Tom Reynolds

I’ve just had a crack at Harvey Norman’s website. I wanted to check out Xbox 360, a new laptop and maybe a digital SLR camera.

So I signed up, waited for the confirmation email and went it.

I can say that in this day and age, this is the worst retail based website I have ever seen. You can order- How? Where is the product range? Where are the prices? The only way I could even see a product was, in desperation I went to the frickin SITE MAP. The site map? Holy hell the only time you look at a site map is to check out the overall number of pages. I haven’t looked at a site map since about 2000/1.

There are no details about the products in the laptop section. You have to do your legwork via the manufacturer site.

It just beggars belief that the “leading” elec/comp etc retailer in Australia has a site in 2006 that would have been a disgrace back in 1997…
Harvey Norman Website: Home

Here’s something curious someone emailed me via this site (anonymously too!) It’s a discussion about an article I wrote back in 2004 about co-exiting with car drivers.

I’m accused of being “holier than thou”. Correct. Sortof. I was a/ making a point b/ trying to be funny and c/ making a buck at the same time.

It’s quite a long discussion and I kinda wish I’d known about it way back when.

Email: Motorcyclist Telling Drivers Off. [Archive] – ZGeek

Great news!

Top Gear star laughing and talking.:

“Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was flown from Leeds General Infirmary to a hospital nearer his home on today, health officials said.
Hammond, 36, was transferred from the West Yorkshire hospital by air ambulance to Leeds-Bradford International Airport only eight days after he was seriously injured in a high-speed car crash”

Live Hamster bounce.

Beats a dead cat bounce…

Topping out at 100 kilos… I mean it TOPPING OUT! The only way is down!

Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog:

Andrew Bolt writing about the report that the Iraq invasion has actually made us less safe from terrrorism (file that thought under “well, derr”):

“First, that it is such general if-maybe-could waffle that it is essentially meaningless. I could have written it myself…”

I have deliberately taken this out of context just so I can say:

Damn right you could have written it yourself. No one higher qualified in “if-maybe-could waffle” than you sir!

BE STILL BUDGIE!

We had a house mystery. Each day there was a heap of uneaten seed on the ground next to 8 week old “Caboose” the budgie’s cage.

Mystery no more!!

Those of you who use Sharepod (should be EVERYONE with an Ipod!) and Itunes may notice an error as noted below:
News:

“Error #5Thanks for the bug reports about Error #5. It seems this is caused by the new iTunesDB file format. I *will* be fixing it (yay!) next week so look out for the new version. Thanks to people sending me their iTunesDB files, much appreciated
Jeffrey”

Yah for Jeffrey! Pay Pal coming your way!!

Update: It’s fixed. See site for version 2.1!

MCN: The UK’s number 1 motorcycling magazine:

“Here is the first picture of Honda’s 800cc MotoGP machine undergoing testing by factory rider Dani Pedrosa.
The new bike has been unofficially dubbed the RC212V, and was tested by the Spanish MotoGP rookie, although team-mate and current championship leader Nicky Hayden didn’t get to rider the bike, which appears to be based around a V4 engine configuration.”

I think Hayden made a big mistake at this testing session- not because he didn’t ride the 800, but rather because he was testing new clutch bits for the existing bike.

Waste of time.

This guy has a 12 point lead over Valntino Rossi- and hasn’t shown any sign of being able to take it up to him in the last few events- finishing off the podium while Rossi is on the podium.

What Nicky should be doing is trying to get the current bike up and dancing like it can- it’s a goddamn Honda MotoGP bike after all and fiddling won’t save you! Hours spent refining will…

Meet our newest addition to the family:

Meet Caboose!!

Thos of you who know/watch Red Vs Blue will also know Caboose is a Blue. Well, they didn’t have any blue budgies, so shut the hell up. He is what he is. He’s a hand-reared Australian Budgie and Rachel is almost beside herself with excitement.

The young man and I have had a day together. I’m hung over as all hell. He’s not supposed to be handled for five days- a “settling in period” so to speak. Then Rachel will probably annoy him to death. *sigh*

Please note that his cage is three parts full of trinkets and ladders etc. He probably can’t wait till he can come out and get away from Luna Park Cage.

We also have, ohhh… 8 litres of birdseed.

Top Gear host has brain damage:

“Jeremy Clarkson and James May have both visited their colleague in hospital.
‘Obviously, at this time both he and his family are the most important concerns we have,’ they said in a statement.
‘It must be devastating for his wife Mindy and his two utterly adorable children. Both James and I are looking forward to getting our hamster back.’”

Here’s hoping all is well with the Hamster. In the meantime. I’ll be showing my support by getting as many people as possible to watch Top Gear!!