Number 1!

Who is the first website you see when you search for "bean counting" on yahoo?

Thats right. The one you are reading now. Welcome.

[Note: the news is over at www.dnews.tk]

Yahoo! Search Results for "bean counting"

An interesting turn of events

With blogger new profile thingo you can search for things similar to those you entered in your own profile (so you can find people that like the same shit as you do)

Now this wouldnt be a problem except for the irrationalness of my self and my low self esteem that can only be boosted by webstite performance.....

I clicked on brisbane

just so you know I am number 3 (in terms of posts (357) - this the measure by the way.)
number 2 is some geek called james (415) who has a collaborative posting arrangement with 5 other equaly geeky men. It should proberly also be noted that the other person who is in the 3 digits is nathan on 252. So who is first. TADA. as if you couldnt guess, it is mill on an amazing 1388 (note: colaboration with pig).

So by my own reasoning and logic and the fact that I will contradict my self in about 5 mins time with another post. With out further adoo I declare my self the greatest SINGLE blogger.

Oh wait, thats not quite right is it. ARGH. my theory.....

Ok here is a new theory.

Now the only thing that counts is the number of posts or total hits to the SITE. Now using this criteria. I am now pretty much last. with Beancounting coming in at 4 and Dnews 5! I know..... If I combine D-news and Beancounting i move upto 3rd which is nice considering who is number first (that realy is a lot of posts). Note: even if i post once a day it will take me another 5.49 years to get 2000 posts.... atm on avg I only post 4 times a week.

This is an interesting turn of events, which I will now consider while sleeping in my own tears (j/k). Why? because all of this actually means nothing, however I just thought it was interesting.

Music genres

Today I was updating my blogger profile, so that now it includes music that I like. So i opened up winamp and recorded the genres of all the music that I listen to. Most of the stuff I like is:

Alternative
General Alternative
Ambient
Misc
Miscellnaeous
Other

What this means is that all of my music has no genre or catagory, yet each artist sounds completely different and deserve a catagory. It could also mean that the music I listen to is so crap that its uncatorgorisable and no one gives a shit about that music to even create a catagory. Or it could mean that its just so wide spread only lonners like my self will ever listen to such nonsense and think its cool. However, the theory that is most likely to be correct is the one where the ppl ripping the music have not been bothered to properly catagorise the music and hense their genre has not been flaged.

My mistake?

In opening dreamweaver up for the first time in months I find that Its crapped it self and all my setting and side pannels have disapeared. Which is very annoying, so I spent most of today fixing that up. Anyway, I said in my last post that I wouldnt be able to get it centerd. Well I was wrong. Just look at this page now its in the middle. I think the only thing I may have a problem with is the horizontal menu and the titlebanner thingy. But I think Its looking pretty good atm, I realy like the dark blue/green colour.

So I think it will work, but it may take a few revisions.

Service Disruptions

OK. I'm actually trying to update the old templates with some new blogger tags, so Thats why it looks kinda different, but dont worry. The old template will be back, but with some modifications.

What I was thinking of doing was making it a 2 collumn layout, as that seems to be the fasion of late. Also I can make the "side" or as I like to call it the secondary collumn bigger, that way it can be more spread out. Of course this means the main collumn wont be in the middle, and am not sure how that will go with my link menu or beancounting banner. So this is proberly going to take a lot longer than I thought. I'm going to set a dead line of by friday, or I'm going to switch back to the old one, untill I get it right.

hey look its me

Its the Profile.

Its all over

Now that I am over the whole 200th post I have decided now is the time to winge about blogger. Basicly blogger now has all these cool features, and now I have to redesign my page so i can accomodate some of this stuff or at least put singular links to say; profile or xml feed etc. I also kinda like some of the new templates so I think im going to steal some stuff from there. I still like my 'clean' design but maybe its time for a bit of a change if i cant intergrate the new stuff into the old template then its gona have to be redone.

200th post

Ok this is the 200th post for Bean Counting, seems only like its just getting started and I have already racked up 200. Anyway I think a bit of blogging is in order for this auspicious occassion.

Today, I went to uni and nothing realy interesting happened. But what didnt happen is more interesting. That makes no sense at all. Continuing... Today I was supposed to do my homework for tomorrow, which is worth 2%. Since its midnight and can hardly stay awake, i doubt i will finnish it. So I'm in a bit poo at the moment in regards to getting anything higher than a 4. I basicly spent most of the day reading and researching for the homework, so hopefully this will help me tomorrow morning when I begin to write it all up. It normaly only takes me about 2 hours but I think I can do it in 1, which is what is needed if I am to get my 2%. I have done pretty well on the assinghment, so i dont want to stuff it up now and only get a 4 for all of that hard work. So I will leave now in an attempt not to be further distracted and return with updated info on website matters in the near future.

Good Day.

Reelin' & a Rockin'

Ok since I havent had internet for a while I will update you/me (becuase well then its not realy an update... (its ok just confuse yourself)(note that note is for me))

Anyway. must of been the pevious last sunday me and Karl decided to go and see the movie troy. the movie was ok, better then van helsing....

So we get there and the session is booked out. so we decide without any hesitation to go and see the next session at 8:40. we then walked over to the city for no reason and came to the conclusion that food would be good. So becuase we didnt want to eat hungry jacks we walked back to southbank and went to the fish and chip place. Karl wanted a beef burger but they didnt have any (again). [note the stupidity of advertising something you dont sell] so we goto the ol favorite snappy jacks or something, which is infact another fish n chipper but they also sell food from the heat trays or as some people like to call them, the trays of death. Karl finds out that salt is salty and find out that a walnut for a bladder is contagious and has moved to the stomach.

Time for the movie. We got out the movie at 11:40 (its an epic) stroll down to the train station only to find the last train out of town left at 11:00. So at this stage we are dazed and confused as to how the last train is at 11:00 because we are pretty sure that the trains run pretty late at least till 12. but thats not the case so we walk around for a while trying to figure out how to get home. then karl rings home and no one picks up. I ring home and mum tells me we are stupid. cant ask mum to pick me up as i took the car to get to the train station and because we live in alex hills we only have one car.

