"Pah!" To Channel Seven and their inability to run to their schedule!

"Pah!" also for Channel Seven's excessive ad breaks and for making Pirates of the Caribbean (normally about 2 hours and 50 minutes) last 3 hours and twenty minutes.

"Pah!" to other people for ordering pizza before Hil and I causing a one and a half hour wait for out dinner to arrive.

Pah!

There is a Critical Mass protest on today in Sydney so I got the train to work instead of cycling as usual.

It's bad enough riding through sydney normally but when there will be more than the usual number of "anti-cyclist" drivers around I want to be well away from the place. I don't want anyone thinking I'm anything to do with those Critcal Mass idots.

Pah!

When the weather looks nice and sunny there is nothing nicer than spending a day on the beach. It is also quite nice when you plan a trip two months in advance and find yourself on the beach on a sunny day. What isn't so good though is being on the beach when the temperature reaches 47'c and the sun is so strong it manages to burn you through sunblock.

The main thing is that I don't do this everyday and I finally managed to get myself to Stockton Beach for a play on the dunes!



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Yay! Australia is less corrupt than the UK!

http://media.transparency.org/imaps/cpi2009/


And if you're reading this you've probably forgot to sponsor me in my Movember effort. Do it now!!

http://au.movember.com/mospace/62013/

After seeing the video released by the bus company itself I am wondering why the headline "Identity of cyclist 'who attacked bus driver' still unknown" doesn't read "Identity of Bus Driver's intended murder victim still unknown".

Okay, the cyclist shouldn't have been in the transit lane but that doesn't mean that a bus driver is given the right to try and kill the wrongdoer.

On a similar rant:
One cyclist shouts at a 64 year old bus driver (who just tried to kill said cyclist) and the media brands all cyclist as pensioner bashing scumbags and every anti-cyclist journalist and columnist (Miranda Devine and the like) are given unlimited time and opportunity to encourage drivers to 'take revenge' on any and all cyclists.

Conversely, a lorry driver throws fireworks into a bunch of cyclists. Media attention? Almost nothing and what little there is is written is with an anti-cyclist slant.

I've been lugging my work laptop round a bit recently and got fed up with it being so heavy.

If I empty the recycle bin will it make my computer lighter? What if I set the screen to a lower resolution to reduce the number of pixels? Will that help?

Also, don't forget to sponsor me during Movember!

Get you credit card then go here to my MoSpace.

That's right folks, it's coming up to Movember! A time of the year when strikingly handsome and clean-shaven men like myself give up our good looks and grow a Mo in the name of charity.

Anyone who knows me well enough will know that I can't stand having more than 2 or 3 days growth so this will be an interesting experiment for me.

So, if you're not participating yourself sponsor me here!!.

Well, I didn't get the thunderstorms I was hoping for last night but this morning we woke up to something a bit more interesting....

(photo nicked from news.com.au)

It would appear the storm (which has spent the last couple of days working its way across the country) picked up a fair bit of dust from the the red centre on its travels.

Given the amount of dust in the air today I decided not to cycle to work and caught the train which gave me a much more relaxing view of the sepia toned Sydney.

If riders of fixies (especially unbraked fixies) weren't carrying around such a huge sense of self-importance and entitlement then maybe they'd be able to slow down and stop for red lights.

Blimey, it has been a while since I updated this thing. Oh well, I suppose I'd better make this a big one...

Sam & Hil go to Canberra
By Samuel_Sock

A few weeks ago Hil and I decided we would go and tick off another item from my "must do while in Aus" list with a trip to Canberra. However, being adventuring types we didn't go directly to Canberra via the Highway, we went the off road country route via the Blue Mountains...

We set off earlyish on the Saturday to make sure there would be some camping spots available at the campsite we were aiming for – a place called Dingo Dell part way along the back route to the Wombeyan Caves from Jenolan Caves. I wasn't sure what the track conditions would be like but allowed plenty of time in case they were more 'interesting' than expected. Luckily, it was all straight forward – the river crossing was nice and easy on account of their having been little rain in the preceding few weeks and the creek crossing and steep sections were fairly dry.

In the end we made good time and got to the campsite and about 3 o'clock, found a good spot and got ourselves set up expecting there to be at least another few people turning up for the night.

Our camping spot at Dingo Dell:

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