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This made me laugh
 

Thought this was interesting (if a little depressing).
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the [...]

A couple of months back both Leanne and I suffered Catastrophic Chair Failure (CCF) when the chairs we use in our home office failed with a week or two of each other.
I had been thinking about a new chair for a while, and Leanne was using a very old and not particularly good quality chair too.
After [...]

We drink a lot of water, and given the strong taste of water coming in through old pipes in our area, we filter our drinking water.

Previously, we used a Brita On Tap system, which conveniently connected to the end of the tap on the kitchen sink.
This worked reasonably well, however we also use a mobile [...]

Thought this might get a chuckle:

Ha-ha

It was our wedding anniversary last Monday, so I decided to book a couple of nights in a nice hotel in the Sydney CBD so we could have some time away from the house and my computer over the long weekend.
We stayed at the Westin Hotel on Martin Place - which was very nice [...]

Well, I woke up this Good Friday holiday morning thinking about enjoying the long weekend, only to have my entire weekend ruined by the stupidity of a bank.
When I logged in to my National Australia Bank Online Banking to check my accounts (as I do on a daily basis), I had a message waiting from [...]

Just gave three of my laptops back to IBM (actually, I transferred them to another employee, who will probably just dispose of them through our asset management system).
So for a few days I had 6 laptops, but now I’m down to three, soon to be 2.
Returned: ThinkPad 600X
This old clunker hasn’t been used in years [...]

I was having a debate about whether we should add a blog feature to our website - which already has a discussion forum. The comment made to me was:
Maybe I don’t understand blogs … but what is the difference between what we’d say in blogs and what we say in forum posts that we initiate?
That’s [...]

Just looking at one of the bits of paper that came with the docking station I bought for my new laptop from Lenovo.
I think it is supposed to be some form of notice or warning - but I couldn’t really work out what they were saying !
Docking Station for Lenovo ThinkPad Notebook PC is for [...]