Job applications
Applied for three part-time admin positions I found on Seek, all located not far from where we live which is a bonus. Update: below is the one I scored an interview for. The second one, I didn’t get as far as interview but received a nice rejection letter.. heard nothing back about the third one! […]
Road signs 2.0
Apologies for the gratuitous use of “2.0”. Being a web-head it is tempting to apply this term to anything that is an improvement over an older version (it all began with Web 2.0). In the U.S.A., a new typeface has been developed to make road signs clearer, and comparing the before/after shots in this New […]
The Perks
Dad forwarded this email funny to me – The Perks of Being Over Sixty. I love items 5, 7 and 13: 1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you. 2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first. 3. No one expects you to run–anywhere. 4. People call at 9 PM and […]
Demands on the Poor
At present, the positive efforts [toward reducing poverty] are being affected by the still largely unsolved problem of the foreign debt of the poorer countries. The principle that debts must be paid is certainly just. However, it is not right to demand or expect payment when the effect would be the imposition of political choices […]
LetterPop – quick and easy newsletters
I stumbled on this cool newsletter service LetterPop, very easy to use. It lets you add your own photos to some very nice looking templates worthy of digi-scrapping. I created this test newsletter about Boss in the space of five minutes. The basic (free) service lets you email up to 10 newsletters a year to […]
Not just for kids
As a follow up to my post last week about people paying others to “level” them in role-playing games, this news item came up today – in the last financial year Australians spent $1 billion on games software and hardware! According to a report, the average age of a gamer in this country is 28, […]