The peoples' democratic blog of Matt Hayward

Well iiNET are very proactive after you call them. So much so after you call help desk, they send you an email that goes  like this.

Thank you for your call this morning,

Skye spoke to you this morning at ##:## AM WST regarding your enquiry. We
understand that you may be midway through this transaction at present;
however [...]

Well at least you’d be saying this if you were Karl Rove. Whose apparently Norwegian, pierced penis, queer pioneer adopted father is meant to be according to this article. Some bloke who claims that Louis Rove used to go to piercing parties with him in the seventies, where they’d pierce each other on coffee tables, [...]

A friend at work showed me this the other day. In the fine tradition of learning through parody and mockery comes the series You Suck At Photoshop. Call it a Web 2.0 version of Web Pages that Suck, a site that rocked my world about 10 years ago as a budding young web producer. But [...]

Last night I was having dinner when there was a knock at the door. A very skinny, dark skinned kid about 20 was at the door. He claimed to be an Israeli art student (from Tel Aviv university. But that uni doesn’t offer art on it’s curriculum page) selling paintings, only ‘he wasn’t allowed to [...]

Welcome back to wacky moment of the week! Ages ago, I saw Slayer playing born to be wild on some stupid American sport show. The sound levels were all wrong, the show as all white bread and it was just plain wrong. That was going to be moment of the week until I found this [...]

Well I’m now back in civilisation after Christmas with the family. Just wanted to say a belated merry Christmas to all. Thanks to all who sent cards and text messages on the day.
Special shout-outs to those who supported us in Movember this year (especially one very generous person), and the Herald Sun for publishing our [...]

What a friggin’ cack! Apparently Blair had ordered an armored 7 series BMW limousine and when it arrived in the UK, it had four illegal immigrants sitting in it.
The skeptic in me wonders if something isn’t unusually suss about it. Apparently the car was in an unmarked container. Which is interesting, because what has an [...]

FINALLY! A dream come true! Ever since i’ve caught onto Nardwuar the Human Serviette, i’ve wanted to hear him interview Turbonegro. And just this week he has. Hank Von Helvete was interviewed on the road in Canadia.
Sadly, Nardwuar didn’t sound as well researched as he normally is. He only played tracks off of the latest [...]

Well it’s finally happened. I’ve decided that if the meek will inherit the earth, I won’t be joining them. And I certainly wont be running Vista. It’s not that I don’t like Windows XP Mr Gates, i’m just awful tired of using it for the last four years.
If you’re going put money into anything [...]

Well well well… Thanks to some overly pragmatic Swiss domain registrars, my web site is back up. Why did it go down you ask? Well it was a domain transfer that went horribly wrong. First the DNS settings were wrong (the transfer set them back to the defaults). So I tried to log into my [...]