Monday 30 August 2010

ET impersonation

You can't see me.

You can't see me

Saturday 28 August 2010

Bad habits

Couch potato at 4 months.
Honestly, I don't know where he gets this from. Must be his mum. :)

Couch potato at 4 months

Wednesday 25 August 2010

Interesting morning...

Just got back from the police station...

This morning I got a phone call from my bank. My Visa card was over limit. That's not right. I haven't made any huge purchases recently. Check the account online and there's 3 purchases made at Apple Online Sydney totally $4,500 a couple of days ago! That most certainly wasn't me!

Phoned by bank to raise a dispute. They're investigating. Really good actually. They refunded the money pending the outcome of the dispute.

Phoned Apple Online. It appears someone has opened an account with them using my name, my Visa card no, a fake email address but using my domain name (piggo.com). They'd ordered an iPod Nano and 2 MacBook Pros before the limit was exceeded. The orders were on the way to these frauds/thieves! They gave an address! In Queensland! I asked for the address, but they wouldn't give it to me :( I had a little delivery of my own to make. Sporting goods - a swinging baseball bat. >:(

Went to the police, made a report. Told them if they go to the address and need backup, call me. :D

Update: Since posting this I've heard from several acquaintences that have had exactly the same thing happen to them over the last couple of weeks. All had odd credit card transactions for items from Apple Online Sydney. It appears that either Apple or some other websites I've read reckon iTunes has been hacked and credit card details stolen.

Sunday 22 August 2010

Going bush

We decided to go for a bit of a bushwalk with Hayden. I never realised there was some bushwalks around Mt Coot-Tha. All these years I've lived here, and I've only really gone to the top where the main lookout and Summit restaurant etc is.

Hayden absolutely loved it. Constantly looking around. So much to see, and he particularly liked the bounces as we walked down steps.

JC Slaughter Falls walk I

JC Slaughter Falls walk II

JC Slaughter Falls walk III

Saturday 21 August 2010

Nursery Rhyme Violence

Imagine sitting down to read a nursery rhyme to your baby to help him sleep, not really knowing the words to even the common rhymes, and reading half way through one about beating dogs, biting pigs, killing oxes, hanging butchers and so on. I've quoted below the nursery rhyme. It's called "The Old Woman and her Pig", and it's from the very innocent-looking "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes" book containing all the classics. I've quoted the whole thing after the jump.

Don't get me wrong. I'm no prude, and I know for the little ones it's probably more about the sound of my voice rather than the content. He doesn't understand what's actually being said. I know that.

Still, makes you wonder. People criticise today's video games, movies etc. Yet generation after generation has been reciting these words to their newborns for centuries. Political correctness? Meh.

Monday 9 August 2010

Blog relocated

I've relocated my blog to Google's http://blogspot.com. Just finding I have less and less time to hand-code my own website, so am taking the easy way out in the interests of writing/posting more and coding less.

I started copying over articles from the previous one, but decided it's probably not necessary anyway. I'll copy some of the more important ones I guess, when I get the time.

Let me know if you have any comments or feedback on the layout and content.