The ANZ bank has a website allowing you to order a new card with a picture on it. They call it DesignMyCard, but it doesn’t feel much like my card with the terms and conditions being as restrictive as they are.
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Today is ANZAC Day.
While I don’t have a particularly strong national identity, or perhaps because of that, ANZAC Day always leaves me feeling extremely annoyed. My respect and admiration for troops in general is overshadowed by frustration at the sheer stupidity of a military leadership which would send those troops into a bloodbath by carelessly [...]
The holiday season is traditionally my busiest, and this has been no exception. While everyone else is off enjoying the summer, I’ve been hanging out in datacenters, or mapping out new networks, so this is when my blogging takes its biggest hit.
Although I’m a little late in posting my greeting for the new year, I [...]
I’m about to import a bunch of stuff (photography junk mostly), and since I’ve previously been lucky (or clever) enough to avoid the $1,000 threshold for any one shipment, this is the first time I’m going to be subject to import duty. I understand taxing imports, I really do, but what is leaving me a [...]
My business isn’t exactly seasonal, but it’s been crazy how much busier I’ve been since the weather has improved.
It’s really amazing how people’s moods change when the weather is nicer. Clients have been calling with requests you couldn’t have talked them into months ago, even if you’d held their kids to ransom.
Now would be a [...]
Happy birthday to my mother, Živka Ivović. She turns a spritely 68 today, and is as over-protective and intrusive as she was when she was in her forties.
The name Živka means ‘lively’ and she’s nothing short of that. However, as a footnote, since she was a child she preferred to be called Nada because Živka [...]
I’ve had this thought rattling around in my head for at least the last eight or nine years, and my friends are no doubt sick of me bringing it up. I feel like it’s almost upon us, so I guess it’s high time I wrote down my thoughts a little more formally. This is a [...]
This post is a precusror to all the posts I’m ever going to make about things I love that are considered uncool.
There’s a subculture in every generation that believes it has been chosen to adjudicate on what is or isn’t acceptable. These people like to prescribe rules for social advancement and individual expression, which if [...]
I’m declaring open season on anglers. Lets all hunt them for sport.
Since I won’t be eating any of them, I don’t really want to kill them. I’d be satisfied with suspending them by their lips while I pose for a photo or two, or perhaps three, because we all know how hard it is to [...]
