Good: I've sent off an e-mail about the job I'm looking at in Slovenia, so I've got my fingers crossed that I'll hear something soon.

Bad: The virus/worm-y thing is back - I've got twenty dodgy e-mails in the last ten minutes. Grr.

Bad: A library book I desperately need for my thesis has been recalled, so I'm going to have to spend the next two ( Read more... )

Is there anybody who'd be able to take a look at my friends page here and tell me why the posts progressively don't fit within the borders of each day? It's not happening when I look at individual entries, and there's no problem with my own recent entries page, but the look of the friends page is rather irritating. I'm using Haven style, and I've ( Read more... )

Thankfully, the flood of spam and virus e-mails seems to have subsided. I've scanned my system, and I appear to be virus-free, so I'll just keep an eye on things.I've yielded to temptation and bought myself a paid account. The three-icons-only restriction was getting to me, although I'm not much good at making them. (I've only got Paint and ( Read more... )

There seems to be some sort of virus/worm doing the rounds - it's 1:27am, and I'm still sitting at the computer because two or three dodgy e-mails are arriving every couple of minutes. I very nearly got a nasty surprise, because some of the headers and file names for this thing (I think it's W32.Sober.E@mm) are in German, and the e-mails are ( Read more... )

I can smell Dad's chicken soup cooking in the background, I've just eaten the last crumpet and the table is set for tomorrow night. I'm so glad that the rest of the family are making an effort for Pesach this year - Mum and I usually keep most of the festivals, but it's a bit hit or miss with everyone else. Not that we're incredibly observant, ( Read more... )

Damn. Not that it matters at all in the scheme of things, but still...( FA Cup )

I was going to start off with a sarcastic remark about Ian Thorpe's continued presence on the front page, but any capacity I might have for fairly reasoned sporting analysis has been swept away by the look on the face of the Australian swimmer who broke the world record in the 100m freestyle for women. Basically unknown (except to sporting tragics ( Read more... )

The main news here tonight wasn't the 'war' in Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan or Haiti or the Opposition Leader's promise to pull out troops by Christmas. There first story wasn't about the crisis in NSW hospitals, or the election for the Lord Mayor of Sydney. No, the headlines were devoted to the fact that Ian Thorpe had a false start in the ( Read more... )

I was talking to a close friend yesterday who returned from overseas recently. She was talking about her other half, who managed to get some work over here and just arrived the other day. I'm delighted for my friend, but at the same time, I'm a bit wistful over the complete lack of my own love life ( Read more... )

From the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday:

Kelly Burke, Education Reporter

Glenn Bowes, head of pediatrics at the University of Melbourne, will tell educationists today what every 11-year old Harry Potter fan already knows - that when looking for an institution that embodies all that is best for the development of young minds and bodies, you need ( Read more... )