North of where I live, up Tully way, two men are missing, swept away in raging floods. North Queensland floods Further North, at the Daintree, a five year old boy has been taken by crocodile as his father plunges into the flooded river to try and save him. The crocodiles are moving to mangrove areas
Another shoe tosser
BRITISH police said they have charged a protester who hurled a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as he gave a speech at Britain’s Cambridge University. What’s the bet that’s the last you hear of this little incident. The target, after all, is only the Chinese premier, leader of Communist China with all it’s imperfections
Bother the spider
I find the graphics on this amazing. BOTHER THE SPIDER…….. Poke and prod the spider with your mouse, also ‘grab’ one of its legs with your mouse and drag it around the screen — tell me it’s not alive! Also anywhere on the map hit the space bar and it leaves little bugs. Lots of
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I’m back!
Missed the ‘pay me or your website is dead’ email and it all happened while I was enroute to Perth and then tied up in Albany totally involved with my Mother’s 89th birthday and three daughters, three sisters and a wife all talking at me. Its a wonder I could get my head together sufficiently
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Obama is Lord
QUEENSLAND parliament’s Speaker Mike Reynolds will provide a character reference in a Townsville court today for convicted Palm Island rioter Lex Wotton, who is due to be sentenced for his role in riots on Palm Island a week after Mulrunji Doomadgee died. Wotton’s lawyer Stewart Levitt said yesterday his client would appeal against his conviction,
Hummer catching up
Found this modified Hummer at Popular Science. This is a 2008 model and the article says; In case fuel consumption on your Hummer wasn’t spiting Prius drivers everywhere enough, engineers have pooled their talents to add aftermarket tracked belts in place of the “nothing wrong with ‘em” wheels. I wonder if the engineers thought it
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Aviation writing
You might think writing about flying a commercial jet would be boring. You would be wrong, particularly when the Pilot who owns Flight Level 390 (an aviation blog) has a refreshing command of the language. Some lines; I feed the flight management computers a few left electrons which tells the auto-pilot the “boss wants 10
Melbourne Cup
I noticed an item on the news last night about a horse called Septimus running in today’s Melbourne Cup. That’ll do me I thought, Septimus, latin for seven, could reflect my Vietnam alma mater (7RAR) and I recalled, in a painful flashback, the first army mascot I met was a Shetland Pony called Septimus at
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Brisbane Airport crackdown on illegal parking
DRIVERS who are trying to avoid the hefty parking fees at Brisbane Airport by waiting at the popular Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Memorial are being hit with fines. The idea is to duck into the Memorial car park and wait on a phone call from the person you are picking up saying they have their
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