It’s done.
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Aug 222010
Tony Abbott as PM….sigh.
The conservatives in power again…sigh.
Visionary NBN project scrapped…sigh.
Money taken out of public education…sigh.
Money taken out of public hospitals…sigh.
Cuts to services…sigh.
It is disspiriting to hear people talk about politics sometimes. Often times the focus isn’t on what ideas parties have rather on the personalities they have.
I would say more column inches are devoted to Abbott and his exercise routine than to Abbott and his ideas for reducing costs of living pressures on families.
More time is spent on the airwaves talking about debates (the number of them, the format of them, if the leaders will take part, where will they be held) then about the vision either leader has for the country.
I think that is sad….because it makes people disengage from the political process.
And we get the situation we have today…the highest number of informal votes since 1984.
Aug 202010
I’ve been running Mandriva 2010.0 with KDE4.2 and then 4.4 on my desktop tower since I got back from China in Feb.
Mandriva is my favourite distro. It is rock solid, has a great set of user tools (i.e. quite user friendly) and those tools allow for some great flexibility without needing to delve into text config files, although the distro is structured so that it is fairly straight forward and transparent to delve into it if you want. I’ve tried a few distros over the years, Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Arch Linux and I have to say Mandrake and now Mandriva is in my opinion the best balance between flexibility and friendliness. Although I do have a soft spot for Arch, which is currently powering my ancient Dell laptop, you could do worse than choosing Mandriva if you are going for a distro that is stable, with up to date packages, good tools and general professional feeling smoothness. I won’t go into the pros and cons of other distros as this post is about my recent upgrade experience.
To be continued.
Aug 182010
Just a few sighs here and there. A really conniving boss, work team without management and talk of a mass exodus, people saying everyone has to look out for themselves and mortgages and apartment furnishings, rennovations and the lot; are all making the yman feeling unhappy and fed up. Where is my dream of no hassle chillage? Seems like everytime I achieve something that means I can just come home after work and relax and not have to do anything or be concerned about stuff, the goal posts move. It’s always about progress, got to do this, got to do that. Well as in Office Space, if I had millions of dollars, I’d do jack all.
Aug 162010
So the start of a new English Premier League season is here.
Liverpool’s gotten off to a better than expected start, except for a howler from Reina it could have been all 3 points today. I have mixed feelings about this season, the previous season really got me down about Liverpool.
But as they say, new season, new manager, new players (go Joe Cole, even though you are one injury prone player), a new hope.
The only thing is, I won’t be able to watch any matches due to lack of Foxtel. I think it’s $60/mth, maybe I can split the costs. 🙂
Aug 112010
Aug 052010