I’ve made this a hahaha article because on the overt level it is – it’s a huge laugh. “Oh crap! Those nominations were due on Wednesday? THIS week? Oh oops – can I predate the envelopes, haha?” and it’s a tale that sounds like a sitcom plot. But in fact it’s a major stuff-up. One…
Thursday 20th I woke to one of the coldest mornings in a while, here in our temperate location on Australia’s Bass Coast. I mean – the weatherfolk had been predicting 2C overnight with frost risk and this is considered cold here. People that head for Perisher and the snowfields up around there, they have snow…
It seems like just yesterday that people were telling me to “beware of Hawke’s talks and Keating’s bleatings” – seemingly unaware that I was a dyed-in-the-wool Labor voter. (Or maybe they knew and just didn’t give a shit, or were trying to get a rise out of me. Whatever. They’re 30-40 years in the past…
A propos of recycling, here’s a scheme that you may wish to support. Bear in mind that while it is a cost, it’s a small cost compared to the ultimate cost that profligate waste is costing us already and will continue to cost us more and more as the months go by. Why Aren’t Corporations…
News in the “supermarkets skinning shoppers scandal” I’ve been mentioning (This most recent post has links to many earlier ones) it’s not a huge scoop The TEdASPHERE Globe’s presenting here. Just that more and more industry organisations are coming forward with complaints and claims against the duopoly that Australia are calling “Colesworth,” but these days…
Our national telco (I guess…) Telstra has always struggled with doing its job. (Kind of like Australia Post is about to try and become the only postal service that doesn’t actually deliver post.) But hey – this is about Telstra. Who have now published full names and addresses of their customers – whether they wanted…
This article is a bit of an issue for me. You see, people should be throwing ALL hard plastic into recycling, not getting confused by articles like this that seem to suggest that other people are throwing plastic bottle caps into the general waste. I’m not really sure where the author of that article gets…
Michael Mosley’s recent passing from what has tentatively been attributed to heat stress highlights something that will become a deadly factor in daily life and is already tipping into being very concerning to our lives. The thing with heat stress is that it’s insidious. It sneaks up on you. You’re on a walk that starts…
A recent “Download This Show” podcast remarked on the then-recent events like the grammar school AI deepfake porn, and X’s overturn of the Australian Internet Safety officer’s request to take down a terror attack that had been carried out against a religious figure. It shows how pure greed trumps humanness, every time. There’s a lot…
You may have a privacy feature on your browser or have installed a privacy extension that stops advertisers tracking you. And if so, you’re probably also used to seeing this pop-up on some websites: That despite the fact that you’re not using an ad-blocker – which is another whole kettle of fish. Or so you’d…