Just a little experiment really. Captured these sounds while in the Lerderderg State Park a couple of weeks ago.
This Video was captured on my hand-held iPhone 4S during a recent drive through the Lerderderg Satae Park
The Sounds of Water
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Pathetic Parliaments
Our parliaments, and by implication, our politicians are pathetic!I have just discovered that by the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 our governments have ensured that Australians can only gamble in Australian venues. In other words, the immoral collection of gambling tax has been protected.In Victoria, that’s $1.7 Billion per year. The only other taxation category which raised more money is euphemistically called “Land Transfer Tax“ … in other words, Stamp Duty on property purchases. A tax which governments promised to cease after the introduction of the GST.
Is it unreasonable to expect telco gouging to be stopped?
A colleague, knowing that I had recently fallen foul of yet another telco for thousands of dollars of “excess usage charges”, sent me this link, presumably thinking it might make me feel better.
Instead, it prompted me to recall that this is the fourth time a telco (a different one each time) has gouged, or attempted to, gouge me.
I am unable to use the services of one large Australian Telco because, even though they do not attempt to collect it, they retain a record of a debt in their system. So, if I attempt to sign up for a new service, they accept my application subject to the payment of an eight year old $14,000 debt.
Another luckily collapsed under the weight of its rich and powerful promoters while suing me for thousands in excess usage.
Yet another continued to charge me $500 per month for services which were available from other vendors, and to their new customers, for about $90 per month. In this case I was an early adopter of a new service and ended up paying several thousand dollars more than the provider charged later signups for the same service. They hid behind their “contract” to insist on payment. Continue reading
Storm in a Teacup?
I know it is just a game, and I know I have more important things to do than post this blog entry. But, I can’t help wondering what it is that I am missing about the ginormous kerfuffle encompassing Victoria and the NRL.
According to the official Storm website there are 36 players on the NRL squad. In the absence of any better information I will assume that this number is not unusual. So, what is the magnitude and significance of the overpayments?
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SMH brings us the future
It’s about 7pm on New Year’s Eve so we have just 5 hours or so of 2009 left.
But, Dylan Welch at the Sydney Morning Herald isn’t letting a small fact like that stop him from reporting that the Victorian Police will be making an arrest tomorrow. That does, of course, presume that the fugitive in question doesn’t read the “Early Edition” and change his plans.
Do we really still need saints?
The following started as a short Facebook update after I satisfied myself that most tweets about Mary MacKillop were negative. But, it kept on growing so it’s ended up here…
is pleased to report that a totally informal check of today’s tweets on MacKillop’s sainthood shows close to 100% comment on the irrelevancy and pure stupidity of an institution that would have us believe that they have proof that an unidentified woman was cured of lung cancer as a result of her prayers to a dead nun.
Frankly, it is embarrassing to just repeat their claim … one can only assume that everyone involved in this crap, from the Pope down, are required to check-in their brains when they pick up their robes.
Importantly, the scorn and derision is aimed at the institution, not the person. I suspect that Mary MacKillop would be as embarrassed by the todo and the sycophantic “reporting” as the authors of todays tweets.
And another thing… Should it concern us that the one man whose decisions will affect us more than any other actually aligns himself with the morons who accepted this “proof”. To make matters worse, Rudd is perfectly comfortable with taking advantage of the “saint’s” profile for his crass personal gain.
I’m pleased to report that a totally informal check of today’s tweets on MacKillop’s sainthood shows close to 100% comment on the irrelevancy and pure stupidity of an institution that would have us believe that they have proof that an unidentified woman was cured of lung cancer as a result of her prayers to a dead nun.
Frankly, it is embarrassing to just repeat their claim … one can only assume that everyone involved in this crap, from the Pope down, are required to check-in their brains when they pick up their robes.
Importantly, the scorn and derision on Twitter is aimed at the institution, not the person. I suspect that Mary MacKillop would be as embarrassed by the todo and the related sycophantic “reporting” as the authors of todays tweets.
And another thing… Should it concern us that the one man whose decisions will affect us more than any other actually aligns himself with the morons who accepted this “proof”. And, to make matters worse, Kevin Rudd is perfectly comfortable with taking advantage of the “saint’s” profile for his crass personal gain.
19Seven is getting a face lift
I’m working on installing a new theme for my blog and I’m doing it live. So if things look a bit strange for the next hour or so, please be understanding. The content will still be here, just the presentation might be a bit erratic until I have finished!
The core changes have been completed and everything looks to be stable again.
Now on to some fine tuning 
Come in for a quote
Having moved to my new MacBook Pro, I’ve been re-organising my photo library to take advantage of the power of the Mac. And having a great deal of fun doing it!
Anyway, I came across this gem which I photographed a few years ago in Hardware Lane, Melbourne. It remains one of my favourites from my humorous signs collection. Luckily, I resisted the temptation to go inside and ask what were the factors which resulted in a higher cost waxing.
Not sure what this says about my sense of humour though.
Enjoy!
