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  • Australian English vs British English vs American English

    Anyone who thinks English is English when travelling is in for a surprise. Not only is there spelling differences, there are whole word differences and phrase differences. Here is a sample of some of the differences:

    Australian English British English American English
    a bag of sugar, flour etc a bag of sugar, flour etc a pack of sugar, flour etc
    Aluminium Aluminium Aluminum
    autumn autumn fall
    backpack knapsack rucksack
    Barman / Bartender Barman Bartender
    Bath Bath Bathtub
    bill (at resturant) bill (at resturant) check (at resturant)
    biscuit biscuit cookie
    Bonnet (of car) Bonnet (of car) hood
    Boot (or car) Boot (of car) trunk
    bottle shop off-licence liquor store
    Camp bed Camp bed Cot
    Candy floss Candy Floss Cotton Candy
    car park car park parking lot
    Caravan Caravan Trailer
    chemist chemist drug store
    cheque cheque check
    Chips Crisps Chips
    chips / potatoe chips chips french fries
    city centre city centre downtown
    clothes shop clothes shop clothing store
    Cobweb Cobweb Spider web
    colour colour color
    Corn Maize Corn
    Cot Crib Crib
    Dial tone Dialing tone Dial tone
    dinner jacket dinner jacket tuxedo
    do the dishes do the dishes do the washing up
    Doll’s house Doll’s house Doll house
    Draught Draught Draft
    Draughts (game) Draughts (game) Checkers
    dressing gown dressing gown robe
    Eggplant Aubergine Eggplant
    First floor First floor Second floor
    flat flat appartment
    football Australian Rules football Australian rules football
    freeway motorway highway
    fully booked fully booked booked up
    garden garden yard
    gridiron gridiron football
    Ground floor Ground floor First floor
    g-string thong thong
    Guard (on train) Guard (on train) Conductor
    Herb Herb Curb
    high school secondary school high school
    Hockey Hockey Field Hockey
    holiday holiday vacation
    Jelly Jelly Jello
    Jewellery Jewellery Jewelry
    Kerosene Paraffin Kerosene
    Lift Lift Elevator
    Manoeuvre Manoeuvre Maneuver
    Mark (for exam) Mark (for exam) Grade
    maths maths math
    Mince (meat) Mince (meat) Ground beef
    mobile mobile phone cell phone
    Moustache Moustache Mustache
    nappy nappy diaper
    neighbour neighbour neighbor
    pantyhose tights pantyhose
    Pay rise Pay rise Raise
    Pedestrian crossing Pedestrian crossing Crosswalk
    petrol petrol gas
    petrol station petrol station gas station
    Postcode Postcode Zip code
    Pram Pram Baby carriage
    primary school primary school elementary school
    queue queue line
    recess break recess
    rubbish rubbish carbage / trash
    runners trainers sneekers
    shop shop store / shop
    shop assistant shop assistant sales clerk
    singlett vest undershirt
    soccer football soccer
    subway subway underpass
    Suspenders Braces Suspenders
    sweets sweets candy
    takeaway takeaway take out
    thong flip-flop (worn on feet) flip-flop (worn on feet)
    tick (✔) tick (✔) check (✔)
    timetable timetable schedule
    toilet toilet restroom
    torch torch flashlight
    trousers (for a male) trousers pants
    TV program TV programme TV program
    underground underground subway
    waistcoat waistcoat vest
    wardrobe wardrobe closet
    zip zip zipper
    Zucchini Courgette Zucchini
    Undies men or women knickers men or women panties
    Underdacks men’s knickers men’s panties
    dacks trousers pants
    gday good day good day
    bottler very good / excellent very good / excellent
    Rubber Rubber Eraser
    Pissed Pissed Drunk
    Angry Angry Pissed
    Bum Bottom/Bum Fanny
    Dummy Dummy Pacifier
    Bucks party Bachelor party Stag night
    knickers knickers panties
    prang car accident car wreck
    arvo afternoon afternoon
    plonk cheap wine cheap wine
    drongo idiot idiot
    to gander to have a look to have a look
    grog alcohol liquor
    berko angry angry
    jocks men’s knickers men’s panties

  • What does dolphin poop look like?

    What does dolphin poop look like?

    What does dolphin poop look like? What a great question you have asked a very good question. There is not a lot of info out there on google to tell me, but one thing is for sure, Brittany Furlan should know what dolphin poop looks like because she googled it when she had to much time on her hands 🙂 She does suggest “It’s cloudy… Diarrhea-ish”.

    Anyway, just wanted to share that bit of useless info with you and have a little fun as I (right now) have to much time on my hands too 🙂

  • See your day in opposite ways with same words

    The following should be read from the top down, and then read it again from the bottom up.