So we walk around, Karl suggests we goto jerremys place but at this stage its quite late and we would proberly just get hit over the head with a frying pan. so we decide to goto the computer labs at uni. She's waiting for us and I tell her karl will wait outside as i just need to use the toilet. anyway to cut a more probable than not long story into a short story, she says "you cant go in there or you will be forcible removed". Because I couldnt be bothered arguing and obviously getting spraying in the face with capsicum spray and getting permanent respiatory problems decided it would be best to just go away. apparently the toilets are D block are open all the time so we could use them.

We walked around a bit more before the idea of taking a taxi came to mind, we asked how much it was and $50 sounded like a lot. So we walked around a bit more and ended up near roma st station. At this point we had been "discussing" wheater to take a taki or not. So in the end we decide, yes lets just take a taxi. so we walk back to the taxi place in the city. When we get there we have a brain wave and decide to walk across the bridge to save money. we walk across and finnaly meet up with a taxi who will take us for $55.

Eventualy we get home.

Basicly we spent the night discussing the pros and cons of either waiting for the morning train (1.90 @5:30am), which would be cheap or catching a cab ($55 @ now)

In other news, I got internet back which is good.

Also i signed up for my gmail account. beancounting@gmail.com so im gona use that for my "webmaster" account because apparently you can save a gig of messages. One of the problems is the privacy where gmail (goodle) searches the text you are reading (the email) and pics ads that ping key words just like in the search engine... some say this is an invasion of privacy, but as long as its only ads i dont realy care. which is why im only using it for my webmaster stuff. as thats normaly pretty safe. of course the other email address (geewhiz@beancounting.tk) still works etc.

Oh also K-mart has/had 25% off bike stuff which was good becuase i needed a new tube for my bike as it EXPLODED. And that was very scary. so yeah, got my bike fixed but now i have another problem. the wheel isnt straight. as in it occasioanly touched the brake. so now i have to adjust that AGAIN. I dont realy like my bike anymore. I'm gona look for another one that isnt so crap. ooh and I get my self a blinking light for my bike so i dont get run over (they dont call it the redlands for nothing...) I came to this conclusion when i was walking home from the bus stop (a short 10 min stroll) as I walking home a man in a small white hatch (filled with people hahah (shouldnt laugh but it was clear he needed a larger car for his larger size....)) decided to beep at me and swear etc. (now for the reasoning) not realy sure why as i dont know him or cant remember the last time I actually spoke to someone in alex hills other than the newsagent, at woolies or my neighbors. so i couldnt of offened anyone. Other possible explinations is the strawberry theory or someone else that looks like me offended them or no one loves me.

Other things... well had more trouble with my groups this semester, but still managed to get a good mark so thats all that counts (more on this later).

NetComm are the best

NetComm are the best because they have graciously allowed me to connect to the internet.

Thank you

Van Hellsing

lalalalalal

NO!

This is a movie about Van Helsing.

Hes supposed to be a bounty hunter with cool ancient gadgets etc. In this movie he is the left hand of GOD. Yes thats right he is Gabriel, but cant remember. Dracula is satans spawn or made a pact with satan or something. I'm not christian but from my TV knowledge isnt it that gabriel is satan, fallen angle blah blah blah becuase he has to kill the evil on earth for god, and this gives him nighmares and then they have a domestic dispute and gab says "i put food on the table and u dont even respect me" but becuase "god" is a bitch s/he said get out of my house and gab said "i was having an affair anyway" and so gab moved to the center of the earth (hell) which is where he used to stay when on business trips...

anyway if van helsing is gab (satan) but not in satans for yet (before the break up) how can dracula exist???? how can he make a pact or be born from someone who doesnt exist etc....

Note to EVERYONE: do not go and see this movie.

just rent it out and then you will know what im rambling on about

now onto the plot

dracula wants to have babies so natuarly he has 3 wives the babies are in these alien type pods hanging from the cealing. I should also point out that dracual isnt a normal vampire but someone who cant die (more on this later). frankinstien is created by the dr now dracual gets the idea that he can bring his babies to life (because dracual and vampires are dead and dracual doesnt acutally exist... (in the movie)). so he has an idea to use frankinsiten to give life to the babies by passing electricity through frank to the babies (i bet clipsal made a bucket load on this movie). while batling a warewolf van gets infected and only has 2 days till he becomes a wolf... so he still tries to find dracula and kill him as his last 2 days also convenintly dracula has the cure for being a warewolf (which is mentioned through out the movie). Draculas castle is place which can only be goten to through a mirror (or if ur a vampire then u already know where it is...).

Van and drac have a bit of a get together in this time we find out that van is actually hundreds of years old becuase he has nightmares describing stuff that hapend ages ago. Dracual and van have always been fighting. Remeber van cant rember his past, well drac does and van wants to chat and find out more.

in the end sequence van finds out that a warwolf can kill dracual (convenintly van will soon turn into a warewolf). But wait dracual has warewolfs doing his biding for him, why have they not killed him???? apparently they dont hate him enough for taking away their lives and turning them into warewolfs.... of which there is only one cure and dracula has it (but isnt that enough for them to kill him and take the cure...). basicly van goes to drac turns into a warewolf and kills him, in the mean time the other main character in the movie is not even needed and is just a nusiance.

any way so goes and gets the antidote. Since van is now a warewolf hes a bit clumbsy and knocks the bitch to the ground just by looking at her (of course throughout the movie she has taken greater beatings but who cares for consistancy) and she dies. Conventintly van has also knocked himself onto the needle of the antidote and returns to normal.

The end scene is even more absurd and nicey nice then the lion king. im not even going to describe in fear of remebering it.

coffee

i had some coffee about 2 hours ago and now my brain feels like it wants to sleep and has shut down (cant think/do my assinghment) but my eyes wont shut...

ARGH cant just sleep and get it over with and cant study and sleep later

template work

becaue blogger now has new features, it would be wrong of me not to include these features into my blog/dnews etc so for me to do this I will need to use one of bloggers premade templates to steal design ideas and education on howto actually put the tags in etc.

slow?

Blogger seems slower when publishing? 9the new thing0

9look ma no brackets0

"is it hot in here? Or is it just me?"

Well lucky for me i used the save draft feature for the last post which helped when the mess under my desk broke down because I just recently added a 1400w 12 fin oil heater to the mix. Any, its sorted and all is now good except the assinghment I'm trying to do.

