Archive for June, 2005
The Queen’s Birthday long weekend is coming up here in Canberra, and that means that fireworks can be legally sold and exploded all over Canberra…Oh the joy of it all, constantly being interrupted by the passing lunatics trying to blow up parts of Canberra, having to comfort pets that are easily frightened by the constant banging.
I don’t mind the mass public fireworks that occur at New Years and Canberra Day, they are nice planned events that involve a bunch of experts letting off fireworks in a controlled manner near a large amount of water…But the mass lunatic asylum that is allowed to roam Canberra and terrorise letter boxes, pets and sleeping residents is very very annoying…especially when they continue doing it for the weeks after the Queen’s Birthday long weekend…and the week or so before it as well.
The worst part is, the Police aren’t around to enforce the law, and they certainly aren’t going to rush to the scene of a firework explosion and work out who was responsible…Why? Because they have no way of catching the perpetrators who could very easily be in another suburb by the time the Police arrive.
Samuel
June 6th, 2005 at 07:42pm
hmmmm….is forgotteness a word???
Anyway, I forgot the pedometer, but I am moving it to a place where it is near everything else I need to take with me (I also forgot one of those today!)…If I’m not absent minded I will have a nice stat for you tommorow.
Samuel
June 6th, 2005 at 07:40pm
Skype, the wonderful free internet telephony service now have me as a member. I can now make free internet phone calls to other Skype users, and extremely cheap calls to phones anywhere in the world. So can you, all you need to do is download Skype from their website.
You can contact me via Skype, my username is smoothwallsamuel
Samuel
June 5th, 2005 at 09:26pm
This week’s musician of the week is Stevie Wonder, I suppose it could have something to do with the fact that I heard his “Happy Birthday” song during last week, but he is also a great talent.
Samuel
June 5th, 2005 at 09:23pm
Yes, I know this was due on Friday, but you’re getting it today instead.
Starting from tommorow (Monday) I will wear a pedometer and see how many steps I take during the day…could be very interesting.
Samuel
June 5th, 2005 at 09:21pm
It seems that I run into crazy people almost every day, on Friday while I was sitting down listening to the radio a woman passed by me and stared at me the entire time she was walking past, in fact, I would go so far as to say she was gawping at me, or as answers.com puts it “look with amazement; look stupidly”
Oddly enough, it happened again later that day as well…I can’t find any reason for this gawping, unless I my head had momentarily turned bright orange with lime green polka dots…which it didn’t.
Strange strange people.
Samuel
June 5th, 2005 at 09:14pm
Firstly, thankyou to all of you who sent me emails, text messages, cards or phone calls to wish me happy birthday.
Nattie, who also has her birthday on the 2nd of June (It isn’t a coincidence, we know she was born in June, but we didn’t know the exact date) enjoyed her cake, and will probably enjoy more cake over the coming days, Nattie is 35 years old (In dog years anyway, she is 5 in human years) and active as ever.
Here is a picture of Nattie, myself and the cake
Nattie wasn’t really interested in waiting for the singing and blowing out of candles and the cutting of the cake to finish…she just saw cake, and cake is all she saw.
Samuel
June 3rd, 2005 at 12:10pm
Well, I think it’s exciting.
If you look at the links on the right hand side of screen you will notice that there is a link to take you back to the blog’s home page, this has been added to aid navigation from the posts to the home page.
Previously, if you were on the permanent page for a post then you couldn’t get back to the home page easily, now you can!
Samuel
June 2nd, 2005 at 08:06am
Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to me
Happy bithday dear Samuel
Happy birthday to me
Well, as expected, I rang John Kerr, and I have kept an mp3 memento of the call, and some other edited June 2 specific parts of the show. The mp3 is 1.9MB and can be downloaded from https://samuelgordonstewart.com/wp-content/18thbdayjk.mp3
Samuel
June 2nd, 2005 at 12:45am
I saw an interesting ad on TV not long ago. The people at Country Energy “It’s your country” have informed us that “Gas & Electricity go together”….what a good idea!
