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Over the last few days, we’ve had some incredible weather on the Sunshine Coast. Category 2 winds (120+ km/hr), rain squalls, and massive seas on all beaches.
TV footage shows some excellent surf at Duranbah (Gold Coast) but the only info we had on any of the sunny coast beaches was that ‘almost all were closed […]

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Here’s another cracker joke from Terry Murphy:
A couple in their thirties went to a sex therapist’s office in Brisbane.
The doctor asked, “What can I do for you?”
The man said, “Will you watch us have sex?”
The doctor looked puzzled, but agreed.
When the couple had finished, the doctor said, “There’s nothing wrong with the way you […]

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Now that I’ve had my Nokia 6110 for a few days, I’ve been able to try out a few more of the GPS functions. Here are my impressions.

It’s a little slow to actually pick up its position when the Navigator application is started. This morning I mounted it in its dash-mounted holder, and it took […]

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Here’s something else I did today.
After the big desert trip through July, I wanted to put the original wheels back on the Landy with tyres that actually had some tread. The original wheels are 18″ x 8″ wide, and the choice of tyres to fit is a little limited compared to other sizes. Originals are […]

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This is one of those cases where I got pressured into agreeing to a phone update.
Here’s what happened.
Youngest son Edward decided he wanted my (old) Motorola A1000 more than his aging LGU880 handset. I knew the A1000 was a brick and slow as a wet week, so I gladly acquiesced - we swapped SIM cards […]

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