Random thoughts and observations
Changing address is a pain at any time, more so when you move interstate. I can’t imagine the fuss if you moved overseas! We attended to some of the essential paperwork in advance of moving from Kalgoorlie to Mount Gambier. Electricity, water and telephone all had to be changed before we shifted. I earmarked today [...]
I’ve been caught out several times in the past year with businesses and organisations taking automatic payments from my credit card for subscription services. It always makes me feel a mixture of silly and peeved. Silly that I didn’t read the fine print when I signed up for the service and peeved that I didn’t [...]
A reader came into the newspaper office with a 1900 sixpence she had found in her small change, thinking it somewhat remarkable. I don’t think it’s amazing at all, but worthy of a blog post. I don’t handle much change these days except one and two dollar coins. When I was a child these were [...]
My Firehorse horoscope on Facebook today includes: “Bureaucracy will be slower than usual, which will cause you to be in an execrable mood; but at least spare your near collaborators.” I’m waiting for the bank to approve finance on a new housing investment loan. That seems to be a circular process which has no logical [...]
It slipped past me in October that Google Finance began offering Australian share market prices and reports. One of my few reasons for using Yahoo previously had been its superior Australian market coverage. Now I can go to the cleaner look of Google and not worry about flickering ads. Google Finance incorporates the Google News [...]
