If you've been following the news over the weekend you'll be aware that Iran has just passed a new dress code. Doesn't sound harmful, except that the dress code requires all Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians and Bahais to wear distinctive arm bands in public.

In a move that's reminiscent of Nazi Germany, all Jews will have to wear yellow arm bands, Christians red. As a contrast all Iranian's will wear "standard Islamic garments to remove ethnic and class distinctions".

You may have heard recently about the goings on up there in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. Basically there have been leaked reports of gang-rapes and violence against young girls. Girls as young as 7 months. Personally I am repulsed by this. That people are doing this in this country repulses me. Peter Costello has, quite rightly, said that all Australians should be concerned.

On Friday, I participated in a condensed version of the Myer Briggs personality indicator and I now know I am an ENTJ (Extraverted - iNtuitive - Thinking - Judging).

So I thought i'd do a quick google search to see who else is an ENTJ (apart from Joel, seeing as he is probably an extreme!). I came up with the following list:

Greenies are always going on about how the government should spend more on health and education. Don't get me wrong, I have absolutely no problem to government spending on education (within reason). But the problem is, where to get the money from?

Here's an excellent way to fund education AND better our economy: Axe Centrelink.

Yes. I said it. You read correctly.

I can see the value of having Centrelink -- sometimes unfortunate people fall on unfortunate times. But these people shouldn't learn to rely on government handouts to live.

As the clock ticks slowly towards 2008, we're hearing a lot of news and research about how adoption of Digital TV in Australia is particularly slow. Since 2001, only 13 percent of Australian households have adopted Digital TV [ACMA, 2 Nov 2005].

Over the last week it's become obvious to me that there is something about crap current affairs TV that turns ordinary reasonable and fairly intelligent people into raving idiots. Two people who I thought were interesting and sensible confessed they had to go home to watch <insert name of show here>, because it had a story about how companies were ripping the consumers off by weighing the liquid inside packaging. Now is it just me or there is something seriously wrong with that sentence.

A few weeks ago, I pointed Joel at an Internet radio station that played Europop music. Of course, this was meant as a joke, and Joel took it as an opportunity to criticise my taste in music.

One week later, I caught Joel listening to that very Eurotrash station.

That same week, I pointed Donna at the same station. Similar reactions, and (shock/horror), within about a week, she was hooked too.

So, after ripping on D-Link, I discovered they're one of the few hardware manufacturers around that actually has a three year warranty on their products.

As pointed out in a previous entry, I had a DWL-900AP+ that rebooted after receiving a DHCP packet. So, I decided to try my luck with D-Link's RMA department.

After verifying that the product was indeed purchased in Australia, and was still under warranty, D-Link issued me with an RMA number, and told me to post the unit off to their office in Sydney. I did this on Saturday.