The Australian Government today launched the much anticipated “Do Not Call” register allowing us in Australia to opt-out of being called by telemarketers. Good first step. The biggest problem right now is the site at http://www.donotcall.gov.au is not coping with the load of people trying to register. That means there are a lot of peopleContinue reading “Do Not Call site falls over”
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links for 2007-05-02
Open Source Windows – Free, Open-Source software for Windows If you want to run your windows PC on open source software this guide is for you! (tags: OpenSource Microsoft Linux TGGP software windows) InternetFrog.com: Network Tools, Internet Speed Test and Website Tools Test your ISP speed with InternetFrog (tags: networking performance statistics traffic) HTML Playground,Continue reading “links for 2007-05-02”
Are you ready for a big chair?
The folks over at Fairfax/MyCareer have been busy little bees in the last few months, Seth Yates being just one. They have built a very nice site called “The Big Chair“, designed for $100K+ roles across all industries. (I’m sure if I subscribed to ShortList I would have seen it earlier) This is not yourContinue reading “Are you ready for a big chair?”
Google Australia has a blog
Just a quick post to say that Google Australia has a blog, cool, (via Ben Barren and others). As they say in the intro post Google Australia has been an important site outside of the mothership. We’re proud that Google Australia was one of the first international Google offices and is now a hub forContinue reading “Google Australia has a blog”
Status of jobs in Australia
A couple of weeks ago Seek released their latest round of the Employment Index. The SEEK Employment Index (EI) is a measure of the balance between demand and supply in the Australian labour market. In March the seasonally adjusted EI increased by 2.1 points to 102.3. On yearly basis, the index is 8.1 points higherContinue reading “Status of jobs in Australia”
Are you addicted to blogging?
The Search Rank blog has a great list of 10 signs you are addicted to blogs, how do you rate? I feel good, less than 50% apply to me, in fact maybe only 20%.
How much is a domain name worth?
How much is a domain name really worth? That is the question being asked by McGrathNicol the administrator in charge of selling off the assets of jobs.com.au. $10K, $50K, $100K, $500K, $1 Million, it would have to be around $5 million if they are hoping for the sale to start covering the understood losses fromContinue reading “How much is a domain name worth?”
My Rage Top 20
Richard Giles from Scouta tagged me in the latest meme going around the blogosphere, well at least the Australian blogosphere. This one was started by The Thinker’s Podium who was inspired by Rage’s Invade Rage competition. This is the stuff of my childhood dreams; to program a Rage playlist. Rage is having an ‘invade rage‘Continue reading “My Rage Top 20”
Water usage
In Australia we are in the middle of a particularly bad drought, in Melbourne the dams supplying drinking water capacity are down to approximately 38% and falling between 0.5-1% a week. Without rain in the near future we conceivable will be without drinking water this time next year. Our households, like many others, have beenContinue reading “Water usage”
Random pages and Stumbleupon
I have been resisting signing up to StumbleUpon due to productivity reasons. I caved earlier in the week. There is some really cool stuff out there! If you have not used it and don’t mind losing a few hours I recommend signing up. Along a similar fashion for a bit of fun I have alsoContinue reading “Random pages and Stumbleupon”
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