Australian Health Care

By this time on Saturday… I’ll already be married. But before I leave tomorrow morning for Michigan, I thought I’d share the brief tale of the most recent wedding mini-crisis. Yesterday afternoon, the fetching future Mrs. Wilson, in a wonderful attempt to be helpful, packed up several boxes worth of stuff that I had remaining [...]

Steve Gigl talks about Ken Layne’s underwear and has some things to say about the theory that Roger Stone and the Evil Republicans* somehow planted the CBS documents. If you haven’t heard this one yet, Stone gave the docs to someone who gave them to someone who gave them to Bill Burkett, who gave them [...]

Does anyone know anything about the new google groups beta? The thing that I wonder about is that “Create a new group” link at the top corner. Does it actually create a new usenet hierarchy? (Update: I tested it out, and no, it doesn’t. I guess the way google is doing groups is different from [...]

Case in point: a scottish carpenter had to wait for 22 hours to get a nail removed from his hand: With the nail embedded in the middle finger of his left hand Mr Milne, 54, went to the hospital’s A&E department, arriving at about 2.30pm and was seen by a doctor at 3.40pm. He said [...]

Farmer bypasses EU rules by selling cheese as ‘animal feed’ [via Fark] Mr Hajek said, writes the British paper, he is not responsible for what his customers do with the cheese, and has put up a sign outside his farm in southern Bohemia to that effect. “Goat’s cheese made from non-pasteurised milk. Hand kneaded. Recipe [...]

I was talking to Jo from Jo’s Attic at the Minnesota State Fair, and I mentioned that I first started a blog in 1998. “It wasn’t a particularly good blog, nor did it last very long, mainly because there wasn’t any foofy blogging software back then that was free and usable on linux,” I said. [...]

The Worst Interface Ever, via boing boing.

Today I went to the dentist. They used a new tool on my teeth. It’s like the regular tooth scraper pick, except that it vibrates at ultra-sonic speeds. It has a continuous stream of water to cool it because otherwise it would catch my mouth on fire or something. It’s… exceedingly unpleasant.

I’m working my tail off trying to get some software out the door at work, and getting ready for the wedding (less than two weeks!) and I’m in the middle of all kinds of other things too. So I don’t have much time for blogging. But I just couldn’t resist a quick little Dan Rather [...]