The Nest of Vast Neon Wolf

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?

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.

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.

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.