    Today was the absolute worst day ever

    and dont try to convince me that

    there’s something good in every day

    because, when you take a closer look,

    this world is a pretty evil place.

    Even if

    some goodness does shine through once in a while

    satisfaction and happiness don’t last.

    And it’s not true that

    it’s all in the mind and heart

    because

    true happiness can be obtained

    only if one’s surroundings are good

    It’s not true that good exists

    I’m sure you can agree that

    the reality

    creates

    my attitude

    It’s all beyond my control

    And you’ll never in a million years hear me say that

    Today was a good day

    Now we reverse the order of the lines, or you can just read back up to the top starting from here.

    Today was a good day

    and you’ll never in a million years hear me say that

    it’s all beyond my control

    My attitude

    creates

    the reality

    I’m sure you can agree that

    it’s not true that good exists

    only if one’s surroundings are good

    True happiness can be obtained

    Because

    it’s all in the mind and heart

    And it’s not true that

    satisfaction and happiness don’t last.

    Some goodness does shine through once in a while

    even if

    this world is a pretty evil place.

    Because, when you take a closer look,

    there’s something good in every day

    and dont try to convince me that

    today was the absolute worst day ever

     

    Author unknown

  • Optical Illusion

    Optical Illusion

    Stare at the cross between the two changing faces. What should happen is the features of the faces merge if you are at the right distance from the screen.

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  • Simple tricks on passwords

    Hackers are getting smarter. They have learnt that most people will have one password that does it all. So once they get it from one place, it can be put into the automated robots to try it on every other site on the internet. Imagine if it’s your banking password as well as your Facebook password.

    This article is not going to guarantee that you will never get hacked, but it will provide some idea’s to increase your protection from being hacked.

    Rule 1: Your email password is the most important and should not be used for anything else. Reason: When this is hacked, all the thief needs to do is use the forgot password link on all other sites and they get your password for what ever you may be registered for.

    How to come up with an easy to remember but hard to crack password. You use a phrase instead of a word. So think about where you went on holidays, or where your partner was born. Lets use the holidays one for the example. “Love Sydney” is the phrase that came to my mind. It really could be anything. You want to write it with correct case as well. So capital L for Love and capital S for Sydney. That gets 2 of the often required things for passwords. Now the spaces in your password. Some systems don’t like them so probably better to replace them. Decide on what you are going to use as the space. It might be the hash or a comma. We’ll use a hash for the example, so now our pass phrase is “Love#Sydney”. So we’ve got upper case and lower case. We’ve got special characters. Now we just want some numbers. Easiest one there is where you have a L and a O change them for a 1 and 0 except for the first character (some systems don’t like to start with a number). “L0ve#Sydney”.

    Passwords should be at least 8 characters. An 8 char password takes a little over 2hrs to brute force crack. 10 characters is over 2,000 hours. Out example password will take 50,000 hours.

    Now a way to have a unique password for each web site and be able to remember easily.

    Use your password as a base and select characters from the web address to add into your password. Here is a example:

    web site facebook.com. We’ll use from the right, the 2,5,6 letters. Always do from the right as some domains are very short which will break this. Remeber it’s always the same for every web site. So facebook the letters are oko. So use our space character and add the 3 chars to the end. “L0ve#Sydney#oko”.

    It’s like anything new. It will take a little while to get used to it.

    Remember, your email password needs to be unique and strong. I would make it at least 12 characters and I’d use a mixture.

  • Australian Public Hollidays 2013

    ACT Vic QLD SA WA Tas NSW NT
    Nbr of days in year 12 11 11 11 11 10 10 10
    1-Jan New Years Day x x x x x x x x
    26-Jan Australia Day x x x x x x x x
    28-Jan Australia Day replacement x x x x x x x x
    4-Mar Labour Day x
    11-Mar Adl Cup day x
    11-Mar Labour Day x
    11-Mar Eight hour day x
    11-Mar Canberra day x
    29-Mar Good Friday x x x x x x x x
    1-Apr Easter Monday x x x x x x x x
    25-Apr ANZAC day x x x x x x x x
    6-May May Day x
    3-Jun WA day x
    10-Jun Queens Birthday x x x x x x x
    14-Aug Qld Show x
    30-Sep Queens Birthday x
    30-Sep Fam and Community day x
    7-Oct Labour Day x x x x
    5-Nov Melb cup x
    25-Dec Christmas day x x x x x x x x
    26-Dec Boxing day x x x x x x x x

  • Lovebuy on ebay – recomend

    Every now and then something doesn’t work as planned when buying on ebay. We see ratings and you can read all sorts of stories, but the real proof in a good ebay seller is how things are handled when something doesn’t go right. That’s what happened with Lovebuy and they really came through.

