The more astute reader may have noticed the change in the address bar – this is now horuskol.net.

Not much of a change, to be honest – but the reasoning is that I am slowly winding down my .co.uk domains and will likely be moving my own sites out onto hosting in Australia, while finding others to take on the Scouts and clubs’ sites I currently have, too.

Why .net? Well, .com is really supposed  to be for commercial organisations, and .org for not-for-profit organisations. .net is a good domain for anything else, really.

Don’t worry – you don’t have to do anything – all the .co.uk links should simply be diverted to .net.

With that said – I’m off to find someone to take on those other sites.

For one week now, South Australia and Victoria have been hit by a record-breaking heatwave. Almost everyday has had a high of over 40°C. However, this is only part of it – almost every night we have suffered with minimum temperatures of at least 30°C, with one night breaking the previous minimum recorded for January of over 35°C.

While my friends in the UK have expressed jealousy over these temperatures, especially as they are facing more snow and ice this last week, I would have to say, reluctantly, that they don’t really know what they’re on about.

I’ve been cold – I’ve been so cold my toes have gone black. But cold is easy to deal with – your body is a heat generator, and all you have to do is insulate yourself from the cold, and you are quite happy.

There’s not much you can do when it is hot – there are only so many layers you can take off.

Perhaps the worse thing about it all isn’t the fact that it is hot – it is the night-time minimums. There is no chance for anything to cool down again overnight – the brick walls of houses can’t radiate the heat that they have stored through the day, there’s no cooling breeze to drift through open windows as you sleep, and when you grab your shirt for work and it is still baking warm from the previous day, you know something isn’t quite right.

Buckled Rails near Adelaide - Taken from Adelaide Now (click for larger image)

All this is making for some incredible difficult times for transport and utilities providers – tracks are buckling as the steel expands, and transformers, which are already overloaded by the fact that everyone is running air-conditioning and fans, are struggling to dissipate the heat that is an unfortunate by-product of dropping voltages.

It looks like we’ve got about another week of this, according to the weather agency, but we’re starting to get more breezes through, which are helping.

Hopefully, I can stick it out a bit longer – the portable air-conditioner I bought the other night is helping a lot.

One thing that might be a plus – I should be sweating the fat out of myself in this weather.