Dipping into the Blogpond

Winning a trophy that looks like a toilet seat. Source ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sydney’s weird summer weather * wettest summer in 6 years * no days over 31 degrees (surely not?) – first time since 1956 * average max temperature only 25.2 degrees – coldest summer since 1996-97 * lowest average sunshine since 91-92 (6.7 hours per […]

Does this Answer the perennial question – “How many Aussie blogs are there”?

Alt text is important because not everyone can “see” images. Some people use text only browsers (or disable images), and certainly search engines can’t tell what an image is, unless you specifically give it a description (or title).

And speaking of Facebook, who the heck is Gile McFile? Gile you might be an Aussie, but I don’t accept friendship from inanimate objects 😉

Have you ever wondered how well optimised your website is? What I mean by that, is how easy your content is to find on search engines.

Website Grader is an online tool that gives your website a score out of 100 and prepares a pretty comprehensive report (ready within a couple of minutes).

In this day and age fast typing is a must – from top executives to students. With our reliance on computers and written communication, being able to type quickly is probably the biggest boost in productivity available to an office worker.

Back in October I received an email from Princeton Premier inviting me to become part of their Registry.

Someone from my bank called me today about an issue with one of my accounts. Of course it sounds like a legitimate conversation, and it was, but I just wonder how many people would divulge that information without skipping a beat?

I know – cute is probably NOT the term that comes to mind when you think of Kevin Rudd, Brendan Nelson and Peter Garrett rap dancing. But it is!

When you link to an individual post on a blog (yours or someone else’s) an option is to create a trackback. This means a small snippet of your post will be sent as a comment to the post being linked to.