This, I deem, is the first chink in Rudd’s armour:
This is the age of the professional women who run their own companies, who have their own lives and are not simply appendages of middle-aged men.
Ol’ Kev has looked cool, concise and focused over the past few months. A couple of minor scandals here and there won’t him too much. The appendages quote however, while it may have been a faux pas, was clearly not vetted by his speech writers, and demonstrates to me that he may not have the quick thinking skills required to squeeze past lil’ John come election day.
I predict the beginning of the end. It’s been nice knowing you, Ruddster.
A week of bitch-whinging from Manchester fans.
I was unimpressed with SBS’s coverage of the cup final. If you’re going to have a one-eyed Mancunian in the commentary box, and a one-eyed Mancunian on the couch next to Craig Foster, you could at least balance it with a Chelsea fan.
Neither team played a brilliant game, but based on the SBS coverage, I’m glad that Manchester lost. The “over the line” controversy is irrelevant: firstly, the ball only went into the goal because Giggs’ momentum pushed Cech over the line – a clear foul. Secondly, the ref didn’t signal a goal, so there’s no point whinging about it.
So if you meet a Manchester fan this week, hit them with a pre-emptive “shut up” from me.
Addendum: Craig Foster was a voice of reason amongst the other crap.
The good people at Dreamhost contacted me this morning to inform me that I was at the top of their “heavy users” list. Not good. I spet the morning trying to find the problem, but couldn’t find a solution. Joel suggested that I switch wp-cache on. I did, and I hope that it works. Judging from the output of top, it has.
Also had a very long day at work, which was the culmination of a week where our server was replaced, resulting in a lot of downtime for our clients, who got very angry and tried to send us abusive emails. Luckily for us, the email was down too. I took the opportunity to head down to Melbourne while the chaos was resolved.
More issues this afternoon when we discovered that a few water meters weren’t working. Turns out that they had used to wrong meter for the job, and we’ll need to sweet talk our way out of an increasingly gloomy hole.
Luckily I’m heading to Melbourne again for a couple of days next week, so hopefully that issue blows over while I’m gone.
Meanwhile I have enthused enough of the guys to start playing Diplomacy, a play-by-email board game I recently stumbled across. Progress can be followed here.
Beer time.
Another prime example of natural selection failing in the modern world comes from Lake Luzerne, New York.
Damion Mosher [...] put bullets in a vice and whacked them with a hammer to empty the brass shell casings…
Can anyone guess what happened next?
[The first 100] rounds that Mosher hit had “fizzled”, but one was somehow sent with more force… [This] bullet went about two centimetres into his abdomen.
Give that man a new!
Apparently, the above number is owned by the AACS, and it is illegal to post it on the internet.
Help annoy the crap out of them by posting it everywhere.
Also, check out this excellent site which allows you to create your very own integer, protected under the USA’s ridiculously idiotic Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
Here’s my integer. If you take it, I’ll sue you.
AD 79 B4 54 40 B8 22 28 E3 DB E6 3A 9A 31 6A 3D
The first chink
General | stu | 
May 25, 2007 3:31 pm | 
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