Work Related

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Last week we had to deliver stupid Medicare brochures, and this week it’s domestic violence.. Yes, this is an election year.
It basically means busy days at work with backbreaking amounts of mail, because these little booklets are going to every house in Australia.

The domestic violence, while is a very important issue, is crying out to have the piss taken from it and my evil sense of humour wants to run with the completely ironic approach, but I’m going to resist because comments like that just manage to upset people who don’t understand it as humour.

Actually, I think the government have done a fairly good job at adding humour to it anyway. albeit by accident.

The front cover says “VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, AUSTRALIA SAYS NO” which to me suggests that it’s a new direction and that somehow domestic violence was acceptable before, and I keep thinking of that ultimate Alexander Downer political fuck up when he made his infamous “things that batter” quote.

In the end though, any kind of violence is no joke.


Wyn posted a photo looking out of a friends office window –

Speaking of which I think I will post a pic of the view from my office window at work this week. Why don’t you do the same?

I work from home and I also work from my car. As a result, I decided to post this as my office window shot.

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Wheel of Fortune

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I have been watching commercial television!

Not only that but the show I have been watching is Wheel of Fortune!

In what is a rather unusual event, the current “champ” on the wheel is a minor celebrity called Adam Spencer. It’s unusual because this is not a special celebrity edition of the show.

Adam has been the breakfast radio host on the national youth network triplej for quite a while now but at the start of this year decided that this would be his final year doing that. He is incredibly smart. A geek who studied pure mathematics at uni, was on his school debating team and enjoyed playing chess (“hello ladies”), he actually is majorly extroverted with a very quick wit.

As part of the decision to leave his current job, he and his co-host, Wil Anderson, decided to complete 10 things they have always wanted to do.. Thus The wheel came about.

Now it is a fairly safe assumption that people of Adams caliber don’t normally pick shows like Wheel of Fortune if they decide to go onto a game show, preferring things like Millionaire or Sale, it’s also pretty safe to say that he wiped the floor of the rather dopey looking carry over champ who was lacking a certain degree of style anyway (can I have a “C” for Charisma thanks, Steve)

This morning Adam confessed that he was a bit nervous about going on the show. He went through all the standard audition and screening tests to get there, but because he had spent a few months talking up his potential appearance, he knew that if he bombed out it would be something that would come back to haunt him, to the point where his gravestone would say “_d_m Sp_nc_r”

So that’s two nights of commercial TV.. and I guess I’ll be watching at 5pm tomorrow. To see Adam acting like an over excited schoolboy is amusing to say the least.

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Theme Thursday – Eye Catcher

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I decided to go literal

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Photo Friday – Fashion

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The home of fashion?? (and God help us!)

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Theme Thursday – Bend

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In a bid to stop traffic speeding through the park, the new road twists and bends frequently.

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Photo Friday – Journey

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Every great journey starts with a single step.

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Theme Thursday – Machine

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This is a great cooking machine.. Which is kinda handy, because I am a great eating machine ;)

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Fixed (Again)

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Ok, so I rang Arachnet yesterday and spoke to one of their techies and the problem has now been fixed. Apparently the account had been modified on the administration side, but no-one had actually modified my account on the Apache server. Oh, and I did find out that they have a module installed on it for checking the disk quota, so I am perplexed as to why it was allowing me to go over 20mb in the first place.

In the end it really doesn’t matter though, the problem has been fixed and balance has been restored to the universe.

I’m still very happy with my ISP, there are occasional minor glitches which can be pointed to human error, but they are always excellent to respond to problems, usually fixing them up within about 10 minutes.

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Bloody Server

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I am getting tired of seeing this –

STATUS:> Connecting data socket…
553 181.html: Disk quota exceeded.
ERROR:> Access denied
STATUS:> Failed to send S:\Web folder\juslooken\blog\181.html

every weekend when I try to upload my files!

arach.net.au screenshot

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