Friday 9 August 2013

Tony Abbott's Pink Bats KIll People and Burn Down 200 Homes in Australia

As an inconsistent reader of Australian Political News, this is what I got from Australian Political News today: Pink bats kill 4 people and set fire to 200 Australian Homes says Australia's Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, and he blames Kevin Rudd.
I live here in tropical Australia and we do get the occasional brown/black small bat herefor sure, and you have to be careful with them because of the rabies virus, but they are just basically cute little mammals after all...but for pink bats to have killed 4 people and burnt down so many hundred Australian homes, wow, this sounds like a big deal. I am happy there is Tony Abbott there  to tell us about the important undercurrents of all these things that otherwise we would just dismiss as some idiot.

Monday 5 August 2013

Dealing with Call Centres

I've worked out a good response to unwanted calls from Call Centres on the phone...


"You have reached the Australian Defence Signals Directorate. Please state your name, date of birth, and residential address clearly for National Voiceprint Attenuation.

This call is monitored, tracked and recorded for security purposes.

If you object to the Australian Defence Signals Directorate tracking and holding your personal details related to the call in progress, please press '1' and wait for redirection." 
 
It works. No one presses '1'.

Friday 2 August 2013

Snowden granted asylum in Russia for One Year

Snowden leaves airport, granted asylum in Russia: lawyer

Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has left Moscow's airport after being granted asylum for one year in Russia, his lawyer says.
Snowden, who leaked details on the National Security Agency's secretive PRISM data-logging spy program has been granted temporary asylum, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told TV broadcaster Russia 24.
Mr Kucherena added that Snowden left the airport for an undisclosed secure location.
"His location is not being made public for security reasons since he is the most pursued man on the planet. He himself will decide where he will go," he said.