As they say in the classics, “It’s more bang for your buck.”
Disclaimer: If you blow yourself up by mixing gas and electricity you can’t blame me, but you can blame Country Energy.
Samuel
June 1st, 2005 at 06:38pm
Just in case I forget…Tommorow (June 2) is my birthday.
Expect an exciting new statistic to start on June 3.
And if you are in a place where you can receive “New Day Australia with John Kerr”, then tune in at midnight Canberra time (which is 14:00 June 1 GMT) as my name is on the birthday list and I plan on ringing John.
New Day Australia can be found on 2UE Sydney, 4BC Brisbane, 2CC Canberra and numerous other stations around Australia (Probably your local John Laws relay station) or on the web via the web stream at www.2ue.com or www.4bc.com.au
If I remember, I might record the conversation as a memento and place it online.
Samuel
June 1st, 2005 at 05:33pm
I received an email from a friend and colleague today, here is a “most of email” extract:
I applied for BETA testing for MS, which is pretty good, coz then i get free stuff (good thing number 1), they accepted my application, and will be sending me stuff when ever the next beta thing is out.
I also got my hands on a copy of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, Billy Gates is sending that to me soon…….
finally ms are doing something half decent lol
Now, I’m confused, Most Microsoft software is annoying enough, and most Beta software has a few bizzare quirks, but put these together as Microsoft Beta’s…Yuck!
I can’t share my colleague’s entusiasm on this topic, and certainly will not be using any beta Microsoft software from him unless I am certain it doesn’t have the usual mix of bugs, quirks and crashy bits that come from that horrid combination.
Samuel
June 1st, 2005 at 05:23pm
Yes, the changes continue, and they are all for the better.
One question I have asked myself is “Why do are all these people interested in my rantings”, I still don’t have an answer to that question, but what I do know is that some people like to see what I’ve been up to, and others find answers to questions, for example, a look at the Blog View Stats would show that some people have found my information on getting a Canon MPC400 printer working under Linux to be useful…but whatever the reason for coming to my blog, I want to make it enjoyable, and as such, I have added some new features to the blog.
You may have noticed that there is a Google search box at the top of this page (and every other page on the blog), this has been added for your convenience, you can easily search my blog from there which would be very useful for finding one of those archived posts, or you can search the web from the Google search box. I shouldn’t really need to explain that “Google Is Great”, I think you already know that.
The other improvement is advertising…hmmmm, I hear people moaning…look, it isn’t that bad, it is actually quite good. I could have gone with any number of advertising providers, but I don’t want ads that flash, flicker, buzz, popup, popunder, squeal, annoy or interupt. That rules out a lot of advertising sites. I also don’t want ads for “Pills & Potions ‘R Us” or those annoying ads that appear on Yahoo Mail and Hotmail “You can live and work in another country”…who cares??? I don’t want to move country, and I doubt many of my readers do, if you want to move country then call a travel agent.
So I made a decision, I decided to use Google Adsense for a few reasons:
1. The ads are relevant because they are based on the content of my blog.
2. They don’t violate my “flash, flicker, buzz, popup, popunder, squeal, annoy or interupt” rule.
3. They fit nicely on the side of the page in some nice blank space.
4. They are controllable, if I don’t want a particular ad, I can block it.
5. It’s Google, and “Google Are Great”
(Note to Google Adsense people who are likely to be alerted to my saying “Adsense” a zillion times: This is not designed to promote the ads or draw unnecesary attention to them, I do not believe that I have violated the Adsense terms and conditions, and if anything, I beleive I have promoted Adsense as a product that others can use.)
I think these changes will make the blog a better place, and I welcome your comments.
Samuel
June 1st, 2005 at 05:06pm
This week looks like it is going to be a week of exciting announcements, today is no exception. Today, I, Samuel Gordon-Stewart, hereby announce the grand opening of Samuel’s Musicians Of The Week.
This week’s musicians are Boney M
Samuel
June 1st, 2005 at 11:49am
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