Australia Day
On the 26th of January 1788, the First Fleet, led by Governer Arthur Phillip, landed on the Australian shores with boat loads of convicts to create a 'prison island', if you will.
This year's Australia day was not unlike any other Australia day. Every 2nd car has a big flag on it, every second sub-16 year old has a fake Australian flag tattoo on their arm, face or leg.
To be brutally honest, I have no idea why people feel they need to celebrate one of the greatest attrocities in the history of the world.
When the British landed here, they masacred the native Aboriginals. They took their land and claimed it as their own. They took babies from their mothers to bring them up as 'White Children'.
And while this year was slightly different as our great new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd officially said 'sorry' (they requested he say 'sorry' as opposed to simply apologising) for the stolen generation and that is great, but Aboriginals still do not have rights to their own land.
On the 26th of January 1788 a Mass Oppression started which, in my opinion is still in effect now. It angers me! We had (and still have) no right to act that (and this) way towards our indiginous people! We need to take a page out of New Zealands book!
Wake up Australia, we are the savages, not them!
For the love of yum!
God help me, I run fedora 8 on my laptop and lately it has started slowing right down every now and then. The only thing I could put my finger on was that every time it slowed down, my machine was displaying "X Updates Available" and I had yum-updatesd-he at the top of top using a crap load ( > 50%) of CPU and over 400MB of memory...
Now, being the troubleshooting kinda guy I am, I immediately assumed that the yum auto update notifier was slowing my system down. Now, as I run yum update on a regular basis, I could rest assured that I didnt need to be notified of when there were updates available.
So, after a quick search, I found a thread on the Fedora Forum which helped a lot. So, after a quick read, I disabled the yum update notifier from starting on bootup with a simple;
$ chkconfig yum-updatesd off
And stopped the running service with a nice
$ service yum-updatesd stop
Ahhhh... Now my laptop seems to be coping again! Thanks Fedora Forum! 
Land Rover Discovery 3 / LR3 vs BMW M6
Amazing video. I love it! God these guys look so graceful.
Plastic bags to be banned!
A lot of people were skeptical of Peter Garrett becoming the Minister for the Environment, but if he pulls this off then he's worth his weight in gold!
Adding a Hard Drive in Linux
Great how to on adding, partitioning & formatting a new drive in linux.
Kitesurfing Tanker
Wow, what a concept and to think that these are in production! So awesome!
Wow, Imagine living somewhere like this!
http://view.break.com/417206 - Watch more free videos
As I write this, it must be 28+ degrees with the fan on me (10:25pm) ... I'd love it to snow!