And now for something completely puerile… SWEARSAURUS ::: How to swear in 124 languages! from Insultmonger: “The art of insults”. My favourite would be in German: “Du bist doch dumm wie Brot”… “You are as dumb as bread” – nice, simple and easily translatable ! There are a LOT worse on that site – discretion … [Read More »]
Archives for 2003
Site change again
Okay, I’ve changed the site around again. In my typical over-engineering fashion, what I tried first was a good idea, but overly complicated. I wanted to have separate domains for each family member who might hang off mysite – hence sim.hampel.net.au, rose.hampel.net.au etc, but as it turns out they just don’t seem to be interested … [Read More »]
Artarmon Community Centre
Over the last 18 months, I have put up with construction work outside our bedroom window as the Willoughby City Council demolished the old Kids Cottage after school child care centre and replaced it with the new multi-purpose Artarmon Comunity Centre. They finished major contruction work about 6 months ago, and have been working on … [Read More »]
Disgruntled
According to Take Our Word For It, the origins of the word disgruntled are as follows: Usually, the prefix dis- implies a loss of something, as in disease, disgust and disgrace. Very occasionally, as here, it means “entirely” or “very”. So disgruntled means something like “extremely gruntled “. So, what does gruntle mean? It is … [Read More »]
Telstra – eat my shorts
After more frustration in the last couple of days with Telstra’s appalling email problems and web site outages, I jumped onto the IBM intranet to check out which ADSL provider we were allowed to use. I read the policy document much more clearly this time and noticed that the policy has changed !! No longer … [Read More »]
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