Twenty years later and they’re still, on occasion, referred to as “the Chaser boys”.
Archives: Notes
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Obviously the reason LinkedIn have started doing games is because the want to bring people to the site each day to play a game and then go and check their feeds to read about the morning routines of self proclaimed global thought leaders.
Ironically I think I’m reading my feed less because I’ve been to the site so why would I go there again.
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Watching a slow, middle aged and slightly overweight cat try and catch a bird is always amusing. Much more so when there is an audible thump as the cat runs in to the window.
She then had a lie down in front of the window as if to say “I meant that, that was totally planned. I knew the window was there all along.”
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What is wrong with people?!, humans hitting the horn at traffic lights before it’s physically possible for a car to start moving edition.
It’s probably a good thing I don’t drive, I think I’d sit there until the light turned very yellow before taking off so they had to wait for the next green light.
At least until the first such human came at me with a tire iron.
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”The average Australian produces 22.4 kilograms of e-waste a year…”
I’m pretty tech savvy and just can’t figure out how someone would generate so much waste. We go through a few batteries and that’s about it typically.
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A bill to amend the Spam Act 2003 to require unsubscribe links on after purchase/attendance/looking at a thing for a few milliseconds surveys because even though they’re technically transactional they’re about as welcome as an email pointing out relevant content to a blog post you wrote ten years ago that you might want to include as a link and related issues.
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Last night I rewatched the original West End production of Sam Mendes’ 1993 Cabaret revival.
For me, the Mendes version will always be the canonical version because I saw a Sydney production of it with Tina Arena as Sally and Toby Allen as the Emcee. Nadine Garner and Henri Szeps were in supporting roles. It was as simply an amazing cast.
I hadn’t watched it for a couple of years and last night it was different.
After the last twelve months in the US it felt more like a a warning for the future than a reflection of past events.
It rang true for the ICE raids and kidnappings of anyone with a little colour in their skin. Particularly the Herr Schultz line “…but I’m a German. A German.”
It rang true for all the anti-trans & LGBTQIA+ sentiment. The Emcee ends up in a concentration camp at the end and has a pink triangle stamped on his clothing.
Twelve months. It’s only twelve months since he got back in the white house.
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The time I tweeted “It’s on. Rolling coverage: https://bit.ly/abc_news #libspill” during the short period when both Rickrolling and Australian governments imploding during their first term were popular.
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In the process of deleting 21,693 tweets using Cyd, thanks to Ben Buchanan for the recommendation.
The vast majority are on my site in the notes section.
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I’ve been getting in to cooking YouTube recently in the hope of picking up technique rather than recipes.
A recent video (the first I’d watched on the channel) pointed out that soaking chopped onion is a great way to get rid of the excessive, their word, onion flavour.
I have never smashed the “never recommend this channel” button so quickly.
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I feel terrible for the staff at the Adelaide Festival, they’ve been working solidly on the event for twelve months (possibly longer for some shows) only for the board to ruin the reputation of the festival at the eleventh hour.
If you do go to an event at this year’s AF please remember that the people you see producing the shows are probably devastated.
None of the people you see front-of-house were involved… most of them are not even on payroll yet.
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The new Adelaide Festival Board has now made an unambiguous apology to Randa Abdel-Fattah: “We apologise to Dr Abdel-Fattah unreservedly for the harm the Adelaide Festival Corporation has caused her.”
They’ve removed the previous board’s statement from the site. I’d have been transparent and kept it with a notice directing readers to the newer statement but there’s no perfect decision here.
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The Maribyrnong River swans are back with a family. This year with four cygnets, up from three last year. We saw mum and dad taking the kids for a swim down the river in the final stages of dusk last night.
I tried to get a picture but was too far away so it looked like the photo of the Loch Ness Monster.
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On the cancellation of the Adelaide Writers’ Week, the board says “We also apologise to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah for how the decision was represented”.
Which is very different to the board apologising for the decision itself and completely fails to acknowledge the board’s fuck up.
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I’m trying to find a print edition of Roald Dahl’s العملاق الطيب or ذكاء ثعلب (The BFG or Fantastic Mr Fox, Arabic translations), probably the latter due to the babblement of made up words in the BFG. I’d settle for an e-book though.
It’s not easy to shop in a language you don’t understand in an alphabet you can’t recognise. I’ve tried Goodreads for some links and while some of them go to translations, it tends to be a random language rather than the one you are looking at.
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We’ve been watching The League of Gentlemen recently but last night we didn’t feel like watching a horremdy (like a dramedy but for horror). We needed nice, simple and a lot of heart.
Scrubs was perfect: we watched the first three episodes of season one and it was so nice. We’ve got DVDs of the first three series so get the original music too.
I think Bill Lawrence has got a bright future.
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SMS from “Coinbase” (yes, scare quotes) “Your login code is 123456. Wasn’t you? Reach us at 1800 SCAM.” I’ve never seen that approach before.
With all these scams, the money laundering and the well known price manipulation you’d almost think that operating in the crypto market was somehow a dodgy thing for dodgy people.
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It’s started: Bluesky have asked me to verify my age through Kids Web Services. They have a very smart looking web site.
Their privacy policy seems fine, I guess but includes that well worn line “we may modify this Privacy Policy at any time.” I understand that line is basically the privacy policy version of E&OE but what’s not clear is how they want me to verify my age.
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A question about CSS sub-grid, is it possible to do without
div.can-i-do-without-thisin this example?Hashtag peter learns css again after somehow becoming a backend developer over the course of the last ten years
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Wow, have I forgotten a lot of CSS over the last ten years.
I’m trying to remember to use logical properties, even though my site is only ever going to appear in English.
It seems odd that a shorthand equivalent of
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I know I am an old silly but were I running a bank and transitioning people to a new system, I’d:
- provide the exact name of the new app
- provide the new access details before rather than after the transition
- only do so after internet banking was available via the internet
I guess this is why I am not a product manager at a bank.
