New blogging toy

My IBM T30 Thinkpad has gone with me on my two previous trips so I could blog abroad. Whilst it's smaller than most laptops, it still was a pain to carry round (to check mail or upload blog entries) as it was still relatively heavy and it meant I had to carry a backpack.

On Saturday, I bought a Asus Eee PC to blog with whilst on travel. At only 920 odd grams and half the size of a normal laptop, it's much more travel friendly. It only has a 7" screen though and internal storage is 4Gb (solid state flash drive). It's a bit hard to type on, but ultra light to carry when we go on holiday in September!

Harsher fines for "road fools"

So plastered on the front of the Sunday Times today is an article saying the government is going to implement harsher penalties (fines) for "hoons and errant WA motorists".

I wonder how many deaths are due to speed and "hoons"? How about fixing the roads which are shittily maintained, fixing the traffic problem, fixing the problem with people parking where they aren't supposed to and getting the buckets of death trap shit off our roads?