Its goto be 1500 words and I only got 900 and I can exactly make the conclusion go for 600 words.... i'm just going to add some more waffle. I only need 5% (out of 25%) to pass the subject so as long as I get something on the page I should get something (see also: economics assinghment....)

i shouldnt even be in this situation, what happended to all the planning.... ARGH *stress* (note that words in the asterix are either sounds or emotions or the like (keep up its not cool to be non-intuitive/asleep))

Because I care

Because I actually give a shit about what I write here and then read (possiblt the only reader....) later on I am going to try and reconstruct/re-write what went missing.... (this will now be done through the aid of the "save as draft" method, hopefully it will work)

(why not just type everything in brackets....( it kinda makes sense (but could get tiring (does it realy matter anyway.... (no one cares (see note above for carefactor (you are just trying to copy toopasete (drew) with his p.s/p.p.s/p.p.p.s..... (GeeWhiz 0 Drew 1))))))))






Ctrl+C

I hate. I also hate it when blogger stuffs up...

but luckily i had copyed it
but wait crappy dialup takes so fucking long to load that i have inadvertantly copied another text, clearing the text i had before.

Driving with lack of sleep is as dangerous as drunk driving

By Aaron Levin, Staff Writer
Health Behavior News Service
BETHESDA, Md.

Lack of sleep may seem like a minor problem to millions of people but it is also a major auto safety issue, a leading sleep researcher said Monday.

Drowsy driving represents perhaps the single greatest risk to people who have had inadequate sleep due to medical disorders, work schedules or life styles, said David F. Dinges, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine at a conference on sleep at the National Institutes of Health.

He said fatality rates and severity of injury among sleepy motorists is similar to those in alcohol-related crashes.

A driver awake for 22 straight hours, he said, has ?psychomotor performance equivalent to a 0.08 blood alcohol concentration.

Once sleep drops below seven hours a night, perception and reaction time start to suffer, he said.

Tests that require a person to push a button in response to a light flashing show that greater sleepiness results in not only more missed signals but also more unwarranted button-pushing in an attempt to compensate.

Even though these lapses may last just seconds, that may be enough to precipitate a disaster, he said.

A drowsy driver doing 60 miles per hour can drift off the road at a 4-degree angle and get beyond the shoulder in just four seconds, Dinges said.
Response time isn t the only killer, either. The more tired people are, the more sharply they drop off into sleep, even when they re trying hard to stay awake, he said.

Yet people tend to blame the problem not on physical exhaustion but on the situation a long drive, a repetitive job, a boring lecture instead of the physiology of sleep.

The real consequences of sleepiness may not even be known with any accaccuracy, he said. People can recall the time they spend in bed, but this is not the same as actual time asleep.

To combat the risks posed by sleepiness, Dinges offered three prescriptions: training doctors to recognize sleepiness as a symptom; setting up a standardized system to rate the sedating effects of prescription drugs; and updating sleep-related regulation of working hours and conditions based on scientifically proven information.

If you sleep and drive your a bloody idiot
Health Behavior News Service

More features

Yay! Blogger now has more features.

The main one would be:

Comments
email 'a' blog
Profiles
and other interblogwhizbang (basic DB stuff)

This is proberly in response to other 'blog' services coming online with more features. We all know blogger is reliable and thats half the battle...

Anyway this is just a normal post, posted in the normal way etc.... Just gona go see what the templates look like.

Opportunity

Its taken me a long time to develop the skill of identifying opportunity and now it seems that not enough. Not only do you have to see where it may be, but you also have to do something about it just to have the opportunity and not only that you have to still do something to take advantage of the opportunity. Makes me wonder if life really would be better in the slow lane.

not happy drew

the man who draws toothpaste for dinner -> drew <- (kinda funny why u say drew draws toothpas.....) anyway.... he seems kinda upset at the moment because some crazy people are stalking him from the internet and into reality. Its also the first time we get to see him angry it just seems so out of character as he's never like that. I might as well get to the point before I start sounding crazy.... I just recognise this as an example for my theory that when on the internet you communicate in a kinda different personality type thingy (as in your internet self is different from your reality self) so drew is normaly very happy person, but thats not entirly it, over the weekend his internet self colided with his real self this forced his real self to take action and write the letter.

When you read the letter and other stuff he has written then you will notice the difference.

Also it should be noted that drew does not want more internet friends as he has a life and just posts his cool pictures on the internet for the enjoyment of others and not as a giant personal add to meet hot women or make friends with other women.... or to sound cool that you have a cool website when talking to women....

Sacrifice a chicken day

Since its the holidays I have decided to actually use my own writting to fill the blog.

I have 3 exams next week and the first starts in 5 days. considering I have wasted about 7 days of study already this is not exactly a timely post, but one that is required for me to live.

The good thing about these mid-semester exams is that they are all multiple choice. Although what I have found, is that it does not make it any easyer. The first exam is the LOBA exam which is on monday. Accounting exam is on wednessday which is also hard. The last exam is Business statistics exam which is gona be piss easy and its only worth 5% so I can study for that next week.

Whats good about the holidays is that I can now have 2 days for accounting and 2 days for LOBA. And hopefully no distubances. The point is that now the only disterbances I have is from my self and all motivation etc must all come from me. Which is hard when you have so much flexability. So what did i do today to change the last couple of days. Well I just broke the day up into "sessions". Each session is 2 or 4 hours long. It is not dependent on what I do in that time rather it is a session of the day. eg. 8->12 then lunch 12->4 then snack 4->6 dinner 6->8 fruit/snack 8->10 as you can plainly see the day is broken up by food breaks. So far this has been working well. Tomorow is thursday and as everyday requires that I get up early to get the gym out of the way so I can do other stuff. Its not realy a system, just something I felt like doing today. Tomorow will proberly be a different system...

Fact of the day

Mrs. James Brown once tried to get out of traffic charges by claiming she was entitled to diplomatic immunity for being married to the 'ambassador of soul.' "

yay

Bean counting is more popular than Guyana's Most Widely Circulated Newspaper

Yahoo! Searchs

What ever happened to a fair go?

The Murali muddle is more than just cricket

The Wisden Verdict by Paul Coupar in Colombo

March 28, 2004

Chris Broad's decision to report Muttiah Muralitharan for a suspect bowling action will reverberate far beyond the cricket field in Sri Lanka.

