Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.
Last year (when Blog Action Day was first launched) the topic that everyone blogged about was the [...]
Ok… I know the title is a little deceiving - I am aware of the various ways people have gained knowledge such as schooling, books, guidance provided by elders or more experienced people etc. etc.
But how did people ever learn about the little things? Everyday I do a dozen or more random searches to [...]
This was emailed to me a while ago and I thought I’d share my answers on the blog instead of spamming everyone with a silly chain email.
Here’s Four things about me that you may or may not have known in no particular order.
Four jobs I have had in my life.
1. Salesman at Dick Smith [...]
A few days ago I received an email from Bo McGrath - an Honours student in Communication and CulturalStudies from the University of Queensland, Australia.
Bo is researching the experiences that blog readers have with their favorite blogger for her Honours Thesis and asked if I’d be willing to assist by placing the following flyer on [...]
Phew… now I can finally become a good father:
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I work about 15mins from my home and there’s a back-route I usually take to get to the office so I avoid most major roads that are often congested at that hour of the morning / afternoon.
This is fine until there’s an accident on one of the major roads and everyone decides to take back [...]
When you spend as much time on the Internet as I do, you start to stumble across things that you didn’t go looking for… things you probably have no real interest in… things that serve no beneficial day-to-day purpose… but for some unknown reason they are things that I find really interesting.
My most recent find [...]
Coming-up on the 15th of October it’s Blog Action Day… and if you’re thinking this is the day that all the geeky bloggers will finally have a chance of scoring with some hot chicks… I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed.
On Blog Action Day, bloggers from around the world will all contribute a post on their blog [...]
Over the past few months I’ve been inundated with blog spam - generally it consists of automated bots posting unrelated comments full of links… most of which my blog software WordPress managed to block, but there were still a truckload of comments I’d manually have to reject… until I discovered a plug-in called Bad Behavior.
This [...]
I’ve always liked the concept of having a chair that you can call your own. Most commonly associated with old men who grouch about anyone who sits in “their chair” and usually “their chair” is as old as they are and often doesn’t match anything else in the room… So I wanted one and [...]