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Danny Frawley finally fell on his sword for the Tigers today.

History may not judge him as a great coach but he was a wonderful man, or perhaps the greatest of Aussie compliments is more appropriate. He was a great bloke.

One Tiger family day I wanted to get a snap of him and Phee for my mum. Phee was acting shy so Spud got down on his knee and said “I’ve got three cuties just like you at home.” and made her comfortable enough for her to smile and stay still for a photo. If you click on the little one to the left you’ll see what a good job he did.

Goodbye Danny, your passion, commitment and desire to see Richmond succeed could never be questioned. You served the club well and ultimately put it first. Thankyou.

Oh no.

It’s happened. This surely must mean the end of the world.

Google let me down. “Your search – auscaffeine dvd profiler – did not match any documents.”

Yahoo, however, found what I wanted – the list of my DVDs that I store online with DVD profiler.

But Google let me down. My faith has been shaken, my core rocked.

Geekdom is invading every facet of my life.

I know I should do more exercise, but between work and running my own business I spend almost every waking hour sitting at a keyboard. Some Sundays, like today, we get out for a walk but the word sedentary could pretty much have been invented for me.

I have a bike, and love riding, but it has sat in the shed almost ever since I bought it on Ebay a year or so ago. Great plans of family rides, Phee’s bikephobia aside, and quick rides after work have never materialised so this may be the reasoning behind a birthday present I received early this month – a bike computer!

Rob and Knack must know me too well, I can see their reasoning. “If we could only involve a gadget some how, that’d get him off his bum and onto the bike.” Thanks to the good people at Cat Eye I now have a thing to push buttons on whilst riding and my interest is up. It will probably have to wait until the weather picks up a little but I’ll soon be cruising the streets of the inner west, geeking out and getting fit at the same time.

Now if only I can get it to talk to my Ipaq, perhaps drop the figures in to a spreadsheet so I can analyse them and post them on a new blog…

The Desk

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Albert seems to have brought things to a head, now there’s no avoiding the inevitable and the time has come.

We were talking this morning when Rae brought it up and I guess she’s right. We’ve been together over three years now, Phee is happy, we’re committed to each other and we’re going to try for a baby so things are as settled as they ever could be.

It’s time the CD collections were joined.

Picture this, a quiet Wednesday evening. You?re sitting at home, avoiding work and eating dinner when your little sister calls you up.

?Tony, we?re starting a business, it?s getting lots of publicity and we need a web site ? can you help??

?Sure little sister, what do you need??

?Just a site, but we need it tonight.?

What to do? I?m snowed under with work and the site needs to be live tomorrow. After a little thought the answer comes easily, plagiarism. Although is it really plagiarism when you copy yourself?

For those who have seen Contemplating Albert you may recognise a few (ha hem) similarities with the site for Shepparton?s newest business and youth drama school/youth performing arts group Initial Stages. Thank god for CSS.

That’s it. Today is Winter Solstice and now that it’s dark it means from tomorrow we start heading towards summer!

Can’t half tell I’m wishing winter and the footy season away can you?

So.

One more blog for one more ____.

To fill in the blank check our new blog – Contemplating Albert.

It’s only beginning, there’s a lot more to be added but I’m sure you’ll get the idea.

I don’t care anymore. Rob and I left at half time, disgusted.

So we came back a little in the second half – big-f’n-deal. What’s the point in doing it for half a game? The Tigers this year are a waste of talent, waste of season, waste of time.

The reports say Spud will announce his resignation after tonights loss. I feel sorry for him, he’s a decent bloke, but some people have to pay at my beloved club and hopefully Spud doing the decent thing will be the start of many involved in this ongoing debacle taking that long hard look so often talked about but so seldom done.

Finally you’ve done it. You’ve broken my heart Tigers.

After The Advertiser pointed out I claimed to have the worlds most boring web cam I realised that what I actually had was the worlds most boring non-changing picture masquerading as a web cam.

In the final pre end of financial year spending frenzy I’ve lashed out and purchased a small powered USB hub. So as well as a printer, Palm, Ipaq, USB speakers, USB ADSL modem, graphics tablet, USB key and a card reader I can have the web cam plugged in and going pretty much all the time. Save for Nude Computing Day, a little known and misunderstood day that oddly always coincides with the one day a year I desperately need to check my email on the way to the shower, I think I’ll have it going most of the time.

Of course for most of the day it will be blank or black; after all I can’t let the readers of The Advertiser down.
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