Whilst flying home from Sydney on a Tiger Airways flight this evening, Di noticed the in-flight magazine has an article about Newcastle, Australia.  Unfortunately, someone who was putting together the magazine obviously got on Flickr or Google Images for the photos to include with the text and has included a photo of the Gateshead Millennium [...]

I see Philip Morris is encouraging smokers to express their concern about not being allowed to (1) get as much lung cancer as they want, and (2) give cancer to others through second-hand smoke.  Apparently smokers are feeling a bit hard done by, but more likely, the revenue streams for Philip Morris’ drugs are being [...]

For eight years I’ve put up with a door in our hallway that creaks when it’s almost closed, and it doesn’t latch properly therefore it is regularly “almost closed” unless we prop it open.  I’ve tried fixing doors in the past and not had much luck so didn’t bother with this one.  Finally, I gave [...]

OMG! The pain, the pain!!! As the students return to the university this week, they all show up to the underground carpark precinct I use and try to enter. Unfortunately for us regular users who all have swipe cards, the process for entering as a casual carpark user is to press the intercom and call [...]

I was in a Harvey Norman store this morning, trying to purchase some software for my grandmother when I noticed there was a discrepancy between the information on the box and what I was expecting, based on previous internet searching. I asked one of the employees if I could jump on the internet quickly to [...]