I was recently laying down on the carpet stretching and massaging my back muscles with the use of a Bak Ball and Princess thought she would keep me company.
As I have mentioned previously, Princess isn’t all that normal in the laying down department, so instead of just sitting near me like a normal cat – she laid on her back.
I didn’t notice her there at first and then Claire pointed it out – it does make a funny photo.
Last year, Seth Godin launched a new service named Squidoo, which aimed to bring the power of recommendation to search. Squidoo has been gaining reasonable momentum since it launched and as a result, it has now become the next haven for spammers.
I appreciate that it might be difficult to manage the problem, however if a site like Squidoo can’t get it under control then it completely erodes the usefulness of the site in my opinion. The Squidoo spam problem has been happening for quite some time and the owners are aware of it, however it seems that they have yet to find a way to curb it.
It’s a shame really, as I hate spam so much that it has now tainted my opinion of Squidoo as a useful service. Fortunately, I find the site pretty much useless, so at least I don’t have to put up with it while browsing their site.
The John Butler Trio are currently on the Australian leg of their Grand National tour and we were lucky enough to see them.
The concert was held at the Brisbane River Stage last night and the event was sold out; which officially made it the single biggest crowd in the bands history that they’ve performed in front of world wide; go Brisbane.
The evening was fantastic, with the John Butler Trio playing all of the new songs from their Grand National release with every second song being an older one. The Trio played from about 7:30pm until approximately 10:15pm with no breaks other than for us to applaud for an encore!
Such a great band, you need to do yourselves a favour and go and see them next time they are in your neck of the woods.
April 16th this year marked the arrival of Benjamin James Lattimore, the first child and son of Andrew and Belinda. Benjamin was born at 8.04AM and weighed in at a healthy 7 pound and 8 ounces. A little while after his birth, Andrew and Belinda asked if Claire and I would like to Benjamin’s God Parents; which we were very excited to accept.
Today Andrew and Belinda held a naming day for Benjamin at their house in Ipswich, which was performed by the same wedding celebrant that married them nine years earlier. The ceremony didn’t take too long and had some nice personal touches, which was really great. Everyone was pleased that so many family members and close friends were able to make the trip for the naming day and it was really good to meet some new faces.
It is pretty exciting that our collective families are starting to expand. In a couple years time we’ll have a tribe of little Lattimore kiddies kicking around the place. Claire and I are pretty chuffed that Andrew and Belinda offered the role of God Parent’s to us. I didn’t realise it initially but it comes with quite a bit of responsibility; as I understand it, we would be considered as a legal guardian if required to be in the future.
Enough with the words, enjoy some superbly cute photos of Benjamin:
Anyone that runs their eyes over this site knows just how much I hate filthy filthy spammers.
This evening I collected our snail mail from the letter box and was confronted with an enormous amount of plain old fashioned junk mail. What I couldn’t believe was that it was so full, I actually struggled to get it out of the letter box; having to brute force the bulk of it out because it was stuffed in so tight.
I’m all for a company advertising their products and making a dollar or four but at some point these big businesses just have to stop and think about what they are doing. In a single week, I received a whopping 1.3 kilograms of spam mail in my letter box. It doesn’t matter what way you cut that, its a huge amount of paper that is just going to waste.
Being a little curious, I ran my eye over the other roughly 100 letter boxes to see how many of them were the same. You’ve probably already guessed, the majority of the mail boxes were exactly the same – choc-o-block full of spammy junk mail. What was even more amazing was that nearly all of the letter boxes have an ‘Australia Post Mail Only’ or ‘No Junk Mail’ label on the lids of their mail boxes.
You’d think that if the senate can pass electronic anti-spam laws, that they’d have dealt with the low tech equivalent version first. Nope, instead people are happily flogging our forests for everything they are worth to help send out huge volumes of spam. If the companies were a little smarter about it, you’d think they’d selectively send spam instead of applying blanket tactics. I hate email spam just as much as paper spam but these companies could save some serious dollars if they invested into email marketing instead of the antiquated paper equivalent.
Save a tree, try killing an electron instead – you’ll find they’re a lot tougher.
