As I mentioned in another comment, SEQ waterways are full of bullsharks - so you're 100% correct. That doesn't make the story true.

The photo is from Wikipedia - it has nothing to do with the report.

There are no crocs in the Brisbane river. Bull sharks are common in waterways in Southeast Queensland. This could have been real, or not. I'm leaning towards not because it is just one person who though they saw something in some pretty messy waters.

Except that it's just his word with no evidence - that'd be one reason not to believe him.

It's hard to describe just how much junk was flowing through the flood waters last week. This really could have been anything.

So one person reports (unconfirmed) two bull sharks in flood waters. Local media the next day generally has the opinion the story is a load of bollocks and now almost a week later it appears on Slashdot (a news for nerds site) as fact.... OK.

If you want some (slightly) more nerdy stuff to report about the floods go research the Wivenhoe dam.

I've really got to stop reading idle stories.

This case is not cut and dried (the guy was already over 50 when he was hired), which is unfortunate because age discrimination is very, very real in IT and especially in the software industry.

If you in IT, and are at age 40, and have not been promoted to management, become an independent contractor, started your own business, taken a government job, or switched careers... well, you better look good in blue, because you are one pay check away from having no other choice but to become a Wal*Mart greeter.

What you're looking for is The New York Post...

I know we're getting trolled, but it's too important an issue to ignore.

In an ideal world, we would tackle the problem properly by decoupling health insurance from employment. Linking health care to employment was the worst mistake ever made in health care in America. There are probably too many powerful lobbyist in Washington to hope for that to ever change. So we're left with imperfect alternatives. Such is politics, such is life.

And yes, this is an imperfect bill, but it's a first step towards badly needed reform. Is going to hurt? There's no way health care reform can NOT hurt some interests, while helping others. That's why leadership - political or otherwise - is supposed to take courage. Too bad we don't get that from our leaders.

If there's no such thing as a bandwidth hog, then why are is anyone worried about "hunting" them?

Something tells me PETA is behind this...

PS: Yes we'd all like to be able to download 20 TB of movies a month for free. We'd all also like free gasoline so we can drive Humveees with 30 inch chrome wheels.

... and nothing of value was lost.

(Ok I was only talking about Hotmail and Twitter, but if we had to lose Flickr in order to get rid of Twitter, well, I don't know about you, but I would be tempted!)

Here is a site someone sent me that is collecting emails/signatures (hopefully for good!) as a petition:

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/

The world's oldest RIAA subpoena.

One would presume that if Adobe ported Photoshop to linux it would have the same UI in terms of functionality as compared to the Mac and Win32 versions (which are the same apart from minor aesthetics). The same should apply to Linux - it's minor aesthetics only that make it different to the Win/Mac versions.

The UI in GIMP is crap because it isn't as user-friendly in a functional sense as Photoshop.

Well that and The GIMP is missing a lot of very important features that are found in PS.

As it stands, for me Photoshop is the last application that is really holding me back from fully switching to linux. The sooner Adobe port it over, the better :-)