Comments for Insanity

Comment on Emergency by Barb

Barb — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:19:13 +0000

Leaving an ER is always a pleasure, when under one’s power and with no one checked into a bed! I’m glad he’s okay – although concussions can be serious, it sounds like a mild one, thank goodness.

Comment on WordPress.com Irritation by aussietrias

aussietrias — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:23:33 +0000

Problem is money doesn’t fix it. It only allows CSS alterations. The template can never be altered.

Comment on WordPress.com Irritation by dreamkatcha

dreamkatcha — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:24:19 +0000

The freely hosted version is uncrippled aside from lacking the ability to edit your template. That must be motivation enough to get people to upgrade. Maybe it’s worth paying WordPress to continue hosting and managing updates if you plan to fork out for your own server space anyway.

Comment on Linux by Happy Grandad

Happy Grandad — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:34:44 +0000

Nice review of Ubuntu Trias. I’ve been using it for a while now and quite honestly there’s nothing that I did with XP that I can’t do with Ubuntu. My experience is slightly different however, in that I was getting random crashing of the machine when using the 64 bit version. Could be something to do with running dual monitors or maybe a mistake I made in setting them up. I’ve now gone back to the 32 bit and that is very stable but I will try the 64 bit version again when the next release comes out in October.

Comment on Linux by dreamkatcha

dreamkatcha — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:57:29 +0000

Congrats on fending off Microsoft's spin-machine and not being suckered into buying 'XP With Baubles' (TM). Next stop OSx86?

Comment on Elderly Lady Doesn’t Spend Money Watering her Lawn by aussietrias

aussietrias — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:40:51 +0000

We also have burst mains problems. The pipes around this city are extremely old and cutting corners of the past is now upon us.

Comment on Elderly Lady Doesn’t Spend Money Watering her Lawn by dreamkatcha

dreamkatcha — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:58:53 +0000

We have similar hose-pipe ban laws here in the UK during ‘dry spells’, only they’re not a result of tropical temperatures and lack of rainfall; it comes down to United Utilities not bothering to fix burst mains and then punishing their customers for their own mismanagement of resources.

It does make you wonder what these ineffectual, jobs-worth police officers think they are achieving by locking up law-abiding citizens when there are real criminals to apprehend everywhere you look.

Comment on Rural Aboriginal Crisis by dreamkatcha

dreamkatcha — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:02:04 +0000

I did a double take when I first heard about this problem and Howard’s solution. Now I’ve expanded my snippet of knowledge I’m none the wiser on the connection between pornography, booze and child abuse.

Neither of these things turns loving parents into child abusers. That sort of pathology is a bit more deep-rooted in my opinion. Isn’t it a wee bit patronizing too to say that decent, normal Aussies can handle booze and porn, but Aborigines must be baby sat?

Interesting to see the old argument about condoms encouraging underage sex rearing its head. Didn’t the pope try that one? We all know how clued up he/they are.

Comment on Rural Aboriginal Crisis by Barb

Barb — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:14:13 +0000

Ahh, government controlled media … what fun. (Not)

Ours is a whole channel as well, and is owned by Disney. What’s that say about us? LOL!

Comment on Rural Aboriginal Crisis by aussietrias

aussietrias — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:05:18 +0000

Yes The ABC here is not your ABC. Ours is government funded, fairly lefty too and they are more than news they are an entire channel.