Author: bonwag

While surfing, found this link to one of my favourite 80s bands; Honk The Yard Poodle. (I was looking around in response to this thread in ‘aus.tv’)

Based on recent experience, I thought pox was something which madeyou look like a join the dots puzzle, just with half the fun. Now, I’m told reliably, they’re the next big thing after Tamagotchi, Pokemon and Digimon. POX are handheld virtual aliens (nothing new there) which will interact with other POX which are within about 30 feet. They’ll do battle and other such stuff, which means you may check your schoolbag to find a dead POX on your hands. Sounds like something worth noticing, either as a kid who’ll be pressured to buy one, to a concerned parent who’ll really be forced to buy one, or an older citizen who’ll be forced to complan about it. Kids These Days.

August 15: Apparently this is not a hoax; it sounds feasable enough, but Telstra and Optus are warning that:

Please be aware that there is a new hoax message circulating that is transmitted as a SMS text message on mobile phones.
The SMS message reads similar to: “Please call me on 09011500065 Urgent – From KB”.
It is recommended that you do not call this number. This is a premium phone line that charges $5 per minute. When called, you will get an engaged tone. This is not a real engaged tone, but a recorded sound. Callers who redial will be charged the $5 fee for each attempt.
The SMS message has apparently been generated from an overseas source. Optus and Telstra are currently looking into whether these messages can be blocked. In the meantime, users are urged to delete the message and make any family, friends, or colleagues aware of the problem.

Let’s hope this isn’t the start of something big…

August 15: Since when did schoolkids figure they needed wheels on their schoolbags? What’s wrong with the old black and brown hard-back Stanley Stanfords – which were virtually indestructible and being capable of being thrown vast distances without denting your honey sandwiches? What about the old canvassy ‘sports bags’ which lasted barely a term before exploding unceremoniously as you ran for that late bus. NOW we have to have ergonomically designed backpacks which protect delicate young kiddy spines. And the latest aberration is the airport luggage style draggable schoolbag. (Sure, we dragged them in the old days, but we didn’t need wheels) What’s next? Anti-gravity? Courier services? Kids These Days.

If you’re forced to use Outlook, you may find yourself bashing your head against the new function which prevents you from accessing attachments which people send you. To restore sanity, see this article: Outlook: Cannot Access Attachments

August 9: Pleased to report that Ainslie is back from her research trip to London, Rome, Florence and London!

The Word Spy attempts to catalogue all the brand new words which crop up in the media every day. It pays to increase your word power!

There are a few people out there who do stuff I wish I’d thought of first. Here’s one of them. One day, he’d been prevented from chaining his bike to a fence by a landlord’s notice. The next, he was chaining anything else he could think of: join in the fun at What should I put on the Fence?

Zeitgeist allows for a peek into the back end of the Google search engine, exposing some interesting statistics about who is doing what with the web this week.

We’ve added a link to a variety of interesting News Headlines to make it look like we’re doing a lot more work than we actually are.