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Perfect Produce

Jan 102009

Ever since I can remember I’ve always wanted to grow my own Strawberries. A family friend used to have them – pretty much abandoned – in the backyard and every time we went there I’d dash to them to see if any were edible.
This year, we decided to try our own and the above picture is the beginnings of some beautiful shiny red strawberries. There’s less than I’d hoped but this is a learning curve and hopefully next time we can work out how to produce more!
One question I have though is, when do you know they’re ripe? I mean they look delicious but I’m not sure they’re ready to eat just yet.

All I’ve been imagining for the past few days is deliciously juicy strawberries in all of my food lol so lets hope the snails don’t devour them first

Could have solved my problems?

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Jan 032009

So I’ve been handed over a link that could have potentially solved all the phone issues I had back in November. Although, it’s very much bundle based and VOIP… I have some reservations about VOIP… yes, free/cheaper calls and the like but it uses your internet connection right? I don’t like that component… you still have to pay line rental for a phone line that you don’t really want… which is why we didn’t opt for VOIP.
Regardless of my reservations I was directed to the website under the promise that gotalk provides cheap broadband plans, home phone & voip services but I don’t know… only 9GB of internet a month? Yikes, no thanks! And their best ADSL2+ plan is only 60GB (the one we decided on is more than 3 times that and only costs $10 more). They do have cheap broadband plans but their plans aren’t much better than better known companies in Australia (not that I’m suggesting anyone ever join up with BigPond… DON’T DO IT! Seriously, choose Gotalk… we love Gotalk lol) although I can’t see that they charge for uploads which is a YAY!

If you want to try a something new though and are interested in VOIP plans then why not give them a shot? If you can get away from the evils of Telstra and Optus why not right? Be aware though that their bundles are much more ‘value for money’ than anything else… line rental is a bit pricey!

All in all, I’d suggest getting Cable with VOIP if I wanted to try it though *sigh* if only I could get Cable internet lol

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Can I sue Nintendo?

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Jan 012009

So over the weekend housemate bought a communal TV (pretty pretty LCD) for the loungeroom and as such our 360 and Wii are now attached.
Now, I’ve never played a Wii before but I imagined they were much fun… which it is, however after playing many a match of Wii Sports Tennis my arm wants to fall off :P I can barely lift it… seriously, work was so hard yesterday, even just writing.
So I wonder, can I sue Nintendo… I wonder if anyone has tried? I mean people sue fast food places why not this? I wonder what my luck would be.
On a last Wii note, I’m considering buying Wii Fit… anyone own it? Is it decent?

Also, Happy New Year to everyone! I, for one, am very VERY pleased 2008 is done and over! What a terrible terrible year! Here’s hoping 2009 is a year for pleasant surprises and wonderful opportunities