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The Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, revealed today plans to scrap the Earth Hour event, despite its recent success. In its place, the Rudd Government will be resurrecting the Howard Government’s policies on Climate Change instead. ‘Climate Change is a burning issue’, advised the Minister, ‘and while Earth Hour is a great way of bringing attention to it, there is nothing like John Howard’s stance on Climate Change to leave you in the dark!’ Ex Prime Minister, John Howard, declined to comment on the matter as he couldn’t locate his paperwork. Read More

The NRL today, moved to address the spate of injuries emerging from the opening rounds of its Centenary season, by announcing that they will be banning the tackle. ‘Our players are our most valuable asset’ explained David Gallop, NRL CEO in an exclusive interview with the HA!lf Time Report, ‘We have a duty to protect them and if it means banning tackling to do so, then we ban the tackle!’ The HA!lf Time Report understands that the radical proposal, which was tabled at last night’s NRL board meeting, will be require players to continuously kick the ball along the ground without handling it at any stage. A team will score points once… Read More

The South Sydney Rabbitohs announced today the National Australia Bank as their new sponsor for the 2008 season. Under the arrangement, the NAB will inject an undisclosed amount into the Club and in return, receive the right to introduce a range of fees payable by all South Sydney fans. The fees will include, an additional $10 processing fee on ticket prices, a $20 dishonour fee for failing to attend home games and a $50 fee for attending away games. A spokesman for the club said, ‘The NAB deal speaks volumes for the direction the Club is taking and affords an opportunity to be screwed by someone other than the NRL for a change’. Read More

The NRL’s official launch of their centenary celebrations ended in disaster yesterday when a 21-gun salute caused panic amongst leading players sending them scurrying for cover. In club news, the Parramatta Eels have been thrown into turmoil with several players threatening to quit after the club after it revealed Target Australia as it's new shirt sponsor. Read More

My SQL has ruined my PHP which has caused the CSS to interrupt the AJAX!

Who said web design was easy? Obviously someone who has never tried it.

HA! Magazine is undergoing a some what of a transformation. For starters we are shedding the paper based version and traveling solely online. Over the next few weeks you will see this site undergo some major changes as we try and find the right balance whilst learning what web development is all about.

Feel free to visit from time to time and let us know what you think. You can send us a comment using the links below this article or alternatively, simply email us at info@hamagazine.com.au… Read More

I recently purchased an external hard drive to back up the whatever comes after 'giga' bytes of data that HA! Magazine has generated over the last 9 months. You guessed it; the data that I lost when my laptop's hard disk crashed. Shaped like a metallic brick, this 'vital part of any new business' was meant also help me sleep at night despite the constant buzzing noise it emits.

For a while there it performed its duties admirably even prompting me to keep feeding it data whenever it felt hungry. Somehow I managed to back up 200GB of data in 2 months including the accompanying software needed to run on the PC. Not a bad feat given the… Read More

One bleak evening in late March of this year, my hard disk decided to dislodge a microscopic grain, which miraculously materialised in its airtight, impregnable, stainless steel casing. The grain in turn wreaked havoc on all my documents, spreadsheets, emails, photos, music, movies rendering me an entertainment and information cripple. The upshot of this unfortunate incident was that I was left without access to computer for nearly 2 months as I waited for data recovery experts to marvel at how the microscopic grain made it into the hard disk in the first place. ‘A modern day miracle’, ‘In all my years…’, ‘It’s unbelievable’ and… Read More