Random thoughts and observations
When I was a kid in the 1970s, the Victorian Football League comprised 12 Victorian teams.
They all had their own home grounds except Richmond, which shared the MCG with Melbourne and Hawthorn, which shared Princes Park with Carlton.
My team, Fitzroy, used St Kilda’s old ground at the Junction Oval.
I’ve officially retired from my occasional hobby of modifying Android phones after another attempt when badly wrong.
I bricked my Samsung Galaxy S2 mobile while trying to root the phone to install a custom rom with the latest version of Ice Cream Sandwich.
The good people at psyTech Electronics in Hindley Street, Adelaide, said it was a rare feat to brick the phone without removing the battery.
I discovered today that two of my great-great grandparents, Daniel Burgdorf and Augusta Springer, arrived in Sydney from Germany aboard the Reiherstieg on August 5, 1852.
That’s a story for another post, but for now I want to mention that aboard the ship with them was the scientist, magnetician, hydrographer, oceanographer and meteorologist Georg Balthasar von Neumayer.
I left my iPad at work yesterday afternoon because I had to leave in a hurry to pick James up from his first football training session with the Lockleys under 9 team.
A whole weekend without the iPad! That’s a daunting proposition and not one I’d like to encounter again any time soon.
The Netherlands province of Limburg recently celebrated its annual Carnival, which runs officially from the Sunday through Tuesday preceding Ash Wednesday.
According to this website, the most popular places where Carnival is held are Maastricht, Roermond, Heerlen and Venlo, but every town and city celebrates in their own way.
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