At Donauinselfest 2010 a beach volleyball competition was taking place between some teenagers just mucking about - it didn’t seem to be a competition for prizes. One of the girls was wearing a dress which ended above her knees but was not particularly revealing. It also had an open neck but again, nothing particularly revealing [...]
I am currently sitting in Heathrow airport, wondering about the life expectancy of the little darling child near me who is clambering all over the seats and has found a delightful game called “throw your steel Matchbox model London bus all over the airport”. His mother is just sitting there saying “no”, “no”, “miguel, no”, [...]
Should you ever happen to find yourself in the town of Ramsau in Austria, don’t panic.
Just look for the nearest street sign, or call up an online mapping service and you will know exactly where you are. Let me just demonstrate with this handy map from Google Maps and … um … oh dear…
Alrighty [...]
Looking at the paperwork for some insurance today, I was struck by the name of the Allianz Managing Director - Terry Towell.
Somewhere, once upon a time, Mr and Mrs Towell got pregnant and when the young’un burst forth into the world, they looked at what they had achieved and thought “What name shall we [...]
Found a coupon for some $5 games of ten-pin bowling and thought “haven’t done that for a while” so we went for a couple of games tonight. Just as we were halfway through our second game, three loud tracksuited bogan mothers and their 7 offspring arrived to terrorise the centre.
Within 2 minutes, one of the [...]
I’m planning an overseas holiday and was trying to book some accommodation through the internet with a hotel in Europe. They didn’t have an online transaction facility in their website but emailed me their bank account details and requested I deposit the funds into their bank account. I figured there would probably be some sort [...]
I rarely do two SPOTD awards in one day but there was another recipient tonight.
On the way home from work, I stopped into the supermarket to pick up a couple of items. At the register, there was one guy (50-ish, unshaven, wearing a hoodie, and smelling of beer) in the line in front of me [...]
Today’s SPOTD of the day goes to Australia Post for failing to understand that there’s a scam being pulled in their name.
My house has four post offices around it at various distances from my house (1.3 kms, 1.6 kms, 1.7 kms, and 2.0 kms). The mail contractors who deliver parcels are paid to, well, deliver [...]
Dear Metro Trains webmaster,
I would like to draw your attention to the concept of widescreen monitors. Heck, I would like to draw your attention to the concept of monitors being larger than they were in 1985.
The website www.metrotrains.com.au uses fixed width coding rather than filling the available space so it looks like rubbish on my [...]
Looking for some inspiration for a potential upcoming bathroom renovation, we went out to Aurora - one of the new housing estates popping up on the fringe of Melbourne with display houses open for inspection.
The estate is plastered with signage all over the place promising a brighter future in a rural setting. None of the [...]
