mark o'brien

my oldest, Joel, just turned 16 today, which is a bit of a shock. asides from the fact that he is getting to be close to my height, it’s just a tad unbelievable to think that i own a 16 year old! wow! just feel suddenly very old. i don’t know about you all, but [...]

so, a little while ago the banks decided to raise their interest rates independently of the reserve bank of australia’s decision not to raise its rates at the time. they argued that there wasn’t a necessary link between their rates and the RBA’s. now the RBA has lifted its rates, i guess we can expect [...]

so, doing burnouts (to me) is pretty stupid and somewhat uneconomical given the current cost of tyres, but doing them in the carpark of the local police station puts you in a special league of fools… doh!

wow! these guys make the aamish look hip and liberal… thankfully, i’m not looking for an invite. they lost me at “king james only”… actually, i’m trying to figure out whether they’re actually for real or not…

these turkeys are like those ugly cousins you wish you didn’t have… jeepers creepers…

i love my blackberry pearl (although i would sorely love a curve!), and i definitely love my macbook, but the pocketmac software provided by blackberry for syncing their phones with apple machines has to be about the worst software i have ever come across, and i don’t say that lightly.  it is absolutely terrible – [...]

each year we try to do something cool to honour and thank the many folks who make warnbro church the great place it is, who serve and volunteer and minister in a stack of ways every week.  the last couple of years we have paid for them all to enjoy a day at adventure world, [...]

i felt a bit like mark twain last night when somebody told me that they had been approached by someone who had said that they had heard that i’d resigned from my role at warnbro.  weird stuff!  just wonder how such things get started…  gee, you go on hols for a few weeks and the [...]