February 13, 2012

Five guests I would invite to dinner

This topic gets kicked around in blogs from time to time. The usual formula is to select a world spiritual leader, world leader, celebrity, babe/hunk and novelty guest. Here is my list: 1) Allan Border. Arguably Australia’s greatest cricketer of the modern era, AB was my teenage sporting idol. He maintained a world-class batting average [...]

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Die, Fluffy Wuffy, die

Blogger Matt Hayden

Thanks to a remark he left on another website I used to win, I discovered the entertaining blog of Matt “not the cricketer” Hayden enticingly titled Die, Fluffy Wuffy, Die. He writes more wittily than I could ever hope to do about current political topics. I don’t think he’s from Perth, but he’s well across [...]

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Seeking inspiration

I’m finding it difficult to get motivated to write anything here lately. I have a long weekend coming up. If I don’t feel inspired by then I might take a break from blogging. Or maybe I’ll just change the theme to give myself a new challenge.

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Election night drinking game

This is a funny post by Dave from Albury. I won’t repeat it here, so follow the link if you’re interested. I won’t be playing the game. I have to work next Sunday, and with my political journalist away it will fall to me to report the election. Saturday night will be fairly relaxed, but [...]

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Splogs, scrapers and copyright

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Copyright is an issue which flows around the blogosphere, especially as sploggers and scrapers become more prominent. These are parasites who aggregate the content of others to worm a few measly dollars from Google ads. Personally I’m not too fussed by it. I’ve had some of my posts harvested into such blogs before. It annoys [...]

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