I’ll be taking a blog-break due to workload at work… Back soon! In the mean time listen to some decent music. Ssssh! It’s Secret!

I have to say something about policing transport in Melbourne. I have had a number of occasions where I have called emergency services. Only once were they able to respond, and they let the crazy violent people back onto the train – the crazy people acted normal for the Police and resumed their craziness after they left. In the case of calling 000, it is difficult to advise the operator where you will be (which station, town, etc.

A friend recently said he had been steering clear of the iTunes Music Store because of the low bitrate. This is even though he uses an ipod, mac and iTunes. I personally have purchased over 300 tracks at the previous 128Kbps bitrate, and up to now, have been happy with the quality of these AAC song files. Now apple have released a (so far limited) portion of their catalogue, being from EMI at 256Kbps, and DRM free to top it off.

Evo Terra aptly describes what all information connected people have gone through. You know how it feels when you just can’t catch up on your podcasts, or RSS feeds? Evo is going through this right now and is about to get out his “CyberMachete”. I have even removed Slice of Scifi from my podcasts when information overloaded, but it always seems to return. read more | digg story

I have finally purchased a new domain name, and here we are: <techdebug.com>. The old one still works, and will be setup to redirect to this one (its the same server, just a proper domain name). The reason for this move and name change? Some guy had bought up a bunch of domain names, and parked digitalrss.com. He was willing to sell it to me, asking $100USD plus fees, so a quick trip to <godaddy.

Looks like I’m officially “on tha interwebs”. I just got hit with my first comment spam. 50 comments in one hit from many IP’s and all about drug/pornography/medicine. How crass.

I am currently travelling. and am in Adelaide this week; Flying with Qantas. Besides getting up at 3am, all is good with today. I have started eating at 3 hourly intervals, smaller meals, in an attempt to get my metabolism kickstarted. This is still on a calorie intake 20% less than my Base Metabolic Rate (approx. 2100 per day). Combine this with my jogging, and I should see some results over the next few months.

I thought people understood this simple premise. You write your code to the standard, not to the browser. The browsers then adhering to the standard display the code correctly, or lay it out based upon the chosen style. Why in this day and age are Telstra/Bigpond NOT doing this? I am a customer, and nearly all their web based products MANDATE the use of a single browser; i.e. they write their code to a platform.

I was on a Virgin Blue flight today. Last month all my flights had been on Qantas. I have noticed a difference in the way the cabin crew act. The Virgin Blue staff behave less “professionally” than the Qantas staff. On this particular flight, the things that occurred; some of which were funny, and some of which would have been embarrassing to the person affected; are: A cabin crew member asked a young lady to blow into a straw attached to a breathalyzer, before serving her wine she ordered.

I was looking at CelticBear’s blog, and saw a link to MSNBC, who has a piece by Keith Olbermann with comments about President Bush and his recent speech about Iraq. He likens Bush to the boy who cried wolf, noting that this time around, who will believe him that the same thing will work (sending another 20K troops to Iraq). I highly recommend watching the streaming video, as it conveys the commentators opinions much better than the written piece.