Most people remember when looking at the title of this blog The Simpson's Episode with the film competition of the film of Hans Moleman getting hit by a football in the groin, with Homer crying out "Football in the Groin!, Football in the Groin!" for it to win the competition.

Very painfully, today in football (proper football that is) i did indeed cop a football to the groin. Very painful it was, I have not experienced one in quite a while, iirc my last ball-to-the-balls (if you excuse the description) was back when I used to play futsal a few … Read more →

Today I received quite a pleasant surprise. Andrew emailed me today and informed me that this blog had been referenced on http://raphael.doxos.com/, one of the biggest bloggers in the Orthodox Blogosphere.

See the specific entry and comments here. I find it amazing how half a world away in North Carolina (USA), that someone unbeknownst to me actually discovered and linked to me, it is really flattering. If you read the comments you will see how it came about.

Well that was my highlight for the day.

It seems that they are ironing out a few bugs in the … Read more →

No doubt everyone has seen on the news what's been happening in Sydney for the past few days. Without taking any sides, it is absolutely atrocious. Everyone that has been involved should feel ashamed on themselves for bringing Australia, and its reputation, into such disrepute.

Violence has never, and never will be the answer to any problems, whether it be by Lebanese gangs, or redneck Anglo Yobbo mobs.

To bring a bit of lighter stuff into this situation, the image below was making the rounds in the email forwarding circles today. Although done in really bad taste, i still … Read more →

Today was was a really busy and hectic day at work, probably the worst I have faced so far. Why? Today was the day that we changed phone systems from the old PABX one to the new Mitel IP phones, and plus I was the only full-time IT Support guy in the Brisbane office, as the others had gone to Sydney for the day.

I arrived at work to the lovely screeching sound of UPS alarms to find the servers being out of power and basically all computing systems down, including the phones. The UPS had kicked and safely shut-down … Read more →

I know I haven't blogged in a while, but here it goes. Please forgive any grelling and/or spamatical errors, as i'm quite tired.

Last week work was a bit interesting, partly because of the amount of spam and virus emails came through the company. Especially rampant of late were ones containing the Sober worm that took the form of an email from the CIA or FBI.

For some reason on Friday, the mail server chucked a fit and didn't work, and various things had to be uninstalled then reinstalled to get it back to proper functionality. Consequently, the office was … Read more →

Today the next major release of the Firefox web-browser, v1.5, was released. I am typing this entry out for the second time because Firefox 1.5 crashed when I tried to spell check the entry with the Spellbound extension. After updating the extension, it works fine, so that was an issue with Spellbound and not Firefox itself :).

Anywho, the new release contains some improvements, but not really any ground-breaking new features (it is only a x.5 release). Among the new stuff is drag-and-drop rearrangement of browser tabs, better updating, and one very unheralded but really useful feature of having the … Read more →

It seems the views for this blog have returned to numbers that I would classify as 'normal' in the past week or so, after the extraordinary high numbers that occurred a few weeks ago.

Plans for the Wedding are rolling along: the bed etc has been ordered, we've picked up the invites from the printers and I plan to have a look at suits in the next week or so.

Played indoor today, and we lost again: this time literally by a last second goal that sunk us 3-2. That means that since our semi-final quite a few weeks ago, … Read more →

I'm sure many of you have seen in the news recently Sony BMG getting in a whole basket full of trouble over bundling dangerous spyware with some of their music CDs that they released for the purpose of Digital Rights Management (DRM). This surprised me a lot, I never thought a massive corporation would stoop to such depths over copy-protection and DRM, and that Sony would be so stupid to think that they could get away with it; to basically infect someone's computer with virus/spyware like activity which leaves a backdoor open for others to exploit. I tell you I … Read more →

Man are these days flying by. We have just past the 3 month marker until the wedding. This weekend the unit is getting painted, and hopefully soon we'll have the timber laminate flooring down.

I have to get on-top of other things, such as arranging suit hire and much much more. I've been meaning to draw up a solid 'to do' list because it seems that about 3 times a day i remember or think of something else that needs to be done.

In continuing the Australia-qualifying-for-the-World-Cup thing, here's something that was forwarded to me this week:

I find it … Read more →

It was an amazing two games with the finale stretching as far as it could. Tonight Australia beat Uruguay 1-0, and since Uruguay won 1-0 in Montevideo, after 90 minutes of normal time and another 30 minutes of extra time, Australia qualified for our first World Cup since 1974 by winning the resulting penalty shoot-out 4-2.

Mark Schwarzer was the hero, saving two of the penalties, after Marco Bresciano had levelled the aggregate score with a first half strike.

I can't wait to next year to cheer them on with the usual countries I support: France and Sweden.… Read more →