Archive for April, 2007

Moved

April 23rd, 2007

Oh yes – moved house. Now in new home sans Internet (*bites knuckles*) for a little while. Well not totally sans Internet – I am connecting my Linux box to the world via PPP over dial-up. Yes – welcome back to my childhood. In case anyone is interested iinet provided some old instructions for running up a ppp connection. That was useful because it’s been about ten years since I last did it. And AT commands (otherwise known as the Hayes command set)? Wow. It’s been a long time since I typed AT anything. But I got there in the end.

This, however, does mean I am not on IM nor Skype. If you want to chat – call my mobile. :)

P.S. Oh yes – house good, lots of little things that need to be fixed, cats come home this weekend, etc, etc.

Japan mulls beefing up gun laws

April 19th, 2007

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I rest my case regarding idiot Americans. Japan has one high profile shooting death – the response? A beefing up of gun control laws.

America? Well, let’s keep upholding the abused and misunderstood right to bear arms – even at the expense of the lives of our citizens. Again, and again, and again.

American logic

April 18th, 2007

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A Korean student armed with two handguns kills 32 students and then himself

What should we ban? Koreans or firearms?

Well naturally it’d be Koreans. Guns don’t kill people – Koreans do.

P.S. Yes I am awfully sorry about the students who died but surely it’s about time Americans grew up when it comes to firearms.

The Pixies – oh yes – The Pixies

April 7th, 2007

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We went and saw The Pixies – and it was way cool. I mean way cool. I am still humming along. I was going to write a summary and but Ruth beat me too it because she’s like a nerd and blogs all the time and stuff.

But anyway the “we” in her post is me and her. You can read it here.

New house

April 2nd, 2007

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Well I finally managed to buy a house – settlement is middle of April. It’s in Collingwood – a hop, skip and jump (in the unlikely event I ever exercise) from my current home. It’s a little further away from the city but still close enough for my needs.

I had been looking in Brunswick but had decided Collingwood is a much more sensible venue. It’s closer in and most of the places I looked at in West Brunswick were quite a hike from shops and transport. Especially since I am either on foot or on wheels.

It’s a nice little single-fronted weather board house with three bedrooms, an open plan living area, two bathrooms and a nice kitchen – mmmm nice kitchen. Actually having a kitchen I can cook in is going to be great – my current digs are not conducive to easy cooking as I have no room and no bench space and limited fridge size. So perhaps if I have any money left over I might buy a new fridge … and possibly a new washing machine given how fucked my current one is. Sick of lint-covered clothes. :)

I have some photos y’all can have a look at here (not my furniture BTW – previous owners…).

Comment and trackback spam

April 1st, 2007

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Stupid spam. We hates it. Started to get hit by comment and trackback spam. Which is most annoying. Comes in fits and starts and some mornings – like this morning – a small mountain of trackback notifications were floating in my mailbox. So I am going to try to fight back – installed the EE Bad Behaviour plug-in and locked down my comment and trackback settings. This does mean that you can’t add more than two links in a comment now but hell – barely anyone other than spam bots actually comments so… :)