There is genuine anger here. Not quite of effigy-burning proportions. But anger all the same. This seems odd, even absurd to some outsiders. But to understand the importance of Murali you have to understand a little about Sri Lanka.

For a start, cricket is the national game. It is said that the economy suffers when the national team plays, because attendances at work drop. For one-day internationals, this might be true. Certainly the cricket team is one of the focuses of national identity.

It also important to remember Sri Lankan history. It is a small island, about the size of Ireland. It was long subjugated. From the 17th century until 1948 it was ruled, in whole or in part, by foreigners. And even their post-independence history is troubled. Civil war broke out in 1983, and 65,000 people died. But Sri Lanka is now on the up, something that is the source of justifiable pride. Since a ceasefire in 2001, tourists and foreign investment have returned; GDP grew by 3% in 2002, and 5.5% in 2003.

So the country is delicately poised between a sometimes difficult past of subjugation, poverty and war, and the prospect of a bright future. In this society Murali is a potent symbol. He has taken more Test wickets than almost any other bowler. He is one of the world's most feared cricketers. Every time he takes the field he demonstrates that Sri Lanka can be the best. That makes him a powerful symbol of what the nation is capable of.

So when people say he cheats they are questioning something that goes deeper than cricket. This can be difficult for outsiders to understand. As one Englishman from Leicester told me in Colombo after the one-day series: "You wind them [Sri Lankans] up about him being a chucker but they don't get it. And you end up having to say 'No, he doesn't throw really. It was just a joke'."

For these reasons, Murali overtaking Courtney Walsh to become the highest wicket-taker in Test history is eagerly anticipated in Sri Lanka. He currently has 513 wickets to Walsh's 519. So he would surely have taken the record in Zimbabwe in mid-April. Although he is eligible to play, there have to be questions now about whether he will tour. And even if he does pass the record there, the shine will have been knocked off the achievement.

Many Sri Lankans will feel that this decision was timed to block Murali and allow the glory to go to Shane Warne, a white man. Several sets of officials, Sri Lankans protest, have passed Murali's doosra since it appeared in a new more vicious form against England in December 2003. Why does Chris Broad, they say, in his first series as a match referee, think differently?

Even this morning, before the story broke, a major national broadsheet, The Island, carried a waspish piece saying: "Match referees these days tend to be following double standards … it seems like the Aussies and the English could get away with anything." In such a volatile atmosphere, this will be a huge story. And one that's about more than a cricketer with a bent arm.

Paul Coupar is assistant editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.

The Murali muddle is more than just cricket

Google Search: moin kahn

More irrelavent cricket links to my own blog... but a number one on google is still nice to have

Thanks Moin Kahn.

Google Search: moin kahn

Its just not cricket

I can hardly belive that my website is the only site on the yahoo directory which has circket commentary

Weird (or yay becasue i got one click out of it)

Yahoo! Search Results for: comentray online for cricket matches

Finding the Quiet

What I wouldnt give for a bit of quiet.

Finding the Quiet:

"Finding the Quiet
Is noise annoying you? Most of us accept the daily racket of modern living ? sirens, garbage trucks, airplanes, television, hair dryers, whining computers, blaring car stereos, hollering sports fans, endless talking ? as normal. "

Voluntary Student Unionism

I am against voluntary student unionism, becuase it means less services... and as a student it makes sense to pool resources in this manner.

anyway...

One of the concessions secured in the negotiations to have recent higher education changes passed was the elimination of Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) from the package. However, the Liberal government has recently reneged on this deal and announced its intention to introduce the VSU Bill. This issue will be debated in the next few months.

VSU means that membership to your student organisation is not automatic upon enrolment rather, students opt in. Our current system of universal membership means that all students become members upon enrolment - this ensures that students remain in control of student affairs and student unions are able to provide the many essential services and representation to its members. Where VSU has been introduced it has had devastating effects. At Curtin Uni in WA the unions membership income was reduced from $3million to $100 000 and as a result departments such as womens, queer, and disabilities were closed down. For more information on VSU please visit www.guildonline.net/getpolitical

The Education Action Group and Student Guild is encouraging all students to write to the independent senators (Len Harris - QLD, One Nation; Brian Harridine - TAS; Shane Murphy - TAS, former ALP; Meg Lees - SA former Democrat).
The result will depend on the independents as the ALP and Greens will vote against the bill.
We will also be placing petitions on EAG Stalls and Student Guild Information Centre Desks.
So please send an e-mail to each of the independent senators and sign a petition. (There is an example leter below.)

Len Harrris
senator.harris@aph.gov.au

Brian Harridine
senator.harridine@aph.gov.au

Shane Murphy
senator.murphy@aph.gov.au

Meg Lees
info@megsdesk.com or senator.lees@aph.gov.au

And a reminder that Campus Education Action Groups will be meeting again in Week 4 and preparing for the National Day of Action to Fight the Fees.

Monday 12pm KG, A Block Lawn
Tuesday 12pm GP, Kidney Lawn
Wednesday 12pm CA, Student Lounge (outside Guild Info Centre, Level 3, C Block)

Details for the National Day of Action:
Meet 12pm, Kidney Lawn, Gardens Point for free BBQ. March to King George Square for 1pm Rally.
(Note KG and CA students will be meeting on their respective campus and catching bus to GP - more details to come).

See ya
Kirsten Harte
Education Director

Dear Senator [Insert Senator's Last Name],

As you are aware the Government has again raised the spectre of voluntary student unionism. I know that in the past you have shown good judgement and rejected this policy. I thought that I would write to you to reiterate why voluntary student unionism is an extremely flawed policy in order to reinforce your opposition to it.

Universal membership of student organisations is necessary to fund the many essential services that such bodies provide to students. For example, each year the QUT Student Guild successfully assists hundreds of students appeal their exclusion from the University for poor academic performance. Many of these students are from rural and disadvantaged backgrounds who have had trouble adapting to life at a major urban university. Without the help of their Student Guild they would be forced to leave without a degree. The Student Guild also runs an employment and accommodation service that is of particular use to disadvantaged students, especially those from a rural background who desperately need to find a place to live and a job to support themselves. Other examples of the valuable services the QUT Student Guild provides includes: free legal advice, free centrelink advice, free advocacy in disputes with the University, and subsidised childcare. QUT Student Guild representatives also sit on various University boards that make decision that effect all QUT students to ensure that their rights and interests are taken into account.

