Foot binding was an ancient Chinese custom and considered a status symbol. The act of foot binding involved wrapping the feet in tight bandages at a young age such that they would break and become highly deformed resulting in feet that were not larger than 4-6 inches!
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Anyone who has worked in the IT industy will appreciate the comic strip below.

Bored with the idea of forcing a soon-be-married Bachelor to wear a ‘funny’ t-shirt or phallic symbol on his Buck’s Night (aka Bachelor Party or Stag Party), I decided to make my own ‘Ball and Chain’ and attach it to him for the entire night.

David Jones is a major Australian department store that targets the middle to upper class demographics. It prides itself on customer service and it’s ‘quality’ image. So I was somewhat surprised when an unsolicited David Jones email appeared in my inbox …

I was going through some past bookmarks and came across some YouTube videos from ages ago. Let me start by saying that I have never been a fan of Australia Idol. I think the concept is fantastic, but the talent pool in Australia is limited (especially now that we are in series 4 or 5), […]

This is the view from my hotel window in Sydney overlooking Sydney Harbour (the Opera House is on the far left). It all looks very pleasant and normal …

However, on closer inspection … oops! … what is wrong with this picture?

I saw the middle car racing along the road, get confused as to which lane […]

There has been much discussion on the final book in the Harry Potter series - much of it focussed on ‘Will he die? Will he kill Voldemort?’ This is too narrow a focus, and the bigger focus should be on the total destruction of magic. Here is the plot for Harry Potter and the Deathly […]

digg_url = ‘http://www.digg.com/videos_educational/The_Fiercest_Lightning_Storm’;I was sorting through my digital photos/videos and came across an old video of a storm. We’ve all seen lightning storms in person or on TV - most of them show a couple of lightning bolts streaking down from the sky or the occasional flash of lightning in the clouds. They all look […]

Back in 1996, I launched my very first website - a fan site to the comic strip ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. I didn’t know much about IT back then, but it was enough to get me interested and this one website is what got me started in my IT career. By 1999, I had finished uni […]

It’s almost the start of a new year and so I’ve finally got my lazy bum in gear and redone nivmedia.com (again). As the About page states, this site suffers from multiple personalities - hopefully this time the blog format will help tie all the various bits and pieces together.