This country! I tried to ring my bank and transfer some money to Australia, but apparently I can only do that between the hours of 8:45am and 1:30pm. What’s the point of phone banking if I can’t do it out of business hours?
While I’m whinging, I’m sick of call centres located somewhere so cheap everyone has an impenetrable regional accent.

I know it’s awful, but I can’t get the Soul Asylum song Runaway Train out of my head since I heard about the runaway train in Melbourne.
“A witness at Broadmeadows, Ben Bolton, told 3AW: “The driver came out of the room and asked `Where’s the train?’ and someone said `It’s over there’.
“He was in shock and started running after it with his bag. He came back two minutes later pretty distraught.””

Heh, I just saw an ad for the “Greatest One Hit Wonders” that featured John Farnham’s “You’re the Voice”.

Attempts made to sell shuttle debris on web: “Texas authorities were investigating reports yesterday that people were trying to sell debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which disintegrated over eastern Texas.”

Apparently Tatu, paedo-lesbo pop stars for a day, despite admitting they enjoy their ambiguity, have said they have boyfriends, and intend to marry and have children. Which pisses me off, but will probably make their straight man target audience like them even more.
Even worse, according to the BBC, “The duo’s creator, Ivan Shapovalov, has admitted that Tatu are what he called an “underage sex project” designed to appeal to men in search of “underage entertainment”.”

Developer cops a blast over Esplanade proposal: “VicMusic, a non-profit, organisation representing Melbourne’s contemporary original music scene, has hit out at the Becton Corporation over its proposed redevelopment of the 1878 Esplanade Hotel site in St Kilda.”
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“The new tower involves retaining the core of the Esplanade to build six townhouses, 44 apartments, a convenience store and restaurant. But the bottle shop and beer garden would be scrapped under the plan.”

It’s tragic, but one of the first things that struck me about the space shuttle blowing up was that the jokes would appear more quickly because they could be recycled from last time. Like, what does NASA stand for? Need another seven astronauts.
I’m tempted to paraphrase Oscar Wilde: to lose one space shuttle is unfortunate, to lose two is careless.

The Onion | U.N. Orders Wonka To Submit To Chocolate Factory Inspections

I’m at work on a Saturday so I can test a client install. I made a new blog so I can collect links for my trips this year.
Danniii Minogue is going to be in my street next Thursday, I’m really tempted to heckle her. “Your sister is prettier and more famous than you!”
I went out for drinks and dinner with Mads last night. The George and Dragon at the start of Hackney Road has been done up, it’s not bad inside and it’s well close enough for a local when the wankers have been and gone. Big retro hair is apparently still in for girls. I never trust a skinny barmaid, I figure they should at least look like they drink the things they’re serving you.
Dream Bags and Jaguar Shoes is already over. Sure, the people were still beautiful but some of them looked 16, and everyone’s beautiful when they’re 16. Cute barmaid though.

Danniii Minogue is going to be in my street next Thursday, I’m really tempted to heckle her. “You’ll never be as good as Kylie!”