pds June 1st, 2008
I just found the Handicap Calculator at Real Tennis Online.
So if I can’t actually play Real Tennis yet here in Adelaide, at least I can plot my battles for when I next visit Ballarat!
| Joolza (35.9) | vs. | pds.is-a-geek.net (62.0) |
| the handicap difference is -26 | ||
| owe 15, 1 serve, banned tambour | rec 30 | |
| odds adjusted for familiar court advantage | ||
| the handicap difference is -28 | ||
| owe h30, 1 serve, banned tambour | rec 30 | |
pds May 29th, 2008
I was just searching the location of a shipping business in my home town of Ballarat, when I noticed that their display of the major hospitals in Ballarat (the Ballarat Base Hospital and St John of God’s) and is quite misleading!
Locals of the town can check it out and see here.
It seems what they have labelled “Ballarat Base Hospital” should read “QEC Rehab’ Site”, and what they have also labelled the main Ballarat Base Hospital site as St John of God’s. (St John of God’s should actually be the site 1 block north).
For something as crucial as a hospital, you’d think they’d get the time to get it totally accurate! My faith in our “all powerful search masters and overlords” has been shaken!
Google’s site didn’t seem particularly keen to receive submissions of corrected info unless you are a “business owner”, so I’ve emailed the Base Hospital’s webmaster to see if they can fix it. We shall see, an interesting test of Google’s responsiveness.
Well, at least I’ve made an effort at a good deed today anyway, even if some might view it as interfering. Once an information perfectionist, always an information perfectionist (pedant?) I guess 
pds May 27th, 2008
I just found (probably quite belatedly) the blog version of Samel Pepys’ Diary.
Kudos to those behind it - for someone brought up to cherish literature as well as geekhood, I can’t help but be impressed by the idea of reviving such an iconic work in modern form.
Of course it opens the way for millions of other historical diaries to be blogialised (I’m sure some of the Roman philosophers or orators would be good subjects for a start) but Pepys seems an excellent choice - you like to think that transplanted to 2008 he would master the art of blogging in a trice, and even knock together a kick-ass Wordpress theme
pds May 26th, 2008
Terry wogan sure tore into the apparent political “fixing” of the Eurovision Song Contest last night - or should it be renamed political-overlord-ovision?
Yes the Russian victory seemed a bit dodgy, but it is still good to see that fashions and hairstyles that died out everywhere else in the world in 1983 remain in full force during the contest
(This first post was written with ScribeFire which I am trying out - see Getting started with ScribeFire - ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging).
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