Category Archives: Musings

Kevin Rudd Hands Power to Grandfather!

Newsflash! Kevin Rudd has stepped down as Prime Minister, handing the job to his grandfather! Well, not quite! Unveiled in Ballarat today, as part of the Prime Minister’s Avenue in the Botanic Gardens, was yet another dreadful bronze bust – one that seems to have aged Mr Rudd significantly. Yikes!

Lots of Rain Equals Stupid Drivers

Melbourne and much of Victoria is currently cleaning up after a series of massive rainstorms yesterday afternoon/evening. I personally got “heavily saturated” on a couple of occasions heading home from the office – including an entertaining train ride! Melbourne Mops Up After Massive Storm It never ceases to amaze me how stupid some drivers can […]

Ever Wondered Why Connex Was Always Late?

Connex – the recently replaced operator of Melbourne’s suburban rail network – had a reputation in its final years for excessive numbers of late and cancelled services. Ever wondered why? Well, now you know!

Newsflash! Update!

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s hilarious video of a Macquarie worker being sprung looking at porn on the job in the background of a live news cross, comes an even more hilarious advertising hook by rival HSBC. Here’s the video again: And here is the advertisement that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald today […]

Newsflash!

In a quite literal “Newsflash” – keep an eye on the guy “working” at his computer in the left of the frame in this live-to-air news cross. I particularly love his reaction when his colleague points out that the live cross is underway. Pure comedy gold.

Gotta Love Simpsons Fans

Victoria’s largely still-born new transport ticketing system – Myki – has come in for a lot of flack in recent weeks, particularly regarding overcharging and broken down smartcard readers. Well, at least some Melbourne commuters are keeping a sense of humour amongst the chaos. In a clear reference to the following episode of The Simpsons, […]

Chooseday?

In another episode of “Bizarre Entries in the Foxtel EPG”, I stumbled across this one this evening: “Chooseday Night Football”? Now, take careful note that it is currently “TUESDAY”. I thought it might have been some kind of clever piece of nomenclature based around the day of the week, that might have been promoting some […]

Separated at Birth?

Got a giggle watching a news report this evening about the incoming president of Croatia, Ivo Josipović. Some of us in Australia are a little over our Prime Minister, “Kevin747” Rudd being out of the country so much. Well, I’ve finally figured it out! He’s been running his campaign to become president of Croatia. Could […]

Funny Spam of the Day

I run my own mail server, behind my own router and firewall in my own home. My filters work perfectly, and I get no spam. Some of the stuff my filters catch is hilarious. For example: Dear user of the michaelwyres.com mailing service!We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing […]

No Shit, Spammers!

I get a lot of pleasure when looking at my email inbox, as through the implementation of my own email filtering solution – (Project Odyssey) – I never actually receive any spam at all. Every single last piece of spam is neatly quarantined for me to check out. I got a real laugh out of […]