Lucky Day

I'd been for a bit of a ride and the front wheel started thumping, see the left hand picture below.

The tyre had done about 6000 Kms and the point of the rupture had been a cut from long ago, the tube eventually broke through.

Decided to ride it home rather than try and effect some temporary repair, The tube wear can be seen in the right hand picture.







Anyway, to cut a long story short, replaced both the tyre and tube. The thorn resistant tubes are great, they can take all sorts of minor damage that would have otherwise zapped a normal tyre

QR Code

In todays Sydney Morning herald, there was an article about QR codes. So the BIG one above is for this site, and it came from KAYWA QR code. The smaller one on the left belongs to my daughter.

This will also get you the code, it is a link back to KAYWA who have also stored the code.

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=8&d=http%3A%2F%2Fxemoth.blogspot.com%2F

Sanity at last

We changed our telephone provider in 2003, the number however stayed allocated to Telstra and any odd things like "Call Home" or reverse charge calls are still billed by the number owner.

So we had a Call Home call, and paid the bill, about $3.00, over the net using a credit card. If you use a credit card, there will be a charge, and indeed there was, 22 cents in fact.

Between 2003 and 2007, we received a quarterly bill for 22 cents.

We tried to pay it, I offered 22 cents in coin, but they wouldn't take the 2 cent bit as it was no longer in circulation. I offered to pay 25 cents, but no again as that would generate a 3 cent credit. They wouldn't round down like every other merchant. I gave up worrying about it.

Eventually Telstra was completely privatized and the bills stopped. I reckon we received 27 bills at sat $3.00 each, that's $81 spent on a 22 cent bill.

May the lord help us!