The change of web host hasn’t gone quite as smoothly as I’d hoped. The glitches have mainly involved database issues and most of them are now solved. I still haven’t got Coppermine (gallery script) working though, which is quite irritating. I’d like to move on and concentrate on some design work for the new Word [...]
Call centre workers
Has anyone else noticed how nearly all the call centre salespeople who bother you at home with "special offers" have foreign accents? Frequently they’re English, Irish or European. Today I was called by someone from Westpac trying to flog life insurance and she was definitely English. I can only presume that most of them are [...]
Local government taxation
I’m surprised how little debate there is in Australia about the archaic practices of local government taxation. Hopefully the new Howard Government will tackle tax reform in a serious manner, as people like our local MP Sophie Panopoulos have been urging. If this does occur, I would like to see them work with the states [...]
Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
I’m reading my Jeeves books by PG Wodehouse again after an absence of more than 15 years. I can say it’s an absolute pleasure to read these whimsical, happy stories. There’s nothing sad, hurtful or serious about Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. The books are just pure fun. The language and social customs are old fashioned [...]
Reflection
October 20, 2004 at 5:44 am
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. [...]
