Archive for April, 2007

Demographics

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Just came across this interesting page on Australian demographics.
Seems as though I’m pretty close to the ‘median’ Australian male, wonder if I can get interviewed by someone?
Australia’s population will be ticking over to 21 million sometime soon. I was a bit surprised we only add a net migrant every 5 minutes, that’s something we will [...]

SMS Attack!

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

I have got this one SMS message sent to me about 70 times now, every hour or so for the last four days I have been hit with this same SMS.
The original message was legitimate, and at first I thought it was a problem with my phone providers network, seems like it might be a [...]

Biking – Get Used to It!

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Having a look at second hand bikes at the moment on the internet.
Over the last month I have been doing a lot of walking, but have discovered some decent bike paths around Brisbane, so could be worth my time buying a bike.
Have discovered an interesting demographic.. ‘Boomers on Bikes’, seems to be some sort of [...]

The 80-20 Renovation Rule

Monday, April 9th, 2007

I’m edging towards completion with the renovation work on my current residence.
Seems there is some Pareto Principle at play with renovations at work here as the final few % of the renovations have taken me the most time. Will be good to have the effort finished however.

Speeding Ticket

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Got whacked for a $150, 3 point speeding ticket on Friday.
I didn’t realize what was going on when the police offer ran in the middle of two lanes of allegedly dangerous drivers to point at my car, worked it out fairly fast after that. Nice single direction traffic I was flowing with at the [...]