Archive for June, 2006

Anticompetitive Greyhound

June 30th, 2006

I have posted previously about the bus route between Toowoomba and Brisbane. With the addition of new low-cost carriers, Greyhound (ie. McCafferty’s and Suncoast) are determined to kill any competition that arises on this route. Now that MightyBus has signalled their intentions to operate a reasonable fair on this route, Greyhound has dropped their prices […]


Toowoomba to Brisbane Buses Redux

June 24th, 2006

Since I wrote this post about the buses between Brisbane and Toowoomba the situation has changed. MaxExpress seems to have gone out of business. Suncoast Pacific has changed it’s times to just 11pm and 4pm, from Brisbane to Toowoomba and 8pm and 2pm back. The cost of these is $18 for an adult and $16 […]


Recurring Dreams

June 17th, 2006

When I was a kid, I often had this nightmare, wherein I was being chased by another fat kid. When I say fat I don’t mean fat like a normal overweight person, but fat like collagen injected lips, but all over. Now this kid kept chasing me as he slowly got bigger and bigger, I […]


My Worst Nightmare

June 5th, 2006

A dentist with bad breath.


Problems with Google Talk

June 4th, 2006

I like a lot of things with Google Talk, it’s openness, it’s integration and it’s interface. But the one thing that really gets on my goat - when you ALT+Tab back to a conversation, you can’t start typing straight away. Sometimes you can press tab for the input box to get the focus and sometimes […]


The Cost of Riding to Work

June 2nd, 2006

Early in the year I sold my car (1987 Nissan Exa) and bought a flat-bar road bike. A Giant CRX-4 to be precise. So far I have been extremely happy with it, the 12km commute to work every day takes me about half an hour and I think driving would only be about 10 minutes […]


Advertising and Driving

June 1st, 2006

Scoble is driving cross country, looking at the advertising and posting stuff to his blog, all at the same time. Being connected while your on the move sure sounds like a fair improvement over re-tuning into TripleJ every 2 hours. He got me thinking, how long is it going to be until we start seeing […]


My Favourite Blogs

June 1st, 2006

With the release of Gnoos, the new Australian blog search engine (that’s quite a mouthful) I thought it pertinent to show a quick cross-section of some of my favourite blogs at the moment. I think it would be worth your time to go and have a look, I open my reader every day hoping that […]