The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Dropping the kids off this morning, I listened in the car to the Pogues version of this old song:

Now when I was a young man I carried my pack
And lived the free life of the rover
From the Murray's Green Basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in 1915 my country said "Son,
It's time you stopped rambling, there's work to be done."
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they mached me away to the war...

And so now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me.
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march,
Reviving old dreams of past glory.
And the old men marched slowly, all bones stiff and sore,
They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war,
And the young people ask,"What are they marching for?",
And I ask meself the same question.

A sad old ballad that brought a lump to my throat. It's been doing that for the past few days.

Another blog company mistreats its users

Spam ads in Atom-2-RSS converter from 2RSS.com

A complaint on his blog by a blogger.com user who is forced into having ads in his RSS feeds, he only saw them because he subscribes to his own dogfood. A blogger  user can only produce Atom feeds and I guess lots use 2-RSS but don't  eat their own feeds.

I think there'll be a disturbance over this  in the next few days when people find out. Perhaps not as big as the recent MT but considering the gossipy internet, word spreads like wild fire. May as well spread the news.