This site’s been abandoned for a fair while now, but I think it’s time to get it started again. I enjoy writing; it’s been something I’ve neglected for a while, and a blog is an excellent opportunity to do so. Besides there’s a limit to how much special interest things one can post to their Facebook status updates before people lose interest.
read moreIn an unexpected stint of house keeping, I decided to updated to a newer version of Wordpress – just using Bluehost’s auto update function. Now, whilst doing this I realised that my old template was getting old; the new version of the otherwise stunning Vistered Little theme was performing even slower than the last, so I set out on search for a new template.
I finally found Yichi’s Resurrection – which is fast performing and very beautiful. A couple of things were broken due to it not being a WP2.3 template, however when I got rid of the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin and replaced it with Reciprocity’s Configurable Tag Cloud – things were much better.
I also set up a twitter account, which looks like an interesting thingie – I will see how I go with it, on top of Facebook, Google Talk and other places to set my current status. 
Well, about 6 months ago we signed up both of our cars plus household wastage on http://www.carbonneutral.com.au/ . Electricity is already on green. Would like to plug their site as it’s a great initiative!
If we weren’t renting I’d love to get a solar panel set up. However I settled for getting the air leakage into the garage fixed up; the gaps around this sliding door were big enough to poke a finger through. Got a door specialist to do a perfect install of air blockers to prevent this huge energy loss so that we’re all ready for the winter. It’s pretty mind boggling how bad the house construction standards are here in Australia. 
Also, just noting that Rudd’s first action as incumbent Prime Minister was to sign Australia’s ratification of the Kyoto agreement. Well done.
read moreHere’s to hoping that Howard’s ejection might finally take Australia out of the ethical dark ages we have suffered for the past 10 years.
On Howard’s CV we have … Children overboard, The Tampa, Kyoto, Iraq, decimating the Aboriginal communities, lying about GST…
It’ll be an interesting time to see if Rudd will be able to be bring some of the compassion he is reported to have to his new role as prime minister.
Good luck!
read moreSo we got an introductory package from Origin Energy after signing up to a 12 month contract with Green energy. It contained several Compact fluorescent lamps, plus a water saving showerhead (which we already had). Now for the bulbs, I’d never thought about them before. But then decided, ok let’s see how they work. 10 minutes later the 6 included ones were gone… and off I was on the pushbike to get more. $70 later and I had stocked up about 14 more. Still 4 short. So another $20, and every single light bulb was gone.
Now, why would I go to this extreme? Well, they use 1/5th of the energy – 18w provides 90w of traditional output. 40 or 50w output uses half that. See the following article for more info – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4922496.stm .
So it’ll hopefully offset some of that energy used by that big plasma….
read moreI went to the Melbourne Car Show 2007 today and got a few shots. Others have covered the details much better than I could, but I find the Type R Civic – which will arrive here in a few months – having an incredible appeal. Plus, it’s got to be one of the strongest 2.0 naturally aspirated engine ever built (for a hatch, that is – the S2000 clearly leaves it in the dust).
