The Backflip Boys Weblog

Okay, I have been a little slack in my blogging haven’t I? Last time I was here, I had just done the moon photography and other than mowing my lawn on Tuesday morning, nothing really interesting has been happening because I have had lunchtime starts at work each day this week.
I have found time to […]

Tonight is the last full moon for March - you know, huge big round thing in the sky that reflects the sun and just looks so cool? I just spent about an hour on a bridge getting snap shots of it reflecting off the surface of the Nepean river but there is something about digital […]

Well I am finally writing to you from my old keyboard attached neatly to my new computer. Remember a few weeks ago I wrote about how I managed to kill it within hours of getting it home? Well, I transferred across to it yesterday and have been busily customizing everything to get it the way […]

I thought maybe everyone would like to see the finished result of a print that my mate Mitch gave me for my birthday last month. I picked it up from the framers on Friday but because my net connection died on the weekend, I haven’t really had much of a chance to get it out […]

New scam arrived in my email tonight. Rather amusing too I must say so I thought I’d attach the text of the whole thing to amuse you:
Dear Friend,
I am Mrs. Suha Arafat, the wife of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader who died recently in Paris. Since his death and even prior to the announcement, I […]

I may have said it before in this blog but just so you are all perfectly clear on the matter, technology sucks big time and always at the most inconvenient time.
I was the victim of what Telstra calls a “Line Lock Out” over the past few days. Apparently what this means is that, while I […]

You know, when I was taught how to drive back in 1982, everything was pretty simple to understand. Green meant go, red meant stop and the amber light meant go faster if you were a bit too close to the traffic lights to stop without ending up with the car behind you attempting to make […]