unscheduled delays

Please excuse the recent dearth of posts – I have had some non-swine related health issues.

Normal service to resume shortly, if all goes well, including the fabulous tale of travellers from a far flung outpost voyaging to the New…

commenting back

Commenting should be restored to some sort of functionality with the use of a name and email address for now (not displayed) while I continue my epic battle to get recaptcha working.

new comments system – recaptcha

Until recently, commenting has been restricted to registered users due to the ridiculous torrent of spam which any website automatically attracts.  Before registration was required, I was using Akismet, which was fairly effective, as in it caught 99.9%.  Despite…

clean slate

Well, clearly I got sick of actually writing anything here with any regularity. Apart from anything else, there are 50 trillion blogs out there, all of which are written by people who want people to read theirs rather than wanting…

Typical Sydney-centric attitude

Limited/no updates this week, as your author is stuck in Sydney, home of the homeless.

Well, I’m stranded in the city that never sleeps
Some of these women they just give me the creeps
I’m avoidin’

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how now, brown bureaucrat?

The lack of updates has been caused by your author’s temporary secondment to the home of closed supermarkets, icy wind and poorly dressed civil servants, Canberra.

We live in a political…

theme/wordpress update

I’m currently in the process of upgrading both WordPress and the blog’s theme (which is a customised version of the awesome Unsleepable theme, for anyone that cares). There may be a few teething problems, so bear with me.…

can’t eat all that stuff in a single bite

I’ve updated the layout somewhat so that longer stories are now abbreviated on the front page – hopefully this makes the site a bit more readable. If something interests you, just click the link to read on. If not,

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spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam

As a result of the infinite joys of spam, the comment system is unfortunately going to require a name and email address – which will naturally not be used for anything other than comment moderation, published, disclosed to any third…

feel like talking to somebody but I just don’t know who

A brief note to say that I will be clarifying the point of this place in the not-too-distant future. You can possibly look forward to some sort of underlying philosophy behind what’s posted here, including the reason why the dice…