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Looking for the cheapest places to live? Assuming that you still earn a normal UK wage, you will want to compare Cost of Living Surveys and Quality of Living Surveys. Mercer, the Economist and some large governmental organisations compile these. We have picked out some titbits of relevant information and put all of the useful [...]

Here are some ideas for those of you planning a prank before midday tomorrow. Beware though -several April Fools’ Day pranksters have been jailed for causing public nuisances and devaluing major companies! The safest way to prank is to use a name or series of words that are anagrams or pnuemonics of APRIL FOOLS or [...]

Everyone writes about the same stuff, so today I won’t be mentioning:

Earth Hour – That was so last year! In fact, I covered it then, and now everyone has copied me; including
Google Blacking Out – Google’s gone black. Wow. They got into the Earth Hour too. Unfortunately everyone with a blog (there’s a few nowadays) [...]

Here are a few good places to visit in Adelaide -city of Churches; the Adelaide markets, Rundle Mall and King William Street. As South Australia is the festival state, you can expect to stumble upon a march, a celebration or, at the very least, some very enterprising buskers!

The Adelaide markets are great to visit. Local [...]

You knew it was coming, and this week it arrived: Google has re-aligned its PageRank display (you know, the toolbar one that we webmasters live and breathe by).
I knew this site had been boosted a lot of late, as the World’s Greatest Blog is performing extremely well in SERPs, but I have been particularly pleased [...]

As a fair chunk of people have been coming to this site looking for “Rugby Jokes” – following the few poor efforts I had made during the 2007 Rugby World Cup, I have decided to give these people what they are so clearly looking for: the most comprehensive collection of funny rugby jokes available anywhere [...]

This Friday, 5th October, across Australia, it is “National Walk to Work Day.”
Following my articles on Climate Change, and reflections on the Sydney Earth Hour event, as well as my follow up article on Australian Car Culture, I feel that I cannot let this event pass unnoticed.
I heard about Walk To Work Day in the [...]

We took a whole heap of photos at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Most of which were ruined by all of the people in front of us holding up their own cameras (when the flash went off it lit up their arms instead of the freak show behind them!) However, this photo sums up what Mardi [...]

So the APEC summit has drawn to a close without any serious massacres or assasination attempts coming to fruition, and they almost managed to slide it by without a comment from me. Almost.
I have two questions:
1. Why Sydney?
2. Why the over-zealous policing?
Why Sydney?
Having been to all but 2 of the mainland state capitals, and indeed [...]

Anna, a fellow traveler who I worked with in Sydney, turned up unexpectedly in Brisbane just after Rob and I had decided to leave. Over a bottle of wine we quickly resolved to travel North together. In celebration of this excellent decision we proceeded to paint the town red.
It just so happened that the USS [...]