http://www.swandives.com Headfirst into the farces of evil Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:21:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy New Year! You know, I really should be the kind of person who scoffs at new year resolutions as being completely vacuous and silly but that's not the case. I love a good new year resolution! I always make a few, and inevitably fail to keep a couple. The ... http://www.swandives.com/new-year-resolutions Like many people, I'm always on the lookout for specials in the supermarket. As a consumer, I'm only loyal to a handful of brands (my loyalty is fierce, mind you) - the rest is all about whatever's on special that week. Sometimes, however, specials seem to defy common sense. Take this ... http://www.swandives.com/supermarket-madness I was noodling about on Facebook - with the new design, you really have to go looking for your apps so it had been a while since I'd checked in on LOLcats. I took a gulp of water, clicked 'new kitty plz' and this one came up. more animals I almost sprayed ... http://www.swandives.com/pms-lolcatz Human rights. It's a pretty big deal. It's one of the reasons journalists are always harping on about The Great Firewall of China, which censors internet content and (in)famously marked the moment when Google went against its corporate values and became evil. And if the Federal Government has its way, Australia ... http://www.swandives.com/why-isp-filtering-is-evil-scope-creep Found on YouTube: Footage from the Leeds festival of Adam Hills' (from Spicks & Specks on the ABC) standup where he sends his prosthetic leg off crowd surfing while he sits on stage and sings Footloose. Very amusing! A mild warning: the language is understandably colourful, but only if you're ... http://www.swandives.com/adam-hills-prosthetic-foot-crowd-surfing We've moved house and don't have any internet. I am typing this on my mobile. So this is short and sweet. Am loving the new place. Almost unpacked everything. But I miss my internet. Mobile blogging is no fun. http://www.swandives.com/new-home Note to John McCain: you don't do yourself any favours by comparing Obama to Paris Hilton. Coz Paris will getcha good and she may just well end up running against you (and painting the White House pink). Bloody funny. See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die http://www.swandives.com/paris-hilton-for-president Randy Pausch, whom I didn't know but admired greatly as a truly inspiring man, has died from complications from pancreatic cancer. http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/beyond/2008/summer/an-enduring-legacy.shtml UPDATE: The Google homepage is displaying a very classy tribute - a text link to his awesome Last Lecture. http://www.swandives.com/rip-randy-pausch Swandives began as a way to understand the lure of the blog, since at the time I didn't understand the seeming need to 'dear diary' to the masses. I began on LiveJournal, then moved to Blogspot (now Blogger) and graduated to the wonderful Wordpress, which is not only a glorious ... http://www.swandives.com/thinking-of-retiring-swandives http://www.swandives.com/dr-horrible-keeping-me-highly-amused