I’ve been looking through the Australian government’s new My School website, which shows the graded performance of schools around the country, both public and private in the areas of reading, writing, spelling, grammar/punctuation and numeracy.
After looking at all the schools I attended, and those that my sister attended that I didn’t, there seems to be [...]

I’ve got a lot of tabs open, and they’ve been open for most of the week for some reason or other. With Firefox crashing at least 4 times a day at the moment, it probably doesn’t hurt to get these listed down and saved. I hope you find something useful amongst them! It’s funny how [...]

I can trace my heritage on Dad’s side back to Clan Hunter of Ayrshire, Scotland, and I always find it quite interesting to see what’s going on over there at the moment, particularly as Hunterston Estate is still owned by Clan Hunter, including Hunterston Castle. Unfortunately part of Hunterston was resumed in order to build [...]

I’ve been to a number of different hairdressers over the past 5 years or so, just prior to and since moving to Brisbane, and there has not been one that has really stood out to me as an outstanding hairdresser.
I only get my hair cut every 4 to 6 months or so, though occasionally it [...]

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 it? How [...]

It’s great to see a boss pointing these things out to the employees. Sure, a cash handout is great, but ongoing work is much better.
Have a read of the letter that this employer sent to his employees here.
As a small business owner, I agree with this email entirely, even though I only employ one person [...]

At the 2009 South NSW Big Camp in Jindabyne last week, Grenville Kent had an interesting story that he shared with the Youth in one of the morning meetings about a discussion that he had with an engineer he was sitting next to on a plane.
I’d like to share it back the way I understood [...]

You know that 9 letter word that you can take one letter away from all the way down to 1 letter, and it will still be a word? I can never remember which word it is. Of course, it’s a pretty useless piece of trivia, but I’m going to put it here so I can [...]

Come along to the #nocleanfeed rallies and protests Australia wide on Saturday the 13th of December.

For more info, have a look here and here.
While you’re at it, if you haven’t already signed the petition, head on over to GetUp’s Save The Net Petition.

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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 past [...]