Husi hotlist problems

I have two stories stuck in my hotlist that won't go away. It appears that they've been deleted. They have no title, just ( comments, 0 new). If I click on the little '-', nothing happens. Even though I have no idea what the stories are, I'll post links to them in the hope that it's nothing embarrasing. They should be here and here.

I wouldn't mind knowing what these stories were, and also how to get them off the hotlist.

Tax

It's tax time, and the more I look into it, the worse it gets. A few weeks ago I put all my details into the online tax calculator and it told me I should get a $1,200 refund. Not too shabby. Then I realised that I'd been looking at the wrong column on my payslip. Redid the calculator, resulting in a $600 refund. Again, not bad.

Yesterday I put all my details into etax, and it tells me I owe the tax office $93. What the??? It seems I forgot about the Medicare Levy when I did the tax calculators. These problems stem from the $455 interest I got off ING last year. I'm now exactly $400 over a HECS threshold which means an extra 0.5% of my salary gets taken by the government.

Perth suburb names

I am convinced that whoever named one of Perth's southern suburbs Mandogalup was taking the piss. The Department of Land Administration don't think so though. The following information is thanks to Google Cache.

MANDOGALUP The area of this suburb was originally referred to as "7 Mile Camp", but when a townsite was declared here in 1923 it was named "Balmanup". Lake Balmanup was an alternative name for Mandogalup Swamp. In 1945 it was found that the townsite was more commonly known as Mandogalup and it was changed to Mandogalup in 1946. It is an Aboriginal name, the meaning of which is unknown.

I had a look through the rest of Perth's suburb names, and there are several that are quite interesting. Banksia Grove, for example, was originally named Cockman in December 1998, but then changed only six months later. They don't give a reason why, but I think we all know.

Innaloo was originally known as "Njookenbooroo" (sometimes spelt Ngurgenboro or Noorgenboro), but it was changed because it was too hard to pronounce and spell. The Nookenburra Hotel (the Nooky) is presumably named after the original name.

And the spelling of Burrswood became Burswood as a result of a spelling error by the men who painted the sign for the first railway station in the area.

So I've learnt lots of things today.

Tennis

Had a good game today, despite losing the first set 6-1. At that point I said to Daz "things will be different in the next set". And they were. I won the first four games, and eventually won 6-3. Fun!

Pub

Went down to the pub after work yesterday for resignation drinks with a coworker who has left to teach English in Japan for a year. Now I was under the impression that Steve's is meant to be popular with students from UWA, but I can't imagine how students can afford to go there. Their prices are a little painful.

Since when was a 330mL Redback considered large? But it still costs you $5. And a pint of light beer for $5.80? It's not even mid-strength! What's going on? Note to American readers: Light beer refers to low-alcohol beer (eg 2.8%) rather than your bizarre low-calorie same-alcohol madness.

Shared birthdays

Tonight I found out which celebrities I share a birthday with. It's so embarrasing I'm not going to mention who.