Under voluntary student unionism these services would not exist. The QUT Student Guild plays a similar role to a local council in that it charges a levy that is used to provide a number of essential services to the community which it represents. As everyone benefits from the services the QUT Student Guild provides everyone has an obligation to make a contribution. It is interesting to note that the ACCC has recently ruled that the public benefits of universal students unionism outweighs any disadvantage. Further numerous court cases in Australia have ruled that universal membership of student is not an infringement of one's rights to freedom of association. It is also important to state that students at QUT and in most other Australian universities can already opt out of membership to their student organisation by becoming a conscientious objector.

I sincerely hope that you will resist all attempts by the Government to introduce VSU.

Kind regards.

[Insert your name
and address here]

Bean Counting...

I dont like the template. Why because i just dont. anyway, since u can see its very late at night and i couldnt sleep so i am now working on a template for this blog which will most proberly be identical to the D-news one

india win

ODI # 2116
India in Pakistan, 2003/04, 4th One-Day International
Pakistan v India
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore (day/night)
21 March 2004 (50-over match)

Result: India won by 5 wickets
Series: 5-ODI series level 2-2

Toss: Pakistan
Umpires: Asad Rauf and SJA Taufel (Aus)
TV Umpire: Nadeem Ghauri
Match Referee: RS Madugalle (SL)
Man of the Match: Inzamam-ul-Haq


Pakistan innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4 6
Yasir Hameed st Dravid b Kartik 45 93 68 5 0
Shahid Afridi c Yuvraj Singh b Pathan 3 10 10 0 0
Yousuf Youhana lbw b Pathan 9 28 19 1 0
*Inzamam-ul-Haq b Balaji 123 160 121 9 4
Younis Khan c Pathan b Kartik 36 69 48 1 0
Abdul Razzaq c Kaif b Tendulkar 32 48 24 2 1
+Moin Khan b Balaji 0 1 2 0 0
Shoaib Malik c Kaif b Khan 13 13 8 2 0
Shoaib Akhtar b Khan 2 6 4 0 0
Mohammad Sami not out 0 4 0 0 0
Shabbir Ahmed not out 0 1 1 0 0
Extras (b 10, lb 9, w 6, nb 5) 30
Total (9 wickets, 50 overs, 221 mins) 293

FoW: 1-8 (Shahid Afridi, 2.2 ov), 2-39 (Yousuf Youhana, 8.6 ov),
3-89 (Yasir Hameed, 20.6 ov), 4-194 (Younis Khan, 38.6 ov),
5-264 (Inzamam-ul-Haq, 46.4 ov), 6-264 (Moin Khan, 46.6 ov),
7-283 (Abdul Razzaq, 48.4 ov), 8-290 (Shoaib Malik, 49.2 ov),
9-292 (Shoaib Akhtar, 49.5 ov).

Bowling O M R W
Pathan 10 1 53 2 (1nb, 3w)
Balaji 10 0 64 2
Khan 10 0 43 2 (2nb, 1w)
Kartik 10 1 48 2 (2nb)
Tendulkar 8 0 48 1 (2w)
Yuvraj Singh 2 0 18 0

India innings (target: 294 runs from 50 overs) R M B 4 6
V Sehwag c Younis Khan b Mohammad Sami 26 53 29 5 0
SR Tendulkar c Moin Khan b Shoaib Akhtar 7 22 13 1 0
VVS Laxman b Shoaib Akhtar 20 23 18 4 0
*SC Ganguly c Moin Khan b Abdul Razzaq 21 23 15 2 1
+R Dravid not out 76 141 92 9 0
Yuvraj Singh c Yousuf Youhana b Mohammad Sami 36 44 35 5 0
M Kaif not out 71 79 77 8 0
Extras (lb 9, w 19, nb 9) 37
Total (5 wickets, 45 overs, 195 mins) 294

DNB: M Kartik, IK Pathan, L Balaji, Z Khan.

FoW: 1-34 (Tendulkar, 4.1 ov), 2-69 (Laxman, 8.4 ov),
3-75 (Sehwag, 9.6 ov), 4-94 (Ganguly, 12.6 ov),
5-162 (Yuvraj Singh, 23.4 ov).

Bowling O M R W
Shoaib Akhtar 9 1 63 2 (6w)
Shabbir Ahmed 7 0 62 0 (5nb, 1w)
Mohammad Sami 10 0 50 2 (3w)
Abdul Razzaq 7 0 42 1 (3nb)
Shoaib Malik 7 0 38 0
Shahid Afridi 5 0 30 0 (1nb, 1w)



india win

geewhiz's FotoPage

Just signed up for this photoblog thing. Seems like a good idea so I can post pictures and not use up valuable space on my webhost et....c.....

and link and so forth etc...

The next match

The next match is this firday 4:30 GMT.

Pakistan win despite Tendulkar's ton

Pakistan win despite Tendulkar's ton:

"Sachin Tendulkar emulated Inzamam-ul-Haq's Karachi heroics with a dazzling 141, but it wasn't enough to inspire India to an improbable victory after they were set 330 to win by Pakistan at Rawalpindi. Shoaib Akhtar, playing his 100th one-day international in front of his home crowd, winkled out India's lower order as they fell 12 runs short at the finish. "

something to rember

"In 1940, Isaac Asimov invented the 'Three Laws of Robotics'...

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."

argh Kryptonite....

Today the phone borke. As you can see I have come back to the blog (yay?). The point is that all that self esteem built up yesterday is gone. Which is why I'm just going to goto bed and wake up as if this never happend (see the viscious cylce developing.... [the sleeping part {if you didnt get it}]).

Now that our powers have combined....

Now that my self esteem is fully restored. I think I might goto bed.

