Entries for July, 2009

Indonesia urgers local hackers to find hotel bombers

Despite releasing two computer mockups last week of the Indonesian hotel bombers that implicated half the Indonesian population (and half of Asia for that matter), Indonesian police have as of yet still not caught the wanted suspects. Then a few days ago somebody stumbled across a Blogspot blog in Indonesian and Arabic that claimed ‘Alqueda [...]

Is your council leaking your personal information?

I was recently horrified to learn of a Sydney council hosting pdfs and word documents publicly displaying people’s addresses, rennovation costs, phone numbers and more worringly hard copies of their signatures. Anyone can go to the council’s website, hit search and before you know it half your private life there for all to see. There’s [...]

Radio rape confession: Blame the mother not Sandilands

I like to verbally bash Kyle Sandilands as the next Australian. From his annoyingly whiny voice devoid of any authoritarian bass to the way I imagine he waddles his way around to the way his mouth always looks open even when it’s closed… yes there’s plenty about this guy that just pushes my buttons. However, [...]

Aussie parking inspectors want capsicum spray & batons

The window in my office building looks over a 3:30pm clearway. Often on a slow afternoon if a car is still left standing at around 3pm on the strip me and my co-workers start to take an interest. A few times now and without fail at 3:30pm on the dot if a car is still [...]

Too many jobs on my resume! How to cut them down

A few days ago I wrote about Generation Y disaster employee Simone Francis who’s managed to burn through 70 jobs and still not find something she likes and it got me thinking. With 70 jobs ranging from just three days to a few months Simone’s resume must be a nightmare to sort through! Late last [...]

Theophanus case proves protectionist laws are flawed

As a male it’s bad enough we’ve got lesbians who think we’re all a bunch of predators, parents who think we’re all kiddy fiddlers and a family court system that is stacked to buggery against us. On top of all that though, what’s even more disheartening is that it’s still possible for someone to accuse [...]

The tightrope that is the Generation Y jobs market

It’s no secret that the Australian job market has been in nosedive mode for a while now. Every month the major job sites publish figures showing that jobs are down three hundred and eighty thousand percent then the previous month and that the Centrelink queues are getting longer and longer. Not surprisingly Generation Y has [...]

Fishless cycling on the cheap for your aquarium

Fish in a fish tank, whether they be goldfish, angel fish, guppies or whatever are going to produce waste in the form ammonia which needs to broken down. There are countless products on fish shop shelves that claim to establish bacteria colonies in record time but for the most part these are expensive ways and [...]

5 tips to encourage your workplace to be bike friendly

Some of us are lucky with our workplaces provide adequate facilities to store our bikes while we get on with the work day. If you’re really lucky you’ve got access to showers and lockers too. But what if you workplace doesn’t cater for bicycles and cyclist commuters? Often the question of bicycle facilities has just [...]

Nandos Chicken, biggest fastfood ripoff in Australia?

Everybody knows someone who is blindingly fanatical about Nandos fast food. ‘So I’m taking you somewhere special tonight for dinner.’ ‘OMGNANDOS!’ ‘No, something a little classier than that.’ ‘OMFGSTFUNANDOSNOW!’ ‘But…I don’t like chicken.’ ‘WHAAAT? We need to break up’. I don’t quite know what it is about Nandos but I’m sure I’m not the only [...]