by the superstore chain in the United States.
The other Tintin titles will remain in the children's section.
» More on the story HERE
You can pick up Tintin materials below, including DVD's!!
The Adventures Of Tintin: The Castafiore Emerald, Flight 714, Tintin And The Picaros (Adventures Of Tintin, Vol 7) (vol. 7) (Hardcover)
Hurricanes a la Mediterraneo
Posted on July 16, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism
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 settlements."Even though it talks about rising sea levels, I have to wonder about other news articles stating that real estate market thrives near the shorelines of the world. Why is that? Do they want a front row seat, and are willing to invest their hard earned money to watch the water rise? Or is it something else? ~Boz
PM for myspace
Posted on July 12, 2007 - Filed Under Humor, News
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 be more like there home land so i thought you may like a link to his myspace, he needs all the friends he can get http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=51071614 oh and hopefully he will read some of the comments and even if he ignores the comments he may do something about the education standards down here iz axin, watch u finkNorway
Posted on July 11, 2007 - Filed Under News
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 every 86 Norwegians has more than USD 1 million.
I was then led to how they are making electric cars. It hopes to make about 10,000 a year.
And finally, I resisted this headline, but in the end I HAD to go look "Incan bones found in Østfold." They say there is a bone in the neck that hasn't grown and this is an inherited characteristic only found among Inca Indians in Peru, but there the remains were found, in Norway!
Sigh, well even if it were only for a moment, I felt liked I traveled somewhere exciting.
~Boz
The Customer Isn’t Always Right?
Posted on July 11, 2007 - Filed Under News
 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 break a contract so easy is unsettling. Sure makes you think about business getting too big, though. » Story HERE ~Boz
