Most Australian states have changed the end date for Daylight Savings for the upcoming Commonwealth Games. This Windows fix will reset your clock on the right date.
(0)Monthly Archive for February, 2006
This video reproduction of Nate Harrison’s installation, Can I Get An Amen? is a fascinating listen if you’re at all interested in music, copyright or the cultural aspects of creativity. The project charts the life so far of a six-second drum beat known as the Amen Break, which originated in the 1969 soul song Amen Brother by The Winstons, and has gone on to be used as a sample in hundreds of musical reincarnations, from the early UK dance scene to present day car ads. Continue reading ‘The Amen Break’
For a number of years, I have gotten used to people assigning me the badge of metrosexual. I’ve even come to take some small amount of pride in the label—if only because they didn’t think I was gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that!).
As of today, I have admitted defeat in my metrosexual career. We have hired a cleaner. Continue reading ‘Metrosexual Failure’
I can feel my brain being reprogrammed every time I open the fridge door.
No, this isn’t some kind of rant against EM radiation from home appliances or garishly promotional food packaging. We have simply reconfigured our fridge door from right-hand opening to left-hand opening, and I swear it’s giving me brain tumours!
Though you may not know it, a handy feature of most modern “freezer-on-top” refrigerators (unless you have one of those Internet fridges, in which case you have bigger problems, my friend) is that you can move the hinges from one side of the appliance to the other. Jess and I got home from shopping yesterday, and I very casually declared, fresh tub of melting ice cream in hand, “I think I’ll switch over the door on the fridge.” Continue reading ‘The Fridge Door’