Category: General Musings

An Australian man is being investigated for sending more than 2 billion spam emails, most of them promoting Viagra.

And, it seems, most of them landed on my computer even though the report claims they were mostly targeted at Dutch computers.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said it had received a tip off from Dutch authorities that an Australian male resident was responsible for the flood of spam hitting computer servers located in Holland.

Penalties can exceed a million per day;

The ACMA said penalties for contravention of the Spam Act include fines of up to $220,000 per day for first-time corporate offenders and up to $1.1 million per day for repeat offenders.

But surprisingly do not include being keel hauled whilst trussed up with USB cables after having being forced to overdose on viagra.

Pity!

THE Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, is dead.

News.com has the initial report

He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said. It is understood he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest.

He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary and that’s when it occured.

Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality this morning at Batt Reef off Port Douglas.

News Flash tip from daughter Liz

For those of my readers who tried to leave a comment over the past week and failed I apologise – even if the comment was an attack.  The problem has now been fixed with a Word Press upgrade and all should be OK.

Not often I find something worth quoting at Tim Dunlops “How Howard lied today” blog but a comment by tim g rates a mention.

Here’s my prediction: when we eventually have a nuclear holocaust and the only surviving life forms are cockroaches, the cockroaches in the Middle East will start fighting each other. 

DUBLIN: The accidental discovery of an ancient book of psalms – found last week when a construction worker drove the shovel of his backhoe into a bog – has been heralded as a miracle by Ireland’s archeologists.

The book, of about 20 pages, has been dated to AD800-1000 and is the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries, according to Trinity College manuscripts expert Bernard Meehan.

I do like this;

The book was found open to a page describing, in black-letter Latin script, Psalm 83, in which God hears complaints of other nations’ attempts to wipe out the name of Israel.

There’s an opening for some religious nut to start another conspiracy theory here…better than Nostradamus…it’s a message from God……the end of the world is nigh.

You can take it from there guys.

25,000 Australians, 10,000 Britons,an estimated 40,000 Canadians, most of the 25,000 Americans there,1200 Belgians and about 1000 Danes all living in Lebanon with dual nationality. About 100,000 Lebanese, out of a population of 3.8m, have voted for the security and social standing of their country by having a Plan B for life’s little problems.

But what annoys me is that 25,000 Australian’s have done the same.

I’m also annoyed that we have immigrants who select Australia as a destination because they can come here, do absolutley nothing and get given, free of obligations, considerably more money than they could have earnt back home working long hours. It’s not the type of committment I would look for in aspirational Aussies.

I do not agree with dual nationality in any way, shape or form and I believe the people who choose to come to Australia should have sufficient committment to their new country and sufficient competancy in English so as to fascilitate gaining employment.

Just in case anyone is in doubt of my thoughts, I’ll state them in one line.

No committment, no language competancy, no welcome!

2007 Honda Goldwing

Starting in spring 2006, Honda’s flagship motorcycle will be available with the world’s first motorcycle airbag, able to inflate in 0.06 second and fully absorb the rider’s forward energy in 0.15 second (less time than it takes to blink an eye). This innovation represents a major advance in motorcycle safety.

I suppose it could help if the prang was strictly in-line with the bike and no forces whatsoever impacted on the trajectory of the rider otherwise he slides and hurts like every other rider.

I remember when the Goldwing first came out a writer in Sydney commented “God help you if you put it down in a slide because he’s the only one capable of getting it back on it’s wheels again!”

*No matter how hard I look, I can’t see the ashtray!

*from the old saying… as useless as an ashtray on a motorbike..or a hip pocket in a singlet…or…nevermind, you get my drift.

Don’t get caught in speeding in Jeddah

JEDDAH, 20 July 2006 — At the police station they registered my name and time of entry. It was 5.10 p.m. I was searched and deprived of my cigarettes, then escorted to a jail cell.

This would be my home for the next 24 hours. My charge? Driving 160 kilometers per hour down Jeddah’s Madinah Road. 

The law says you spend at least 24 hours in a jail cell and your car gets impounded for getting caught exceeding the speed limit. If you can’t pay the fine — SR500 (AUD 177)for speeding — then you get the pleasure of an additional 48 hours in the cage. (You also pay SR150 later to get your car out of impound.)

Wonder what happens when you rack up 12 points?