Now, I mean no dis-credit to her, and she has openly said that she doesn’t see herself as a hero.  It is just more proof that Australians are overusing a word, that should be reserved for people who truely deserve it.

People in the community who truely do good.  Firefighters, Police Officers, Paramedics.  Hell, it can be the average guy down the road, who faced with a life or death situation, chooses to risk his life, to save another.

Yet, our top politician (who is a twat, but that’s another story), feels it’s alright to list Jessica Watson alongside some of Australia’s most amazing people.  By sailing around the road.

Yes, there was a lot of hype and support.  But does that make you a hero?  If it does, then I think we, as a nation, need to stop and think about some of the people in this country who have truely gone above and beyond to re-enforce one of Australia’s biggest qualities.  Mateship.

You know, looking after your mates.

It saddens me to think that Kevin Rudd is happy to group this girl, who did achieve something great, in the same circle as the absolute true heros in this country.

Congratulations Jess.  You did good, but you will never be a hero in the real sense of the word.

The Putty Road is 162km of winding, narrow and sometimes scary road.  It was an emotion filled weekend which took a very unexpected twist.  Which I will get into shortly.

On Saturday, there were about 200 people to attend the opening.  A lot of people had lost fridns and loved ones.  There were also a lot of people there who are involved in the trucking industry, just to show their respects for other blokes lost on the road.

Of course, we went through all of the regular thigns you would expect from a memorial.  Some of the stories were absolutely heartbreaking, and really bought the day home.

As part of the opening, the organisers put on a social dinner that night.  Myself, my grandparents, and my great aunt and uncle were sitting at one end of the table, listneing to the true horror that is country music.

There was a bloke and his wife at the end of the table in the same situation as us.  Not knowing anyone, and not having many people to talk to, so we invited them to join us.

This is where the story, in my opinion, gets a little amazing, or, miraculous if you want to use that word.

My father was killed in 1987 on the Putty Road.  When a family loses someone, immediatly, there becomes many questions that go unanswered, or the real information is distorted.  Be that to protect the family, or ust second and third hand information mixing things up.

That night we met Errol Smith.  A volenteer group captain of the NSW Fire and Rescue Service.  He has been in his line of work for 54 years.

Still a long shot, but grandma asked if he remembered anything from Dad’s accident.  We gave a date, we gave a name.  From there, Errol remembered everything.  Truck type, colour, how many people in the cab, injuries of the passenger, and what was on board.

This blew us all away.  Without going into the details, and if anyone really wants to know, I will tell them privately.  I can walk away from this weekend, with answers to some horrible questions.  And thanks to Errol, I have also had the chance to stand at the very spot, where my father lost his life.

A lot of people say sorry, and think I need their sympathy.  And please don’t take that the wrong way.  I appreciate it, a lot.  But the truth is, I have one memory of my father.  I was only 11 months old, so I don’t feel upset.

What I find amazing.  Out of all the people who we could have invited to join us for dinner.  It was the one man, who could answer every single one of our questions.

If anything, this weekend has given us all something to think about.  Be that those who are lost, or just about ourselves, and how things could have been if circumstances were different.  A lot of people blame themselves for the loss of friends and family.

But also a lot of people saying that everything happens for a reason.  Of course, this is met with people saying what reason could it be.  To all of those people, think about what has happened since then.  Both good and bad.

The way I see it.  Without my father being killed, I would have never known my mother’s family as well as I do.  My life would have been completely different.  I can’t say it would have been bad, but I have had a good life up to this point, and I’m still happy.  So why would I want to know what could have been.

For every negative in your life, I’m sure, if you think about it for a little while, there is always a positive to come out of it.

But anyway.  Enough rambling I guess.  From what I have seen this weekend, I will leave you with one thing.

Enjoy the people you love.  Do what you can to enjoy your time with them.  Corny?  Absolutely.  True?  Absolutely.  Because you never know what the next day will bring.  Don’t ruin what you have now, because tomorrow it could be gone.

