November roundup
A bushfire in Dolphin Sands, Tasmania is burning out of control this morning vapourising homes and threatening many more in an indication that Australia's fire season has begun in earnest.
A barmaid who was employed in the South Australian Parliament has revealed an alleged affair with that state's Premier, Mike Rann however Mr Rann has reportedly denied the rumours. Is this another case of a cheap floozy trying to get a name for herself? We'll see.
Another school teacher went to gaol this week after being found guilty of engaging two students in sexual intercourse. Michelle Lynn Dennis, a PE teacher, will now be listed on Victoria's sex offender register, effectively ending her career in education.
Australia's oldest car maker, Holden, has issued a pledge to all state governments - buy Australian-made. Holden has noted that some states have purchase ratios of only 1 in 5 being Australian-made. Holden has a case here. Has anyone noticed the imported cars being driven by the NSW Police Force at the moment? Mercedes vans and Mitsubishi Lancers instead of Holden Commodores. I echo Holden's concerns about this. If governments cannot be bothered supporting local industry then there clearly needs to be some reform of their purchasing policies.
Google has announced that they will release their new computer operating system early next year. Initially only underpowered laptops known as netbooks will get the new OS. This is likely to be another cool thing for Gen Y to get suckered into adopting but I doubt it will make a big impression in the mainstream and business markets, which will continue to be dominated by Microsoft's Windows platform.
Next, a story about a woman that would easily wear out Hugh Heffner, John Holmes and Errol Flynn in one hit. she does well but she ain't my type.
Australians now have a total outstanding credit card bill of $45bn after use of plastic to pay for goods rose last month. To put that into perspective, that's a debt of $2046.00 for every man, woman and child in this country.
Perth-based ISP, iiNet, has stated that once the new national broadband network becomes operational it will move to shift its customers across. Once the new national broadband network has been rolled out Australians will have a fairdinkum choice of who provides their connectivity for the first time as most connections still rely on interconnecting with Telstra's copper network, inhibiting industry growth, network speed and technological improvments and subjecting end users to inflated prices. The new network will compete with Telstra at the wholesale level, allowing ISPs to leverage better deals for themselves and their customers. Ultimately, Telstra will be forced to compete on the same level as every other ISP and their prices will also come back to more realistic levels - here's hoping anyway.
The writing is on the wall for the Ford Falcon. Ford doesn't seem to be able to get it right for the once-mighty threat to Holden's sales leadership in the large car market. Apart from a brief period in the 1980's, Holden has dominated the large car market for more than 50 years and in recent times enjoying a 3:2 sales lead.
Finally, I took great pleasure in banning two people from commenting on this website this week. Levi (known on iServ by the username Senator) and Coco (who sometimes calls herself FreeHeart) spent time on Thursday night hurling abuse in response to restrictions being placed on them by several people on Facebook. iServ was their last chance to get any message across and now that has been removed one could say that I have done the Internet community a great service. These two psycopathic idiots deserve no air time. Both of them are serial Internet menaces and should be avoided by all at any cost.
Written at 09:48 on 21 November 2009 by Lord Watchdog.
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