I love things that make me feel a strong sense of nostalgia. Many of us do. Yesterday I watched The Muppets after missing it in the cinema earlier this year (twice in fact). My post on Facebook said it all. I laughed. I cried. I spent most of the movie doing both. A can of [...]
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No matter how cool a toy is, if it is difficult to use then it doesn’t get played with. That’s been the case with my 6″ equatorial telescope. At 1.2m long on a heavy steel mount it’s not so portable. By the time it drag it out of the shed and get it back into [...]
I’ve just been reading some of the excellent marketing posts appearing on the 360 Results blog. Useful RSS feeds like this one get added straight into my Google Reader account…well sometimes. A RSS feed by the way is a list of all blog posts on a website. By subscribing to the RSS feed the news from [...]
This morning during breakfast my youngest daughter and I were discussing flags on the back of a conversation about the countries competing in the 2010 Fifa World Cup. I asked, “What are flags useful for?”, and she replied, “For the Queen’s Birthday” “Parades” “Sticking on the moon to say it’s yours” “Your planet” I then [...]
Initiating a conversation with other people can be difficult as most of us are so worried about what the other person will think of us that we decide it’s better to say nothing than to expose our flaws. This topic is just one covered in The Fine Art of Small Talk by Debra Fine. For [...]
The Knights Templar are an organisation shrouded in myth and controversy. Having gained recent popularity in the Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code, it is interesting to hear something of the real story behind them as told in the non-fiction The Enigma of the Knights Templar. There is a rich history here which brings [...]
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The Organic Trade Association have created a great piece of marketing to get their message across. Grocery Store Wars is a Star Wars parody that takes healthy food right to the couch potatoes. The laughing will be good for you even if you miss the healthy message.
Straight from the “how dumb do they think their customers are file”, I saw this on a sign in the window of my local McDonalds. It’s an advertisement for thier soft-serve ice-creams. After all this time, still only 30c50c After all this time there seems to have been a price increase and a new-price sticker [...]
A student recently wrote a letter to my local paper seeking advice on motivation. My life is at a turning point; I’ve finished VCE [Year 12] and am now faced with the question of what I want to do with my life…I’m interested to find out what people do to get, and stay, motivated. I [...]
