Random thoughts and observations
Yakedi! is a free web-based service for sending text messages to Australian mobile phones. I’m so impressed with Yakedi! that this post is simply a blatant plug to say thanks and well done. I read somewhere the modern human has evolved to be more dextrous with his thumb than his pointer finger, thanks to the [...]
A Kalgoorlie Miner columnist, Kitty Prodonovich, wrote today about “phone tone rage” (PTR). It is quite amazing how the repetitive tones from an innocent little phone can incite so much anger and frustration, but they do. And it’s not just the phone rings; you can also have different sound for message alerts and other thing. [...]
Political commentator Paul Kelly was scathing in his attack on Telstra’s new management this morning. Kelly said on ABC Television the Telstra assault on government regulation is alienating all parties, driving down the share price, and has no hope of success. I have to agree with him. I’ll go further and say it’s damaging the [...]
I went to the football in Myrtleford today and saw the Saints pummel North Albury. Living in Porepunkah it’s considered a little odd that I follow Myrtleford, rather than Bright. I have an interest in Bright football, but not to the same extent. I attribute this to my three years as editor of the Myrtleford [...]
Circumstances can change quickly without rational explanation. Call it fate, fortune or God’s will, but it’s a fact. I could have been working in Renmark now as the local newspaper editor after pulling up roots in Porepunkah and shifting my family nearly half way across Australia. I’m pleased, of course, events didn’t transpire that way. [...]
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