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Link
Thursday, 1 May 2003
This is way cool, and the perfect escape tool!! Check it out! It’s called the Web Fire Escape and I stumbled on to it via Anything But Ordinary. This is just what I need at work.
I’m a Free Associate
Friday, 22 August 2003
Procrasti Nation
Tuesday, 16 December 2003
Ah well. Here I am. This is the morning when I’m supposed to excavate my brain for all the stuff I wrote last week. Most people, I know, would probably back up on to something as basic as a floppy disk. Not me. I rely totally on those molecules that I frequently torture with beer.
On a more positive note, my small brother is in Dublin for the next few days, and if anyone can suggest some cool things for him to do there (during the daytime, cos he’s working shifts) please leave info/links in the comments. Tar.
Hope It’s Crunchy…
Tuesday, 27 January 2004
 I taste like Peanut Butter.I am one of the most blendable flavours; I go with sweet, I go with sour, I go with bland, I go with anything. I am practical and good company, but have something of a tendency to hang around when I’m not wanted, unaware that my presence is not welcome. What Flavour Are You? |
Antidote to Boring Thursdays
Friday, 11 June 2004
Last night after my momentary coat induced insanity, I went along to the Bingo Board of Doom. Everyone should go. We cried our mascara off from laughing too hard. It’s $10 and totally worth it. If you’re into Theatresports or like ‘Who’s Line Is It Anyway’ you should go along. There is a bar. Coopers Sparkling Ale is $5.50 a stubby. It’s all good. Just off Brunswick Street in Fitzroy. And there endeth my plug for the week.
Linkalicious
Wednesday, 11 August 2004
Have been spending some time over at Squidfingers making use of his many links to exciting places. One of the best ones was one I would have thought I already knew about, but no! The J.K Rowling site. It’s beautiful. I have spent ages on it, looking through all its nooks.
Update: Oh how I love it when I decide to do something like overwrite this webpage when I make a minor change and instead revert back to the version of a week and a half ago, thus losing a weeks worth of all my little tweaks and changes. Oh just ignore me. I’ll be the one in the corner hacking of my mouse-hand.
A True Salesman
Wednesday, 18 August 2004
Via Tony at Between Coffees, who got it from some bloke called Nigel, this is probably one of the more hysterical things I have come across on Ebay. Think ThingsMyGirlfriendAndIHaveArguedAbout, and you’ll begin to get the idea.
Medallica
Tuesday, 24 August 2004
If you can’t be knackered sitting on the couch endlessly muting the crap ads on Channel Seven (and believe me - regional Queensland TV ads redefine ‘crap’) then mouse your way to Shauna’s ‘Going for Gold‘ - a highly informed, even handed commentary on all those sporty things going down in Athens. It tells the stories that I want to hear - seeing muscled men get sweaty, Paula Radcliffe’s marathon despair and, of course, the chick that stopped rowing.
Coddled
Thursday, 23 September 2004
Over at Adam Ford’s website there is a fantastic story about a Chicken Rescue. I am always uplifted by this kind of story - I would love to be a Chicken Rescuer, but will have to wait until I am going to be living somewhere that is;
a) not a tiny house with a bricked courtyard,
b) not somewhere that I’m planning on leaving in the next two months,
c) chicken friendly, with lots of dirt to scratch around in, and well fenced.
When we moved here we found an old chook shed up the back. M dug out a lot of dirt from it and created our (now dead by drought) vegie garden. The dirt had obviously been very well chickened, because things sprang from the earth like an advertisement for garden fertiliser. So poo is another good reason to rescue a chicken or two. Roosters are another matter. I can hear one RIGHT NOW and it makes me want to kill. If they observed their proper times of yodel, I wouldn’t be the Anti-Rooster, but as it is, we live between two related roosters, who insist on conversing with each other at least once an hour. Every hour.
Money Money Money
Wednesday, 27 October 2004
| I’m loaded. It’s official. I’m the 636,584,735 richest person on earth! |
Two men. One difficult choice.
Tuesday, 2 November 2004
Two men. One difficult choice
From the AGE - an article by Bill Bryson, who I find particularly admirable.
Bulk Action In Wordpress
Thursday, 4 November 2004
This is an extremely useful invention. With the amount of comment spam I’ve been getting, I have had a backlog of comments waiting for deletion, however the problem is that I’ve had to click the ‘delete’ radio button on each-and-every-one. Very very time consuming. So I was very lucky to stumble over Dan Hersam’s Cool Invention. It’s just a little bit of javascript that you stick in your wp-admin/moderation.php and you can then perform the true meaning of ‘bulk action’ - i.e. you can delete comments en masse. Goodbye you poker playing bastards and all the freaks trying to sell me cialis, whatever it may be…thanks Dan!
Expatriation
Thursday, 4 November 2004
Via (Southern Cross) Words. I too am willing to put up some of my US relatives if they can’t take three more years under the ‘leadership’ of the worlds most famous humanist and decide to leave. I’m looking at you guys over there in Massachusetts. I’m not suggesting that anything will be that much better over here, but why not take advantage of my spare room (while we’ve still got one), the toasty tropical climes and the slightly better national health system that hasn’t quite yet been broken down to resemble your own?
