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Yesterday the official temperature in Bunbury was 40 (celcius) and I’d think it was proably a couple of degrees hotter where I am. Ironically one of the main stories in the local rag that day: The Summer of 69, which detailed that Bunbury had experienced its second coldest summer on record (69 was apparently colder). I shoudn’t complain really, sure we’ve only been to the beach a couple of times this summer (the water is really cold this year as well), but the weather has been pleasant (and sometimes even cold) but the heat totally sucks….which reminds me, is talking about the weather the official Australian sport? If you meet an Australian for the first time and want to break the ice, talk about the weather…we all do it incessantly. Everyone I know here is talking about the weather, constantly, and all Australians have an opinion about weather, no matter where in the world they are.
From Wired:
GM, Ford, and DaimlerChrysler will soon by tiny specs in Toyota’s rear view mirror, according to CNN Money.
Toyota’s 2005 profit of $11.4 billion was greater than the combined earnings of the other 12 auto companies in the world. This year they will become king of the road, taking the mantle from GM as the biggest auto manufacturer by selling 8.85 million vehicles.
The keys to Toyota’s success are growth in hybrid vehicle sales, which will accelerate as the company rolls out the Camry and Lexus GS Hybrids this year, and the ability to cut costs. Toyota engineers have halved the cost of manufacturing their Camry engines.
Toyota estimates that drivers of Toyota and Lexus hybrids have saved more than 110,000,000 gallons of gasoline as of January 31, 2006.
The seemed to have forgot to mention that they make a damn fine motor vehicle as well. Honestly I’d never buy anything else. Every Toyota I’ve ever owned has never caused a problem. My experiences with Fords and Holdens on the other hand… Ive never owned a Nissan or Honda but I’m told they are dearer to service, and Mitsubishi’s aren’t to bad, but they just aren’t an exciting motor vehicle.
As much as I hate the way Wikipedia is administered by self interested Nazi’s, I always seem to get distracted by the main page links when I’m looking for something. The Falkirk Wheel is just simply amazing. 21st design applied to a 17th-18th century transport system. Of course we don’t have canals here in Australia…except to build houses next to as an excuse to charge a pile of money for being “on the water”. This is one of those things I’d love to see one day.
This will bring a tear to your eye…and only goes to prove that giving isn’t about receiving kudos.
Ex-POWs Meet Secret Breakfast Benefactor
For 30 years, a group of former World War II prisoners of war has been getting together for a monthly breakfast at Bunny’s Restaurant. And for the last few years, someone has been anonymously picking up the tab.
On Wednesday, the men – including a survivor of the Bataan Death March and others who were imprisoned in the Pacific – finally met their patron, an area businessman who was just a boy when World War II came to an end.
OK, so I never owned a C64 (I had an Amstrad) but all my friends had C64’s so I got to play a lot of the games…plus back in those days the same games were often available on the Amstrad as well (but I’d note the graphics were a lot better on the Amstrad).
c64 games online.
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? 🙂
