Mon 28th Nov 2005
Another Blogsome user was wanting to use {todayayearago} to get posts from a week ago, which reminded me I do it with a month ago. Looking through the source to see if a weekly one exists (it doesn’t, as yet), I came across this little nugget:
function todayayearago( $when, $wpblog, $spacer ='<br /' )
Now, ignoring the apparent typo (I think there should in fact be a closing tag to that there BR tag…), what do you see that is notable?
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One of my students today told me she had seen a poster for a band named after me. I did a little research (they played at Flinders Uni last Friday), and came up with this poster:
As you can see, it’s pretty close.
You can read about this band over on Music SA’s Schickel page, or the Official Schickel Website, and even listen to a track. It’s not too bad, actually.
Beedogs.com is the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes.
Sort of implies there are several repositories, doesn’t it?
Sun 27th Nov 2005
I spent the last three days (or a fair chunk of them, at any rate), down in the lovely seaside town of Robe, located about 3½ hours drive south of Adelaide. Around this time every year, and instigated originally by my good friend Hugh Koch, Robe hosts the annual Village Fair: a showcase of local food and wine, with internationally reknowned musical entertainment.
This year saw the inclusion of Jimmy Barnes, the former front man of 80s Rock Band Cold Chisel, as the lead act, with (Johnny) Diesel (formerly of Johnny Diesel and the Injectors), supporting him on Saturday night. (Which reminds me, he didn’t do the song Saturday Night!) Vanessa Amorosi played on Friday evening, and Kate Ceberano was the Sunday afternoon act.
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Top 20 geek novels — the results! from Guardian Unlimited: Technology
Ones in green are those I’ve read:
More than halfway!
I’ve been uploading my weekly favourite PostSecrets - the cream of the crop, if you like.
This weeks were great, again:
I hope she succeeded! (Man, her legs are skinny!)
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I have a Google Alert for the string “NSLU2″. Just now, I had a new alert, and my NSLU2 category has just made it into the top 20…
Yay!
I usually try to refrain from commenting on what is happening at my work, but I really need to get this off my chest.
The school I work for is currently going through an accreditation process, known as CIASa. Now, I have nothing against the noble ideals of meeting some international standards, but I think that either this system, or how we have interpreted it, has totally missed the point.
I have, for example, just spent the last hour printing out edits to documents. Now, these edits are things as simple as adding a full stop to one sentence. And I have had to print out the whole page again. I have a personal objection to this purely on environmental grounds.
And it gets worse. Within my faculty, there are four staff, who by and large all teach the same material at Year 8 and 9. Our course outlines are the same, and apart from rare cases of ‘interesting’ classes, the cohort is pretty much standard. We have built into the course the ability for students with aptitude and ability to extend themselves, and for students with various difficulties to do simpler or less work.
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Why is it that girls in underwear ads always hug each other?
Is that what girls do? Get together in their underwear, and hug?
