Entries from February 2004

Today, leap day, is supposedly the only day a woman can legally ask a man to marry her. On any other occasion, it is a duty that must be left to a man. Hmm, woe betide those who think, and do, otherwise?At least this is the case in Scotland. Laws dating back several hundred years allow a woman to pop the question once very four years, on 29 February.This ancient ... Read full entry

Well possums it seems there is a new marketing demographic. Are you part of it? Are you a Challenger? Can you answer yes to all these points? Are you an articulate high earner, have a bent for social justice issues, help people who need it, and are concerned about the environment?If so, you may be among ... Read full entry

Regular visitors to disassociated will know I tend to update once a week, maybe a little more often. Some may also notice that I seem to post a whole stack of updates at once, with posts often dated several weeks earlier than when they appear.This is all due to my antiquated method of updating. Instead of using an integrated editing and posting application, such as Movable Type ... Read full entry

Australia seems to be rapidly transforming into some sort of fools paradise if credit card usage habits are anything to go by. According to a recent report, Australians have racked up a collective $26 billion debt on the plastic.This breaks down to an average balance of about $2,400 per card. At face ... Read full entry

As if we need any more reminders that Mondays are the worst day of the week. Now it seems Mondays are the most dangerous day of the week. Apparently Monday mornings are the peak period for heart attacks.The start of the working week should come with a government health warning. "Monday morning is the peak period for heart attacks," says Dr Craig Hassed, a senior ... Read full entry

Mr Right Stuff Chuck Yeager is still out there pushing boundaries. At 81 he recently married a woman 35 years his junior. Not bad going at all. However he has been in the headlines of late for other reasons.It’s probably a very long story, but to be succinct, three of his children are suing him. Stories like this aren’t totally ... Read full entry

Time travel is a subject that fascinates me. Who wouldn’t love to be able to go back, and “correct” all the mistakes they’d made in the past? Take the left hand turn instead of that ill-fated right hand turn?Steve Preston is a scientist who studies the mathematics and theoretical aspects ... Read full entry

you can push, but you can’t direct itcirculate, regulate, oh no, you cannot connect itU2I thought I should make some mention of this day. This day of days: Valentine’s Day. A day many of us consider over hyped, over commercialised and way too contrived. Who doesn’t feel just the slightest bit of pressure to send the love of your life a Valentine’s day gift?looking for the one, but ... Read full entry

...got a thing going on? Web site referrer logs collect some strange and intriguing information at times. If today’s report is to be believed, this site is sending traffic to disassociated.A weblog dedicated to the controversial Paris Hilton sex video. Hmm. This is a rather curious site. There is no information ... Read full entry

Once again this week long suffering (so it seems) users of the Windows® family of operating systems (NT, 2000, XP) have needed to download yet more security patches. This to block yet more security flaws. Yet again the updates have been deemed critical by Microsoft.I mused on this subject a few months ago and wondered just why we were almost constantly having to download update patches. Were ... Read full entry