Everyone knows, the Aboriginals have a pretty bad reputation here in Australia.  Why?  Well, it’s more racism than anything.

Compared to “the white man”, Aboriginals are no better, or no worse.  All I can base that on is the few that I know, who are hard working and friendly.

But that doesn’t take away the fact that there are still some deadshits out in their communities calling for equal rights, but still demanding more benefits than the average Australian white person should have.  That’s another story.

The problem is.  While racism exists, anything bad that one Aboriginal does, will automatically label all Aboriginals as the same.

I’m not talking about crimes, I’m talking about being a deadset wanker.

11-year-old Jessie Du from NSW won the Australia day design competition with Google.  This meant that users of Google voted her logo design the best.  And it very much represented Australia in everyway, and included the Aboriginal flag.  Great.

However, the Aboriginal flag is a copywrited piece.  Meaning, permission is needed to use it.  In this case, when Google seeked the permission, they were denied, due to the fact that they wouldn’t pay enough to use it.

Now there are plenty of Aboriginal people who want this flag displayed next to the Australian national flag.  Many want it to be the national flag, and many want it incorporated into the national flag.

So why the fuck would you disallow Google to display it on the front page, and the one day of the year that celebrates Australia?

Greed.

“It’s customary for anybody using it in a commercial situation to (pay) a fee component.  It’s not about what I wanted. It’s about the process.

“The prizes had been issued before I’d been contacted – that put me on the back foot, in a defensive manner.

“They didn’t make me an appropriate offer.”

It’s not what he wanted, but they didn’t make him a good enough offer?  This bloke is a fucking deadset idiot.  He’s managed to contradict himself in one sentence.

One needs to ask.  Does this bloke give a fuck about the flag, or is he more worried about the cash he can make from it.  I wonder how the greater Aboriginal community feels about this clown?

Here’s the two designs side by side.

I spent my time down on the Gold Coast, staying at the Radisson Resort.  It’s about 15 minutes from Broadbeach, a little way out for cabs, but apart from that, it was great.

A few things I picked up on the GC of note.  First off, apparently Cavill Mall is danger central.  Well it’s not, and I didn’t see too many cops looking after everyone either.  Cab drivers down there, deadset need to move to Brisbane so we can get rid of these fucking useless pricks we have driving up here.

I’d like to thank John, from Regent, Cab 748.  Never having to wait in a line, his personal phone number was quite handy.

I’ll get some photos onto FB at some point

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Traditionally, Christmas was to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  At least that’s what some people call him.  No matter how you look at it, he has the best birthday party in the world.  Because every bastard celebrates.

Although, I guess if I wanted to be all PC, U should name this entry, Holiday Season.  But I’m not PC, so I won’t do that.  So if you’re offended, Friday the 25th is a great day for you to be working, now get to it.

Anyway.  This silly celebration has it’s good things.  We hear about them every year.  Family, Presents, Food, blah blah blah.  What we don’t hear often is the shit that comes with such a holiday.

First off.  We have Christmas in November.  Yep, because December 1, 25 days out from the actual day, is not enough time for us to really be reminded that it’s Christmas.  So most of November, we see all the sparkling lights, decorations and dicks is costume.

Second.  Christmas rolls around, and ever bastard and his dog wants to travel.  If you’re on the roads, you take your life in your own hands.  Soon enough we will hear about the road tolls.  NSW is currently winning.  Or, if you want to score like golf, the ACT has it covered.  You also have dicks with caravans.

Then we have shopping.  Yep, on a regular day, who doesn’t like spending money.  On themselves!  The fact that we have to go out, and spend our hard earned on every other bastard doesn’t make sense.  This is essentially, someone birthday.  So why aren’t we buying Jesus a present.

I hear your answer.  He’s no longer with us.  Well, then that negates the need for presents does it not?  Anyway, what a dick, I got a laptop for cxmas early, so lets forget about not giving presents.