Sorry Everybody
Thursday, 11 November 2004
Via CatBoy (who is also fluey) is a link to sorryeverybody.com a gallery of pictures of Americans apologising for the recent election results. Really, it’s the least they could do. As CatBoy said - it would be worth starting one apologising for the re-election of Little Johnny, but nobody would have any idea to whom the page referred - outside of Australia anyway.
Make your old phone flower…
Wednesday, 1 December 2004
Mobile phone case turns into flower
This is such a lovely idea!
A Wonderful, Magical Creature
Thursday, 6 January 2005
Nightstar Kinetic Flashlight
Well I call it a ‘torch’ but whatever you call it - it’s pretty cool! Thank you to M for passing this link to me. Geek.
I Want to be a Headline Writer
Thursday, 20 January 2005
Minding their pees and queues
The scourge of female festivalgoers - the female toilets and their painfully long queues - could be a thing of the past, with radical new toilets to be tested at Melbourne’s Big Day Out festival on January 30.
The female-only urinals, known as “She Pees” on the European festival circuit, will allow women to urinate without being late to the next band. With the aid of complimentary, disposable, leak-proof paper funnels known as “P-Mates”, women can urinate while standing up…[more]
Bunnies.
Monday, 24 January 2005
Cabanon Press: Simone’s Shed
- have a look at ‘Bunnies that have seen tragedy’.
Spot the Faker…
Thursday, 3 February 2005
Just did the ‘Spot the Fake Smile‘ test over at the BBC Science & Nature site. I got 12 right out of 20. You have a go!
The Goodies
Friday, 25 February 2005
Daniel writes about The Goodies better than I can - go and read it!
Kitty Cannon
Tuesday, 19 April 2005
If you want to kill some time (and a kitty) play this. I shot the kitty 551 feet…
Just Call Me Bettie
Wednesday, 20 April 2005
…via Rae (who is also Bettie Page!)
You’re Bettie Page!
What Classic Pin-Up Are You?
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What does your birth date mean?
Friday, 29 April 2005
| Your Birthdate: May 2 |
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Your birth on the 2nd day of the month adds a degree of emotion, sensitivity, and intuition to your life.
The 2 is a very social number allowing you to make friends easily and quickly. Yet you are apt to have a rather nervous air in the company of a large group. You have a warmhearted nature and emotional understanding that constantly seeks affection. You are more prone than most to become depressed and moody, as emotions can turn inward and cause anxiety and mental turmoil. It can be hard for you to bounce back to reality when depression sets in - but all you really need is a good slapping. |
Screen Cleaner
Friday, 8 July 2005
If you need your screen cleaned from the inside, this is a very cute way to have it done.
I Feel The Earth Google Under My Feet
Tuesday, 12 July 2005
I am playing with Google Earth and it is freaking me out. Here I am - in the only office in the department who doesn’t deal with GIS and I’m being seduced. I have looked at Fraser Island - then I flew to where my rellies live, in Marblehead, Massachusetts (that is the first time I’ve ever typed that word correctly without having to look it up) and I can see the names of streets, lakes, football grounds. Phwoar! J, who works here, is completely besotted with it - luckily it is not yet available on Mac, or his day would have been eaten by Google Earth. It’s about a 10MB download, and you need a newish computer - it’s v.cool. Particularly for geographically challenged nuffies like myself.
Oh- and for font freaks - this is a pretty cool blog: FontLeech.
Brendan Nelson is Pucked
Wednesday, 21 September 2005
Over on the Cast Iron Balcony I found a link to this. Admirable.
Lifehacker - Geek to Live
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
And furthermore on the topic of sorting oneself out is The Usable Home on Lifehacker which talks about little ways of decluttering your life and living spaces. I did a bit of that on Sunday.
[tangent]
…and by the way, is it just me that thinks that it always seems to be the girl in the m/f relationship that organises the presents and cards for friends/friend’s kids birthdays? I asked two female friends this the other day and they agreed that boys just don’t seem to take on the present and card buying thing. So what happens when guys are single? Do they just turn up giftless to BBQ’s and parties? Is it all a worldwide boys-club conspiracy? Or is it just another vital area missing from the brain of the hetero-male? (The missing areas deal with towels, asking your mother whether she made that cake from a packet, and an adequate standard of dishwashing. There may be others, but I won’t go on as my tangent is now longer than the rest of this post.)