INDIA WIN

49.6 Nehra to Moin Khan, OUT: got'im! fulltoss on the middle and off,
Moin swings hard and ends up hitting it to Zaheer Khan at extra
cover, Nehra does his job! Indian win by 5 runs !!

the last ball

49.5 Nehra to Naved-ul-Hasan, one run, another single! terrific over so
far! on the middle and off stump line, only manages to play it
straight to the cover fielder, single is taken and Moin is back on
strike

49.4 Nehra to Moin Khan, one run, played away to the square leg region,
the fielder moves in quickly and keeps it down to one run,
Tendulkar was the fielder there, well done

49.3 Nehra to Moin Khan, no run, another dot ball! yorker lenght
delivery on the pads, Khan misses out and the ball hits the pad
and falls dead on the track

Ganguly comes forward and has a word with his bowler

49.2 Nehra to Naved-ul-Hasan, one run, pitched up on the middle and leg,
driven down to the long off region, just the one run, tension
mounts!

Pakistan require another 8 runs with 3 wickets and 4 balls
remaining

Moin Kahn is the perfect man for thse situations, can he take
Pakistan to victory here?!

49.1 Nehra to Naved-ul-Hasan, no run, dot ball! short delivery on the
middle, Hasan swings hard but makes no contact

Pakistan require another 6 runs with 3 wickets and 1 balls

ARRGH

Pakistan require another 9 runs with 3 wickets and 6 balls remaining

And like I predicted Nerha will bowl the last over

We are all doomed

over 49

Pakistan require another 17 runs with 4 wickets and 12 balls remaining

since zahre is bowling the second last over and Balaji already has had his ten who is going to bowl the last over?

Nehra?

I think Ganguly has stuffed it up just a bit....

over 48

Pakistan require another 24 runs with 4 wickets and 18 balls remaining

India vs. India

Today India and Pakistan are play cricket for the first time in ages. So far India have scored 349 runs, which is realy good.

However because India are stupid they are likely to throw the match away in a way only they can. As I write this its the 46th over and Pakistan only need 28 runs with 21 balls to go and lets not forget they still have 5 more batsmen to come.

I just wonder why India can make such big scores and still not be able to win the match.

references

as you can see I have been looking at the referes to my site, as I do on a regular basis to keep my self esteem up.

so far the web site has had about 560+ hits over the past couple of months....

yay gone past 500

next stop 1000

Google Search: "monkey magic" stamps

Welcome to the Number 2 site on the internet of Monkey magic stamps

Google Search: "monkey magic" stamps

MSN Search -- More Useful Everyday

Number one for a seach on "silyva" and I even got a website preview (although so did everyone else...)

MSN Search -- More Useful Everyday

Google'da Ara: "flash tree menu"

2 for -> "flash tree menu"

Google'da Ara: "flash tree menu"

Google'da Ara: "flash tree menu"

2 for -> "flash tree menu"

Google'da Ara: "flash tree menu"

Google Search: toothpastefordinner pirate cartoons

Super YAY

I am also number one for "toothpastefordinner pirate cartoons"

Google Search: toothpastefordinner pirate cartoons

MSN Search: bean counting -- More Useful Everyday

Holy fuck I am now number one for "bean counting"


double yay

MSN Search: bean counting -- More Useful Everyday

Google Search: "monkey magic" stamps

I'm number 2

YAY

Google Search: "monkey magic" stamps

XML dirven Flash

XML dirven flash seems to be the only way to extract any usefullness out of flash. Of course my website now have an XML feed.....

p.s. Dont worry I wont be doing anything like that untill I can get the XML to work in old fashioned HTML (compliant of course)

Portfolio

I was actually just following a link when I found this site. Not only is it cool, but it also has a world map thingo (somewhere....)

the winner of the 2001 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the category "Net Excellence," the highest honor in international net art and design.

I like these kinda sleek websites and seeing what they get upto, especialy when they get to work with cool products

The world is mine

I found this realy cool Flash script with displays map coordinates on a world map and all you have to do is insert that information into an XML file. How cool is that. Plus its using Flash (and people say that flash is useless). Plus its using XML (and people say that XML is only for enterprise).

p.s. I have wood after playing with this.

p.s.s. I need atleast the weekend to get this up and running smoothly...

Everyone needs one

Just to demonstrate the power of blogger I present.....................

Gawker

Gawker is editorialisation of NY citys news, not only that it provides its own take on NY etc... Making it a good source of information if you're in NY. I propose that all major citys should have something like this or maybe in Australia (because we are small in number) just a national one. Its run by a small team of people who have the same dream of blogging... (becuase you can)

The answer: Community websites?

essays :: weblogs: a history and perspective: "I don't have an answer. In our age the single page website of an obscure Turk named Mahir can sweep the web in days. But the unassailable truth is that corporate media and commercial and governmental entities own most of the real estate. Dell manages more webpages than all of the weblogs put together. Sprite's PR machine can point more man-hours to the promotion of one message--'Obey Your Thirst'--than the combined man-hours of every weblogger alive. Our strength--that each of us speaks in an individual voice of an individual vision--is, in the high-stakes world of carefully orchestrated messages designed to distract and manipulate, a liability. We are, very simply, outnumbered."

Maybe Community Website could help counter act this by facilitating more into one individual "blog" a bit like seti...

However I still think Individual blogs could be usefull, because they can provide news where there was no news. As in reporting and reviewing things we actually see. Of course searching through this mess to get the information we want will be hard.

The reason why its broke

essays :: weblogs: a history and perspective: "So why doesn't every bookmark list contain five weblogs? In the beginning of 1999 it really seemed that by now every bookmark list would. There was a bit of media attention and new weblogs were being created every day. It was a small, quick-growing community and it seemed to be on the edge of a wider awareness. Perhaps the tsunami of new weblogs created in the wake of Pitas and Blogger crushed the movement before it could reach critical mass; the sudden exponential growth of the community rendered it unnavigable. Weblogs, once filters of the web, suddenly became so numerous they were as confusing as the web itself. A few more articles appeared touting weblogs as the next big thing. But the average reader, hopefully clicking through to the Eatonweb portal, found herself faced with an alphabetical list of a thousand weblogs. Not knowing where to begin, she quickly retreated back to ABCnews.com."

Its just the most credible answer I can find.

Maybe I need a business plan

Some reasons I started blogging:

1. Practice Writting
2. confidence in writting
3. having a point of view (maddox)
4. Being creative (toothpastefordinner)

a journey of self-discovery and intellectual self-reliance.


