October 20th, 2008
Well it’s done. I just pressed send on the hardest email of my life to date. Yup, the email to my aunt telling her to pass on my email address to my Dad.
My Mum is talking to my Dad for the first time in more than 30 years. And she seems happy about it. My Dad is apparently as scared of talking to me as I am of taking to him 
I really have no idea what to expect. I was thinking about it on the walk to work, I started crying. They were happy tears, as I imagined saying “hello Dad” for the first time to my real father.
Tags: Family, News
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October 18th, 2008
Well what a strange two and a half weeks I’ve had.
On September the 29 at 12:08pm (EST) I got a message on FaceBook, from a woman in Florida. It read,
Hi Stefan, Was You Born in Australia or Birmingham, England. UK?
As you can imagine I was more than a bit curious as to how this woman could have any idea as to birthplace. I sent my answer and waited patiently for a reply.
Is Your birthday 19th December 1971?
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September 8th, 2008
Anyone would think that, at a time of dwindling oil supplies and rising oil prices, the Victorian State Government would be looking a hybrid police cars and alternate fuels sources. Seems like a no-brainer to me. But in a radical, some might say downright backwards move, the boys and girl in blue will be tooling around in a fleet of five shiny new Hummers.
Police Assistant Commissioner Gary Jamieson says,
The idea of going to Hummers is that it’s about trying to measure visible impact. So we’ve got to try and introduce something which might look different to our current fleet of vehicles.
Tags: environment, News
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September 4th, 2008
Not much has changed on the front end of the site, but the back end has had a major overhaul.
In the wee hours of yesterday, I backed up the database, tar’d the htdocs and then hit the delete key on vastneonwolf. Five minutes later the site was back with a new engine.
I had realised that the old CMS I’d been using just wasn’t cut out to be a blog. Sure it’s great for my other site but not for a Vastneonwolf. For that I needed something a little more blog-centric.
Tags: CMS, development, News, web, wordpress
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January 27th, 2006
Well the people of Palestine have expressed their will by voting for Hamas and it looks like Bush is a tad pissed.
According to Condoleezza Rice “You cannot have one foot in politics and the other in terror.” Unless you are the United States of course.
“I don’t see how you can be a partner in peace if you advocate the destruction of a country as part of your platform and I know you can’t be a partner in peace if your party has got an armed wing,” said Mr. Bush.
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