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March 28, 2004

Blog Roundup

Due to the mild level of interest (5 positive, 1 negative and 12 neutral comments), the review blog is still here. Well sort of. Actually it is somewhere else :-)

Welcome to the first blog roundup at mu.nu. I would especially like to thank the munivians and PixyMisa for making this possible. Just because it is the first real roundup at mu.nu and because I am feeling generous, there is a double serve this week....

Ramblings of SilverBlue is the first candidate today. I want to start with some more useful latin like "Vescere bracis meis" which could come in useful next week. In a similar style there are some useful thoughts to ponder. My personal favourite would be "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity". There is also a great picture which fits in beautifully with a joke published over at LOL last week.

Second blog today is the only blog to advertise on Sydney buses: DramaQueen. The master of zodiac (and suggestive pictures) turns out to be a real duck fan. I can remember seeing a hundred yellow ducklings (well lots of them anyway) and knowing that a large proportion of them were destined for the table. I think growing up rural removes a lot of the squeamishness that you find in city kids. What I want to know is whether this post is referring to another new euphemism that I am unfamiliar with or was that just Goldie being funny? Apparently she was in Sydney around New Year and will be the week after Easter. The first time I didn't know her and the second time I will be at the Catholic Family Conference. Hmmm. One day I will have to try an organise a Sydney blog get-together.

Ripples leads off his blog at the moment with a post about trolls. The blog used as an example is Read My Lips (see below). Ripples has some excellent advice for anonymous (or semi-anonymous) blogger like myself. In the same vein there are comments on longevity in the blog world. This is a blog that is always worth visiting.

Apparently, kingsley.blog-city.com, is looking for a new home. Seems to be a bit funny after paying for an account but apparently even one paid month will mean your blog is preserved indefinitely.

Now this next blog makes me feel very old Serendipity*. I know that the younger generation always invent new forms of speaking but I find myself loosing the plot of the story in all the 2's and 4's. Maybe this post is the result of an overdose of SMS. Hmmm. Maybe I could write an SMS to English translator. Anyway, head over and enjoy the thoughts of a uni student (I can't remember being an undergrad - it was so long ago). Interesting that this week we got two similar blogs....

What with all the moving of blog things I have been a bit slack with the reading and a nearly missed an important question over at GRRR be afraid about 18 wheelers. Dunno how you count the wheels on a truck but the biggest ones (road trains = 1 cab + 2 or 3 independent trailers) are (in theory) limited to 100 km/hr (62 mph) everywhere in Australia (except possible the Northern Territory). The actual federal limit is 110 km/hr (68 mph) or cars/bikes and 90 km/hr (56 mph) for trucks UNLESS they are fitter with a speed limiter in which case they can travel at 100 km/hr. MInd you I have been overtaken by a road train while travelling cough a little more than 110 cough on the freeway to Canberra - obviously the limiter wasn't working properly ;-). The Northern Territory (AFAIK) does not have an upper speed limit outside of the cities. That is why they tried to hold the last cannonball run between Darwin and Alice (Springs) but it was cancelled when a Japanese Dentist, on his first trip to Australia, tried to take his brand-new (never been driven on the road previously) Ferrari around a right hand corner at 180 km/hr (112 mph). While you are visiting, don't forget to click the button that says 'Don't CLICK this'.

On The Third Hand: More fair and balanced than Fox News is letting us know that the Iranians also don't have WMDs - they have hidden them. Be funny if some turn up in Iraq after all, there would be a real omelette shortage for a while. There is also an interesting post regarding a tit-for-tat attitude when it comes to religious tolerance. Also it appears to be just as well that Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury does not have a show on the BBC. If he did, he just lost it...

The Official Gary Turner's; Weblog / Moblog is one I don't recall visiting before. I was particularly taken with the Ninja Parking picture although I suspect that possibly the car bounced off the wall :-) There is also an interesting post which is almost a summary of the position taken over at USS Clueless. Apparently (like me), the writer is dieting and (unlike me) has decided to post his weight losses up on a regular basis. All I can say is that I am both taller and heavier (and they do not cancel out).

Another Day Dawns is a brand new blog which has a total of one post so far. Makes it hard to get the required link count unless I link to it three times :-) Actually it was a neat story about catching trains (I used to do that for school and I got to the point of hating trains). The one thing that confused me about the London underground (apart from the non-spatial maps) was that interchanges weren't. I mean in Sydney went it says interchange it means you can see the other platform from where you are. In London, it might look like an interchange on the map but actually you go up one set of stairs, round the bend, through a tunnel, take a lift, another loooooong tunnel, more stairs and an escalator before you find the other platform. In fact we caught one train and by the time we had changed to the second one, we could have walked to our destination. Oh well, if you do travel on trains in London, Another Day Dawns has some advice on how to do it efficiently. (Got my three links :-P)

Last blog for this week is Read My Lips. notGeorge has already had some coverage recently, so this time I am going to look further back than usual starting with a Friday Funny. Betcha anything that Ralph will acquire than now I have linked to it :-) Next a more serious post asking about bed sizes (versus sheet sizes). Yesterday we moved some mattresses around only to discover that our two queen size beds used different sized mattresses. Surely that means one is not really queen sized? Finally to finish on a lighter note we have the story about the judge who wanted to remain anonymous. Remembering how well notGeorge dealt with wierdo comments reminded me of the way Paul rips apart some of the idiot comments (you seem to get a better class of idiots on Paul's blog). In fact, Paul does it so well that one of his tame idiots is now flaming Paul's comments on other blogs instead....

That's all for this week. Have fun and see you again next weekend - if not before.

Posted by Ozguru at March 28, 2004 12:00 PM

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Thanks for the links!

Posted by: SilverBlue at March 28, 2004 11:15 PM

Thanks for the mention. I have been trying to get a hand free so I could do a similar post about the blogs I enjoy. Your site never ceases being entertaining and this post will serve as an example to me on how to acknowledge my fine blogging friends. Keep up the great work!

Posted by: David St Lawrence at March 29, 2004 04:45 AM

I for one am so glad to see you among the munuvians! And I love your roundups! Yeehaw!

Posted by: notGeorge at March 29, 2004 09:56 AM

Thanks for the heads-up (and the link, as usual), Ozg., I wouldn't have found out about this latest irritation otherwise.

Posted by: Paul Jané at March 29, 2004 12:46 PM

Thanks OzG! I loves the ducks! and you should organise a sydney blog get together... our adelaide ones are always good :)

Posted by: goldie at March 30, 2004 08:16 AM

Thanks for the link.

Posted by: Rofl at March 30, 2004 08:00 PM