Wire Less?

So, it turns out my wireless router has this really cool feature whereby it can work as a wireless router or a wired router, but not both at once. Cool, huh? And once something's been plugged into the LAN port, a computer with a WLAN connection can't access the router (or internet) at all, unless it's first connected via the LAN.

In other interesting news, I went to Queanbeyan for the first time today. It was everything I'd imagined it would be. Flannel shirts and mullets abounded. It was just like being in Ipswich, right up to the obvious effort the local council had put into making the centre of town nice, while ignoring the outlying areas. The sign on the way in says something along the lines of "Queanbeyan: country lifestyle with all the advantages of city living". Now whereas I would list 7-11s and public transport as the advantages of city living, I suspect the authors of this sign had things more like street lights and paved roads in mind. There's a reason Queanbeyan is called No-Hopetown. Seriously, the businesses there won't even hire the residents if they can at all avoid it.

So, what else happened this week? (I hear you ask). Not a lot. I went to work. I drove one of my friends to the airport on Thursday and got to drive around in his Peugeot for the day, which was fun. It went "zooom" and had power windows and power steering and all those fun things.

Oh, and yesterday I went to the Department of Transport to change my licence over. Which didn't go quite as well as I might have hoped. Apparently my car has run through five red lights since I moved to the ACT. I find this quite interesting, as I certainly have no memory of running any red lights. Dale was driving my car a fair bit when we first moved here, so I immediately quizzed him, but he claims not to have run any red lights either. And I'm inclined to believe him. Running red lights is just not one of those things that people do. I mean, everyone speeds a little bit every now and then, but who runs red lights? And there's red light cameras all over the ACT! Even if a person did have a secret red-light-running fetish, surely they wouldn't do it here?

We've come up with a few possible explanations, starting with "maybe the car was just a little bit over the line or something" and getting more outrageous from there - in Canberra, sometimes it's legal to turn left on a red light, maybe we got photographed doing that? At any rate, they're sending out the infringement notice next week, and I've requested to see the photos too. After all the problems they've had with fixed speed cameras in the last couple of years, I'm willing to entertain the idea of a fault with the camera. I just hope the picture shows enough to prove it if there is (and that it shows Dale driving, not me!).