A job ad in The Economist this week reads, in part:

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There's nothing like an aerial image of Sydney to remind one just why all the random driving is needed to get around. I live on the bottom blob of land, just off-screen. Maybe I should sell my car and buy a boat...


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Just for the record...

Impartial commentry is fantastic. Soundbite during SA vs Fiji:

"One way to ruin a game of rugby is to put a whistle in the hands of a northern hemisphere referee"

I think that, in general, the northern refs are a lot better than they were 10 years ago, but they could have had a southern ref in at least one of the quarter finals...

A romance in lower mathematics"

If you are travelling around Sydney or rural New South Wales, then Live Traffic is a neat site with regularly updated traffic details and even regularly updated camera images of major Sydney bottlenecks such as Anzac Bridge.


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I just bought a whole fridge full of fruit and veges. While packing some mushrooms into a paper bag at the grocer, I had a little giggle at the back of the bag:

VEGETARIANSMushrooms are an ideal substitute for meat ( Read more... )

I just downloaded Camino and it seems great. I have found Safari a little flaky at times. Camino looks great and runs very slickly. Best of all, it has an advertisement blocker, not just a popup blocker. This is particularly great when viewing online news articles, which are usually riddled with ads. Checkout the screenshot I took below. On the ( Read more... )

While walking along, I discovered that Utopia records has opened up on Broadway street, opposite victoria park and sydney uni. I was rather impressed with their collection and snapped up a copy of Doom Saloon, which has been rather hard to track down.

The Ebay listing says it all. Bid! Bid now!