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Affiliate Marketing – What About The Customer?
Over the last couple of days I have been looking at ways to improve my website. I know posting more often helps – and I am working to a routine on that front. Other areas included a new theme, removing a lot of the unnecessary clutter on the si...
Affiliate Marketing – What About The Customer?
Over the last couple of days I have been looking at ways to improve my website. I know posting more often helps – and I am working to a routine on that front. Other areas included a new theme, removing a lot of the unnecessary clutter on the si...
Are The Greens Really Interested In Climate Change?
I have to wonder how green the Greens are when it comes to politics. And I don’t mean green as in novice – I mean green as in environmental. We have a situation now in Australia where the Government wants to go down a particular path in a...
The Politics Of Iran – Why I Don’t Care
That may be a strange statement given the banner that will fly on this page throughout September. In all honesty – I don’t particularly care about the politics of Iran, or any other country really, even though I am a political person. I h...
Is Kevin Rudd Trying To Outlaw Home Births?
Giving birth! What could be more natural. Women have been doing it for ten’s of thousands of years – without doctors. The only help they had was from other women who had been through it all before – the original midwives. The Austr...
When Has Raising Taxes Helped A Recession?
The Australian government has recently announced the budget for the 2009-2010 financial year - as a budget, it wasn’t too bad. Raising the old age pension has been on the cards for ten years now - I am surprised it has taken this long to implem...
Is Aldi Sacrificing Quality For Dollars?
It is hard to put Aldi stores into a category. Whilst they are predominantly a grocery chain, they do also sell a wide range of non grocery items. It is also hard to determine if they are low quality, medium quality or high quality. I have always pla...
Why Does Big Business Forget Service
It seems that as businesses grow, one of the first areas of business to get left behind is ’service’. If you have noticed my extended absence it is for one simple reason - moving house. What does that have to do with service - don’...
FTC To Shut Down Pay For Posts - Will Bloggers Become Criminals?
Most bloggers would be aware of google’s dislike of paid posts - more importantly, paid links in paid posts. If the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) gets its way, paid posts as such will be illegal. The FTC is looking at plans to update its poli...
Victorian Bushfires - Australia’s Darkest DayWe Will Bounce Back
AS temperatures soared to 45c (113f), most of Australia held its breath. We all know what high temperatures, strong winds, a dry earth from a decade of drought, and idiots with nothing better to do with matches than cause mayhem, can do to our fragil...
Australia Plays Politics While The Economy Sinks
The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced a very broad and very expensive economic stimulus package yesterday, one which seems to be hailed as ideal in some quarters and yet in others labeled as economic vandalism. For the ordinary Australia...
An Alternative To The Small Car Concept
In my last post I highlighted some of the flaws in the latest push by Governments to produce small fuel efficient hybrid vehicles. Let me recap some of the problems: Increased congestion in our major cities Decreased use of public transport Increase...
The New Car Concept Is Flawed
There is a big move here in Australia and, I suspect, the rest of the world, to produce small fuel efficient hybrid cars. I believe they are looking at a $15-$20,000 market. The average family car is priced in the $30-$40,000 range so they are look...
So They Want To Give Australia A Quad Whammy Do They?
I am having a difficult time understanding some sectors of the Australian community at present, particularly the opposition leader and the Business Council. They want to bring forward tax cuts to Australian workers - who doesn’t. At he same tim...
Australia Day In Retrospect
January 26 is Australia Day, officially our nations birthday. It’s also a day for tradition and being the height of summer, the backyard barbie (bar-b-que for the uninitiated) is the choice for many Australians. What are we celebrating? I said ...
It’s Recession - You Need To Go Those Extra Yards
We have just purchased a new car - well a second hand car - but it’s new for us. I have been thinking about our selection process today, trying to determine why we selected the car we did. The budget was limited, we have saved for over a year b...
Christmas Rip Offs - Too Much White Smoke
I am cheesed off and resent receiving emails from businesses that in the past I have held in respect but which now resort to false and misleading advertising. Here in Australia, as backward as some people think we may be, we have strong laws against ...
Do You Support Cord Blood Stem Cell Banking?
Have you heard of cord blood banking, cord blood stem cell banking, or perhaps umbilical cord blood banking. The term should probably be collection rather than banking. Anyway, it is the collection of cord blood that has got me ranting this time - wi...
The Marijuana Nation - Everyone Seems To Have Tried - But Not Inhaled
Marijuana is one of the most widely used drugs on the planet, second only to alcohol. In almost every western country there are laws prohibiting its use, yet, just like the days of alcohol prohibition, most people ignore those laws. Many claim that M...
The Olympic Games Are Great, Pity About The TV Coverage
Time for a rant again. The Olympic Games are great and the sportsmanship so far has been pretty good. The performances have been even better. When you start getting world records in heats and semi-finals you know you are going to be in for some great...
McDonalds No Longer Number One For Customer Service
It seems that McDonalds, the famous (or infamous) family restaurant that prided itself on staff training and customer service has now joined the ranks of most other corporations and put profit ahead of customer service. I am in Australia so I donR...
eBay Plus PayPal Equals Nightmare - if you’re a seller
I am sorry to say that it looks like eBay Australia may win it claim to use PayPal as the only means of payment for all sales on its site. For sellers, this could be the worst situation possible. As a former seller through eBay and having used PayPal...
WordPress 2.5 Would Be A Commercial Failure
If WordPress charged for their blogging software they would most likely be seeking bankruptcy right now, or be ripe for a Microsoft or Google takeover. The latest version of WordPress 2.5, to put it mildly, sucks! I would like to put on record right ...
The Olympic Torch - Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right
The Olympic torch has started its world journey and will soon land on our shores where it will spend what I am sure will be an interesting visit. The torch has so far drawn more publicity for all the protests than it has for the Olympic Games themsel...
As Entre Card Ages, Do I Sense A Touch Of Vinegar
I wrote in an earlier post that I thought that BlogRush’s days were not quite over - the post - titled “Is BlogRush Like A Fine Wine, Improving With Age” has led me to today’s little rant. Entre Card has been hailed as the suc...
A Rant On A Totally Non Blogging Subject
As a general rule I enjoy shopping but today was an absolute nightmare. We went out to one of the larger chain stores and did a mass of birthday shopping. That was fine - my girls will all be very happy with their birthday presents (3 birthdays in 15...
Are You Self Centered - From The Comments
My last post -Bloggers Can Be Very Self Centered - Are You? seems to have created a small wave of comments and some of them were very well thought through and raised some good points - good enough for me to take some excerpts and comment on. Will fro...
Bloggers Can Be Very Self Centered - Are You?
After six months of blogging, one of the things that has started to dawn on me is that bloggers and the blogging community are a very self centered group of individuals. I know from several little campaigns that I have run and from seeing some of the...
Forget SEO - It Is Not Worth The Money
SEO for blogs is highly over rated. Sure, if you are simply blogging for the dollars then SEO is important and perhaps getting a professional in is worth the dollars. If you are blogging because you enjoy blogging and any income is just pocket money,...
Many Talk the Talk - Few Walk the Walk
Humans are a strange race. Millions around the world protest against the whaling activities of the Japanese and yet, out of over 1000 unique visitors this week, only 40 have joined the blog the petition. I repeat, many talk the talk - few walk the wa...
