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Telstra Online Ordering Disaster

1. July 2010

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Telstra Online Ordering Disaster

Ordering and buying things online, I do it all the time and never really have issues in doing so…. That was until I decided to place an order for a phone online via the Telstra shop website.  Warning, this is a bit of a rant, though it would be interesting to hear of any other [...]

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Off the cigs thanks to Electronic Cigarettes!

6. May 2010

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Off the cigs thanks to Electronic Cigarettes!

Well it has been 7 days now without a traditional analogue cigarette and I am feeling fantastic.  I first bought a Joye 501 e-cig starter kit a few months ago and slowly reduced my cigarette intake over the coarse of 2 months and finally removed tobacco from my system just before the recent Australian Cig [...]

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Eastmall Riva Ego Impressions

30. April 2010

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Eastmall Riva Ego Impressions

Yesterday I received my Eastmall Riva, so I haven’t had much time with the device but so far I am actually quite impressed.   Considering the price in comparison to other Ego models, the EM Riva Kit would make a great impact for anyone wanting to give up traditional tobacco smoking and has struggled using [...]

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R18+ Classification for Games: Australian Public Consultation

14. December 2009

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R18+ Classification for Games: Australian Public Consultation

Time to get our submissions in for a potential R18+ ratings system on a media format now more popular than Movies.  Submissions to the Aussie Government are invited by close of business 28 February 2010. Submissions received after the due date may not be considered. In Order to make a submission, you need to answer [...]

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Artificial Sweeteners hurting our kids

7. August 2009

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Artificial Sweeteners hurting our kids

I am usually a pretty mellowed blogger, not much gets me fired up.  This post will be short and sweet and to the point, but I will follow it up on my housedad blog in more detail (and less swearing) as it affects everyone. The point of this post? Artificial Sweeteners are deadly I don’t [...]

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Smokers to pay $20 for a pack of cigarettes

5. July 2009

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You have to give it to the Australian Government and its lopsided Health priorities and Freedom restrictions.  It appears to be all part of a dodgy stimulus plan to replenish the Governments coffers with complete disregard for the actual health of its people. According to this news.com.au article: CIGS could cost more than $20 for [...]

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Cleanfeed: Australian Internet content filtering

23. December 2008

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I posted this on Ozsource a few weeks ago and it is amazing how many people in Australia have no idea on the implications of Cleenfeed and how far along it has progressed. What is Cleenfeed? Clean-feed is the Australian government’s $70 million national Internet content filtering scheme, which will impose blanket filtering for all [...]

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Lilydale Quarry

24. March 2008

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Lilydale Quarry 14-01-10 B

Update 08/6/10 Restored original post. Update 14/1/10 The notes from the recent community meeting are available from the Lilydale Quarry Unimin Community website which can be found HERE. The overburden dump has started to expand and the sprinkler system used to suppress the dust appears to be failing as evident in the following pictures. Update [...]

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Toyo Ink Australia

5. January 2008

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Toyo Ink Australia

For Information on Toyo Ink Australia, please visit the official website. Toyo Ink Australia The Toyo Ink company is one of the top three printing ink manufacturers and suppliers in the world.   Toyo Ink celebrated their 100 year anniversary as an incorporated company in 2007 and today our operations expand across most countries in Asia, [...]

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