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Category Archives: Rant
Resolutions
Mistakes were made, there is no doubt about that. Sitting here I have a movie playing in my head of series of events – of incorrect thinking and extremely poor choices that caused me stumble down the path which I eventually travelled. No matter how much I regret how things turned out, it won’t make the situation any better. What’s done is done and no matter how badly I wish I could make amends it doesn’t appear like a situation is going to present itself to lead to that end. I could keep going down this path or I could try to repair myself, to seek help. To assist myself to improve rather than always looking for the next person who might need a hand. In order to have a future with anyone – to help anyone. I first need … Continue reading
Posted in Fitness, General, Rant
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Lack of choice?
Yesterday I investigated five seperate bike shops on the south side of Brisbane and was quite disappointed in the lack of choice and variety in the stocked mountain bike tyres. Very few UST choices and shops universally only carried the Maxxis range – and even then they left out the more interesting choices. It’s no wonder so much business goes overseas to online bike stores, not just for their low prices but if you want variety you don’t appear to have much choice!
Posted in Mountain Bike, Rant
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Blog this!
I saw a girl at the mountain bike races today who had a shirt with the slogan “Blog this!” so I am. I’ve been inundated by bizzare and annoying questions on ebay lately from people who don’t appear to read the item description. Item contains xyz. “Does the item contain x and/or z?” To add to my ebay woes I’ve had a rash of people who have bidded and then been slow or not paid for the item. Other bidders have sent me messages pleading “times are tough sell the item to me cheap because I don’t have any more money”… Sure if times are tough and I’m selling my items I need the money too. I’m not a charity, and selling them for $1000 under cost is hardly like I’m profiteering…
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Friday morning.
I’m so tired this morning, I barely made it up before 6am and I have to leave in a second to catch my train. I’m really looking forward to the weekend.
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Return from the void
This week I made the decision that I really ought to be writing more often. If I did have any regular readers I’m sure I’ve lost you all now through my lack of regularity. The truth of the matter is I’ve been so busy over the last month or so that I haven’t had the time nor the inclination to write much unfortunately. There has been quite a few big changes in my life and I’ve undertaken activities that take up alot of my free time outside of work, and I’ve not at the break time at work to fill you in on what has been happening. I’ve recently changed jobs. I now work in the city, but I have to get up very early in order to make the train (5:30am or so) but when I get home from … Continue reading
Posted in Car, IT, Mountain Bike, Rant, china, motorcycle
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The sound of a hammer striking an anvil is not a pleasant sound from a motor…
After remarking to a colleague earlier in the day at how great my VTR1000 was running with 108,000km on the clock my luck turned south for the second time in four months. At the end of last year the big end bearing let go in my VR6 forcing my hand to sell it and then the VTR had a flat rear tyre on the highway. And on last friday the 22nd of Feb 2008 my timing chain snapped a few streets from home smacking my valves into the pistons. Early estimates from the local bike shop was “between $1000 and $4000″ depending on how extensive the damage is. I feel like the owner of a horse who has broken it’s leg and I have to make the difficult decision of whether to put down my beloved (but old and worn) … Continue reading
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So long without the internet! (Where is my naked DSL iinet?)
When I moved house over christmas I left the world of having broadband behind. Unwittingly I stepped into a world of difficulties when I attempted to setup iinet’s new Naked DSL at my new house. My first two attempts resulted in a “No such service address” which iinet said was a response from Telstra that my house couldn’t have a telephone connection. Given there was two telephone points in the kitchen and there was a ‘connect with optus’ letter in my letterbox I presumed that someone who previously lived there had used a working telephone. I then decided that rather than fighting with a webpage and long telephone support queues I would submit an application to Telstra to have a telephone line connected. Within a few days a Telstra technician arrived and after a few false attempts at connecting the … Continue reading
Posted in General, IT, Rant, Technology
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Poor form Glenn
I must say I was very disappointed to discover that the anti-apple fanboi ‘hacking’ of Glenn Wolsey’s blog (amongst others) by the pseudonym Malcor was a hoax set up by Macheist for the purpose of promotion. Macheist is a website that resells Macintosh shareware. When I emailed Glenn my condolences I asked him if he was aware of by what manner his WordPress blog had been replaced by a static rotten apple image. He claimed to be still investigating the attack and ignorant of how it occured. It turns out he was fully aware that his site was going to be modified in advance, and continued to play dumb after the fact. He has since apologised but I fail to understand why any of them would willing incite concern in the online community as to the security of WordPress and … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, IT, Rant
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