Reintergration?

essays :: weblogs: a history and perspective: "Certainly, both styles still exist; certainly the particular mixture of links, commentary, and personal observation unique to each individual site has always given each weblog its distinctive voice and personality; and certainly the weblog has always been an infinitely malleable format. But the influx of blogs has changed the definition of weblog from 'a list of links with commentary and personal asides' to 'a website that is updated frequently, with new material posted at the top of the page.' I really wish there were another term to describe the filter-style weblog, one that would easily distinguish it from the blog. On the principle of truth in advertising, this would make it much easier for the adventuresome reader to find the type of weblog he most enjoys."

Maybe if I can get my templates right....

Its a journal stupid

The reason I originaly started blogging was to firstly be able to articulate what I was thinking/feeling, I couldnt do this in D-news becuase it had 'expectations' which is the reason for its separation (not to mention the relavence).

Now that I think about it, what is the point of actually writting all this down? who even cares? Will I even read it?

Back to sanity... I think in a sence my own weblog experiance follows with the history of blogging (disregarding the fact that I am lagging)

"The original weblogs were link-driven sites. Each was a mixture in unique proportions of links, commentary, and personal thoughts and essays. Weblogs could only be created by people who already knew how to make a website. A weblog editor had either taught herself to code HTML for fun, or, after working all day creating commercial websites, spent several off-work hours every day surfing the web and posting to her site. These were web enthusiasts." (History of weblogs)

[Note to self: look into microcontent]

One day...

"A blog is a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically" (Blogger.com, 2004)

I think what is more important now what I will use the blog for. I already have a blog for news/links/comentray etc

This is just a personal blog, of well I hate to say it but...: Ramblings, musings, feelings, what am i doing/feelings/listening/reading/not doing/hoping to do type blog. I guess when I say it like that I dont like blogging. Which is why I am searching for a different definition.

Create

Create is normaly associated with artistic things or as the implicit meaning goes, anything we make.

So a blog is realy about the recent past.

To make it easyer for my small mind to comprehend all this, and to try and clarify it in such a way it makes sense. I think it would be best to look at it from the perspective of just one entry and not thing about the archiving purposes just yet.

So what do I have to say

The next question I ask my self is what do I do in this 'space'?

Write? [see title stupid]

I realy dont know. Anyway.... The seperation of the bloggers cycle has enabled a more effeciant blogger cycle with a smaller down period, becuase it is not (shouldnt be....) linked to closely to emotion. Therefore it makes the product, in this case D-news more accessable to the market and is just a better product because of it.

From this we can summerise that seperating the bloggers cycle out of the blog into a seperate blog (D-news) to satisfy my need for "interesting" news and the need to archive and collect it like old people do with news papers (but in a more enviromentaly and physicaly less exhausting fashion) and the other need to look like I have something interesting to say. (getting closer).

Summerising the summary into a conclusion brings us to the fact that D-news is hella cool and purely for the public domain. However, what is apparent is that people do not find the ramblings/etc of anyone talking to them selves the least bit interesting (except maybe to stalkers and voiourists). Hence we have now taken the bloggers cycle out of the blog.

This still leaves us with what is supposed to go here...

Logic will tell us that we just wack in everything else that is not news or anything that I create. [essentialy whats been happening in our lives; Such as new purchases, how we are feeling etc...]

So this is a blog

This is my blog and I can write what ever I like here.

Now that I have seperated the dreaded bloggers cycle from this blog (bean counting) and called it D-news. I have now found that this blog is now lacking, in comparison with D-news.

its just not fare

Went to uni the other day to get my free stuff and should happen, but they run out of food. Thats just great. And then "dr. Bombay.".

Well, lets just say its a cover band using someone elses name........ aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh....... It was just too good to be true

The House of Sand and Fog

Today I went to go and see the movie "The House of Sand and Fog", to try and get out of the heat wave (40+) but what happens when we get into the actuall theater. The air conditioning breaks down. So for about 2.5 hours we (Karl and I) had to sweat it out in sauna like conditions.

Anyway, the movie is the best that I have seen in a long time and is proberly better than Goodbye/buy Lenin or Mystic River (best movies of last year). I also dont expect any other movies this year to top this one. I guess the full effect of the movie was taken away somewhat by the heat/sweat/no airconditioning [note: I think it must have been at least 45 in there because it was closed in]. I guess this highlighted the length of the movie (2:25) and maybe could of shortened the second half, although it kinda added to the effect (artistic effect). If it wasnt so hot I wouldnt complain about the heat, in fact if the air conditioning was working I would proberly say that it wasnt long enough.

I dont want to spoil the movie untill it comes out on DVD so I wont tell you what happens (I'm actually thinking of seeing it again/unless I can find another movie worth seeing).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315983/

I give this movie 9D/10D

D-news -> Another funtastic way to get news

Another revelation for D-news [www.dnews.tk]. If you havent been following whats been going on then first read this then check out the new/s stuff.

Firstly I would like to bring to your attention that D-news now is available in your in box. Just go to here and sign up and D-news will automaticly arive in your inbox, just like magic. Alternativly you can send an email to [d-news-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.au] and that will also subscribe you.

At the moment I am using yahoo as its fully magical and does everything for me, but since for some reason I dont like it, maybe because its not a proper email thingo, but it works and thats the main thing.

Another development is the new design thats I am using for D-news. Guess what? Its the same as the main site. YAY...>...

Wait theres more. Blogger has introduced an RSS/XML feed for everyones blogs, so now you can use that as syndication or use it in a news agregator.

Dont forget to check the news at www.D-news.tk for all relavent news stuffs.

Its funtastic

extreamly worng

Today there was a sevear storm warning and on this premis I decided to mow the lawn, so it doesnt get too tall. But then after I finish and turn to the news, the warning is gone and all that is left is a mild breaze

World of Ends

What's the value of the internet and what should we be doing with it? Well a good plan starts here: World of Ends

William Hung

William Hung: A Real American Idol! The Online Tribute to Will Hung a.k.a. Hong Kong Ricky Martin

This guy was on American Idol, and failed. But because he is proberly the most coolest nerd you will ever find, I recomend downloading his songs (him singing other ppls songs, eg She Bangs : Ricky Martin).

If only for the laughter and to play when your feeling depressed....

