Week ending Sunday 2010/07/18
Monday 13:39
Melbourne's public transport rots while the gov'mnt finds $2.8billion for yet another freeway tunnel. #bogan #populist #election [Original.]
Monday 13:40
Monday 14:46
1915, australian pop. 5million, 50,000 soldiers in WWI. 2010, pop. 20million, 17 soldiers die in Afghanistan and each one front page news [Original.]
Monday 15:38
Oh look, we're moving to a new job-tracking system so old jobs are being closed to "tidy up," what a great way to avoid FIXING ANYTHING [Original.]
Monday 15:48
A challenge, o cow-orkers of note: find the oldest extant job in your local job-desk/problem software... [Original.]
Tuesday 09:39
Statistical Proof Paul the Octopus is the spawn of cthulhu faustusnotes.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/statistical-proof-paul-the-octopus-is-the-spawn-of-cthulhu/ [Original.]
Tuesday 09:48
placates frustrated colleague; staff are "too busy" doing job manually to have time to assist with their own request to automate it [Original.]
Tuesday 11:25
Lotus Notes starts. Lotus Notes logs in. Lotus Notes gets insanely busy. Lotus Notes crashes and starts debugger. 3 minutes of my life gone. [Original.]
Wednesday 09:08
dear melbourne motorists, pedestrians ARE allowed to walk across pedestrian crossings, you do not need to scream abuse and hoot. thnx [Original.]
Wednesday 09:21
I'm at Monash University Building 203 (700 Blackburn Rd, Notting Hill). foursquare.com/venue/3937843 [Original.]
Wednesday 14:28
headline du jour: 'Walls of fat' removed from London's sewers www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/walls-of-fat-removed-from-londons-sewers-2025528.html [Original.]
Wednesday 15:05
Heraldsun #fail: RSS says "Worker killed by drum at docks" becomes "Worker, 41, dies after being hit by steel beam..." www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/worker-40-dies-after-being-hit-by-beam-at-appleton-dock/story-e6frf7kx-1225891547478 [Original.]
Wednesday 15:58
may have a challenging ride home. "SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING for DAMAGING WIND" www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV65756.shtml [Original.]
Thursday 09:12
Dear Ford Territory, XAV636; Victoria has road rules, please learn them. Screaming "Get Fucked" and swerving at cyclists isn't one of them. [Original.]
Thursday 13:58
Vendor phoned; asking for "further input" on my product survey response. What product, I ask. "Don't have that info." they say. Huh? says I [Original.]
Friday 09:14
webecoist.com/2010/07/15/wood-carving-trees-as-a-medium/ found one of my photos worthy of inclusion (flic.kr/p/ta8D1) [Original.]
Friday 09:50
SAN outage, 6 out of 6 cluster nodes killed dead. Perfect score to the data management team :) [Original.]
Friday 10:56
@enyap_ynot @ben www.burbia.com/node/4869 [Original, responding to @enyap_ynot.]
Friday 11:18
#QOTD: "Taxi drivers are dumb. That's why we are taxi drivers," he said. www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/culture-shock-for-untrained-cabbies/story-e6frf7kx-1225892367883 [Original.]
Friday 13:37
finds it remarkably difficult to locate information on "the dragon with the girl tattoo" [Original.]
Friday 13:42
FFS! Deliberate hit and run gets a suspended sentence. www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/hit-run-teen-walks-free-from-geelong-court/story-e6frf7kx-1225892644210 Geelong has the 2010 UCI road cycling championships! [Original.]
Friday 15:01
is that drums I hear? ah, no, just the headhunters calling on the phone [Original.]
Friday 15:16
all praise our stingray overlords... www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1302862/Stingrays-terrorise-California [Original.]
Saturday 13:07
election Aug 21 not Aug 28 as suspected. Hooray, one week less of boot licking mindless grovelling pork-barrelling politicians in our faces [Original.]
Sunday 09:40
runs outside to watch a bloody great steam train trundle past [Original.]
Sunday 17:54
Mr 2yr old points at photo in the paper "Me no like that man". So sorry Ayatollah Khomeni, he #disapproves [Original.]