Lets look at the Xmas specials every bastard has in their store.  Why do all the specials seem to cost more than what they did two months ago when the exact same product was not on special?  Greeeed.  Jesus has caused a lot of greed.  But good on him.

Christmas trees.  Why, for the love of God, would any sane individual want a pine tree in their living room?  It makes no sense.  If pine trees were meant to be inside, they would have adapted to growing in carpet, or hardwood floors.

I also feel sorry for Energex.  One one end of the scale, everyone is getting up the power companies for their coal power plants causing this made up Global Warming.  Whinge whinge whinge, coal is killing the world.  But then they go and put 60,000 little coloured, electric bulbs all around their house, which not only consumes more power, it also proves very difficult for the neighbours to sleep at night.

I do feel for the family next door in the house without aircon, next to a fool with all his lights.  They can’t close the windows, otherwise it’s too hot, because Xmas in QLD, it’s stupid hot.  And they can’t open them, because of the penetrating light.  But in saying that, they do look pretty cool at times, I’m just saying, why?

Don’t get me started on Santa…

Anyway.  Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Google has finally unveiled the Google Chrome OS. An operating system based on their Chrome Browser. Which is of course based on Apple’s WebKit (like Safari).

While first glances aren’t usually the best to go by, the screen shot shows a lot of detail about how the system will work.  Of course, the interface could change, and time will tell.

I see no grouping, however, it could change, if it doesn’t, it could get annoyingly messy.

How much data do we want Google to hold from us.  The private information they are collecting, and storing on their servers is quite frightening.  Just from the above screenshot, we see no applications that are stand alone to the operating system.

Gmail.  They store our emails.
Hotmail / Yahoo Mail.  Web based third parties.
Google Calendar.  They store our events.
Google Reader.  They know what we like to read about.
Google Docs.  They know what we write, what spreadsheets we make etc.
You Tube.  They have our videos, and know what we like to watch.
Picasa.  They have our photos.
Hulu.  Web based third party.
Lala.  As above.
Pandora. As Above.
Notepad.  They know our notes.
Contacts.  They know our friends, business partners, family etc.
To-do List.  They know what we need to do.
Calculator.  Well everything has a calculator.  8008135
Books.  They know the books we read.
Chess.  Umm.  Meh.
Facebook.  Third Party.
Twitter. Third Party.

Above, considering the amount of information we all share, is exactly that.  A lot of information for one company to hold for one person, not to mention the millions upon millions of people who use Google.   When we add Google Search and soon to be Wave to it, and Google will probably know things that even we, as the owners of this information remember.

All of that aside.  What about the fact that an Internet connection is going to be required?  Unless you have a wireless connection, forget taking you cool netbook and using it on the bus, the train, in the park etc.  Just another annoyance.

Google also says that the OS will boot in 7 seconds.  That’s hardly surprising considering all it does is boot a browser.  Also.  If your netbook has a standard hard drive, you’re out.  This OS is SSD (Solid State Drive) compatable only.  Why?  Everything is saved online, apart from a bit of cache use for applications and memory.

So it’s great that there is going to be more competition, but I truely fail to see how they will market this OS as a good thing in it’s current state.  I can’t think of one group of people, apart from fanboys, who could use this operating system effectively.

Location:  Garry Miller Memorial Park, Putty Road, Milbrodale
Opening: May 15 2010
Contacts:  Paul 0408 472 250, Rick 0413 307 383, Shane 0419 287 159 or Ed 0428 496 633

Hotels In Area

Quest hotel (http://www.questsingleton.com.au/) for 2 or 3 bedroom apartments plit between a few people is pretty well priced. This place is 4.5 star and is less than a year old. Very nice.

Country Motor Inn (http://www.countrymotorinn.com.au/). They won’t do a special deal, but accomdation is very cheap anyway.

20 odd minutes out in Branxton. Branxton House Motel (http://www.branxtonhousemotel.com.au/) will do a good price if you’re going for the opening. They seem pretty negotiable on prices too which was something not seen often now.

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