This accidentally fell out of her pocket when I bumped into her. Took me four goes.
Thursday, June 24
Well, That's Not Something You See Every Day...
Australia has a new Prime Minister today -
Julia Gillard. No, we haven't had an election (that will happen later this year). Rather, the Labor Party dumped Kevin Rudd.
And a good thing too - particularly if they can also take the scalp of Senator Conroy in the process. Between them, former PM Kevin Rudd and Communications Minister Steven Conroy have been delivering Australia the worst government in thirty years. (Thrity-five to be precise. And we all know how that ended.)
Hopefully we'll see Senator Conroy replaced with Senator Kate Lundy, who has been an outspoken voice of sanity in the ongoing internet filtering circus. At least compared to Conroy, who has been consistently disingenuous and bordered on the delusional and defamatory at times.
On the down side, this certainly improves Labor's chances at the next election, which were, under Rudd, approximately zero. On the up side, I'm not too hot on Liberal leader Tony Abbott either.
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....the worst government in thirty years.
(Thrity-five to be precise. And we all know how that ended.)
So I did the math and Googled "Australia 1985"....and came up with this.
25 November - A man wearing a chicken
suit walks into the House of Representatives
and sits on the government front bench. He is later removed.
Was this really worse than the recent war on DFCs, or am, I missing something?
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Yes I missed something...basic arithmetic.
Now being awake and marginally more capable of math and belatedly realizing that 2010-35= 19
75 I
looked it up and found it was about as bad a year for y'all as it was for us.
So I gather that chicken men would be an improvement then?
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Sunday, June 20
Thank You, Greece
I had an mp4 file I wanted to play on my desktop PC, but my old version of Zoom Player didn't recognise it. So I downloaded the latest version of Zoom Player, and it promptly committed trialware suicide - it told me my 30 days was up and it didn't want to play no more.
Well, poop.
Okay, I know by now that Zoom Player is a good piece of software, and I'm willing to pay for it, so I go to their web site... And the
cheapest version is AU$55. Gak. For that price, I'm inclined to use MPC instead.
Except they have prices in other currencies as well, and a quick check shows that the same version is available for €24.95. A year ago that was AU$45; now it's AU$35.
So, thanks to Greece, as an Australian I saved nearly 40% off the price of an Israeli product. Gotta love global finances.
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Zoom Player is from Israel? I didn't know that!
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Yep, based in Haifa. It's not obvious at all, but I noticed it when I was clicking around trying to find a better price.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, June 20 2010 03:23 AM (PiXy!)
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I can't say I'm surprised that they're hiding that fact.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, June 20 2010 09:00 AM (+rSRq)
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You could have... you know, researched
some other media players...
But it's ok if you wanted to thank the developers by actually paying for an application you found useful. It's just... ZoomPlayer ain't really that good when compared to
some other media players out there.
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I quite like Zoom Player; apart from this issue it's always worked well for me.
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Thursday, September 24
A Dust Storm?
Apparently there was a
dust storm in Sydney yesterday. The dust storm was mostly in the early morning, and later on it was just windy, so I missed most of it. All I knew until I saw the
pictures later was that the sky was a bit of a funny colour (which was also true last week when they were burning undergrowth near where I live) and that my hayfever was going crazy (which was also true last week when...)
Apparently the sky was bright orange. I missed it all. I can see the stuff on my floor now, though. I wiped some of it up with a tissue and it is a distinct salmon colour, rather than the usual grey of household dust. I'll have to mop and vacuum the place - but maybe not just yet, because it's expected to return this weekend.
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Fortunately, he was just visiting. He got his picture taken holding a koala and went home happy.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, September 26 2009 11:36 PM (PiXy!)
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Sexist! Why do you assume it was a "he"? (Man, some people...)
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Tuesday, September 15
Doing Your Part
A while back I calculated, very back-of-the-envelopely, that we could offset carbon dioxide emissions if we all bought (and kept) three books a week. But I didn't show my work, and I'm not sure my numbers are right.
So, let's see. From
here there's a net of 4 billion tons of CO
2 added to the atmosphere every year. That represents just over a billion tons of carbon - CO
2 is 27% carbon by weight.
