I bought 4 items of clothing from Connors in November last year that all looked absolutely great. At that time I was planning on going back to get more next time I needed some new clothes, but now that I’ve had them for 8 months I have to say, their life-span is underwhelming. I bought [...]
I was down in Lismore recently with my girlfriend for a friends birthday dinner. Anyway, it turned out that we couldn’t pay separately, so needed to get cash out. Fortunately, I already had cash, and there was a Bank of Queensland ATM in the Bullbar restaurant where we were having dinner (in fact there is [...]
In August last year when my car’s rego check was due, I also had to get all 4 tyres changed, so they were all brand new in August. This was done in NSW. In October, while I was in QLD I took it in to Keema at Mt Gravatt for the 90,000km service. I’ve had [...]
Just some more notes on my previous blog posts about the Bank of Queensland and the Greater Building Society here and here. I still haven’t actually had any indication from the Bank of Queensland that anyone there has noticed anything I’ve said online. I still don’t expect to either. Since my last blog, I have [...]
I’ve been meaning to write this blog for about a week now, finally found time to do it! A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog on the Bank of Queensland after I was extremely unimpressed with some fees I was charged. I drew some comparisons with my other bank, the Greater Building Society. [...]
I’m not sure what the big 4 banks are doing, or any of the 2nd tier banks besides the Bank of Queensland whom I hold a Reverse Charges student account with, but I do know, that this financial year, I have paid more fees on this student account than I have on my business account [...]
I noticed an article on IT News Australia this morning about talk of the “Australia Card” identification card/system coming up again. This got me to thinking a bit today, and also trends I’ve noticed previously and things that people have pointed out to me and that sort of thing. Who really is watching? Think about [...]
I was just reading a response Tim over at SpyJournal had written to a Herald Sun columnist, Cheryl Critchley about her article on home schooling and the benefits it may or may not have for kids. I realise I’m a little bit late with this, but I’ve been busy and only just read it so [...]
I have noticed over the past month or so that there have begun to be some more obvious changes in transport in response to the increasing fuel costs. Over the past year there has been an increase in Camry’s/Aurion’s as taxi’s and police vehicles in place of some of Falcon’s and Commodore’s, and over the [...]
“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” (Benjamin Franklin, from Wikiquote) Or, a more commonly known re-worded version, “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” (Wikiquote) I’ve been reading in the [...]