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As usual, Melbourne's weather has been all over the place. Sunday was hot, Monday (Men's Shed BBQ heavily overcast and freezing wind. A lazy wind that goes through you rather than around. Wednesday oppressively hot, yesterday humid, today a bit more moderate. There is a side effect. The neighbour has a huge gumtree in his back yard, which if it blew down, would take out the back of our house and the neighbour on the other side. And the photo below shows what happens when it is hot and windy. Bark all over the place.

You may have noticed that over the last 7 days, I have added 27 aircraft profiles in the AP site. I had a few problems with the last one, screwing up the photos and having to do a number of edits to the basic profile. Wherever possible, I include 5 photos on each profile, header and gallery. That may require searching through up to 100 thumbnail images for each aircraft, selecting the best ones to illustrate the aircraft. I try to select different angles and illustrations of features such as cabin access, folding wings, etc. I expand the thumbnail to the full size uploaded to get the best quality image and download that into a folder, one folder for each category - 3 axis, GA single engine, etc. With 1968 profiles completed, and a few more in preparation, that means about 10,000 images. However, a lot of these are far from acceptable. Most are too large, and a few are too small. I standardise all photos to an aspect ratio of 16:9, and a width of 750 pixels. ie., 750x422 pixels in size. This requires resizing and cropping. I am amazed at how badly exposed some photos are, very dark, detail in places like under wing indistinguishable, and if taking off in front of bushes or hedges, the background is a sold block of black. There are often odd items which distract from the image, such as tiedown ropes dropped on the ground, ropes and balustrades around the aircraft which I clone out of the photo. The original image is saved to an Originals subfolder attached to each category folder on my external hard drive. Therefore at least 20,000 images, just for the AP site. Here are a few examples from the last lot. They have been further reduced to 400 pixels wide, originals first, edited second.

GON, hate speech has been outlawed. Be careful what you say.

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Well done.

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My name is Bond, James Bond.

The first civil aircraft registrations in Australia were prefixed G (for Great Britain) followed by AU. Full details here.

The first ones that should be investigated and jailed or deported are the Imams and other clerics at the mosques, sprouting and advocating this vile propaganda.

Shortly after Gerry met his demise, Paddy also turned up at the cliff with a cardboard box. He walked to the edge of the cliff, opened the box and took out a hen, He grabbed hold of the hen's legs, and leapt off the cliff. Unfortunately, he suffered the same outcome as Gerry. Joe looked down, shook his head, and said, "Oi ain't goin' fook'n hen-glidin' neither."

Albanese was giving a press conference outlining his visit to the hospitals with the Governor General. I can't believe that, mid speech, Channel 7 cut in and said, "We'll have to leave the Prime Minister there, the cricket is about to start." This was at 9:30! The cricket didn't start till around 10:30.

Two men walk into a pet shop in Dingle, they walk over to the bird section and Gerry says to Joe, 'Dat's dem.' The owner comes over and asks if he can help them. 'Yeah, we'll take four of dem dere little budgies in dat cage up dere,' says Gerry. The owner puts the budgies in a cardboard box. Joe and Gerry pay for the birds, leave the shop and get into Gerry's truck to drive to the top of the Connor Pass. At the Connor Pass , Gerry looks down at the 1000 foot drop and says, 'Dis looks like a grand place.' He takes two birds out of the box, puts one on each shoulder and jumps off the cliff. Joe watches as the budgies fly off and Gerry falls all the way to the bottom, killing himself stone dead! Looking down at the remains of his best pal, Joe shakes his head and says, 'Fook dat. Dis budgie jumping is too fook'n dangerous for me!'

The father was the one ambushed from behind. The son was shooting from the bridge.

Mr Al-Ahmed was shot in the shoulder and arm while hiding behind a tree shortly after confronting the gunman, and remains in care at St George Hospital. 'He's having multiple surgeries, he's got five gunshot wounds. It's a serious injury – far more serious than has been reported,' his former migration lawyer Sam Issa, who visited him on Monday, told The Australian. 'At this stage, he says he has no feeling in his arm. I'm no medical doctor but he said to me that it seems like one of the bullets may have hit a nerve.' Mr Issa says doctors had yet to remove a bullet from the back of Mr Al-Ahmed's shoulder as of Monday night, describing the injury as 'weird'. 'Given the fact that he was facing the shooter, how did he get a bullet in the back of his shoulder? It's strange,' Mr Issa said. There are fears that he could lose his arm. 'He said he'd do it again,' Mr Issa said.

Now, it has been revealed the 44-year-old - previously reported as being a fruit shop owner - has actually run Cigara tobacconist and specialist convenience store in Sutherland, in Sydney's southern suburbs, since 2021. Mr El-Ahmed is a Muslim who arrived in Australia in 2006 from Syria. He sells gifts, toys, board games, leather bags, and mobile phones and accessories from his shop on Old Princess Highway. More than 12,000 people have already contributed to a GoFundMe that has been set up by Bondi-Junction based business, Car Hub, to help support Mr El-Ahmed in the wake of the terror attack. Among the donors is one of the world's richest men, Jewish investment banker Bill Ackman, who has contributed $100,000. He is the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management.

Newer information has confirmed that the gunmen were involved in terrorist activities, travelling overseas for training, spending time training before the attack and telling family they were going fishing. According to Tony Burke, they has an ISIS flag in their vehicle. However, they only had single action firearms, not automatics, which kept deaths lower than might otherwise have been. But the father came to Australia in 1987, the son was born here, and they had only been on the periphery of ASIO investigations.

Welcome back Willie, we missed you, mate.

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