If everyone on Earth bought three books a week, that's a trillion books a year, more or less (156 books per person x 6.7 billion people = 1.045 trillion books). If each book weighs one kilogram (so we're not talking paperbacks here, unless the author is Neal Stephenson) that's a billion tons of paper. But paper (well, I'm using cellulose for my numbers) is only 44% carbon by weight, so that's not actually a billion tons of sequestered carbon. I think that's where I went astray before.
So, dividing 3 books by .44 to get the real number, we learn that a book a day keeps global warming at bay.
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...and you can burn them to counteract global cooling, so it's win-win! :-)
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Wednesday, September 16 2009 08:08 AM (9Nz6c)
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I'm doing my part!
Off topic--we are being bombarded with spam. I just ran the Blacklist spam finder over the last hundred thousand (yes, 100k) comments, and there are still at least 500 spam comments still to weed out from PP and Munuviana alone (I've zapped several thousand from the few blogs I have permissions for). Anything you can do to stop these pesky boot-sellers, Darling Pixy?
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Out of the last 150000 comments, there are 412 comments on entries for
which you have editing privileges that match your search criteria.
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Thanks Susie!
Yes, I'll give the boot bootleggers the boot.
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They are still winning!
Out of the last 150000 comments, there are 1571 comments on entries for
which you have editing privileges that match your search criteria.
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Sorry about that. Had to pull another all-nighter at work.
Okay, 60,000 comments deleted, several dozen IPs banned, and blacklist updated appropritely. That should slow them down a bit.
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Hey, Pixy, Wonderduck here. I'm in Chicago, at my mother's bedside, but I'm not sure when I'll have firefoxy access (this visitor computer has nothing but IE).
Could you leave a short message at The Pond saying that I'll be in-and-out of contact for a while for me? I think you still have access, yah?
Then delete this comment, if you want.
Thank you much, Poppa Pixy!
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No problem, Wonderduck.
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The same spammer is hitting you and hitting Brickmuppet. But it's interesting: the spammer's embedded anchors are turning into links here,
but not on Brickmuppet's. Does Ambient Irony use different rules, or run different code?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, September 21 2009 05:39 AM (+rSRq)
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same spammer is hitting you and hitting Brickmuppet
...and what's this deal about a "boot sexperience"?
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Spam? What spam?
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Wednesday, July 15
It's Been Nice Knowing You
Sydney is
going to be hit by a tsunami in about half an hour's time.
For reals.
Okay, it's only a little one, and I'm fifteen miles inland and six hundred feet up, but still...
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But still! A tsunami is a tsunami. Like a hurricane is a hurricane. There's no discount because of size. And it
could have been big. You never know.
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My internet connection dropped out!!! O the calamity!
Probably completely unrelated.
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Kind of puts a good spin on being left high and dry!
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Friday, June 05
Thanks Obama!
No, seriously.
The AUD / USD exchange rate is back above 80 cents.
A few months ago it had dropped to 60 cents, which made running the servers seriously expensive. Now it's back within my financial comfort zone.
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Thursday, November 27
Happy Turkey Day To All
'Ceptin the turkeys, I s'pose.
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Happy Turkey Day, Pixy!
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They give their lives for a good cause. And a good meal.
And good sandwiches afterwards.
Happy... um... well, I guess 'happy Thursday' to you, Pixy!
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Wait...
If
you eat a Turkey...isn't that....an abomination?
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Turkeys don't count. They're too stupid to count, for one thing.
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Thursday, November 06
Echoes
There's a Railway Street in Baulkham Hills.
Which is odd because there isn't a railway in Baulkham Hills.
But there was,
once.
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I grew up on Boones Ferry Road. There isn't any ferry, now, but there once was, across the Willamette River south of us. Also in that area were Taylor's Ferry Road and Scholl's Ferry Road. In all three cases the names were because the roads led to those ferries, back before bridges were built and put them out of business.
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Wednesday, November 05
Oh Well
America survived Carter; it will survive Obama.
Of course, the rest of the world almost
didn't survive Carter, and as to that, well, tough luck to the rest of the world.
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