that word I can't spell

Well the other day I went into the Commonwealth Bank to see if they offered debit cards, interestingly they don't. It is really sad when a large company that is designed to look after its customers doesn't care about them anymore.

the word I can't spell is becomming more and more of a problem these days and I feel that it is only going to get worse.

The only good thing about this is that the Bendigo bank does offer debit cards.
So yippe ;).

Weekend

Well this weekend, more like friday we had a great bus trip down to Telstra Dome where the Cats defeated the Saints by 3 goals or so.

Anyway the footy was pretty boring but on the bus trip back we sang many timeless classics such as My heart will go on, American Idiot, Cow with guns, AFL club songs etc and most of us lost our voices. How great are bus trips?

Speaking of football, I goal umpiried the seniors and the reserves at Eaglehawk, I also got my first report ;), and no I didn't try to rig the game like you Travis. But the seniors ended up being one point the difference.

Air Crash Investigations

I was watching Air Crash Investigations last night as I normally do (I am sad to hear it is the end of the season). I am very interested in Air Safety.

Anyway it was about a U.S. Navy vessel U.S.S. Vincennes mistakenly indentifying an Iranian Airbus A300 on route to Bahrain in 1988 as a F-14 fighter and therefore shot it down, 290 lives where lost. This in itself was a design flaw in the ship because as the naval officer in charge of tracking the plane left the tracker on the runaway not following the plane. Other causes effect the the eventual outcome such as the Navy vessel was in Irany waters not international.

The naval officer did radio the plane about 3 times before ship fire the missiles but the pilots were confused because their airspeed didn't match that of the naval ships reading of their airspeed yet there are a few things that the U.S naval investigation into failed to address for example the sqwak code (which in non-technical terms is a radio pulse that plane transmits so it can be tracked by air traffic control) was not radioed to the pilots of the Airbus.

Another interesting factor was that the naval officer in charge of tracking the plane claimed that the plane was decending but everybody knows that commercial airlines don't decend unless they are trying to land which this one was not. Even on the computer in the naval ship it said it was ascending all the captain had to do was look at his monitor yet he failed to do so, during the investigation this was examined but nothing was done about it .

Now this is unfair to the Iranian families that lost loved ones, people should have to pay for their negligence.

The Investigation was that it was the iranies fault for parking a f-14 behind a commercial airliner but really that wasn't there fault, it is just another case of the US government bullying smaller governments.

My opinion is that the sqwak code should be transferred and the tracking of plans on naval ships be improved which I hope has been done, also The US government needs to stop thinking that other countries people don't matter.

here is the link if you are interested
Crash info on this accident


Also it is sad to hear that a plane in Russia crashed into the blacksea due to bad weather last Wednesday killing 113, another case of mis-information.

Assignments

Yes it is that time of year again when Universities decide that it is time for assesments.

Well currently I am trying to do some database queries on psql server at latrobe uni but it is dead, in other words too many are accessing it at the same it and taking up all the bandwidth.

These second year assignments are really bad or I am really lazy (probably the latter, being a uni student and all).

Anyway at Uni today there was a poster up saying nuclear power is not the answer, then I have to ask what is the answer that ACTUALLY makes power, not this unreliable solar and wind.

Greenies are so stupid they have no idea what ACTUALLY works and what is going to sustain the world for years to come. I have to agree that old nuclear power is quiet dangerous but if the new nuclear developments are quiet safer in that they can't meltdown.

I could rant about this for days but I have to get back to my assignments.

Indoor Cricket

This week we played 35 degrees, I can't believe we lost to a measurement!!! LOL

The score was
51-27
so we are getting close no thanks to Thomas and Michael ;)

I'll update every week as the season progresses, so far we are 0-5 as the 'season' started like 5 weeks ago but it start last week, I don't get it but that is fuzzy logic for you.

Speak of fuzzy logic, people should check out Uncyclopedia
Some entries are stupid, some funny, some just crude but you should take a look.
Everybody needs to laugh at least 10 times a day.


That was last week
Tonight is the big game. The start of the new season, new tatics, new players (no not really).

Well we will win if we play at our best and votes for our best and fairest starts this week too, so that is going to be fun.

I'll get back later with the result, And the result is..... (listen in with bated breath)




We lost by 65 runs
67 -2 .

That doesn't look very good but in reality we play some of our best cricket.

Hi Guys

Welcome to Chuckster's Blog.

Blogging is pointless but I thought I might as well find out what all the fuss is about.

Anyway, Currently I am studing Software Development (second year) at Latrobe Bendigo but i am considering doing Applied Science (Aviation) in Adelaide, once I finish my course or if they kill the IT course in Bendigo which they are currently doing.

Aviation costs a lot of money ($10,000 just to get a simple licence) so I will have to save lots of money which I am currently trying to do, so if I am not willing to spend much money this is why.

I work night shift service station in Bendigo and here is a funny story for you.

Well working night shift at a service station you would think that this job would suck but in truth it is quiet interesting, those weirdoes that come in at 4am in the morning makes this job all worth while. Anyway here are some of my experiences, well I had a disabled teenager came into the store and was trying to buy many snacks and some adult magazines for a total of $65 or so but he only had $1.80 so as a nice person I tried to explain that he didn't have enough money, but he didn't understand and there was other people in the store, so I had to serve them. The disabled teenager left, I put all the products he was trying to buy, back. About 5 minutes later the same teenager comes back in and here I am thinking he is going to do the same thing again, but he comes up to the counter to buy a mars bar (which he had enough money for), so he buys the mars bar and is about to leave the store when he turns around to me and says "Just kidding" and 'stops' being disabled.

That is best prank I have ever seen (I fell for it). I can't believe he could keep such a straight face, he would be a brilliant actor. On that alone he could get disability pension.