Pun Intended Consequences
In which the main character rambles on about stuff.
Jun 16, 2009
Seen on the Middle of the Road
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ON THE way back from work today, saw a woman sitting in her car, stopped in the middle of the road (residential neighbourhood), being approa...
May 28, 2009
The Slashdot Effect!
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RECENTLY I’ve been getting more and more comments and emails about a little word count macro/script I wrote way back when for OpenOffice.or...
Mar 23, 2009
From T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
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JUST came across this amazing little poem (or maybe a piece of a poem). Have to share it. This is from the second quartet of T.S. Eliot’s Fo...
Mar 17, 2009
Commenting Using Facebook
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FACEBOOK did some spiffy Web magic a few months back that allows people to post comments, using their Facebook identities, on any sites whic...
Mar 15, 2009
The Dark Knight
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FINALLY finished watching The Dark Knight. It's just as good as I remember it, from Heath Ledger's performance to the intelligence ...
Feb 23, 2009
A Blog to Facebook Experiment
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THIS post is basically an experiment on Facebook's ability to suck my blog posts in and display them in my wall. I recently changed a se...
Feb 22, 2009
For Posterity: How Shit Happens
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THIS is something I've been wanting to post here for a while but which completely evaded my puny memory for the past couple of years. It...
Feb 18, 2009
The Divine Music
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SOMETIMES when I'm about to fall asleep, an amazing melody comes into my head, plays itself out, and goes away. This is something I'...
Jan 24, 2009
Shopping Spree
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IT'S so easy to spend money these days. I just went on an online shopping spree and bought these two books: Getting Things Done by fame...
Dec 21, 2008
Office Politics ... Get Me Out of Here!
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IT TOOK five months to crystallise my hatred for office politics. When I started work, it was something of a novelty, something to get used ...
Dec 7, 2008
Stupid Windows Mistake #1
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I MADE my first stupid Windows mistake since buying a brand-spanking new laptop a few months ago. It's been running like a dream so far....
Nov 30, 2008
Viva la Paz
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JUST saw Spanglish and loved it. Should've seen it a long time ago. Anyway. I'm in love with Paz Vega.
Nov 18, 2008
The Monash Letters #1
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I SET up my Gmail account in Microsoft Outlook recently for easy access and found myself going through old emails that I'd written to fa...
Nov 9, 2008
How Did He Get the Crazy Idea That He Could Win?
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THAT'S what I've been asking myself over and over again. Obama knew that he's special, but how did he decide to take on the inst...
Nov 6, 2008
The Skinny Kid With The Funny Name
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FEEL-GOOD exercise: Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_presidents . Then, scroll down the list of US presidents while reading each ...
Oct 26, 2008
Kids and School
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I NOTICE something strange every morning as I go to work. I see kids of pretty much every age steadily walk to school--braving traffic and c...
Oct 25, 2008
Alexander & W.
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WARNING: this post (probably) has spoilers for both movies. I'VE recently found myself borrowing a lot of movies from my local library...
Oct 19, 2008
Wrong Answer Every Time!
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Just found this awesomely hilarious joke. I think it's safe to say that with each question in the joke, I got the wrong answer every tim...
Oct 14, 2008
Where Do Classroom Essays Go to Die?
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I'VE always felt that I did a good job back in middle school with a few short stories, in essay form, that our English class had to writ...
GTDMail
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I REALISED after reading David Allen's Getting Things Done (well, most of it) that Gmail has been designed almost from the ground up to...
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