It was a quiet weekend, not much happening. I’ll be a taxi driver again soon enough once the hockey and soccer seasons get under way.
In no particular order, these are some random musings and personal news items:
- I’m reading Stewart Cockburn’s biography of Sir Thomas Playford. The subtitle is “Benevolent despot” which gives you some idea of Playford’s style. He set a record of 26 years in power, making him the longest-serving Premier or Prime Minister in the Commonwealth. I’ll write more about that later.
- We hired a skip bin for the weekend and filled it with junk. The $140 cost is cheaper than making frequent trips to the rubbish dump and more convenient than hiring a trailer.
- I’ve restored Google ads and Lijit search to this website. I removed all javascript code a while back when there were problems with loading pages. At that time I was earning about US$100 a month from Google ads across several sites. The amount has fallen right away and it’s not so little to ignore.
- Maggie has a mobile phone. Yes, I know, she’s only five! It’s one of my old phones and we paid $20 for a Telstra pre-paid SIM card, which we won’t renew when it runs out. Now the phone is activated again she can take photos, play games and listen to music. Walking around the house now, you never know when Maggie is going to start recording a video or snapping candid moments.
- We’re hoping that Mr Rudd will deliver his bonus payment next week. There’s a chance we might have to wait until tax time to get it, which would delay some plans we have.
- In the blogosphere, The Girl Who Wished She Was Australian is back in USA after visiting these shores and normal blog service has resumed. I never did send Dina that text message while she was here. I’m glad that Sue has started blogging again. Tim Burrowes is doing a great job with media and marketing site mUmBRELLA.
- Collingwood lost at football and Victoria is winning at cricket, like the natural order of things has been properly restored.
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Hey! You’re right! You never did send me that message!!!
You should be ashamed of yourself.
The skip bin intrigues me. I’d love to get rid of lots of junk at once. We bag stuff up to give to charity but it takes us so damn long to actually bring it to the thrift store (op shop)
Hi Mike,
Having an alternative to Lijit is a solution Publishers Union of Bloggers currently recommends to any publisher considering installing Lijit software, pending transparent guidance moving forward from Lijit on its financial position in this economy.
To date, Lijit has refused to provide this guidance. Public companies, such as Google, must, and allow publishers to make an informed choice about trusting content and search.
If P.U.B. has any additional information concerning this, it will be made available. Look forward to your input as you use both services.
Thanks
Barney Moran
P.U.B.
Twitter: mgorey
says:
Thank you Mr Rudd. Your “back to school” bonus payment arrived today. We’ll do the right think and return most of the cash to the economy.