Dipping into the Blogpond

The 2020 Summit will bring together some of the best and brightest brains from across the country to tackle the long term challenges confronting Australia’s future. Not quite up to a trip to Canberra? There are a few other ways to get involved.

This Entrecard link allows you to see the last 98 cards that have been dropped on you, and whether you have dropped a card on that site.

As a majority of bloggers would agree, making money from a blog is pretty tough work. A lot of advertisers pay on a cost per click basis (such as Google AdWords) and typically click through rates are not great on blogs.

It seems I can’t avoid seeing plenty of ads for the new Australian drama Underbelly, to be shown on the Nine Network and airing tomorrow night (13/2).

Catching up on some memes and awards.

Ever been fascinated by the differences between the way men and women think? Wonder no more as it is all explained by Mark Gungor in this hilarious clip (5m 27s) entitled “Tale of Two Brains”. It is SO true.

The idea behind Entrecard is that you create a “business card” for your blog which you use to advertise on other blogs. It’s free and uses Entrecard credits as a currency, which you earn through a variety of activities.

The combined sum of my children’s ages is 42 . Today we had our first broken bone. Miss 15 was playing basketball and landed badly, rolling her ankle in the process (warning this post contains photos which may not be appropriate for squeamish readers).

Monthly update for the Top 100 Australian blogs etc.

So with all this talk of “twenty-twenty” (no, not the cricket – the 2020 summit), it got me wondering when to we start saying “twenty” followed by the year? Is it 2010 (two thousand and ten vs. twenty ten)?