The Old Tin Shed

In a couple hours it will be Christmas here.  Once that would mean getting dressed for midnight mass.  I however stopped many years ago now, im not one to be a hypocrite and attend only for the major occasions   I don't feel I should so I don't.  Though it has been made perfectly clear by our local church I am not welcome anyway. I have not lost the main reasons for Christmas, and that is the belief of many that man's saviour was born.  I don't consider myself a Christian any more, and although many would see it as a bad thing, I don't.  You see when my Church banished me and my kind and then actively campaigned against us, I was left with no choice.  You see my point for acceptance has always been that everyone is made in the image of God.  Each of us is therefore perfect, so how can being me be wrong. With all my mental health issues to carry on with, I could not fight to reconcile with the differences.  In...

I know I haven't been around much, for that I do apologise for those who I have not been reading and commenting, I will be doing so in the next couple days.  The long and the short of it, been really busy business is doing things which is great for me, but means less down time to blog.  Have made some changes to make that better so should be around for a bit. Anyway was watching a doco tonight on old war birds, so thought I would do a photo blog from images around the web of those beautiful fighting machines.  Of course I wont get them all but if you can think of something that I should most definitely add please let me know. Sopwith Pup WWI Sopwith Camel Supermarine Spitfire  ME109 Corsair Mitsubishi Zero Dehavilland Mosquito Fighter Bomber P45 Mustang F86 Saber Mig 15 F4-C Phantom Mig 21 Well that's as many as you get this post.  I will make another...

Does happy dance around the desk... The car is fixed everyone.  It went to the Euro specialist yesterday and well, he worked out what was wrong and its all fixed and running like a dream.  He took off the Throttle body and cleaned it then proceeded to pull the leads off every sensor and clean them.  Unplugged the ECU from the loom and then put it all back together.  Problem solved. Basically one of the connectors was dirty and giving bad feedback to the ECU, the ECU didnt know what to do so got all hung up.  After the error codes were cleared and everything back together the problem is solved. More interesting is the fact he said the car must have sat for a while for the connectors to get dirty as normal day to day usage keeps the connectors from corroding.  Now the hard decision do I keep it or buy something else.

Yeah well I waited till every other blog in the world had done this to death.  My honest opinion  neither candidate gave the voters any real choice, and Obama being the incumbent, gives you 4 more years of relative stability, allowing for the full troop draw down and a cut in US defence spending. Its to be seen if he can fix the poor employment and financial issues facing the US at the moment, but both sides need to play fair and make the best choices something I am afraid we will never see. There is one thing that is reassuring in the whole process is that power was transferred without conflict, something millions of people around the world wish they could have, a chance to vote for their own government and be assured that their vote counted. Congratulations to the President and I pray like many that you can live up to your promises.

To commemorate the end of WWI I am posting a song written to commemorate an Australian Defeat, most Australians would be familiar with this, for those who haven't heard it before I suggest a listen and a read. "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"  - Eric Bogle Now when I was a young man, I carried me pack, and I lived the free life of a rover From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback, well, I waltzed my Matilda all over. Then in 1915, my country said son, It's time you stopped rambling, there's work to be done. So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun, and they marched me away to the war. And the band played Waltzing Matilda, as the ship pulled away from the quay And amidst all the cheers, the flag-waving and tears, we sailed off for Gallipoli. And how well I remember that terrible day, how our blood stained the sand and the water And of how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay, we were butchered like lambs at the slaughte...

Hi all, and IT techie post for those who are interested. I decided a few days ago that I needed to get the hell away from windows since it was causing me some major issues.  Tried a few distro's not much grabbed my fancy.  Straight ubuntu is nice but to be honest I am not that excited about their desktop.  Kubuntu became the obvious choice. Now so far have had a few issues that's for sure, but nothing I havent been able to overcome.  It seems that its getting better and better.  There are a few annoyances which will probably see me change to something else.  Primarily the noise and feedback through the speakers and its inability to change sound to my very expensive headset.  Couple this with having issues sync my Ipod and im kinda looking at Linux mint again. Will keep u informed.

Hey guys I know you all love me but thought I would let you know we passed our 200th post today. Man I must have a lot to say Cheers