Jimmy's weblog

Well, maybe not poor in the financial sense, but it seems that Bernie’s not having a good month of June. To go along with the court cases and public humiliation resulting from the recent US Grand Prix, it seems that his medication may be wearing off.

Patrick received a telephone call from Ecclestone last week [...]

After years of being told over and over again that “Terrorists hate us for our democracy”, I was nearly convinced. Until today, when I found out that in the federal Liberal Party, it’s the terrorists who insist on democracy.

Sophie Panopoulos has accused her colleagues of holding the Government to ransom.
“There is an arrogance in [...]

Give the recent media hype about Scapelle Corby, you could be excused for thinking that Australians are strongly against harsh drug sentences handed down by (allegedly) unfair justice systems. Well, you’d be wrong (unless I missed the live television coverage of this Vietnamese drug case).

A 46-year-old Victorian man has been sentenced to death [...]

Then this could be for you (taken from sporting section of Friday’s Herald-Sun):

Like Beer?
WE’LL PAY YOU $25 CASH PLUS PRODUCT FOR YOUR OPINION.
A large brewery is seeking opinions of Melbourne based men, who are regular beer drinkers for research purposes. Held after hours, participants will receive $25 cash and product to similar value. Must [...]

Well, the rumours were true after all. During his WWDC keynote address, Steve Jobs announced that Apple will begin switching from IBM PowerPC to Intel chips during 2006 with the transition to be completed by the end of 2007.
Developers using XCode 2.1 can today begin compiling “universial binaries” for both PPC and Intel and [...]

Sarchasm (n.) - The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn’t get it.