Heading South

I’ve been listening to the Continuous Call Team coverage of the Souths v Roosters game and whilst it seems that Freddy’s men are playing very impressive footy, Souths may well find it hard to get anywhere this season, particularly with what seems to be a long term shoulder injury to Craig Wing. 24-4 at half [...]

Is lying always bad?

Not so if you’re The Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt. His editorial paints untruths as a way of maintaining peace and happiness, whereas telling the truth is an “enemy of peace and contentment”. His editorial is more or less influencd by the TV show The Moment of Truth, where contestants are asked at times probing personal [...]

O Holy Night…a bad version.

A few of us at St Thomas’ have a fixation with New Zealand-based singer Wing, who has made a reputation for MIDI-accompanied cover songs, and her rather distinctive and (to some) horrible voice. It’s rather hilarious how songs made famous by AC/DC and the like can be made to sound so comical. Steve and I [...]

25 random Winamp tracks

Dave’s invited people to post their top 25 iTunes songs. Since I don’t use iTunes for my playback of music, I thought I’d load my music via Winamp (my player of choice), and catalogue the first 25 songs that come up with Playlist Shuffling toggled on. I’ve not included spoken word podcasts such as sermons, [...]

Street racing story # I’ve lost count…

Another night, another few cars impounded after their owners had sudden rushes of blood and broke the speed limit. News Limited reports of 2 separate incidents where cars have exceeded speed limits by almost twice the permitted speed, and the motions of impounding the car, suspending the driver’s license and handing out a court notice [...]

10 ways to make your blog stale and uninviting

It’s been linked to in a few blogs, but here is what effectively constitutes a “How to blog so that your traffic resembles a rural highway at 3am”, courtesy of Internet Monk.
I thought I might add a couple of my own personal reasons:

I simply am unaware of its existence in the galactical arrangement of blogs. [...]