South Australia could be the next Dubai (but glowing!).
One of South Australia's most lucrative exports is uranium. "Ooh, that's horrible." you say. Just pretend you still don't know that fact and continue to live in an economy that would be flailing right now without such evil exports. More correctly, we export yellow cake. This is uranium in its most unrefined form and is [...]
BORING NERD CONTENT: Growing your Twitter followers – organic vs artificial.
Most people when they start using Twitter find themselves suffering “follower envy”. They wish they had thousands of followers like everyone else does. There are two ways to grow your followers. Artificially or organically. One of them sucks.
Great ideas for losing customers – Give me a coupon to punch ten times.
Last Fringe Festival, I discovered a new Mexican restaurant with the best taco and burritos I ever had. I immediately took all of my friends there. Heaps of local and interstate comedians started eating there. The owner noticed me always coming in with new people and we quickly got to know each other. He often [...]
Great ideas for losing customers – Minimum creditcard limits.
Want to lose me as a customer, follow these guides. If you instead want me to continue shopping with you, you should ignore these guides. Have a "store policy" of limiting creditcard transactions to amounts over $10. Where do you make the most profit in retail? Low ticket items. You should make it harder for [...]
Stephen Conroy’s “Broadband Connection”
Now that Labor have formed a minority government they will be closely watched as to whether the revive their plans to filter all internet traffic in Australia in a way similar to China. This is my effort to add pressure to efforts to keep the filter dead. I hope if nothing less, it becomes a [...]
Quitting government “cold turkey”
It has been almost two weeks since I was last governed by a Prime Minister and the cravings have almost stopped. I am able to go about my day hardly ever needing oversight or legislation. I still enjoy all the things I used to. I haven’t even put on weight. I honestly think it has [...]