I announce to the universe that I will never, EVER put myself into a position where I can be betrayed again.

After the debacle with my last housemates, I am still feeling knock-on effects in my life; bills are now beginning to roll-in and my incoming cash isn’t quite levelling-out.

It is — unfortunately — a difficult lesson to learn, but on some level I have to thank my ex-housemates for being the conniving, arrogant, self-centered, passive-aggressive, small-minded, abusive, nasty people that they have revealed themselves to be. Without your behaviour and your ultimate betrayal — refusing to pay the rent on rent-day as agreed and thus dropping me over $1500  into the hole — I would not have learned a valuable lesson.

For the lesson, I thank you, and I return the favour:

May you both live in interesting times.

Netsorship… a soon to be coined word.

Governments have been trying to work-out how to control the net for as long as it’s been in the public eye.

And you expect China and others to do this, but The Land Of The Free is now at it too.

Not news? Perhaps…

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What I found interesting when I was travelling overseas was that the whole world thinks Australians drink Fosters Lager.

As an Australian, I found this odd, because I’ve never seen anyone drink it in the mother country.

It’s been pointed out that “…it’s the stuff we don’t want so we ship it off to the poms…”

And as is mentioned in the following philosophical discussion piece, “…we find your American beer is a little like making love in a canoe…”

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This is one of the nicest, most elegant discussions on the state of homosexuality that I’ve read in a very long time.

Kudos to the author for this piece.

I just watched one of my favourite movies again: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I’m not ashamed to mention that I’m constantly touched by it, it’s sad, happy, lovely… a relationship that feels so real you can touch it, with the good bits and bad bits, the underlying longing to connect with another human being.

Now I’ve succeeded in not blowing myself up with the gas oven… which I couldn’t get to light even though there was the smell of gas permeating the kitchen… and I shall sit outside on my new old table and 1950s wicker chairs.

Microsoft Boss Nash

Complains that Vista is Crap

Ballmer says “Rightho”

Pure freaking gold…

Zero Punctuation Reviews – Uncharted

And you get to meet the author. How snazz!

And I’d embed the code if it actually worked in WordPress. Damn.

And now the contrast: an ABC News report on the same incident in the US.

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Thanks to D and iMeri for this one!

Never criticise Bike riders, or do something as stupid as these guys did.

Brilliant!