What is bloo?
What is bloo? There are huge billboards in Northbridge advertising bloo.com.au – bloo business directory search. Where did they get their listings from? Is there a place for yet one more on-line directory??
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What? No lemongrass?Myasthenia Gravis Support Group WA
Myasthenia Gravis Support Group
www.myastheniawa.info is one of the web sites that came to mind, which I designed back in 2005. I remember two [seemingly very old] people walking into my office back in Mt Lawley and asking if I could do a web site for them. They just spent years researching Myasthenia Gravis and produced a Myasthenia Gravis Information booklet and Myasthenia Gravis Handbook that they wanted to make avaialble on the Internet. Back then I thought, “wow…” it was amazing to see the committment from these people to produce something useful that would help others suffering from Myasthenia Gravis.
The web site is here: http://www.myastheniawa.info/
WAIX.info gets a new look
waix.info now has a new look. I’ve run this web site for a number of years and it gets quite a number of waix searches from Google and other search engines. The old web site was using a wiki and I found that not many people were keen to add their listings to the site. The system is now ported to WP and has a WAIX Directory section. If you are an ISP on WAIX or if you have a web site that is hosted with one of those ISPs, please add your web site to the WAIX directory.
A new theme for this blog.
Here we go. A new, interesting theme for this blog. It is Fjords by Peterandrej. Do you like it?
Use GMail for backup & storage space!
Are you sick and tired fiddling with flash drives just to get a few files home and back? There is a much simpler solution – Gmail Drive. All you need is a free GMail account. And a simple, very light, program running on your computer. I have a friend who’s been using it for 3 years, non stop, and it hasn’t crashed ones or caused any problems.
So, there you are. Once installed, you’ll see “Gmail drive” inside your “My Computer”. When you copy a file there, it sends an email to your gmail account with this file as an attachment (you can see that email in your gmail inbox). Nice.
Cash Handouts, Economic Stimulus, Education Tax Refund
The Australian Government has released a number of economic stimulus packages to combat the resession.
These include Cash Handouts, infrastructure investments and tax refunds, incl education tax refund. This web site has all the details and links: http://www.ausbusiness.net/review/economic-stimulus-australia/
It’s not cheating – cheap cheap Microsoft deals for students
For all of you students out there – Microsoft is running a promotion where you can buy cheap MS Office Ultimate 2007 for $75.00AUD. Right Here. It’s even cheaper than the usual academic version. All you need is an email address @ your university or school to verify your eligibility.
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Ideas5 in Perth
Have you heard about Ideas meetings? It’s on again in Perth: http://webindustry.asn.au/ideas5/ Highly recommend.
Mathletics Math tutor www.mathletics.com.au
Mathletics Online Math Tutor www.mathletics.com.au lets children compete in Math againts their peers worldwide. This is rather an amazing system (used by my son). It allows kids from different countries to compete against each other in real time.
For more info visit Mathletics Math Tutor at Education Review.
Google is now on WAIX
Google is now on WAIX – here is a traceroute from my home Amnet DSL:
C:Usersgm>tracert www.google.com
Tracing route to www.l.google.com [72.14.203.103]
over a maximum of 30 hops:1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms my.router [192.168.0.1]
2 26 ms 6 ms 6 ms rba-7206-e.wa.amnet.net.au [203.161.64.230]
3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 192.168.4.238
4 106 ms 9 ms 6 ms ge0-2.br01.wa.amnet.net.au [203.161.64.9]
5 8 ms 6 ms 6 ms google.ix.waia.asn.au [198.32.212.12]
6 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 66.249.95.210
7 54 ms 54 ms 56 ms 66.249.95.246
8 107 ms 103 ms 101 ms 209.85.241.221
9 104 ms 103 ms 101 ms 209.85.250.101
10 104 ms 103 ms 102 ms 209.85.241.166
11 101 ms 101 ms 103 ms tx-in-f103.google.com [72.14.203.103]Trace complete.
The same goes for youtube.com too. If only ISPs offered free waix content still – we’d have free youtube – as much as you can eat!