Archive for February, 2008

Romans 7:19

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

A verse that keeps coming back to my thoughts. Because it is so true. it is so easy, too easy, to fall back into bad habits and bad actions; and the moment they are done a sense of guilt, shame, anger even, overtakes me. “Why can’t I even do a little good?”
The [...]

Sunday Bike Ride

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

I had a nice, short bike ride on Sunday evening: along the bike track of a main road [Cowpasture -- doesn't sound like a main road, does it?], up the hill [I walked a bit] of the Horsley Drive, through the Western Sydney Regional Park, and the back onto Cowpasture to come home. I [...]

First Night of Uni

Monday, February 25th, 2008

And I am already thinking of changing the elective.
It looks like an interesting subject, but I realised several minutes in that I would need to do a great deal of work, an enormous amount of work, to even get up to speed with the basics of the topic: Information Technology Governance. When acronymns I [...]

Tropical Ink System

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Apparently the 4 pen packet I bought yesterday uses a “Tropical Ink System”. Given I am not in the tropics, should I be concerned it may not work? I am also rather concerned that while it has “New” splashed all over it, it also has 30th Anniversary [1972-2002] on it?: 5 year-old new [...]

Work Picnic Day

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Held yesterday [Saturday] at Jamberoo Action Park. I took Skye and nanny and poppy came along too.
The weather was wonderful: a very warm day and clear blue skies — summer seems to have, in late February, finally arrived. And, as always occurs on sunny days, despite applying sunscreen [and even green zinc on [...]

Interview

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Well, I had the interview with HR about the incident. All seemed to go well.
I did bring up my e-mail to the GM; HR looked straight into it which I am thankful for — they had not heard anything about it. I am glad they are following it up.
After the incident interview, we [...]

Antarctic Sea Life

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

O LORD, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom have you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
Here is the sea, great and wide,
which teems with creatures innumerable,
living things both small and great.
Psalm 104:24-25, ESV

I saw a news report on ABC about a number of new life forms that had been discovered in Antarctic [...]

Snakes in PNG

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

A rather dramatic story in tonight’s episode of Foreign Correspondent on ABC1.
[You may remember my complaint about the new logo; to be honest, it doesn't look too bad as a watermark.]
While the report was about the prohibitive costs of Australian anti-venom in Papua New Guinea, and the large death toll and lack of anti-venom in [...]

No News

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

As yet on the e-mail I sent to the GM. Frankly I’m quite pissed off. Not even an acknowledgement. And I know he is there. I am losing more and more faith in the management of this company as time goes on…which is not a good thing. I do not [...]

French Film Festival

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Well, I’ll be seeing at least 10 films in March — I’ve just booked my ten-film pass over the net. The films I am seeing at The French Film Festival are:

A Secret
The Dinner Guest
Gotta Dance
Have Mercy on Us All
Love Songs
Moliere
Odette Toulemonde
Paris
The Price to Pay
Waiting for Somone
I will be seeing some at Leichhardt [35/40 minutes [...]