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Why Wikipedia is Great

Ramblings / 10 July 2006 / John / 0

Because it’s just easy to lose yourself for an hour at lunchtime. Today’s reading took me from Homer Simpson to Legendary Kings of Britain, via the following route: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Simpson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Flanders#Untimely_Death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumped_the_shark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_night_death_slot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Britons Genius!

Moving on (though not so swiftly)

Australia / 6 July 2006 / John / 0

We’re really in the final throes of things. It’s entirely possible that we may have the visa granted in the next month. But with the house sale falling through, everything seems so very far off at the moment. For the prospective migrants that this site is aimed at, I just can’t describe what the waiting

November 1st – November 15th

Australia / 4 July 2006 / John / 0

I’m not sure I understand these dates at all. I guess they’re just a broad guideline – although these look fine, it appears the processing window has only moved forward three days at the front and one at the end, which is very slow progress. Still, it does seem to leap forward a fortnight every

It’s a wordpress post!

Game Diary / 2 July 2006 / John / 0

There’s no good reason for this post, I’m just showing afriend how WordPress works.

Nintendo DS Lite

Game Diary / 2 July 2006 / John / 1

It’s smaller, it’s lighter, it’s possible to hold for long periods of time without catching gamer-claw, it looks beautiful – not a million miles away from an iBook – the displays are brighter than the sun, and I love it to death. Yup – it’s birthday time, nelefans, and this year I have a nice

27th October – 14th November

Australia / 27 June 2006 / John / 0

Now this is a bit more like it. I think we can expect to be allocated a case officer in the next week or two. So at least we’re getting somewhere. I’m sure the Australian government make the migration process deliberately painful to cut down on timewasters I wish the same could be done with

Stuff that’s not about games

Ramblings / 26 June 2006 / John / 0

Anyone would think we never actually do anything cos the only time I ever post on here is about video games. Fair enough, we don’t do an awful lot, granted, but we do occasionally do some stuff that involves actually being outside and things. For example: This weekend, we mainly worked on the garden. Our

Taking a step back

Australia / 22 June 2006 / John / 0

Ok, so those counters at the top of the page there are quite scary. Over a year since starting out and almost seven months since actually lodging the application. What this means, in real terms, is that we’re only a couple of weeks away from a decision being made, one way or the other. Sure,

19th October – 1st November

Australia / 19 June 2006 / John / 0

It’s not the dates I was expecting :-/ Of course, it’s the number of applications being processed that matters and not the dates – for all I know, 90% of Novembers applications went in on the 1st. Anyway, at least they’re now allocating applications lodged in our month so that’s a definite milestone. The main

19-31

Australia / 13 June 2006 / John / 0

Everything seems to be going as expected – I think the speed increase towards the end of October is caused by the bulk of applications being made at the end of summer after the DIMIAÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s big migration push on TV. Well, weÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll wait and see. This means that our month should begin processing next week

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