After an excellent week away I’m back home and ready for work tomorrow night. However the old body clock is totally reversed and I’m currently running on normal hours. Doesn’t matter as it was wonderful to rise with the birds for a change and...
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August 31, 2007 in Holidays | Comments (2)
Currently I'm away and over the next week will be posting regular video travel blogs. They can be found here, hopefully, if my new toy does what it's supposed to do. Have a great weekend. UPDATE : New travel vlog posted today, Thursday afternoon, an adventurous piece-to-camera ! Thanks for... Read on...
August 24, 2007 in moblog | Comments (9)
These past few days has been an endless succession of rain, red lights, computer crashes, lost files and...the odd passenger. All in all I've little to report, or at least to reveal due to doubts about Apple's Quicktime video player which seems to have an issue with corrupted code...
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August 20, 2007 | Comments (9)
A quick update to explain my absence. Currently I'm consumed with images and videos shot on the new phone camera. A refresher course was needed in editing and making movies, compressed and optimised for easy viewing. It ain't easy and bloody time consuming but...
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August 16, 2007 | Comments (5)
My regular shift report has been sidetracked by an article in today's Sydney Morning Herald about speeding fines in the Cross City Tunnel. Previously I've had a full spray on the matter and so left a final comment. Hopefully there will be enough reader feedback...
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August 14, 2007 in On the job | Comments (6)
Lately I've been wondering if there is not a bigger bunch of ratbags than teenage girls. To witness, just add alcohol for instant bratdom. Girls who want to be eighteen, if only to gain entry to pubs, not that being sixteen stops them. Or seventeen year old girls pretending they're... Read on...
August 13, 2007 in On the job | Comments (13)
Glorious spring-like conditions yesterday stayed right through the evening, yet the regular Saturday night crowd barely materialised. Up until 11 pm most drivers were lamenting their disastrous takings, unable to account for the quiet night. Finally one driver I spoke with on a City rank had no doubt about the... Read on...
August 12, 2007 in On the job | Comments (7)
continued from yesterday... The old fella patiently waiting at the rank climbed aboard thanking me profusely and claimed he’d been waiting forty five minutes. I explained how the women had attempted to commandeer his cab but he was pretty philosophic about it. "Well, that’s people for you. There’ll always be... Read on...
August 10, 2007 in On the job | Comments (7)
One group of passengers who really annoy me are taxi rank rats. Those people who on seeing a line of waiting passengers walk away from the rank to pinch an approaching cab. When they hail me it’s a real struggle not to give them the finger, but then there’s much... Read on...
August 9, 2007 in On the job | Comments (15)
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