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Everyone I now in the local community spent December whinging about how Summer hadn’t come yet and how cold it was, and apparently the South West of Western Australia experienced its Coldest December on record, but now its January and its 33 deg celcius in my office and the humidity is exceptionally high for this part of the world at 60%, although its probably not that humid outside, my sweat is probably making it more humid in the office 🙂 Enought summer now…..please 🙂 scary thing is the worst is yet to come. That’s February for those outside of WA, where we get those delightful 40 degree days.

Just checked the weather box on my personal blog and it reads 31.8 degrees at 3pm! at long last summer has arrived after the South West of WA experienced is coldest ever December on record. Whilst the rest of Australia seemingly boils, we’ve continued to freeze, even Hobart (Tasmania) was warmer in December. Its like summer never really started.

My first serious question of the new year: Why is Australia’s Funniest Home Video show called Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show when nearly all the clips are American?

I mean, their theme song goes “Australia, Australia, this is you…”. If this is us does that mean we are American? Perhaps the show should be called America’s Funniest Home Video Show with a few Australian clips thrown in for good measure.

Why is it so? 🙂

Next gambling and porn…..

MILLIONS of Australians who tape TV shows and copy CDs will soon get the right to do it with a clear conscience.

All the nets abuzz about the disturbances at Cronulla in Sydney, and the reaction of the main stream media compared to bloggers has been amazing. Whilst the mainstream media seem to label what occured at Cronulla as “rascist riots” parts of the Australian blogosphere seem to be the only people supporting the PM in reporting it for what it was, a law and order issue. What’s even more amazing is how focused the MSM is on Cronulla and yet if you dig deep enough into the MSM reports you’ll find that people of Lebanese decent have run rampage throughout other parts of Sydney since. But of course, apparently burning the Australian flag and beating people up because they are Anglo-saxon in origin doesn’t constitute racist violence according to the Sydney Morning Herald, because it appears that racism can only be done by white Australians.

The language is also interesting. The MSM is so quick to label “white” Australians and yet the Lebanese youth who started this whole thing are labelled as “Middle Eastern”.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not condoning the violence, it was clearly wrong, but what makes 5000 mostly law abiding Australian citizens gather at Cronulla in the first place? Its a law and order issue where young Australian’s in Sydney feel that their streets are no longer safe and they see no other alternative to take action. Sad, but true. The true criminals are the members of the Government of New South Wales that so poorly provides protection for its citizens. When 12 and 13 year old girls are spat at and called sluts at a beach in Sydney, and surf lifesavers are attacked by gangs doing nothing more than trying to protect the lives of others, something is truly wrotten in the state of New South Wales.

I’d also question the motives of the NSW Premier Morris Iemma. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to work out with a name like Iemma he’s not exactly a Smith or a Jones. The ALP in Sydney is racked with ethnic branch stacks (Mark Latham’s words) and he owes his position as Premier to the ethnic community. Despite the absurdity of what he is saying, he is choosing to take sides in an attempt to gain even more support from the community he relies upon to be elected. So much for governing for everyone! And of course now there are a pile of extra police in Cronulla….where were they when people were being attacked by Lebanese gang members?

PS: I’m a Shire boy from way back. Left about 9 years ago but grew up in the area. Cronulla was my local beach.

Food for thought.

Chinese ‘farms’ amass avatars and virtual gold for gaming sale

No wonder so many people in World of Warcraft don’t say a lot to each other.

Good news for Firefox fans, NASA has dumped IE in favour of Firefox.

I really, really love this.
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?whse=&topnav=&prodid=11098104
Check out the games list, amazing classics. Mortal Kombat, 1942, Ghosts N’ Goblins (ok I played this on the Amstrad 6128 mainly, but I did play it in the arcade on occasion), Asteroids….

There are two games they are missing though. Pacman, which I played on the Atari, and Outrun, which I spent countless dollars playing in the late 1980’s, back in the days that arcade games cost 20 cents. I can remember when they started making some games 40 cents and I was outraged. A few years back I walked into a TimeZone nearly by accident, and most of these sorts of games now are gold coin games: $1 or $2 a go. It must be a lot harder for kids these days.