Month: June 2005

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Social Comment

After reading an entry on Tonya’s site, and having a chat with my good friend (pommie_al), I have decided to write up some things that have been nagging me for a while. Our continuing drive to growth, wealth creation, corporate and private greed is going to be the undoing off our society. However I am getting ahead of myself and I do want to express this argument logically.

Currently we see several issues that are effecting our society and I hope to engage in meaningful discussion about them over the next few posts. Now I understand that some of the stuff we will post will be controversial and we are going to be trying to “solve the worlds problems”.

OK I know that this is a little heavier than you usually see on my site, but things are starting to annoy me and I think it is about time I stood up and gave an opinion, or at least point to opinions I agree with.

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Photo Night

Last night on the news we saw an article on World Refugee Day and that some buildings in Canberra were specially lit for the night. So my daughter and I braved the 5 degree night and shot some photos.

Rugged up we went out and passed the fountain lit in neon blue, we found a park, walked to the lake edge and …. they’d turned off the fountain. 😥 Well you can catch some of the other photos on my Flickr page.

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Surgery Update

My wife had her surgery today, and it went well. She has been sleeping of the General today and I will get to talk to her and the doctor tomorrow.

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Arrgh! Computers!

Well the other day the house’s second computer decided to stop working. The thing would not stay turned on, it would just shutdown, if you were lucky it would run for 10 minutes then stop. So I had a look and figured out the power supply was not working right. The repairs will have to wait a week or too so I have time and money to fix.

Today however my computer decided to die. Freezing within minutes of turning on! I think it is memory or CPU related, so those repairs will have to wait as well.

So in the space of days we have gone from two working computers down to none. I could not even salvage enough common parts to make any hybrid work (one is an old celeron the other an AMD, different memory everything).

So I have set up my work laptop, we have no access to our photos, email or games. Looks like a computer spend is on the cards 😥