Archives, eh
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# Links for 2004-12-31
- The Best Links 2004 ✴
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# And I'm back…
…and my brain is very very numb.
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# Holidays
In eight hours I wake up and leave for my holiday. Seven days away, driving up to Queensland for Chrstmas at Mum and Dad’s place in Bundaberg, a visit with the polar bears at the Gold Coast, and then back again.
It’s about 1600 kilometres from here to Bundaberg. If anyone asks "Are we there yet?", the answer will be a screeching halt followed by "We are for you"
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# Looking forward to my big sleep
Donna has bought a spinning wheel. God, I hope they don't sell sheep on that bloody site.
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# Links for 2004-12-20
- Tutorial in Rails ✴
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# Storm
There was a storm yesterday. Here in Ingleburn appears to have been the epicentre of damage. Perhaps you can see why this was so. (3meg .mov)
You can hear D saying she is worried about the tree in our backyard. I didn’t have the heart to tell her about the tree I had seen blown down just before I started taking the movie.
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# Links for 2004-12-17
- css Zen Garden: Ocean
brilliant ✴
- css Zen Garden: Ocean
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# Links for 2004-12-16
- The Cubes
I always suspected my life was a game being played by unknowable figures of power ✴
- The Cubes
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# Treason is the new facism
SMHThe New Year's Eve fireworks went off early when Sydney's Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, yesterday announced a disco version of the national anthem would be played at this year's celebrations.
Talkback radio erupted as callers slammed the dance rendition as "treason" and "a bastardisation" and derided the city's plans to suspend a giant spherical sculpture from the Harbour Bridge for the evening's grand finale.
Treason? Who knew that dance music was dedicated to violation of allegiance to one's own country? Who knew that inthemix.com.au was actually an organisation devoted to overthrowing the government and setting up a nation dedicated to as many beats per minute as humanly possible.
The NSW Opposition Leader, John Brogden, declared the disco version of Advance Australia Fair "offensive and completely inappropriate" and said the original version should be left alone.
Nobody complained when Katie Noonan came out and sang a gorgeous version of the national anthem at the rugby league grand final a few months ago; a version that sounded nothing like Dodd's original. The national anthem itself is a bastardisation of the original. Get some perspective, people. When John Williamson gets up and plays the Australian anthem on his acoustic guitar, it is nothing like the original, yet he is lauded as a true Australian; but mix it up faster and put a beat to it, and it's treason, it's offensive , and it's tasteless. Pathetic.
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# Links for 2004-12-14
