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Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetAh, that strikes me as a case if PTS (no, not PMS, PTS) - Public Transport Syndrome. True, Nipples may have been a minor annoyance, but while waiting for the bus and then on the train is when the agro started, yes ?Apart from the guy on the train having excellent taste in women, that is.Now you know why I bought a bike, and once I have the gear will ride to work rain or shine - I HATE PUBLIC TRANSPORT. I hate having to share my personal space with smelly, rude, obnoxious people. I hate being pushed past just so some old biddie can get a seat on the train. I hate people who have their ipods so loud the who,e carriage can hear the crap that is permeating their skull and destroying what little grey mush they use for a brain.We need to get your car back on the road STAT !!!
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThat's kinda how I felt when I got married the first time, purely because it "was expected", and I thought it was "the right thing to do". I also felt, after my divorce, that I was "discarded goods" and unwanted, which is why, in some ways, I was on a self-destructive bent for many years.I don't mean booze, or drugs, etc. Just that I didn't care what happened to me. I was living in London for almost 4 years after the divorce, and I humbly admit (with no small modicum of shame) that I would shag anything that moved. I just didn't care about myself, and that translated into not caring about others, not how they felt or who I hurt.And I have to admit that there were at least two ladies I met over there who actually loved me for ME, not for what they wanted me to be, and I hurt them both badly.Yeah, it hurt - it hurt so badly when I realised what I had done to myself over the previous 4 years that when I returned to Australia for my sister's wedding I just wanted to die. And I probably would have killed myself if I wasn't such a big wuss about pain.But I learned by what I had been through - no experience is ever wasted, there's always something to learn. Yes, I'm still cynical, intolerant of fools, intolerant of people who have the ability to achieve and are too lazy to use it, and as @mrsmoldor would say "a right royal pain in the ass" sometimes. I also would do anything for my family and friends - the ones I have now who really matter to me.I spent so many years climbing the corporate ladder (former Lawyer) and stepping on the little people that I forgot who I really was. Hopefully I'm starting to re-learn about myself.Hey, that's life, I guess.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI don't think your life has been all that different from any of the rest of us - in fact, you HAD a plan.... Mine was to get out..Moved out of home when I was 18, when my biggest fear was that the Vietnam War would continue and I'd get called up, and went from disasterous relationship to marriage to divorce all by the time I was 22. Then back to the disasterous relationships..:-)I was paranoid of turning 30 - and age I didn't think I would reach as it was so "far away" it didn't bear thinking about. All my friends - friends that I haven't seen since - said I was a right royal pain in the ass..:-)I'm turning 51 next week, and I guess not much has changed...
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI would love to see this in iTunes as well – as I would love to see it with something like “Spring” or “Pachabel’s Canon”
An amazing piece of art – congratz !
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetPrice of the 1000HE here in Australia is $749, and that is upgraded to 2Gb RAM - some people are selling them online for around the $500o mark. I'll probably get one from ebay when I find another job.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHadn't thought of trying that. Good suggestion - I think it's a bit deep though - if you drag a fingernail across the screen you can actually feel the depth of the scratch.Stuopid thing is a new screen on eBay is %$85US plus postage (around $110 AUD I think), from the company I bought the laptop I can get it for $149AUD), but bloody ASUS want $350AUD for it - they will only supply and fit. When I asked why so expensive I get "That's just what we charge"
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetGreat instructions - my *idiot* wife, litterally 10 minutes ago, threw a pair of scisors to me (yeah, I asked for them) and instead of throwing them onto the coffee table next to me tried to land them in my lap - of course they bounced and put a small, but very noticable, scratch in my screen.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetCobalt Networks, eh ? I have a Cobalt Qube 3 Pro here complete with all original parts and carry case if you know someone who wants to buy it…:-)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetYou have it easy over there. Try dealing with telcos in Australia !!
I pay $30/month just to lease the land line and receive calls. I have ADSL so I need a land line, and my ISP doesn’t offer naked DSL, so I have to pay Telstra (government-owned telco) and that really gripes me. No, I can’t get cable, and wireless is ridiculously expensive.
Fortunately for me I hit upon the fax solution by accident. I have a Canon MP980 which is brilliant, and does everything EXCEPT fax. For that I use my ISP’s fax-to-email gateway.
Send an email to @fax.isp.com.au with a password in the subject line and your fax in the body. If you have a PDF or Word document attached, it takes THAT as the fax instead. They give me a no-charge VoIP number for receiving faxes.
Faxes sent to a normal fax number they provide appear as an email attachment in my inbox.
Cost is 10C/10 pages, and 20C/page from 11 onwards, and no change for receiving.
They also give me a free VoIP number for my local and international calls – local at 10C anywhere untimed within Australia, and USA for something like 0.002/minute. Yes, point 2 of a cent per minute !!!
I can even ring 1-800 numbers FREE as they have a US PSTN connection – or I use Skype.
If I could get rid of the need to pay Telstra for anything I’d chop down the land line tomorrow.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetAll I can say is OUCH !!!
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetIllegal – it was her DAY OFF – no union would uphold that. Then again, would she want to work for such a bitch ?
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI was going to get into this discussion, as a parent of two girls, but what I have to say would probably take several pages.
I will point the forum to my blog after I have completed my musings…:-)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetPause the first ad around the 6 second mark and check out the guy driving the electric cart pulling bins - sure looks like Richard Branson to me (ok, in a wig, etc).
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetAn excellent resource - I’ve only scanned a few of the policies, but the rest are a definate read this weekend.
This is becoming a bigger and bigger problem in Australia, and not in a way that companies expect.
Consider: you work for a company that has a blogging / twitter policy of THOU SHALT NOT - at all. How is this enforcable ? Is it enforcable at all ?
Yes and no - your company / department can (as my former employer did) block access to Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, MySpace - the list is long but distinguished. We had NO ACCESS to anything, and this was their right to do. They can block anything on their network, and no-one is saying they can’t. Yes, they provided two machines in the staff lunchroom for “unmonitored” internet access, not connected to the corporate network, but blocked sites on those machines as well.
But that power does not extend to any twittering / blogging I do in my own time on my own machine at my own premesis (or anywhere else - I love Maccas free Wifi !!). Please note we aren’t talking about publishing corporate secrets, etc. If I were to work for, say, Telstra (which would make me incredibly desperate) and I were to critisise their broadband prices in my blog, there’s very little they could do about it - legally or otherwise.
Jon Biddell’s last blog post..Is Customer Service dead in Australia ?
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetAAARRRGGGHHHH !!!! I think I’ve gone deaf !!!!