Category: Life

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…

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.

Star Wars: Episode II | Special Announcement: Episode II Title
George Lucas has decided to title his latest creation with a name ony a mother could love. What is he thinking?

August 1: Yep, we’re infected. Allanah has just recovered from her bout of Chicken Pox, and sure enough, Caleb and Charlotte have to join in, just to be cool. Allanah was a little frustrated at having to be away from friends, but Caleb’s immediate reaction was “Cool; now I get to play with the PlayStation!”. Charli’s a little less impressed – and this is only early days. We’ve done some research to help us through; see BONWAG for a list of sites we’ve visited to learn more about the disease.

July 28: Technology continues to challenge the church. Some unnamed ‘religious group’ has – according to the London Times – managed to translate the Lord’s Prayer into SMS – the abbreviated language for mobile phone text messages. Seeing as you’re limited to 160 letters and numbers in this format, some cutbacks had to be made. Here’s the ‘new version‘, which tends to lose something in the translation….