Author Archives: Michael Wyres

Bad Maths? Bad Information?

Spotted this on the information screens at Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station one day last week. So, it is 10:47am and the Williamstown train is due in six minutes – which would be at 10:53am, right? Yet it is supposed to arrive at 10:54am – an “early” Metro train? Hardly likely. So is this bad maths, […]

Football Really Can Be A Pain In The Ass

Football really can be a pain in the ass, apparently: I suspect they meant “annus” and not “anus”, don’t you think? It has been corrected in the article, but many lulz were had, especially when the photo looks like he might have been having some pain in that area! Special thanks to @trmash for the […]

We Still Love You Brocky

Today is the fifth anniversary of the tragic death of Peter Brock in the 2006 Targa West Rally. So many things could be said about Peter Brock, but words would not do justice to his feats in a racing car. So lets just watch him on the way to his ninth – (and ultimately final) […]

Android 4G Tablets Imminent?

Catching up on my weekly diet of podcasts this morning, I listened to the most recent edition of This Week In Google – admittedly an episode that is almost a week old now. One of the guests was Chris DiBona, the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google. Towards the end of the […]

Is This The Smallest Serial Number Ever?

Is this perhaps the smallest serial number in the world? Maybe. Maybe not. But it’s bloody small!

Anyone For Coffe?

Spotted this footpath advertisement at Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station yesterday. Fail. Just, fail.

The Forgotten Bathurst Winner

With the V8 Supercar endurance races approaching, I thought I would step back and have a look at some of the little known history of Bathurst. A history that will always record that Peter Brock and Larry Perkins won the Bathurst 1000 three times in succession in 1982, 1983, and 1984. What is little known […]

Metro Trains Audio Fail

I noticed a woman press the “Next Train” information button at Newport station this morning, and she had this really strange look on her face as she listened. Curious, I went and pressed the button myself, and I discovered the reason for the bewildered look on her face. Listen to the audio below: Seems the […]

Ya Can Hanna Man A Grander Spanner!

We’ve all heard the slogan for Sidchrome tools, which states “you canna hand a man a grander spanner”. How’s this for a “grander spanner”? Grander.

Why Our Classification System Is Broken

I don’t think that anyone in their right mind denies the need for a system of classification for media content. Such a system provides a valuable tool for anyone to understand the content of material, as part of the decision process of whether or not that material is for them. In Australia, we have had […]