Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Penny pinching

Published on 30th of June 2009 in ranting. 4 Comments

Tomorrow the Australian state of Queensland, where I live, introduces its first fuel tax. Petrol will be 9¢ dearer per litre. Imagine my surprise when I tried to pull into a petrol station this afternoon and the whole forecourt and the major road that turns into it was packed with people queueing for ‘cheap’ petrol. I have never seen anything like it. Mass hysteria. You’d think that petrol was on ration or something.

Do the sums.

The average tank (should it be near empty) would take 50-60 litres. Multiply that by 9 and you get a $4.50 – $5.40 per tank saving. And people are queueing up for that saving? By waiting in a queue for 10 minutes they’re probably burning a quarter of their savings anyway. And in the big scheme of things a $5.00 saving is nothing.

My time on this earth is worth more than anything money can pay for so I went down the street to an empty BP station and paid a premium (5¢ more) so I could get home early and feed the cat!

Will Facebook kill blogging?

Published on 24th of June 2009 in General. 0 Comments

An article with the above title appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald today.

My answer is no it won’t kill it off completely. Blogging is far too individual and less obsessed with permanent one to one connections. There’ll always be a role for blogs. Most importantly you can own your blog, not just be a user of a proprietary interactive service.

Upyadate

Published on 22nd of June 2009 in General. 0 Comments

I almost forgot that I have a weblog. That’s good I suppose, I used to live for the thing 6 years ago and now I am too busy too worry about telling any other bugger either what I think or what I’m doing.

For interest’s sake I am sitting at my desk with a burmese cat purring away on my lap, 4ZZZ’s prisoner show on in the background and it is pissing with rain. There you go.

Twitter that you fuquers!

Good photos coming soon as another trip to Melbourne is not far away.