Mickmack: a definition
Saturday, June 30th, 2007 Posted in General, THAT's Funny! | 6 Comments »Mickmack Pronounced "mick-mack" Noun One who uses an item or items discarded by others; Etymology Mickmack is perhaps the only nickname to become a word in itself. A few years ago, in rural Yorkshire, there was a character who went by the name of ...
Were the Thundercats actually cats?
Saturday, June 16th, 2007 Posted in General, Rob's Pulpit, THAT's Funny!, Thundercats | 1 Comment »Play the Thundercats theme-tune by pressing the play button below. Can't see the button? you need to get the latest version of Flash player. I can't remember where to do this, but you need it for a lot of cool ...
“Positive” Discrimination in Job Advertisements - is it Legal?
Saturday, June 16th, 2007 Posted in Google, Rob's Pulpit, Rob's Soapbox | 1 Comment »The other day, we were planning our line of attack with regards what we are going to spend to rest of our lives doing (when we have finished our protracted holiday lifestyle, which unfortunately will have to end at some ...
The Do Not Call Register Act (DNCRA) 2006 - a Step in the Right Direction!
Thursday, June 14th, 2007 Posted in Consumer Protection, General, Rob's Pulpit, Unfair bank charges | 1 Comment »I recently learned of a new law which came into effect on 31 May 2007 here in Australia which goes pretty far to eliminate what is, in my view, a practice operated only by the more sharkish businesses: cold calling. This ...
We’re Back - in Brisbane
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 Posted in General, Rob's Travels | No Comments »No we haven't turned into a strange advert for shipping or whatever that was. The registration ended on the site without my noticing... it surely hasn't been two years since I registered it... and this occurred at the worst possible ...