http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au Now with fewer speling errors Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:22:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TC recently mentioned that her first job was as a checkout chick back in the days when you paid, and got paid, in cash. My first job was as a paperboy. I’d get up at the crack of too-early-to-be-out-of-bed, ride my bike across town, pick up 100 newspapers, ride to a ... http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/523 Just did my eTax thing for the 07/08 financial year. Looked like I was in for a pretty big refund for a minute there. Then I remembered I had a HECS debt. ...did I say 'refund'? http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/522 A few weeks ago, the household was taken over by Herbie-mania. This past week it's been Poppins fever. When all the new releases have been taken out, you have to trawl through the weeklies and find something worth watching. This was. I think it's one of the lines of Mary in ... http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/521 Things I was going to do tonight tweak template some overdue photoshop work subsequent posting to flickr listen to new tunes play the bass guitar play the electric (non-bass) guitar play the acoustic guitar if it's not too loud and might wake the kids drink Guinness, eat twisties and dark chocolate Things I've done so far tonight Listened to the ... http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/520 So after writing yesterday about QR codes, I went to the letter box (I almost typed litter box then but had backspaced before I realised how apt it sounded) and got the junk mail. Among the specials on minced beef, cordless drills and label makers, there was a Tel$tra flyer, ... http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/519 I discovered the very useful QR codes the other day. They're a bit like barcodes, indeed they're a type of bar code, only not so bar-like as actual bar codes, which seem to be composed solely of bars. These are two-dimensional bar codes, whereas barcode barcodes are only one-dimensional (when ... http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/518 Sometimes I get a bit riled up and do a bit of a dissertation on some current affair or other. It's usually something that's been in the media a while, usually to saturation point and I get a bit sick of that and feel compelled to share my oh-so-unique insights ... http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/517 First there was the Australian version of the American version of Idol. Then we had Ice Skating with People Who Have Been On TV, which nobody watched because we don't really ice skate much in this harsh, hot land of ours. This was followed by Dancing with People You've Heard ... http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/516 I know I'm cynical about it, and I can't believe that more people aren't. I'm talking about whenever someone dies, the commercial news programs wheel out their slow-motion montages of the recently deceased, complete with inspirational wind-beneath-my-wings type power ballad as backup. There was one recently for a famous cricketer's wife. ... http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/515 I'm at a bit of a loss at the moment, feeling as though I've hit a wall in the career department. And I can't stop thinking about a book my kids have, about a family who buy a hotel by the beach but realise quickly that it's windy ten months of ... http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/514