Mixing Metaphors

Firefox Download Day

Greg — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:12:45 +0000

Don’t forget today is the official Firefox Download Day as they try to set a new world record. Its actually wednesday here rather than the day since i couldn’t download it yesterday but thanks to the wonder of timezones there is still time. Get it while it is hot!

Your Fracking Kidding Me

Greg — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:36:26 +0000

So i got the chance to watch the mid season finale of Battlestar Galactica tonight. I’ll try not to drop too many spoilers into this post but it was a jam packed episode with a rather suprising conclusion. I was disappointed as the pace could have been a little slower to savour some of the events. But overall i felt like i have for most of this series, that its got a little tired and exhausted.

Now the other thing that gets me is that their definition of mid season finale is different to mine. It suggests an interlude for a couple of months at the most, not 8 months long after 10 episodes of a 22 episode series.

Brrr cold as

Greg — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:37:09 +0000

Brrr its cold here today. My fingers are chilled and the day outside is even colder with an annoying mist hanging around and I am thinking that it is going to be an even colder night tonight. Last night i took pity on the dog and let him stay inside which accounted for a bad nights sleep as he insisted on trying to remain in the middle of my bed. Dear little fellow was comfortable i think!

Mersey Hospital back to the Tasmanian government

Greg — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:43:29 +0000

Wow after almost a year later things have gone in a complete circle with the news that the Mersey Hospital is being handed back to the Tasmanian Government:

AFTER all the pork-barrelling and political wrangling, the Mersey Hospital will return to the Tasmanian Government and be run essentially as originally planned before the Howard federal intervention.

The small hospital at Latrobe, near Devonport in Tasmania’s northwest, was handed to the commonwealth during the federal election campaign last year.

John Howard’s intervention, aimed at retaining the then Coalition-held seat of Braddon, promised to save the Mersey from a state government plan to strip it of an intensive care unit.

So a year and a whole lot of political wavering later, the status quo remains.

Life Insurance Quotes

Greg — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:30:52 +0000

I was just looking at Advantage Term Life who sell life insurance online. While no one wants to think about it but at the end of the day we are all going to go one day and lets face it, we all want to make sure when we do pass, that our family is looked after when we are gone.

Now the good thing that to find the right rate isn’t that hard. You can get an online life insurance quote quickly and easily and you can compare the policies and rates of different insurance rates of over 25 companies and all are listed from least to most expensive. Once you find the piclies you are after, you give some details and the application will be sent straight away.

So for a whole of life insurance policy you really should consider Advantage Term Life

And she would know how exactly?

Greg — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:45:11 +0000

I was reading the news and while i don’t normally care what they do, this really made me wonder how the Queen would know what a proper job is and the benefits that it brings:

THE Queen wants Prince William’s girlfriend Kate Middleton to get a proper full-time job before the young couple consider getting married.

I really do wonder. Now if the whole family could do me the favour of staying out of the news for a couple of weeks i would be appreciative!

New AntiSpam Tool

Greg — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:05:38 +0000

Blog comment spam has always been a problem as if you have a blog, a spammer is going to come along soon enough and try to promote their product or services. I have been quite happy so far with the services of Akismet as an effective plugin to stop the spam dead in its tracks.

But because of the constant bombardment of spam i am always on the lookout for something better and so i have decided to give TypePad AntiSpam a test drive on a couple of my blogs to see how it performs.
I’ll let you know how it performs.

What is … or rather where is The Matrix?

Greg — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:08:33 +0000

I must confess it is a bit sad when it comes to wanting to watch a movie and despite owning two copies of the dvd, being unable to watch it. I like to think of The Matrix as a single movie and really don’t care about the other two movies prefering to forget that they exist. But the first …. i would like to watch it again so where the hell are either copy?

I took the Pledge

Greg — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:06:09 +0000

I just took the pledge. No, not that one, the one to download Firefox during download day and help to set a new world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. For my own region (Australia) i was pledge 3,535 although technically i should have two since i will download it twice with one to my laptop and one to my desktop!

If you are interested then visit the Download Day 2008 to pledge to download. It really is that easy!

Beware the Haunted Swing

Greg — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:43:09 +0000

I must say i was a little skeptical at the idea of a haunted swing but after viewing the video below there is definitely something hinky going on the way that it swings by itself.

The other thing that crossed my mind was that maybe its a hoax but a crowd of people can be seen watching and hoaxes are best done with no audience since the more people that know a secret (like you made a hoax about a swing), the less likely it is to remain a secret