I got married once. I was only 4 and she was a much older woman at 5. It didn't work out. We had such different lives. I was all about the sandpit and she was all Barbie this and Ken that...

In the end I didn't know who she was. All I knew was I wanted her juice box but not the responsibility that came along with it.

*sigh*

Due to lack of other information out there on the web, it seems my humble website has become somewhat a hub of information about Crownstar International. Thats fine by me, and since the last mention of it has slipped off into the news archives, I thought I'd post this little update.

Well at this point I'm still in discussions with the Banking Ombudsman to get them to get my bank to fulfill their obligations concerning the credit card transaction, as this must first be done before I take this to the courts in any way. I'm really starting to have my doubts about seeing any of this money again, but I'm not giving up.

If you've been affected by this (dis)organisation, send an email my way and let me know how youre getting on with getting your money back.

I know I said I wouldn't post another one of these things, but I AM FREAKIN' FRODO BAGGINS!!

How cool is that!

Take the [webmaster quiz] today!

Okay, I promise that this is the last one of these things that I do. These quizzes have gotten a bit out of control, but I thought this one might be sufficiently original to be worth taking. And it's pretty spot on too!

I just learned that the Australian Crawl song that I thought the lyrics were:

Dang singa,
Dong singa,
Whooaahh, we're gonna ride...

... actually turn out to be

Things justa
Don't seema
Tooo be going right...

Man, am I so happy to finally know the truth after all these years! He is speaking English (sorta) after all!

"By your installation of this software we have the right to enter your premises, eat your chips, drink your coke, listen to your CDs and not put them back in their right boxes, tease your cat, drink your milk straight from the carton, put our feet up on your sofa without removing our shoes, throw wads of wet tissue paper onto your ceiling, mess with your tv antennas, use your PC to surf the net for porn, and leave the toilet seat up."

I almost forgot, Friday was the two year anniversary of the registration of the planetmaddog.com domain! (I know that because now I have to fork out to get it re-registered.)

Over the last 2 years I've had a lot of fun writing updates to Planet MadDog. After a quick count, I've posted 98 news posts, 20 articles, a whole bunch of ICQ conversations, and a whole lot more besides. I've had over 3,500 unique visitors in the last 6 months serving out over 11,000 web pages. My most popular day was on Saturday when I received 77 unique visitors. My highest ranking search engine referrer is "naked girls washing cars" in Google, clocking up 949 page views coming from it.

To commemorate this milestone I had planned to relaunch Planet MadDog with an all new design and backend system, but little things like getting married, getting ripped off and getting err.. honeymooned has meant that this has been delayed somewhat. I can now get stuck back into it, and I hope to get this new design happening soon.

So, I'd like to wish a very happy birthday to Planet MadDog. May it continue to bastardise the very fabric of modern social structure with it's noncoherant ramblings.

Well, as far as Shepp's concerned, Sphagnum have made it. On Friday night we played at the Hotel Australia and we all had a ball. I was probably more nervous about this than I was about any other gig so far. But we played well, got some good feedback and above all, we had a great time. Now the real test is to see if we can get another gig there.

We also played on Saturday night at a 21st out in the sticks near Euroa. This was a more laid back gig, which is good, cause I was still a little knackered after the night before. The crowd was a bit stale, but we still had fun up there, although I didn't realise how cold it would be outside in the wind.

Oh, and if you would like to book Sphagnum for an upcoming event, let me know.

Sorry for the downtime over the last few days. My server's motherboard shit itself and we had to organise a replacement. Anyway.. Gotta go... I'm late for setting up for our gig tonite at the Aussie!

I am Kong. Strong and passionate, I tend to be misunderstood, sometimes even feared. I don't want to fight, I don't want to cause trouble, all I ask is a little love, and a little peace. If I don't get what I want, I get angry, and throw barrels and flaming oil at whatever's stopping me. What Video Game Character Are You?

Remember when I mentioned that our wedding photo might appear in the Herald Sun? Well it happened on Sunday. YAAY!

Click here to see the article.

In other news, I'm de-jetlagged and back at work. Unfortunately it seems as though I've lost about 44 photos from the honeymoon due to a corrupt memory card. Gah. At the moment, my efforts are concentrated on fighting Crownstar International to get my money back. More news to come.

Yeah, well as stated above, I'm back home and happy as hell to be here. It's always nice to go away for a bit and see the world, but its better to come back home and sleep in your own bed.

Speaking of bed, I'm jet-lagged like a mofo so that's where I'm off to now. Night.

Here we are at an Internet Cafe in the Bali Denpasar Airport. It's just turned midnight back home so HAPPY NEW YEAR! However, it's still 9:30 here, and our plane leaves at about 11pm, so it looks like we'll be seeing the new year in many miles in the sky. We may not even get that "Happy New Year" moment... it depends on what the time-zones do.

Anyhoo, we arrive in Melbourne at 7:30am tomorrow morning, so I'll catch up with you all in the next few days.

SELAMAT DETANG 2002!
(which apparenly means something in Indonesian...)