As I drove my four year old 2006 Lexus IS250 Sports Luxury into the Lexus of Brighton delivery area this afternoon, the odometer reached 6300 kms exactly.
My new car was awaiting me in the showroom.

That’s me with Bernard (accent on the second syllable, please, as he’s originally from France) in front of the new are. [...]

Here’s a photo taken on 3rd August 2006 at my Lexus dealer’s showroom when I took delivery of my IS250 Sports Luxury with more amazing features than I could poke a stick at (as the saying goes).  And as it turned out, than I could use.  However in 2006, it was the only IS250 model [...]

Today is a great day to write about some iPhone apps, because Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, announced the iPhone 4 today.  It’s a sensational update, and the good news is that the new iOS 4 software will be a free update for 3G and 3GS iPhones.
It might seem a little odd, or at least [...]

On Sunday afternoon I followed up one the suggestions in my books, which Ralph also gave a week or two ago, and I looked at an Italian newspaper online.  I did a Google search to find Italian newspapers and chose Corriere Della Sera.it online.
It wasn’t very interesting so I decided to have a look at the motoring [...]

It’s only last Thursday that I drove to Chadstone shopping centre – the biggest in the Southern hemisphere – to buy the Italian for Dummies Audio Set. It’s an audio course with 3 CDs and a small 96 page book that you can follow along with the CDs to see in print the words [...]

For many years, perhaps the last ten, near the end of each year I’ve bought “The Joy of Cooking” desk calendar for the following year.  A cooking or food  tip every day; and the back of the calendar pages, when torn off, were handy for shopping lists, reminders and various notes.  I’ve even used the [...]

A few weeks ago when the Apple iPad was announced, a friend of mine showed some interest in it as a way of buying and reading books.  She’s an avid reader of books, and I got the impression that her main interest was that electronic books don’t take up any space in your home or [...]

This evening I changed the Word Press theme I’m using from a magazine style layout to a classic blog style where each blog is seen in full on the blog home page and follow one another in chronological order. As always, you can search for something in the Search feature in the navigation bar [...]

Apart from the lead up to Christmas Day, this past week has seen a very interesting sequence of events for me, because so many things seemed to come together this week regarding the OED – and Christmas Day.  Even my post on Christmas Day, in which I had to look up the OED on my [...]

Yesterday in Melbourne the maximum temperature exceeded 39C in a day of extreme fire danger in country areas, and it was hot overnight.  But today the temperature only reached 23C, and it was heavily overcast and raining when I drove to Chadstone shopping centre to battle the Christmas shopping crowds (shown above) to get a copy of [...]