Well theres only 8 days left of school and its a really weird feeling knowing that five years of yiour life has lead up to this next week. If you want to know the precise amount of time I shoved a counter in the sidebar on the homepage. What a busy week it will be, in particular on Friday Night with Formal and the after-formal party at Shazza’s . I’m heading down to Airlie Beach for Schoolies with Baxter, Tom and Milks. We’re staying at Club Croc like most of Iggy and a few from Cathedral. It’ll be an absolute blast, it only sucks that Club Croc doesn’t allow ‘Cordial’ in the rooms.

Also if you are a regular reader of this Blog from Cathedral, and I know a few are remember that you cvan order your Seniors DVD’s online from now until… well I really don’t know but it’ll probably be some time around Christmas.

We all know about the dangers of chatting online. There are many predators , weirdos and stalkers out there on the internet just waiting for you… and as I found out the other day there are some that aren’t even on the internet (but thats a story that won’t be spoken of unless I am abducted… don’t ask). Anyway, police forces generally can’t do to much about online predators and online task forces have too many to worry about. So some teenage girls decided to take it into their own hands when they got contacted by a predator. They even made a website and posted the rather disgusting picture of him naked as well as all of the convo logs and a breif description of the conversations (which is rather useful). Luckily I had Cameron McGuffie read most of the logs to me over Skype attempting to impersonate a girl and a perverted person.

Check it out at CaughtaPredator.com 

I was reading an old Blog entry on Fruit Salad and Mixed Veg and stumbled upon a gem of Australian Culture… a list of stereotypical Australian traits and activities.

Until I read this I never realized how cliche some of the things Aussies do have become. From thelist I selected some of the more important traits and unusual activities that I exhibit:

• Do you own a dog? (little dogs such as Jack Russels and terriers don’t count) - Yes
• Have you ever taken a children’s blow up swimming pool to a sporting event/music festival or something smiliar? - Considered it… does that count?
• Does ‘concentrated yeast extract’ on toast sound appealing to you? - Mmmm Vegemite… Scary that I didn’t even have to look that up!
• Have you ever gone to the shops in your bathing costume? - Unfortunately for the shoppers
• Do you own more than 2 pairs of board shorts? - 5 pairs actually!
• Do you call anyone and everyone ‘mate’? - ‘course, mate
• Do you use your BBQ so much that ‘ya can’t be stuffed cleaning ‘er up’, mate? - Yer of course
• Do you own more than 2 pairs of thongs (shoes)?- Yep
• Do you think a sausage wrapped in bread with onions and tomato sauce sounds like a good lunch? - Who doesn’t like a snag on bread
• Do you like beer? - Hell yea!
• Do you think 20 Degrees Celsius is cold? - Fuck that is cold
• Do you think 32 Degrees Celsius ‘isn’t too hot’ - I live in North Queensland… what do you think?
• Have you ever been to the shop with no shoes? - All the time
• Is your favorite movies “The Castle” - Yer, got the DVD case on display in the pool room… well not really but love the movie!
• If you are male, do you wear your shirts regardless of the ‘hole’ factor? - Ask anyone… definite yes!
• Do you like to tease New Zealanders by saying “Fush and Chups” to them? - Or some stupid sheep joke!
• If your shed filled with junk and not a car? - Two sheds actually!
• Do you have more than 20 bottles of shampoo in your shower? - Yep… most of them empty
• Are all the powerpoints in your house overloaded? - Yep… OH&S violations galore!
• Do you have a pool? - couldn’t live without it!
• Do you find Ikea fascinating because it is Swedish? - Why else would you got to a giant furniture store… BTW new store in Brissy is enormous!
• Do you sing the chorus to “Long Way To The Top” as “it’s a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll”? - I’m sad to admit that I do
• Do you have parties in your drive ways? - Depends… but if we can.. yer!

Apart from proving myself a total Bogan I think it demonstrates an interesting fact… The Castle wasn’t that far from the truth!

Scary, I know… anyway while contemplating that thought check out this site which i found: www.bogan.com.au

Well, its been a while since my last post, but that doesn’t mean I havn’t forgotten about everyone. I’m gonna post some sweet stuff over the next few days so keep posted. In the meantime help all the Incubus fans in Townsville (and there are alot of them) to get Incubus to come and perform on their upcoming tour.

After the recent spate of RIAA crackdowns on pirated music alot has come out about uncertainties in the small details of music copyright. Sony, most famously known for their Extended Copy Protection (XPC) and MediaMax CD-3 scandal in which more that 100 music titles included hidden software which interfered with the Windows’ handling of CD playback and prevented ripping. Since then Sony have attempted to clarify their policies by ensuring users know that they have the right to back-up their discs but not copy for distribution. They even include instructions on backing up discs on their XPC FAQ page.

However it seems that they have recently backflipped on this policy. In the case Capitol Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas, Jennifer Pariser, Sony BMG’s head of litigation testified that “When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song.” She stated that making “a copy” of a purchased song is just “a nice way of saying ’steals just one copy’,”. This is an interesting reversal on Sony’s policies and perhaps could indicate some evidence of Sony bowing to pressures from parts of the record industry which have long held the policy that CD and download backups are not fair use of the CDs and Downloads.

Well, we have finally got a new version of the website. Theres still alot to go merging stuff over from the old site but everything should be working in a week or so.