Apologies for the work in progress, trying to be modern and testing it all locally with my WAMP install didn’t work, so I’ve reverted back to the old fashioned way: installing a template by tweaking it live.

It was time for a new template. The old template, live for maybe 5 months, as much as it was smart at times, other times it just didn’t work for me.

The new template goes back to basics, complements of the brilliant WordPress theme generator. It’s basic, core stuff, but it works.

Forgive me for a couple of days if things aren’t overly pretty, but I needed that extra column space and I intend on making good use of it.

Update: switched back to the old template for now. The new one just wasn’t doing what I wanted it to. Might be time to bite the bullet and get one designed.

In the cool I want category, the Keyport, via NotCot:

“KeyPort – an all in one key fob?¢‚Ǩ¬¶ just get specialized blanks cut to match your car, house, boat, locker, etc keys and the slot right in. In the press kit it says that it is ?¢‚Ǩ?ìcreated to complement your personal style and organize those jagged objects you can?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t live without.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù And currently under development are RFID for remote keyless entry, Alarm Remote and Flashlight”

Must. Have.

The irony of this blog remains every day that it was only ever an after thought to my main projects, The Blog Herald, then Weblog Empire, the other blog network, and probably soon the next big thing or two, and yet somehow appearing in Top lists sort of creates this guilt that personally I should feel obliged to actually try a little harder, actually take this whole site a bit more seriously, and yet trying too much would make it not fun anymore….this from istartedsomething, clipped from The Age:

From the official Crowded House email list:

On 2nd July Crowded House release ‘Time On Earth’, their first studio album since 1993, with a line-up featuring founder members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour, former member Mark Hart and new drummer Matt Sherrod

‘Time On Earth’ tracklisting:

1. Nobody Wants To
2. Don’t Stop Now
3. She Called Up
4. Say That Again
5. Pour Le Monde
6. Even A Child
7. Heaven That I’m Making
8. Silent House
9. English Trees
10. Walked Her Way Down
11. Transit lounge
12. You Are The One to Make Me Cry
13. A Sigh
14. People Are Like Suns

You ripper!

The SMH reports on some chaps getting the arse from their waterfront jobs.

Here’s some choice quotes:

Mr Copper, 49, who has a mortgage and two young children, said he felt “sick in the guts.” implication being that he now cant pay it

John D’Arcy, 56, who has been at the company for 17 years, said he was annoyed by the way he had been told to leave the work site and was trying to come to terms with looking for a new job to pay his rent of $325 a week.

OK, so losing your job isn’t fun, but putting on the waterworks is a bit rich when you look at this line:

Vopak Terminals Sydney managing director Ron Dickinson …said the workers had all been given redundancies worth between $96,000 and $136,000.

Oh yeah, those families will be going hungry tonight, mortgages wont be paid, rent in arrears…blah, blah blah, blah blah.

Again, these things are never nice, but here’s a company thats rightfully paid out entitlements: not a single worker is going to starve for at least the year ahead, possibly longer, and that’s presuming they’re all going to sit on their arses for the next 12 months and not look for new jobs. Chances are, most of these guys will probably walk into another job within weeks, if they want to, and if the job market isn’t as flash in NSW, they can always hop on a plane to WA, a state where basic truck drivers start on $100k and there’s companies begging for employees of any shape and form.