This painting is currently exhibited near Penola, South Australia. I am praying it doesn’t sell so it will come back to Melbourne and I can touch it reverently with my greasy fingers. With apologies to the artist, Joshua, who I’m sure would prefer a sale over my moist and ardent appreciation.
doing your nut in? me too. sometimes it’s just good to know other people are going loopy, too.
And the winners of the team challenge are…The Advertisers.
STOP making me watch a commercial break before you announce sh*t.
Yawn.
This will save you misery…
When creating a php.ini file in WordPress, don’t forget to add the file in TWO places:
1. The root directory of the WordPress installation and,
2. In the wp-admin folder.
All you need to put in php.ini is the increased memory limit, such as: memory_limit=256M
That’s it, you’re done.
You can now say goodbye to the dreaded Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted…arrrrrrgh, even the Universe’s Mum hates me!!!
Just saw a totally bizarre TV ad.
Click the image to watch it on Imperial Tobacco’s website.
This kind of thing makes me mad. Why?
…because it is part of a campaign by Imperial Tobacco.
…because Imperial Tobacco wants the public to stop the Australian Government from stopping Imperial Tobacco killing people stupid enough to buy their product.
…because why would anyone want to protect the interests of a tobacco company?
…because clearly the plain packaging legislation is going to make a difference, or Imperial Tobacco wouldn’t pay for a campaign to stop it.
…because this is exactly the same campaign the tobacco companies ran when the UK Government proposed a similar ban in 2008.
…because everyone knows that tobacco company shareholders don’t care about the health (or deaths) of the people who buy their products – they just want to sell tobacco and stay rich, and spawn annoying D-list no-talent celebrities and other leeches on the Earth’s resources.
…because if Imperial Tobacco’s shareholders really cared they’d put some marijuana in their cancer sticks.
Being able to browse houses in the south of France from a laptop in a living room in Australia. With no idea where the villages are or what it would be like to live there.
Oh wait, that would be insane.
It’s after 10pm. I’m working and listening to ABC Classic FM. Suddenly, the vibe snaps from chilled to chilling.
They’ve start playing the ‘Rrriii rrriii’ horror music from Psycho. Are they having a f—ing laugh??? I do not need to be scared witless in my own home by a classical radio station.
Even my normally placid dog is bricking his basket. 
I hate to think how many elderly listeners just took a ‘bad turn.’ Imagine if they were in the shower.
Interesting hearing Andrew Jaspan talk at the Melbourne Press Club this afternoon.
In March, he and former Yahoo exec. Jack Rejtman launched The Conversation – a website that feeds news and opinions from university experts to the masses.
Andrew’s vision is to turn academics into correspondents. 
While, it would seem, encouraging Canberra to give weight to metrics that can prove academics are sharing their knowledge with the public. Metrics The Conversation can provide.
I suspect Andrew would be very pleased if professors were required to communicate with a lay audience.
If he is able to promote its relevance to both boffins and policymakers, The Conversation could well be the nail in journalism’s coffin.
But of course journalism won’t die, it’ll merely change form.
It occurred to me,
If I was going to introduce the epic PBS presenter & Bollywood/bhangra producer, Richi Madan…
I would say,
“And now for the man who puts the bang in bhangra
and the Jai in Ho,
Ladies and Gentlemen, clap your hands for…”
It occurred to me,
There’s no such thing as young or old.
There is only,
you can do something or you can’t do something. And death.
