http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4529647.html Yeah. You know what? If you need three weeks of intensive brainwa… uh… whitewash… uh… counselling in order to “discover” that you’re “completely heterosexual” … then you’re probably not. Just sayin’, is all. Most people can tell these…
From Aardvark today: The [young Maori] girl in question appeared to be bright and intelligent — however her lack of general knowledge and simple comprehension of the world around her drew the quality of her education into focus. Despite all the media coverage (the Sunday papers and TV were full of…
“LADY LAKE, Fla. — Tornado victims and their supporters turned out for today’s service at a church that was demolished in the killer storms that waylaid central Florida, trying to stay optimistic about the long recovery ahead. The cleanup that began not long after Friday’s destruction took a brief…
Annette’s dad plumbed in our fridge over the weekend, which means that we now have a chilled filtered water dispenser and ice dispenser (cubed or crushed). This pretty much, if I may, rules all. We’ve had the damn fridge for like a year or so, and haven’t…
Ikea sell pretty much the exact desk I’m looking for, adjustable to a wide range of heights, including the all-important standing up one. And it’s quite cheap. I shall await their Auckland store opening with anticipation. I was reading a local Auckland magazine in the cafe today, while…
Last night I went to the Hysteria bar on K road to see the Masters of Metal. I hadn’t actually seen this band before, but reviews from my friends were positive, along the lines of: “OH EM GEE you haven’t seen MoM? [Throws up horns and assumes rock…
So, the iPhone. Until I realised that it didn’t have 3G capability (only GPRS/GSM) I actually had nothing less than a VISCERAL NEED for one of these devices after watching the keynote speech. The physical and logical UI looks _that_ slick. Oh Lord, does it look nice. However,…
I get up in the middle of the night, full of xmas cheer and xmas chocolate, only to find upon checking The Internets that the one and only James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, the Hardest Working man in Wossname and all that good stuff, has died, aged 73. The…