Earth Hour’s fireworks display

Chris Smith talked briefly on his 2GB afternoon show today about Earth Hour, and made a reference to post-Earth Hour fireworks that made me chuckle. Read what is essentially a transcript of his musings here
To reverse and slightly alter the popular saying (making it grammatically awkward in the process), where there’s fireworks, there’s smoke. This [...]

The Rexona Million Ball Challenge

Some 6 or so weeks ago, Steve alerted us to this interesting promotion by Rexona, producers of deodorants and other toiletries. I decided to put in my “order” for a free ball, and behold, today it arrived in the mail.
It’s a simple tennis ball with a Rexona logo on one side and the Million Ball [...]

Zimbabwe general election

News Limited reports that the opposition party to Zimbabwe’s oft criticised president Robert Mugabe is confident of a victory based on early counting. Given the very poor state of Zimbabwe’s economy and other attributes that have led to sanctions, a change would be most beneficial for the people of the country. That is, if (as [...]

Earth Hour

The Wren household sort of observed it – eating by candlelight when the circumstances were about as romantic as a pub brawl (that is, it wasn’t a date), and a few of us complaining that my sister’s sudden departure to greeniness was causing us to not be able to see our dinner properly. Other than [...]

Virender Sehwag spanking the Proteas

I was catching up with the live scorecard from the 1st test between India and South Africa at Chennai, and was struck by Virender Sehwag’s batting stats so far:

 
V Sehwag
not out
273
 
251
40
3
108.76

That’s 273 runs from 251 balls, with 4o 4’s, 3 6’s, and a strike rate over 1oo. When you see that India’s total runs so [...]

Guitars

A post by Craig on his recent purchase of an electric guitar has prompted me to start a guitar discussion, since I love playing the instrument, both electric and acoustic styles (I’m more proficient at acoustic than electric, although I’m working hard on my electric skills). I have 4 guitars (2 Cort acoustic/electrics – 1 [...]

Life in 2008…as predicted in 1968

Modern Mechanix digs up an article from 40 years ago that envisions what life will be like for those living in the next generation. Some, such as computer based money transactions, have come to fruition and become a staple of the typical Western human, but things such as the intelligence pill will remain, perhaps forever, [...]

Workplace incentives

A survey of 1000 workers by UK consulting firm White Water Strategies found saying “thank you” often has the same impact on job satisfaction as a modest pay raise. The article from News Limited’s Business section indicates that the consequences of not enough verbal recognition are quite alarming from the perspective of an employer.
My personal [...]

Maccas millionaire…

A great story about a young adult who has decided that a lottery win doesn’t mean that he will abandon what to some would be a rather pitiful job and live off his newly acquired riches. Brit Luke Pittard only earns slightly less than $13 an hour at McDonalds (where it’d be rather rare to [...]

Australian Christian Blogs

I’ve added a link to a very promising directory of Aussie blogs maintained by Aussie Christians to my blogs link area. Paul Robotham has done a quite good job enabling such a means of interaction – hopefully the number will continue past its current total of 219. It features a ratings system there for what [...]