This is either a joke or the most biased reporting I’ve ever come across. If it’s a joke it’s not funny and if it’s biased reporting it’s so overly biased as to be obvious and thus much less effective. Not that I don’t think Blair’s labour party deserve to be voted out but comparing them to Hilter’s Nazi party is way over the top. For the record, the article appeared on the front page of Google News.

Firmly in the “what were they thinking?” category: two menu were arrested and charged with animal cruelty. What did they do? Kill a live mouse (each) by chewing it. The management of the Exchange Hotel where the incident occurred as part of an organized promotion claim “they knew nothing about it”. I’m the sure the expense claim for a holiday weekend on the Gold Coast (which was to be the prize) wouldn’t require any explanation….

David Starkoff points out this case regarding the provision of adult entertainment on Good Friday. David points out how “ironic (apt, perhaps?)” it is that the Common Prayer Book is pivotal in the final decision. However interesting it may be that: the Almanac annexed to the Common Prayer Book has been regarded as part of the common law, and in consequence would have been received into Australia as part of the common law (Halsbury, 3rd Edition Vol 15 para 611 and Vol 37 para 133) from my exclusively non-lawyer stand point I would have to pick the following excerpt as the highlight of the document:

Apple has a bug tracking tool called radar and they let any ADC member log bugs into it which they may or may not get around to fixing. They don’t however let anyone outside of Apple view the current bugs in the system. This causes great amounts of flamage on Apple’s java-dev list (and I imagine many of Apple’s other lists as well) about whether or not the list should be open.

The musical I’ve been writing has now reached “beta” stage. All the scenes are written, pretty much all the lines are written and it really just needs to be reviewed and cleaned up. Like developing software it’s hard to know exactly when to called it finished. I also have the feeling that I get at the end of most software projects: I know it’s not finished yet and I know things need to be improved, but I can’t quite put my finger on what to work on and how to improve it.

It looks like I’ll be moving house at the start of July. Just went to check out the new place and it’s a big 5 bedroom house on top of a hill in Mt Gravatt. Almost 270 degree views out over the suburbs (the missing quarter is the city view) and the place is currently being renovated. Still no lease signed but the owner is apparently a friend of one of the guys I’ll be moving in with.

JavaScript is one of those odd languages that noone really appreciates the full power of. Mostly that’s because it’s also an awful language that’s hard to get the full power out of, particularly when working with multiple browsers. Still, my work often calls for large amounts of JavaScript hacking. Some interesting things I’ve learnt lately: In Safari, if you use window.open(‘file:///Users/aj/file.html’, …) it will either not open the file at all or refuse to execute any JavaScript in the file in the first time the page is loaded (reloading the page causes the javascript to execute).

Hey, I’ve hit the number one spot on Google again. Ha! In your face Adrian Sutton!

That’s right, I need an instant family – give me the wife and 3 kids special thanks. Why you ask? I’m sick of paying crap loads of taxes so that the government can provide handouts to families. Having a baby? Here have $3000 as well. That’s in addition to the tax cuts. And the extra medicare cover. Now you might argue that families are an expensive proposition and battling families need all the help they can get.

I went out to the Cleveland District State High School production of “Back To The 80s” tonight and absolutely loved it. The jokes are bad, the songs are bad, the story-line’s corny, the acting is hammed up and the costumes make every member of the cast look hideously unattractive. What more can you want in a musical about the 80s? I was invited along by Rochelle Wheater who played “Tiffany” the female lead and was particularly interested to see her performance as she’s interested in auditioning for a part in my upcoming musical.

Tonights news headlines includes “Terrorist Suspect Granted Bail”. I have no idea about the merits of the case or even what the guy is actually charged with, but I think it’s relieving that people charged with being a terrorist are still eligible for bail in Australia. They don’t seem to be in the US anymore.

Eclipse M9 was recently released and I’ve been using it all day today. It seems to work well though it reset a lot of my preferences which I didn’t think previous versions had done. Perhaps they were stored outside of the workspace somewhere… The most noticeable new feature is the code folding which generally I’m not a fan of until I realized it could automatically hide all the import statements at the top of the file.