Random thoughts and observations
Thanks to Reinhardt at Mollers Down Under, I learnt that a toilet paper company has embraced Twitter to promote its brand.
Envirosoft, or Encore Tissue, has a Twitter handle @SafeTissue.
The bio proclaims: “Australia’s only Toilet Paper endorsed by Planet Ark. Made from 100% Recycled Waste Paper. A Better Choice for Our Planet!”
The past year was superficially a stable one for me in terms of employment. I use the word superficially because my job title didn’t change and neither did the work I perform. There were a number of internal “shuffles” throughout the year though, to keep things fluid and interesting.
Today I received an email from LinkedIn saying that 17 of my 121 connections changed jobs during 2011. That’s 14 percent of people.
Newspaper photographers are a dying species. The Guardian explains why newspapers are closing the shutters on staff photographers.
It mentions The Independent in England, the Daily Mirror and regional UK publisher Archant.
Newspaper photographers are in retreat. Staff jobs are vanishing as publishers look for new ways to cut costs.
I received an email from my web host Site5 while I was at the cricket on Tuesday, saying this site had been suspended because it was using too many system resources (CPU and memory) for shared hosting.
“Your account is consuming about 10.66% of CPU resources on a shared server, which is not a fair share. We had no choice but to block the web access of following script to stabilize the server,” the message said.
I attended Test cricket this week to see Australia play India at Adelaide Oval. It was my first time at a game since October 2005 when Australia played the ICC World XI at the SCG.
As far as I know, that game is considered a Test for statistical purposes.
Australia won by 210 runs, with Matt Hayden scoring 111 in the first innings and 77 in the second, while Stuart MacGill snared nine wickets.