Back to readability

Since my last attempt at making my own blogger template I have decided to switch back to the old one and just use that one, untill I figure out how to use this xml thingo to publish to the website.

putt putt putt.....

Today the mower broke, since my neighbour is a lawn mow guy he took it apart and found that the tube that takes the air from the air filter to the engine was broken, so goto get that little tube.

Then I can start cutting down the rain forrest that has decided to take up residency in my garden.

Mum has arrived

Mum has arrived in India saftley, just got off the phone. Not realy know what I'm supposed to do now that mum is gone, normaly she just tells me to do stuff. Its quite a different feeling.

Big storm

Had a few storms over the last week, almost everyday, with friday being the worst. Lots of trees fell down and stuff was smashed, but not at my house. Everywhere else had damage, all we had was a plastic chair turned over and the mop fell out of the bucket.

YAY

BLOGGER - Knowledge Base?-?What is Atom?

At last Blogger has RSS feed which means I will be able to hopefuly combine D-news and Beancounting all in the same place.... Keep u posted on the progress

IsIndia fined for slow over-rate

India fined for slow over-rate

Is it me or does India get fined for something every fucking match!

The Last Samurai: "I'm actually glad that my mum doesnt have a fast car."

Today I saw a movie called: "The Last Samurai". It was a very entertaining movie, bordering on comedy. Which is quite different to what the advertisements were proposing.

On the way home there was an evil driver, trying to (unsucessfully) do a burn out at the trafic lights while turning right (dual lane). In the process almost taking us out. So I proceeded in my usual manner to beep the horn in a fasion that I have decided to use.....

Anyway, this time for some reason I also decided to use the throtle as well (hesitently) which basicly cost me any chance of catching up. I disregarded the safety of my passengers which was wrong (the hesitation [it had also rained]) and I had forgoten my rule of "what will it achive" which I use in times of road rage. I beeped and shouted which I think is fine, but the whole acceleration thing is not.

I'm not sure what will happen next time, as there may not be hesitation..... What I am sure of is that it will happen again.

Latley I have not been able to pull my self into line, which is a worry. Most of this I attribute to going to the cricket, where I have learnt alot about society, the world and my self. Its been a gradual process where everytime I go, I learn something new, lets just hope we get a third final (Brisbane) and the process gets finalised.

I also watched a documentary earlier today about childen in Isreal/West Bank and what they think of their situation (only reinforced what I thought....) which may also have attributed to the impetus of todays Incident.

Ofcourse it could be as simple as wanting to just say a few words to the moron so some acceleration was required to do so..... also by accelerating it makes the other driver feel that I am pushing them, so they then drive faster (and hopefully die....). [Sometimes I wish I had been born at a different time]

Finaly I would also like to appologyse for the airy fair structure, after you have seen "the last samurai" you will understand.

I dont care

Make sport, not war

I dont care, as long as India win.

BBC SPORT | Cricket | England boycott looks inevitable

BBC SPORT | Cricket | England boycott looks inevitable

Or Maybe its because England dont want to look bad, by being defeated by Zimbabwae.

Its just not cricket

What i dont understand is why the Australian media need to do this. Its not like australia has a crappy cricket team. They are the best, everyone knows this. Why do we need so much bias in favour of Australia, isnt the good performance enough. Or does the public realy need that much protection or they will break out in a national day or mourning.....

"The Australian media are, of course, entitled not to extend him the benefit of the doubt. But considering how eager they were to forgive Ware, whose patching-up of a damaged portion of the pitch was a deliberate act, on the grounds that it was an "honest mistake", it does smack of duplicity."

A bit more leway is needed

Is rain realy good luck.....

Australia clinch a thriller at the SCG

With the D/L system that they use its much easyer for the team batting second to win, I realy think they need to change that, so its more fair, or atleast gives the bowling side more opportunitys and incentive to do somthing. Having less overs to bowl them out doesnt exactly help, in fact it just helps the batsmen, as they do not have to stay there as long.

In anycase it was a good match. And for India to come so close with the D/L system is quite remarkable.

SimLife

I have now stoped playing SimCity (THANK YOU GOD).

I choose life! *does a jig*

Shit stiring

Ball tampering was deliberate, says Lloyd - www.smh.com.au

Wright defends Dravid in ball-tampering case

1. The silyva from a lolly is the same silyva from the mouth...
2. Its quite possible it was an accident
3. He has been punished
4. Ponting is shit stiring (he was not involved in the match so what does he care, oh yeah thats right India beat Australia on sunday.....) What a cry baby

Halo

U know what I just realised? I have accidentaly deleted the code for the comenting system.

India Won again

Once again India has won, this time against Zimababwe. It rained a bit, but didnt realy effect the overall result. I also met up with some people from uni who were going to the cricket for the first time.....

Dravid is being accused of ball tampering, but from what I saw, he was licking the ball and the cough lolly got stuck too it. Then he tried to take it off. It was bascily nothing to worry about, becuase I dont think a cough lolly could of helped them anyway.

I got quite involved yesterday and even had my own mob/crowd, which was fun.

INDIA JEETAGA!

YAY! India won at the cricket today. And surprisingly it wasnt as bad as I thought it might be....

Anyway. It was a very fun day, as was yesterday when Karl, Jonathan and I went to go see Regurgitator for free at the powerhouse, which was also a lot of fun. It was loud but the atmosphere was good.

Back to the circket: Also there is more cricket on tuesday when India will play Zimbabwe, which I will also attend. Hopefully I can get some batterys for the camera this time so I can take some pictures.

Please help

If something doesnt work. Then send me an email ( geewhiz @ beancounting . tk )

Holy fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey look what I did. I made my blog work with my website!!!!!


YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAYAYAYAYAYAYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Anyway. The only thing I proberly need to fix up is the cell padding. But other than that it should work pretty seem less ley

Because I am GOD

Drawings

I have started drawing "cartoons" atm its just scribbles. Anyway, its just another "creative" thing I get too do. At the rate I'm going I'm going to be repeating primary school....

If its broke fix it

Well this page was borken and so I had to use one of the premade templates untill I get around to redesigning the page and of course making it work
My extreamly large post that I had written was my view on an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald. Why? Becuase I was there. Maybe tomorow I will get around to writting it.

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hate

I hate it when u type about 2000 words and then blogger decides it will just dump all your hard work into never never land