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When I was a little lad ... there was a cartoon ad on the telly, the Milk Rap. It had all the different types of milk bottles breaking / bopping and rapping about their flavours. My favourite was the cream bottle who did a mean backspin. Now I'm having trouble finding any evidence that the ad ever existed! No Youtube clips. No-one I've asked remembers it. I can't find it in our cultural archives. 

Years and years and years ago, a pal of mine wrote this poem, and he stuck a few words about me at the start of it.

He'd get up in pubs and recite it with a wicked sparkle in his eye and I'd pretend he wasn't talking about me and he'd pretend he didn't know I hated it and it would be over and I'd silently hope I never heard it again.

Then a few years later his band turned it into a song and so every time I went to see the band play we'd have the same thing and mostly I'd make excuses or try to miss that part of the set. It was all a big game.

Robbie the Robot was in the Farmers building in Auckland Central when I was a little kid.

So it's really real - we've bought a house in Dunedin and will be shifting there in February sometime. Shifting gears.

That leaves a month or so before saying goodbye to my old hometown.

Spending time with friends over this midsummer has brought home how much I'll miss the friends and family I love in this city. I'm lucky to feel that physical distance doesn't really separate people, but I'd be stupid to think that missing out on regular face to face contact won't have some effect.

The auction was fun. When I saw the papers on the day, my birthday was the possession date. So I knew it was ours straight away.

There were four other parties turned up for the auction - but I recognised one as the next door neighbour Ivan. There was a guy about my age, a family (young couple and their parents), and a guy a few years older than me.

Air France pays an advance of $24K per family member to the relatives of those on Flight 447. And an Minneapolis jury sets the price of downloading an illegal MP3 at $80,000 per file.

I'm not condoning illegal downloads or plane fatalities here, but I am asking - what's going on when society's values are set this way?

I saw a Facebook user have his account hijacked recently, and used to spam a lot of contacts with wall messages pointing his mates to sites (DON'T VISIT THESE SITES) like -

• sobgroan.com
• scrambleweep.com
• whipchime.com
• floatfaint.com
• slideleap.com
• votebeep.com
• singhoot.com
• roargroan.com
• clapspray.com
• wavehum.com
• gigglesail.com
• thumpwish.com
• spoilroll.com
• spoilhike.com
• ridepush.com
• swinghiss.com

I logged into OldFriends for the first time in bloody ages, and they wanted me to walk nine miles through some crazy process clicking "I don't know this person" on all 5000 people who'd registered from any school I ever attended. This seemed like a really stupid thing to make people do, so I wrote a JS bookmark to skip the remaining 49 pages of bad UI.

Walter today posted a GreaseMonkey script which inspired me to make it more proper.

So now there are a couple of ways you can install it:

we are transitioning from glob v0 to glob v0.0

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