Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

What I would have Tweeted during QF127

One disadvantage of flying more or less anywhere apart from the US is that you can’t Tweet in-flight and drive everyone on the ground nuts. If I had Twitter access during flight QF127 from Sydney to Hong Kong, this is how the sequence might have gone:
Hope someone occupies this biz class seat next to me [...]

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Five final thoughts about Las Vegas

Heavens to Betsy, I’ve been out of Vegas (and CES 2010) for nearly a week and I never got around to covering all the various bits of weekend excitement. So here’s some quick thoughts around a few key themes before I have to get all New Zealand on everybody.

RADIO: This year, being at CES was [...]

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Kirstyfest 2009 in photos

I went to Kirstyfest, the annual celebration of my all-time favourite singer/songwriter Kirsty MacColl, in London on Sunday. Fab time as always, summarised here in pictures and too-brief captions. (Apologies for the inevitable misspelt and forgotten names.)

The famous bench in Soho Square.

The fabulous Jean Newlove, Kirsty’s mum.

Singing “Soho Square” in Soho Square, accompanied by 150 [...]

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The language learners

The other day, in the South Australia state library, a man came up and asked me what a word meant in the novel he was reading. He looked vaguely sub-continental, in his forties.

He had underlined the phrase carefully in pencil. High-heeled shoes. I tried to explain, slowing my habitual mumbled bursts. He sketched out the [...]

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My life in song

I picked up this idea from my brother, and it sounded like fun, so here goes.

Using ONLY SONG TITLES from ONE artist, cleverly answer these questions:

1. Are you a male or female: Man In The Middle

2. Describe yourself: I Let The Music Speak

3. How do you feel about yourself: I Am The City

4. Describe your [...]

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I am NEVER flying easyjet again

My flight back to London from France (a 2 hour trip) is now 23 hours late, and that’s only assuming they finally get their act together. Utterly, utterly hopeless. Makes Ryanair look like First Class with Qantas.

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Here’s an ad campaign that leaves me almost speechless

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Tweets which you rarely see on Twitter

In the process of taking a massive dump

Wow, this iPhone is really good value

I can’t believe how stable Twitter is

Here’s a link with which I have no promotional connection whatsoever http://tinyurl.com/59wtk7

This blowjob is substandard

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Vista: Apparently, Explorer is optional

Windows Vista loves to issue a daily reminder of why it sucks. Today’s incident: I’m in the process of creating a folder when the system decides to pop up one of those ’set location’ boxes for the wireless network in the Qantas Club. As well as being largely futile, this manages to crash Explorer entirely. [...]

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Anagrams

I’m stupidly pleased to note that an anagram of my name is DINKUM SANGA. Make mine Vegemite. Back to your posts.

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