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Just received an email from a work friend about a book thats hit the stands. Very interesting stuff.





I thought you may be interested in this article on the impact of the Australia-
US FTA on Australia's high-tech industries:



http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Patently-yours/2004/11/25/1101219671693.html



It is based on the book "How to Kill a Country: Australia's Devastating Trade
Deal with the USA" (written by Dr Elizabeth
Thurbon, and her colleagues Professors Linda Weiss and John Mathews).





visit www.australianinterest.com for more on Australian foreign economic policy.

Now this is Sad...

So why am I posting it? THis is the Mofoisms baby! Yeah!! Full of cromulent crappulent crud..

Im Excited!

Ok, and before anyone says it..not in a "big Kev" kinda way! I found the coolest web archive site and have been surfing down memory lane looking at some of the weird and wonder creations over the years.



Heres a sneak peak:



x-y-z-files.ml.org

This site has been around as long as the hills (sounds of plucking banjos in the backgrounds). Used to be one kickass document repository. It died a sad and painful death. One of my very first sites!



www.ic-networks.com

Ahhh yes, good old ic-networks. This is possibly my second oldest site ever. I have that domain for years until i let it gracefully expire this year. At one time or another it was a portal.




parenthesis of Life

Damn i loved this site. It was a knowledge,literary repository where people could enter poems, and other literary sources. Used flat files before databases became popular and it rans for years on end. I still have dreams of reviving this one, and still to this day have heaps of the original material!




MonkeySpank

Another one of my personal favourites! Lots of fun, yet pointless and kindof sad. One day I will revive the monkey who is criogenically frozen orbiting the earth.



Centroid

Another failed web design company (how many is that now.. 3? 4?) Had the absolute coolest animated gif logo ;)~~~




There you have it.. Im a bit sad they didnt archive any of my earlier work.. But hey!! its all good!!!

Classic Sig

Courtesy of Pirate Boy (a.k.a Mattius) I thought it was an absolute crackup!



This email may not have been sent to you but someone else. If you are not that someone else but someone other than them please contact your legal department and ask them who you are. That being the case destroy this message (only after you know who I am) and then forward your own message to whoever I thought the original person was. Remember in most states and territories it is a crime to pretend to be someone you are not.

Desktop Background

May I ask the question - what gives a company the right to place downright ugly Desktop Backgrounds onto your PC?

I work for a company most of you here know. Today, upon login, my desktop background changed to a woman with glowing breasts ... flying through the sky.

Could someone please tell me what that has to do with electricity?

Thanks in advance....

Would you like Cheese with that?

Now just before I start I want to state emphatically that I am not a nutter, and I don't belong in some sort of Dark, Quasi Gothic insane asylum (ala Gothika).



Have you ever thought to yourself.. "Damn I could go some cheese right now". No? Comon!! be Honest. I mean what could be better than a big chunk of Cheddar, or Colby..mmm Colby. As a matter of fact, I could go some now. Cheese goes with everything. There is nothing that cheese cannot do. As a matter of fact, im going to start a Cheese fanclub. Who wants to join?



There are even books on the subject. "Who Stole the Cheese" is apparently a vivid tale about some sort of business/management crap (I think it was the mouse). So whos the nutter now? But wait, theres more. Theres another book called "Who Stole My Cheese" which is an absolute crackup!



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OpenBSD 3.6 Release

OpenBSD 3.6 is out and looking fab! Latest additions include SMP Support for i386 and AMD64 (Finally!! W00t w00t) and heaps of other cool bugfixes, further security enhancements etc etc.



For those who have never heard/seen OpenBSD it is designed with Security as the highest priority. One remotely exploitable hole in 9 years aint bad!!! Check it out!



OpenBSD 3.6 Release

Music Overload

Now I'll be the first to admit that I have bought quite a few music CDs in my time (probably waaay too many) - but I have noticed that lately that I have a tendency to overload way too much on a single CD.



How is this possible? Stuffed if I know. I usually end up buying a CD, listening to it ad-nauseum for a few days, then discard it to the ever growing pile of CDs. As time progresses, the mean-time to ad-nauseum seems to be getting shorter. This indeed is a disturbing trend.



I remember the good old days where you would buy an album and listen to it for months on end, never tiring of the awesome guitar riffs, ballads etc. Could it be that in this virtual, manufactured, post-modern universe we exist in, that music has lost its soul? Who knows, or more to the point - does anyone care? After all there is so much _new_ music every single day that we now have the option to chuck it away.



And so on and so forth....

Organising Groups of Ladies (sorry Guys!)

Here is something to test your patience, or mine actually. I am planning a trip to Oaks Day on Thursday - fabulous, dressing up, pretty shoes ... la la la ... and attempting to organise 6 other ladies who also wish to go. First, it was listening to how "they have nothing to wear" - NO, last year's dress WILL NOT DO! Then how we could not possibly PRE PLAN the purchase of tickets to said event. NO, we will stand in the queue on the day for at least an hour and attempt to purchase our tickets.

But first, let's meet for breakfast - NO, we cannot plan that either - I tried, last month to arrange and book . NO! was the cry, let's just wait and see .... and now every single breakfast place is booked out, no champagne for us PRE-Races ... probably lining up at the Golden Arches ..... before herding onto the train to stand in the damn queue ...

Mantra: I will have a nice day; I will have a nice day!