This book is another Stainless Steel Rat prequel, although it was written well after the original book. This book takes up from where A Stainless Steel Rat is Born ends -- with Jim arrested (of course), on a surprisingly low

On the way home from our awesome soup dumpling dinner in Sydney we dropped into Elizabeth's Bookshop entirely by accident. We'd deliberately walked a block offset from where we do normally to avoid boredom, and just got lucky.The second hand

AUSTRALIA'S labour market has softened for the seventh successive month, a report has found.

THE total number of job advertisements in newspapers and on the internet has fallen for the second straight month, a survey says.

MARK "Chopper" Read's bodyguard threatened to chop a man's head off with a meat cleaver over a $10 debt, a court has been told.

A MAN accused of directing a Melbourne terror cell could not be regarded as its leader because he had nothing to lead, a Melbourne court has heard.

A WOMAN accused of setting fire to about 30 Melbourne buildings and destroying about $2.5 million worth of property was unable to attend court today because she suffers claustrophobia.

FORMER North Melbourne premiership player Wayne Schimmlebusch says a fraud trial has taken its toll on his friend and one time teammate, David Dench.

ONE of Australia's most senior rabbis has died in Melbourne today following a lengthy illness.

KTM's Jonathan Barragan and Yamaha's Tony Cairoli overcam trying conditions to take victory in the MX1 and MX2 classes respectively at the Grand Prix of Sweden - round 10 of the 2008 World Chapions...

A rare ride on a big bike turned up trumps for Taupo teenager Brad Groombridge at the weekend. The 17-year-old Kawasaki ace from Taupo took a Kawasaki KX450F to outright victory in the ...

KTM Enduro Factory Team rider Taddy Blazusiak got his participation in the ’08 AMA Endurocross series off to a winning start by claiming victory at the opening round of the six-event championship h...

Following a recommendation from Danny, I went and checked out Galaxy Books on York Street during one of my lunch times. The review says they have a good second hand section, and I am still hunting for some old Asimovs.

I have a fancy Logitech 2 megapixel auto focusing webcam which uses the UVC USB class. The camera is well supported by the linux kernel (via the uvcvideo) module, but for some reason there still seem to be very few

Monitoring buoys devised by Waikato University are changing the way we look after our lakes.

I've just finished Week 2 of my training for the Melbourne Half-Marathon. I'm feeling good!Week 1 distance: 10.8mi (17.37km)Week 2 distance: 12.4mi (20.01km)Fastest mile so far: 10:41That's a distance increase of 15%. I know that's higher than the 10% most

OIL prices eased in Asian trading today after Iran's weekend offer to negotiate on its nuclear drive.

A SEPARATION of Telstra's network and retail businesses could cause serious damage to Australia's telecommunications industry, a leading independent analyst has warned.

BELL Financial has agreed to buy Southern Cross Equities for an expected $150 million in cash and scrip to create Australia's largest independent broker.