Suppose you start up a ‘social networking’ site as a rival to Facebook and you realise the massive user base they have is sucking all your potential users away depriving you of that wonderful source of advertising income. What would you do to try to increase your membership? Advertise? Quite possibly Your problem is how, … More All publicity is good publicity!
For those of us of a ‘certain age’ one of the high spots of our young lives was the regular dose of comedy from “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In’ which was an extremely funny if bizarre US made comedy programme, which in style might be likened to a cross between the Goons and Monty Python! The … More Dick Martin dies aged 86.
It’s really time I started a new site to log all the idiotic things councils in the UK (and elsewhere?) do in the guise of upholding the law. Trouble is I’d do nothing all day but fill the site in as the floods of complaints pour in! The latest in the long line of loonie … More More dripping!
Following on from the furore about the exploitation of 12 year old girls by using them in sexually explicit photography, we now have the case of a 12 year old girl in Victoria who told a judge that she thinks she is a boy and is being allowed to change her sex!! Amazing though it … More Kids grow up so fast these days!
Pity this poor couple on May 12th 2008. The girl in the wedding dress has just been married, she steps outside the church to have her photo taken by Wang Qiang and as he takes the snaps there is a distant rumble… … the distant rumble gets closer then stones fall of the church and … More Did the earth move for you Nancy?
In Sydney yesterday an exhibition of images by acclaimed photographer Bill Henson was raided by police and its opening night was cancelled. The DPP are currently examining the photographs, the events surrounding their being taken, and interviewing all the models concerned, The reason was that the images to be displayed were of ‘underage’ children, as … More Bill Henson – artist or pervert?
Shape? Currently my Broadband Connection from Telstra is ‘shaped’ to 64 kp/s down from 4.5Mb/s… this is *slow*. Using the net for the next few days is going to resemble jogging through treacle – Working hard and getting nowhere!!! I’m quite seriously re-considering asking the wife if I can sign up to Virgin Mobile Broadband … More What shape is this?
That ‘dripping’ is the sound of the steady erosion of privacy and individual freedom as the UK descends still further into the realms of Big Brother and the advent of the Police State. Bizarrely, to me at least, it’s a Labour government that is currently creating a Data Communications Bill to be presented as part … More Drip, drip, drip, drip…
This blog is becoming a locus for doom and gloom lately! 🙂 Today’s warning is that the effectiveness of nanotechnology use may in future be mitigated by its propensity to damage our health. New research is beginning to identify links between the tiny creations and serious illnesses such as mesothelioma! The suggestion that we are … More Yet more cause for concern.
Despite my complaints about UK rag, The Daily Mail in the last post, I *did* read several of the stories. One that caught my eye was yet another story about the bizarre garbage collection laws currently being enforced in draconian style by kerbside Nazis. In this particular case a 22 year old woman has been … More More rubbish about rubbish.
