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I lived in Singapore for years, and had no idea! Wikipedia article: Singapore Dollar.

The Singapore Dollar

The one dollar coin is inscribed with an octagon, which looks like a ba gua. Some Singaporeans believe that the government had consulted Feng Shui practitioners and designed the coin thus in order to give every Singaporean a lucky charm.

Bagua

The bagua (Chinese: 八卦; Pinyin: bā guà; Wade-Giles: pa kua; literally "eight trigrams") is a fundamental philosophical concept in ancient China. It is an octagonal diagram with one trigram on each side. The concept of bagua is applied not only to Chinese Taoist thought and the I Ching, but is also used in other domains of Chinese culture, such as fengshui, martial arts, navigation, and so on.

In Australia on Channel 9, The Late Show with David Letterman used to be on every weekday.

David Letterman with Opera Winfrey: two of the greatest talk show hosts on the planet!

The one-and-only Paul Shaffer and the incredible CBS Orchestra!

The amazingly funny and sarcastic Alan Kalter!

And what did they replace it with?

Shallow, irritating, boring, repetitive… wow this is a really worthwhile exchange, I'm so pleased Channel 9 did this.

. I thought Channel 9 was above this, this sort of thing is what Network 10 does.

• Late Show images copyright CBS.
• Stupid QuizMania images copyright © Channel 9

So I was looking through some of my archived school work on my backup DVDs, and right there in one of the folders in my Year 12 High School disc dated Wedesday 03rd March 2004:

If you're a Singaporean, do you remember the TV ads where the office worker is sitting in Raffles Place with a napkin over his chest like a bib eating the Shrooms burger, and the sauce is oozing everywhere and splatting people? Is splatting a word? Mmm… mushrooms!

Talk about a blast from the past, I havn't seen that ad in ages! :D

She caught the katy
And left me a mule to ride
She caught the katy
And left me a mule to ride
Now my baby caught the katy
Left me a mule to ride
The train pulled out
I swung on behind
Crazy bout her
That hard headed woman of mine

Man, my baby’s long
Great gosh almighty my baby’s tall
You know my babys long
Great gosh almighty my baby’s tall
Yeah my baby shes long
My baby shes tall
Shes sleepin with her head in the kitchen
And her feets out in the hall
Crazy bout her
That hard headed woman of mine

Well I love my baby
Shes so fine
But I wish shed come and see me some time
She dont believe in our love, ah
Look whatta hole Im in
She dont believe what Im sayin
Kid look whatta shape Im in
Huh-huh

She caught the katy
And left me a mule to ride
She caught the katy
And left me a mule to ride
Well my baby caught the katy
Left me a mule to ride
The train pulled out
I swung on behind
Crazy bout that hard headed woman
Hard headed woman of mine
Huh-huh, huh-huh

Everyone goes through random acts of stupidity, I just go through it more often than others

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10:00 – The woes of tech phone calls in the middle of a shower (THS-K host, not good lah), girls asking for computer favours at school who would not normally associate with you, installing Singaporean StarHub MaxOnline on a MacBook and etiquette in regards to free help (computer nerds, mechanics, pharmacists etc).

Recorded in Adelaide, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

According to 4 Bitter Guys:

Step 1: Control their ports

Everyone knows New Zealand have a shit navy. I mean, we can find out just how shit from their WEBSITE. How daft is that? I quote: “The current fleet comprises two Anzac class frigates, HMNZS TE KAHA and TE MANA, an older Leander-class frigate HMNZS CANTERBURY, a fleet replenishment ship (fuel tanker) HMNZS ENDEAVOUR and various auxiliary ships for hydrographic survey, mine counter measures, diving support and coastal patrol.” Phht, s’if two “Anzac class frigates” can do shit. Two saboteurs, and they’re out of here. Once we have the ports under control, we can finally ship all the sweet-arse jap imports they’ve been hoarding over to Australia. Huzzah! Cheap jap imports for all the rice boys of Australia.

Step 2: Gain air superiority

New Zealand had the sense to sell half their air force to the US, cause, seriously, the US need more military hardware. Read here about how New Zealand likes to sell their planes rather than use them. Our F18s have just proved themselves in Iraq, it’d be a pushover to nail them with our air force. I’d love to see Helen Clark backpedalling over the sale of their military hardware after that.

Ok, it’s at this point we obviously have them stuffed. All that’s left to defend against us are a few sheep and some scattered New Zealanders who didn’t make it over to Australia already. We’ve won boys. Now to crush their moral and own their spirit too:

Step 3: Show them the usefulness in a male prime minister.

Ok, I could be digging myself into a ditch here, but in all honesty, how shit have Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark been? Not only have they stuffed up New Zealand’s policy, they’ve made New Zealand the laughing stock of the world. By liberating New Zealanders from a female PM they’d start toppling statues and worshipping Johnny Howard (which isn’t necessarily good, but we’d have ‘em under control).

Then Australia can rule the world!!!!!

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4 Bitter Guys: How To Invade New Zealand and Why

While I think WordPress is an incredible, easy to use and reliable publishing platform, the one gripe I have is that there is no nice default archive page.

Browsing around I came across a great site which I used to create custom archive pages for this blog and for the Rubenerd Show:

db.rambleschmack.net: How to Make a WordPress Archives Page

By default, WordPress doesn’t seem to have an archives page. It just stacks up all your months of writing in the sidebar. This strikes me as an inelegant solution (interface clutter, anyone?) It also strikes me as a solution that does not scale well. I haven’t yet come across a WP site that’s been going for, say, five years (in fact I don’t think its been around anywhere near that long), but just imagine.

It’s actually remarkably easy to make your own archives page with the power of WordPress templates (AKA themes.)

VERY useful, check it out.

I love reading the Jordy Blog by Jordan Gunderson, all his posts are informative and interesting and the design of his site is very slick… not like mine ;).

In particular I liked his response to the recent court ruling in the United States against companies that edit and distribute "clean" versions of modern Hollywood movies.

The skinny of it is that U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch ruled that the distribution of edited movies (which have been scrubbed of objectionable content) violates copyrights.

…

My response: “Thank you from protecting me from those malicious sanitizers! My children will finally be protected from accidentally viewing a nudity-free ‘Titanic’! Thanks to your bitter reluctance to give your paying-customers what they want, society can finally rid itself of the harmful effects that occur when children aren’t exposed to graphic violence and soft porn on a regular basis. Again, thank you Hollywood for looking out for me and mine!”

© Jordan Gunderson

Jordy Blog: Hollywood Hates You

Shakira's hips don't lie, but… her hair does! I liked her better with dark hair.