SPAM Issue

Am having an issue with the Lime Kettles email account... I am getting 3-4 Nigerian Bank Scam Spams per hour.  They're flooding in...

I use the Lime Kettles account as my default site registration account and I think someone has got my email addy off one of those sites in the past 24hrs as I am getting bombarded from Nigeria!

I keep clicking "Spam" on the Yahoo Mail but it doesnt seem to register that the next ones coming through are spam as well.  Does anyone know how to fix spam in Yahoo Mail?

New Worker Training!

Tried to upload a big post yesterday on Kate's birthday weekend, but for some reason all the photos were coming out sideways... oh well!

Today however, I have brought Kate into the office.  Given I am wrapping up here at work and whilst I am busy, its a bit more casual, I thought it would be a good learning experience for Kate to come in and spend the day with me in the office.  We caught the train together this morning and sat in the rear car as I always do and the train guard gave her a big hello.

The trip was quiet and she played with my PSP as we sped along in the early morning.  Then she did the change trains thing and walked from Kings Cross to the office like I always do.

The office was prepared for her coming and everyone said hello and she has her seat next to me.  As per routine, I took her down to the coffee shop where she got a muffin and a hot chocolate and now she is pretty chuffed to be here!  The embarrassing thing is that I am playing my last game of Mixed Netball today at lunch and she'll be there to witness her old man make a fool of himself.

LOL!

Kitty Kats

Kate & Brooke made their debut for the Kitty Kats at last nights Penrith vs St George game. The video is really shonky particularly as I realised the camera crew were focusing in on Kate and she was on tele.

For the record, the girls are on the right hand side when they split in two. Kate is in the front of the line and Brooke is right behind her.



And some sideline antics:

Big Weekend

A big weekend this weekend... it's Kate's 8th birthday on Monday, but all the celebrations are this weekend.  Firstly, it will be Netball as is now the Saturday morning tradition and then both Kate and Brooke will be members of the Kitty Kat's - the little girls cheerleading squad for the Penrith Panthers NRL team.  The good thing is that we'll be going to the game to cheer them on and to also cheer on my team the Dragons!  What a great coincidence!  Niki's brother and his family will be going to the game as well I think (they're Saints fans too) so the girls

Then I did go into a religious vitriol a few days (weeks?) back about kids parties and religion.  Turns out Kates bowling party is the Sunday and we'll be at the local 10 Pin Alley knocking down pins with Kate and about a dozen of her friends.  The kids get food and party bags and also there will be lollies and jugs of soft drink in the lanes itself as well... could get messy with all that sugar and bowling balls!

Then it will be pizza's at Niki's sisters place for dinner just for that extra hit of junk food!  Its going to be a long weekend and not a good one from a healthy balanced diet perspective... but football pies balances with lollies which balances with pizza... perfect!

There'll be a big picture posting for the weekend next week!

Inferno as passenger jet hits office building | NEWS.com.au

Breaking news of a plane hitting a building in Sao Paulo Brazil... The photos look horrendous and the blaze is an inferno.

Funny though my experience of planes hitting buildings is something along the lines of this where the lawn doesnt get scuffed.

Inferno as passenger jet hits office building

Knackered at Netball, Buggered at Politics

I am soooo buggered.  I played Mixed Netball at lunch today and worked out that other than a bit of a hit at indoor cricket, its the first bloody exercise I have done in months!!  I am not proud of that, but thats the truth!  For the netball afficianado's amongst us, I played Goal Attack and missed all 3 of my shots and we lost 12-3.  Talk about exhausted!!  I also got introduced to the work showers for the first time in my 5 years here and it happens to be in my last fortnight at the company!  LOL.

Turning to things more blog worthy, a few things have been popping into my front of mind lately in which I should tell you all my opinion on... Firstly, this Indian doctor caught in Brisbane on suspicion of terrorism has left me a little confused.  I personally think the guy is not innocent... I am sure he has been doing something dodgy in aiding and abetting his colleagues / countrymen / relatives (?) in the UK bombings, but have we sort of thrown out the judicial process by detaining him for too long without charge and then cancelling his Visa via Ministerial decree?  Is that right?  Are our laws full of loopholes to ensure that if the government *wants* a conviction, they will get it.  Has the process undertaken lost the opportunity for him for a fair trial?  I dont know, but whilst I think this guy is fishy I dont think this is the right way to go about it for the same reason I and others complained that the USA held David Hicks for so long...

Secondly, I meant to post this yesterday, but here is a quote from John Howard on 14 May 2003.  In the cold light of 20-20 hindsight, this is a damning quote:

JOHN HOWARD: I again take the opportunity of reaffirming the correctness of the government's assessment in predeploying our forces, and I record the bitter opposition of the Australian Labor Party when that decision was taken. Not only was the military operation completed quickly and successfully but it is also worth recording that all of the doomsday predictions, particularly the many that came from those who sit opposite, were not realised.

The oilwells were not set on fire; there were not millions of refugees; the dams on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were not breached to bring on catastrophic flooding; and there was no long, drawn out, bloody, Stalingrad style street-to-street fighting in Baghdad. For all of this we must be immensely grateful, but it is a reminder of the hysteria and the doomsday predictions that often accompany operations of this kind. And, just as many of the predictions about a Western Front style holocaust that were made in 1991 when the land war commenced were proved wrong, so the predictions on this occasion have been proved wrong.

The decisive victory of the American led coalition reflects enormous credit on the strength and the determination of the leadership of President Bush. Again I remind the House of the way in which his role was vilified and traduced by many of those who sit opposite and of the way in which speaker after speaker from the Australian Labor Party impugned his integrity, assaulted his judgment and called into question his ability to lead the United States in this very difficult conflict. History has proved them wrong.

The performance of the President has illustrated how infantile their protests were, and the leadership that he has given on this occasion, I believe, will bring about a permanent change in attitudes in the Middle East.

Credit to crikey.com for the post.

The Life of Riley

Blogging is a relatively new media and sometimes you wonder how it all comes together and why people do it. Is internet publishing via a blog forever? Will Lime Kettles be around for all of eternity as some sort of time capsule?

Interesting thought... and how should we use the internet to record history? Well the site below is an example of how the internet is not just for computer games and porn, but rather a way to keep history. The Life of Riley is a blog about 107 year old Olive who tells her stories to the blogger who then types them up along with old photos.

A great idea! See, internet publishing can be purposeful and historic!