    I won’t go into the detail except to say this is a shop that is there is a problem they really do help to fix it. You don’t fall on deaf ears. They help.

    There shop is at http://stores.ebay.com.au/lovebuy

  • Target out of stock of 3 arm mens jumpers from catalogue

    Target out of stock of 3 arm mens jumpers from catalogue

    Target’s latest catalogue has an advertisement on thier front page with a picture of a son, mother, father and daugter all wearing what looks like very comfortable fleece jumpers. The mens one is interesting as it’s got 3 arms, 2 right arms (one on the wifes shoulder and the other between the wife and himself) with his left arm holding his daughter.

     

    Target catalogue with 3 arm mens fleece jumpers
    Target catalogue with 3 arm mens fleece jumpers

    Anyway, I’ve called a few stores to see if they have any in stock.  I haven’t been able to find a store that stocks them yet :)  Let me know if you find one!  I really want a 3 arm jumper.

  • Should we get a 13 or 1300 number?

    These numbers are a good idea and have some advantages. For example, you can have the same number with different locations and depending on the caller, it will route to the closest branch.

    BUT the world is changing. More and more people are starting to use the Internet for their phone calls because of cost. Example: we changed from normal Telstra landline to Engin VoIP and our bill went from about $100/month to about $20/month.

    Two problems arise with the 13 and 1300 number system then.

    1. The 13 or 1300 phone system no longer knows where the caller is. When we first got the system, I would call a cab using 13 number and ended up talking to Sydney (I’m in Adelaide).
    2. The most annoying for me, it costs money to call a 13 or 1300 number and the call cost is comparably high! They also show up on the bill as expensive calls, so people soon start to become more aware. (Most move to VoIP to save money).

    So the tip: If you’re going to do 13 or 1300 numbers, make sure you also publish the traditional landline numbers so you don’t annoy your customers. Give them the choice!

    You want to make it as easy and convenient for customers to call you. Not annoy them I’m sure.

  • robertwarner1965@gmail.com – Gumtree / Paypal buyer scam

    We’re selling our Ford Focus on Gumtree and got an SMS which we replied to as requested.

    NOTE: Didn’t check the phone number the SMS came from. It was +16786617688. Obviously not an Australian phone number which for anyone reading this, is the first hint that they are about to get a scammer trying them.

    SMS Message from +16786617688:

    Is the car still available for sale and whats your final price email me robertwarner1965@gmail.com my battery is flat so we can talk better  – Sent from iPhone4

    So sent the reply via email

    On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:27 PM, name_removed <mailto:address_removed> wrote:

    Hi Robert, just organising some pics for you

    Recieved

    From: Robert Warner [mailto:robertwarner1965@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2012 3:58 PM To: Name_Removed Subject: Re: ford focus

    May i know your asking price please?

    Sent

    On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:33 PM, name_removed <mailto:address_removed> wrote:

    As advertised at $7000  , if you wish to negotiate would like it to be done in person

    and recieved

    From: Robert Warner [mailto:robertwarner1965@gmail.com]
    Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2012 4:14 PM
    To: name_removed
    Subject:Re: ford focus
    Thank you for the message, i will take it for that amount since i am interested in the purchase for my daughter who just moved to Malaysia where this is needed and due to my inability to walk i will be making use of a shipping company to have this picked up from you and have it delivered to her. Further arrangements will be made with you in regards to the pick up once i have paid you.
    I would appreciate if you email me with more pictures (if available) too since i won’t be be able to see this in person, what’s the Paypal email to send funds to in order for me to pay you.

    Anyway:

    If your wondering, no we stopped responding to Robert at this point as it became very obvious very quickly that it’s a scam. But did want to post it on-line so when someone google’s Roberts email or any part, hopefully they will see Robert does this a lot. Well I say Robert, we all know he’s not using his real name.
    Detail summary of the scammer:

    The phone number comes up at http://cidlookup.com/lookup/6786617688/ with the following:

    • CIDLookup for 678-661-7688
    • Current Telephone Company: Bandwidth.com Wireless – Syniverse
    • Original Telephone Company: Charter Fiberlink “Georgia Llc“ Ga
    • Original Telephone Company Type: Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC)
    • Estimated City: Bogart
    • Estimated Region: Georgia
    • Estimated Postal Code: 30622
    • Equipment Location Code: ATHNGAIJCM1

    Another scammer email – mi.richie540@gmail.com from the same number.

    We recieved a few messages from the same phone number just with different email addresses, but same text.

    For those interested in learning what sort of thing happens next (ie you send him the paypal email) one of a few things happen, but the most common can be read about at http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1845478 or http://www.christianbiggins.com/2010/04/very-poor-scam-attempt.html.