Mundane day-to-day stuff

Admittedly this is a little crappy, but here it is - Australian Rare Coins Online, a site for those collecting Australian rare coins. It’s a work in progress.

If you know me, keep July 19 free.

I canvassed you, the readership, for 30th party ideas. Now I’ve made up my mind - it will be a scavenger hunt / dinner Amazing Race themed combination party!

The guests will leave the starting point in staggered intervals. From there, they will follow a set course of things to find and do, and questions to answer. Prizes will be on offer for the winning team.

After that, we all go out for dinner!

The party shall be a blatant copy of one my brother did for his 20th a few years ago.

I’m still organising the details of what will happen, where the race starts and ends, etc. The race is about 70% organised, the rest of it is 5% (approx.). I hope to get things ready enough for invitations to go out in about a week or so.

If you live in the cold, dark wilderness of Alaska, or somewhere slightly more subtropical that still occasionally gets cold sometimes, you are probably interested in keeping warm when it does get cold.

I used to live in an upstairs bedroom of a largely unheated house, with only a coil heater to keep myself warm. Unfortunately, it was one of those heaters that can only heat effectively if there is no ventilation, and only a small room at that. My room was quite large, and for some reason the window couldn’t close properly. The coil heater simply couldn’t provide enough heat to cope with the incoming cold air. I needed something more hardcore - I dare say comfort glow heaters would have been up to the task.

In the past, I’ve found gas heaters get a room toasty warm, and typically are more cost effective than other types of heaters.

Gas heaters are good for outdoor heating also. They are a common site in outdoor seating areas in restaurants in my area.

One of the most perplexing questions about opening or running a small business is where to get finance.

The most obvious option is, perhaps, a bank. But most banks are notoriously conservative when it comes to providing finance for small businesses. They would rather deal with big businesses. After all, big businesses tend to be much less of a risk.

Fortunately, there are finance providers available to bridge the gap between capital and small business. Restaurant Business Loans are one establishment who specialise in providing finance to, you guessed it, restaurants.

I support finance businesses of this nature. After all, it is small business that keeps our economy ticking over and our workers employed. When small businesses prosper, we all do.

Normal blogging shall resume here shortly.

A couple of things shall change though. As follows:

• All comments are now to be held for moderation. Sorry, folks, but there is too much spam about and I simply don’t have the time to individually delete each one. My aim is to check comments every 24 hours or so.
• No nofollow links are now off. Again, spam. Hopefully this will deter the pesky spammers.
•  I’m going to do some paid posts, probably. I simply can’t afford to spend time blogging nowadays unless I get at least some dosh for my trouble. I’ll keep doing non-paid posts and hopefully keep things interesting.

That’s all for now. See you all soon with some quality blogging!

Hi everyone.

After several months of not blogging, I have decided to break my silence. I’ve been waiting until some inspiration has come to me to write on a certain subject; I hereby give up on that approach, and shall now just talk at you all, if only to reassure you that I’m still alive.

How you all doing, anyway?

In particular, I’m thinking of Pete who has about 15 or so blogs at last count, not to mention his own business, and wife, and kids, who must be sorely neglected by this time surely, what with so many blogs to feed. How many blogs can one man maintain?

Also, I’m thinking of “The” Molk(s), at least one of whom still continues his quest to lose weight, I’m pleased to see.

And to everyone else, including but not limited to Robert Hruzek, Ben of Hello Internet and however many others.

While you wait for me to say something substantial, go read about the thorny mathematical problem that’s just been solved by a dog.

(Pic from Barnard)

That’s right: this blog has a new theme. No need to adjust your monitor. What do you think?

Any bugs or other annoying weirdness? Leave a comment about it, or use the contact form.

WEIRD COMMENT BUG THINGY UPDATE: I found a fix for it - but when I installed it, the fix broke the site altogether. So for the time being, the bug stays. In my opinion its minor enough to work around, although I would much prefer that things just worked properly, dang it.

SON OF WEIRD COMMENT BUG THINGY UPDATE: Fixed. If you find anything else like that, let me know.

As of late, I’ve been unable to blog due to being very busy. Among other things, remember how I said I was moving house? It has now happened and I have now moved. Thank God that’s over.

Just after the move, I went to the local shopping centre to buy a couple of things; I only realised on my way there that it was no longer my local shopping centre. From my new house, there are closer places I can go. Clearly the move hadn’t sunk in yet. The extra distance wasn’t that much, but I wonder how much further away could I have moved and still gone back to my old shopping centre without realising it?

Some people apologise for not posting on their blog. Not me. Reading this blog is a privilege, not a right. Show me some love, people!

Actual, proper blog posts to appear here real soon now. I promise.

While on the train on the way home from work, seated in an aisle seat,  a man asked for access to the middle seat, so naturally I shifted across so he could sit down.

After a few uneventful minutes, he started making a strange noise over and over again. A sucking sound, or similar. He then started talking to himself, all while taking up so much space as to push me over the edge of my seat and into the aisle.

That wasn’t the end of it, was it? The situation provided a great opportunity for nose picking, so up went the finger into the goldmine. All great fun no doubt, but this presented an unfortunate logistical problem; what to do with the boogers on the end of his finger?

He ate them. That’s right - he picked his nose and ate it on the train, in full view of everyone.

What strange things have you witnessed while using public transport?

The Google spiders, that is. Most blogs add a “nofollow” tag to URLs in comments, but not this blog! That means that if you leave a comment here, search engines will send trained spiders to follow you home. Just like the critter shown above. Gorgeous.

More spider pics available at Big Hairy Spiders.