My iTunes etiquette: So if I’m listening to iTunes and need to mute it to take a call or to do something else I won’t just mute, but I’ll actually pause iTunes. Now this is kind of silly cause I normally just listen to it on random, but it does ensure a couple of things. One is that I know that I am not missing a song that I may want to hear, eg. if the reason I stopped the music turns out to be something longer than a songs length then I know I haven’t missed something as random may not bring it around for another few weeks.
And the other is probably even more silly, but still a slight issue. It stuffs with the play count, if a song is played in the woods and no one hears it then should it be registered against the play count? My answer is no. No one heard, I know it technically played, but no one heard it!! When I look at the most played songs I want to know the most heard, not the most played whilst the volume was set to zero!
Given that the NSW government is for the large part – let’s say… incompetent… Here is my bid to be the transport minister for NSW (if not a bid even for premier).
My first actions as minister for transport:
Start a policy of common sense (no one seems to have introduced the policy yet)
Print bus maps. This is fairly obvious. A map for each bus route in sydney which will displayed at all bus stops on the route and displayed at all major bus terminals so you can see what bus to catch and where it goes… Also accessed online. (why don’t we have this yet?!)
Part A: Build Sydney’s second airport at Goulburn. They actually want the airport there… no Badgery’s Creek resistance, plus there’s plenty of room, and it’s half way between Canberra and Sydney. Part B: Build a high speed train from Sydney to Canberra via Goulburn. You could be in Sydney or Canberra from Goulburn airport in under an hour! Plus more housing opportunities for commuters to Sydney or Canberra.
Ring up the person who made the travel card system for Hong Kong and say “hey could you build the same system in Sydney? Sydney’s transport system is 3 times smaller than Hong Kong but we managed to spend a couple of million dollars over about 8 years and have diddly squat to show for it”
Continue the Tram line to Dulwich Hill. The train line and the land are already there… what are we waiting for?
(this is ambitious) Build two autobahn style 6 lane tunnels through the blue mountains to Lithgow. You could be out in western NSW in no time! And yet again more housing opportunities…
Ok… So it’s been 4 weeks since we’ve moved into our new house and I haven’t blogged…
Well we’re in!
We’re still in the process of furnishing a 3 bedroom house with furniture from a 1 bedder, and now we’ve now got a wardrobe, and a couch and another book shelf. But the thing that has really made it feel like home is the new TV… and it’s digital! Alright! I can’t believe I’ve been missing out on all these free extra channels for so long! I’ve been living in darkness…
We did have one major saga moving in: it took telstra bigpond 4 weeks to hook up our internet! The saga is still too fresh and painful for me to recount here just yet, but as the healing process continues maybe I’ll find the strength to have a nice big whinge! Anyway it’s on now… I can’t believe how internet dependent we’d become. The absence of it was like missing a leg… we use it all the time. We look up phone numbers, contact people, share photos, blog (of course), and there must have been at least 20 times a day where we’d go to use internet and then go “oh… we don’t have it… I can’t breath… paper bag… get me a paper bag! huuuuh, huuuh, breath, breath…”
It was really quite dramatic.
On other news…
Mel has got me onto this comedian called Michael McIntyre and he’s bloody hilarious! Good observational humour.
