I keep hearing about how Australia has a “skills shortage”. I think this means that there aren’t enough people ready-trained in jobs. I have heard that despite this shortage there is less money going into TAFEs. I’ve also noticed that schools are getting seriously lazy in teaching people to think. Students wrote learn so many […]
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Thursday Thirteen #31
Thirteen places I’d like to visit. 1. Paris. I learnt French at school and did one uni class on it as well, I’d love to go there and try to speak the language. 2. North and South Carolina. Nicholas Sparks always makes it sound so lovely in his books. 3. Perth. Yep, I live in […]
Waa waa waa
I should be at karate right now but I was afraid of doing something horrible to may back. It doesn’t seem to be the kind of pain that you can stretch out. My unit seems to be infested with little moths. I don’t know what they are or where they came from. I only see […]
Age has nothing to do with it
Argh, something is wrong with my back. I can’t twist it, I have to try staying straight but then I get tense and uncomfortable. I don’t know what it is, a muscle or a disc, it seems to be quite distinctly on my right side. ~ What is up with short skirts and leggings? I’ve […]
Cyberworld
This guy, David Storey, works (when he leaves the basement) with my husband, they were in the same office until the computer science people moved buildings. There was a bit of talk when he bought the virtual island on Planet Calypso in Entropia Universe. I wondered where he got the money as a PhD student […]
Foogoogled
Okay so I’m really just relaying something I read on The Foo Logs but these things are cool and I had to mention them. Google has a new pinging service that seems to be quite effective. As soon as I added http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to my Options > Writing > Update Services in WordPress I got all […]
