Friday, February 7, 2003

Before you make up your mind on the war... stare at the emotional and physical scars caused by the Bali bombing.

I am disgusted at the blatantly biased point of view that 60 minutes is advertising. Bali was a shocking a horrific crime but it should in no way be presented as a reason for our involvement in Iraq. Linking cell-based terrorism with an organised regime in this manner is insulting to the viewing public, they are two separate issues.

I want to see how the Bali people are, but I don't want to see their pain used as a justification for a completely different war. It's not right.

Posted by codi @ 11:32 AM AEST, [17 comments]

I should just shut the hell up and do something about my behaviour instead of blogging about it. Sorry for being a total whinge.

Posted by codi @ 12:10 AM AEST, [12 comments]

I used to have dozens of penpals, well some of them were pen pals and some were email buddies, but the point is that I used to sit down and write to people on a daily basis. Lately I can't even write a one-line email to my best mate.

Imagine how horrific it's going to be when Uni starts up again, I've got this nightmare vision of my assessments just piling up and myself sitting across the room staring at them just unable to write.

I mention this because today I got one of those stupid 'quiz' emails (where you answer questions about yourself) and one of my mates had put me down as the person least likely to respond ever. Not good, not good at all.

And to top it all off, my mobile phone is broken so I can't get numbers to phone my buddies.

Bugger

Posted by codi @ 12:08 AM AEST, [20 comments]

Thursday, February 6, 2003

my broadband provider sucks monumentally... gggrrrrrrrrr

Posted by codi @ 01:54 AM AEST, [16 comments]

Wednesday, February 5, 2003

"If the US invades without UN sanction, it will destroy what little is left of the UN's credibility. If the US engineers a UN sanction for the invasion, it will destroy what little is left of the UN's credibility."

THE DISMALIST'S BLOGCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE IRAQ 'DEBATE' Quite long, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, subjective view on the current Iraq/UN/Western Alliance situation.

And did anyone else (Aussies who happen to watch the channel 10 news at 5pm) see our fair Prime Minister have a go at the Bishop Pat Power yesterday? For those who are overseas and those who missed it on tv…

News.com.au story - will only be archived there for about a week

Basically during the first parliamentary church service for weeks the Bishop Power gave a sermon on ‘loving thy neighbour’ and little Johnny took it a wee bit personal. Channel 10 had footage of the incident and it was funny to watch. I’ve got to admit here that I lost respect for John after the whole Governor General paedophilia affair but you’ve got to feel sorry for PM Howard sometimes.

It can’t be easy when thousands of people are telling you you’re wrong but your nations future defensive alliances depend on ignoring them.

Posted by codi @ 12:37 PM AEST, [24 comments]

Tuesday, February 4, 2003

I've come to believe that there is a knife's edge between erotica and porn but nobody can tell you what it is.

You see I read everything, anything from textbooks to smut as long as it contains a logical train of thought or meaning. If it's written then I'll give it a go. Thus a little while back when I opened my email and accidently clicked on some spam, only to discover it was a story intended to tease me into joining a porn site I thought, what the hell I'll give it a read.

I've read more passionate prose from a grade two student. Honestly it was almost as though the words had just been randomly generated by one of those oh-so-ammusing 'choose three adjectives and two nouns' type engines. That got me thinking surely not all porn stories are this bad, I mean if they are then I should tell my friends and we can open a quality story site and make a million.

So I started searching, Miss L did too, and we were introduced to the argument of erotica v porn. There's no definition, it seems purely subjective and yet... sometimes you just know.

Posted by codi @ 06:02 PM AEST, [23 comments]

I should really provide some consistant navigation... tomorrow.

Posted by codi @ 05:44 PM AEST, [26 comments]

If the next decades proves this article to be right I am going to completely wet myself laughing. Funny thing though, it wouldn't shock me at all.

Australia, the UK, anti-gravity and the Iraq crisis - Malcolm Street, Canberra

"For the record I am a mechanical engineer who spent over two years at a British Aerospace guided missile R&D site in the early 1980s and have continued to take a strong interest in aerospace technology. I am a member of ASRI (Australian Space Research Institute). I am not a crank."

Posted by codi @ 05:43 PM AEST, [21 comments]

see, I'm already acting on my resolution to add comments, good me

Posted by codi @ 12:24 AM AEST, [13 comments]

Monday, February 3, 2003

yes the blogs will have comments I've just got to fix the damn template - karma voting will never be turned on it's pointless and bothersome...I may set up an 'about me' page if I'm feeling inclined to spill my virtual guts...I'll be submitting to loads of blog directories...perhaps there will be a forum at some point but it will depend on if I decide to post some of my fiction here fiction=feedback area...some of my sad photography, maybe, if I'm drunk at the time

Posted by codi @ 11:53 PM AEST,

I can't remember when I stopped recalling my dreams.

It used to be that I would have full technicolour landscapes pop into my mind each night. Whole worlds would rise and fall between dusk and dawn, and each morning I would write them down. Sometimes they would be quite normal - involving people I know in situations from my everyday life, often they would be like a Dali come to life, or perhaps a monty pythonesk adventure with lots of crazy happenings, and then there were the darkly exciting sexual encounters that would occasionally come to me, they were sadly less frequent when compared to the others.

But the last dream I remember was over four months ago now, and I only remember it because it was the first I'd recalled for a few months. It was a strange loop dream where I kept having to give this critical presentation and I was perpetually late for the metting it was happening at.

I feels like I've lost something incredably important now I can't remember my nocturnal worlds.

Posted by codi @ 10:52 PM AEST,

Sunday, February 2, 2003

I don't know how far to go with this... I mean you see all sorts of blogs out there on the web, innocent and bashful, vampy and tempting, and then every so often you come across a brave soul who's done what many fear most of all and layed themself completely bare. Stripped away the polite public layers of their everyday life and shared their soul completely online. I don't know if I'm quite that brave, even if it was my intent when I sat down and set this up.

Take for instance the fact that I'm Codi here, I mean who the hell is she?

Posted by codi @ 10:54 PM AEST,