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We Love This Cartoon
Tuesday, 22 November 2005
From an article in the Age entitled Labor Surges While IR Fury Bites…
Consolidation
Wednesday, 15 February 2006
This might be a useful tool if you’re like me and have accounts at flickr, allconsuming, 43things, delicious etc. It’s called SuprGlu (don’t ask me why neither of those words have an ‘e’ - maybe it’s the new cool thing…) and it basically pulls in feeds from all of your accounts with those aforementioned services. Maybe good and nifty, maybe not. Have to play with it a bit more. Here’s mine at http://miaow.suprglu.com/
Oh. And say hello to Ian, my friend in northern NSW who has succumbed to the lure of blogging. He’s getting geekier by the week and is hanging out over at dotdotdot
404 Url not found
Wednesday, 7 June 2006
You know when you try to load a webpage and you get the good old ‘404 - page not found’ error? One of my friends just pointed out this version of the 404 error which is a lot more forthcoming. It’s here…
Cats that look like Hitler
Sunday, 18 June 2006
Go there. Via whatdoiknow.org
And this quiz says…
Thursday, 6 July 2006
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You Are Boyish Sexy |
 You’re the kind of girl who gets along with all the boys Whether it’s holding your own in a game of touch football… Or kicking some major butt while playing Xbox. You hang with the guys easily, while still keeping your girly sexiness. |
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…it’s Rae that makes me do this stuff!! Ha!
Mobile dead for two days
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
If anyone out there is trying to contact me via my mobile, it is dead until I locate the charger (which I have a feeling I left at my mother’s last Friday). Also, if you’re bored and into video clips, over at DIG Internet Radio there’s a podcast of a show called One Hour of Music in 20 Minutes and links to some classic clips, compiled by Hermione Gilchrist. More on my Baxter Station experiences and fate of the kittens later.
I find the Australian Govt. embarrassing
Sunday, 30 July 2006
Amnesty International Australia needs your help to send a BIG Message to our Senators - do not abandon refugees.
The Australian Government’s recently proposed changes to the Migration Act would see children being placed again in detention. Australia would be turning its back on refugees. Add your name to the Amnesty International Australia Message in a Bottle campaign and help stop this inhumane policy. You can also give the campaign a big boost by starting your own bottle and asking friends to add their names. Please help us collect 10,000 names in two weeks.
Thank you,
Georgina Perry
National President
Amnesty International Australia
http://message.amnesty.org.au
50 Coolest Websites
Tuesday, 15 August 2006
In case you’re intrigued - Time.com has published what it considers to be the 50 Coolest Websites. I have to admit only having been to about four on the list…
Sponsor a Cow
Friday, 22 December 2006
My sister pointed this out and requested that it feature on [miaow] - it’s Sponsor A Cow. The site looks very new, and you have to contact them to get all the nuts and bolts information about actually sponsoring a cow, which is a bit odd, but it sounds like a good thing to do.
I also read the the other day about the new tiger kittens at the Melbourne Zoo (the picture with the article is just swoonworthy) and it mentioned that you can sponsor Zoo animals, or give someone a sponsorship for a year as a present.
searchmash
Monday, 15 January 2007
I am getting great loads of big Fat NOTHING done here today in trailerland. Haven’t even finished one file. But is the sink shiny? Check. The washing done? Check. The bed made? Yep. And thus I go on being a neaty in the fruitless aim of avoiding what I will now have to stay up until god knows when doing. So, in keeping with the day thus far, this is kind of cool: SearchMash - an experimental site by Google.
Sites I envy
Tuesday, 6 February 2007
It was not surprising to me that I stumbled on the lovely site of Oliver Jeffers, an illustrator, designer, writer, painter and reader by way of hicksdesign - a site that I am always drawn back to, simply to drool over the whole presentation. Sort of like M with the latest copy of Cruising Helmsman or Hullster.
My favourite headline in today’s Age
Thursday, 8 March 2007
Turkey slaps ban on YouTube
LOL - I really wish I worked as a headline writer!
Donate your bits. Now.
Saturday, 21 April 2007
I admit it. At various times over the past few years I’ve picked up an organ donor form. Did I fill it out? Yes. Did I ever get around to sending it in? No. In the same way I haven’t ‘got around’ to donating blood any time in the recent past. Because I am a Big Fat SLACKER. So I found it greatly soothing to my conscience when over at Between Coffees Tony put up a link to an online registration form to become an Australian organ donor. And so I did. Now stop reading, and you do it. Just click HERE.
Human Brain Cloud
Tuesday, 24 July 2007
This is sort of cool - my friend Dylan (whose comment on Harry Potter I deleted out of spite) sent this to me: Human Brain Cloud. I am HumanMiaow.
There is actually an online workshop manual!!
Friday, 29 February 2008
Via dooce - here is everything I needed to know about baby wrangling in easy-to-understand signage. Thank god.
Ignore me as I revel
Thursday, 19 June 2008
I put Zoe down WHILE SHE WAS AWAKE (but drowsy) and… SHE WENT TO SLEEP. Holy hell. People without offspring will never understand how amazing this is. Joy and revelry! We might even have to miss scary mother’s group - as the sleep is still going! I hope this post doesn’t jinx things. Oh - and while I’m here, here’s a link to a video that Dylan made of Axel’s immunisation…the music is hysterical. He couldn’t believe that the nurses told him that no one else had ever filmed it before. I have to say, it is not something I thought of…
A link for the morning.
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
Am not sure why I find this whole photobombing thing hilarious, but I do. Probably lack of sleep. Here.
