A few months ago I blogged about the cost of entertainment and how even a weekend surf at the beach was likely to cost car parking fees, barbeque facilities use fees and of course, GST on the ice, petrol, esky contents, (surf) board wax and zinc cream. In other words it’s hard for the [...]
Translation Inventors are important. Without inventors, we would not know what time of the day it was. (Apart from Paul Hogan.) Visionaries are important too, without visionary explorers like Vasco de Gama and Captain James Cook, we would not be sitting on this huge rock called Australia – we would still be huddled around the [...]
The world is shrinking. The tyranny of distance has all but disappeared. And, as the world shrinks, the population becomes denser yet decidedly more insular. Not surprisingly, they have learnt that it costs money to breathe fresh air (Tokyo Oxygen shops), drive anywhere (road tolls), go to the beach (parking). Every time they turn [...]
At one of our clients' blogging seems to have become a hot topic in the last few weeks. And this post at A VC happened to pop up at the same time. A number of comments republished that highlight the fact that there are troubles at Yahoo! that are the reason behind the fall in [...]
World Swim for Malaria takes place on Saturday, 3 December. It's a striking idea for a worthy cause. Get a million people to swim that day and raise money to fight malaria, still a scourge of the tropics. It's one guys' idea. An Australian in the UK, Rob Mather; who did 'something' in 2003 for a young [...]
Swimmers are fanatical. They need that great fix daily. Wherever they are.Swimmers know that Swimmers Guide is the indispensable bible of every swimming pool worth swimming in globally. There's nothing like it in any other sport. The Swimmers database contains 14,978 listings or 15,946 year-round, full-size pools in 8,830 communities and 155 countries. Once only U.S. pools, it now has 10,816 listings in 154 [...]