sunshine coast

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Aircraft website re launched

I've just finished re-building an Aviation website Aircraftphotos.biz. It now has aviation related jokes, odd ball things spotted on the web, memories from old pilots and of course lots of aircraft photos. Have a look even people who aren't that mad about aircraft will find interesting things there. Plus some of the jokes are really good.
http://www.prlog.org/10551536-aviation-website-re-launched.html

Monday, February 22, 2010

Crying Wolf

We are often reminded on TV that we must obey the road works signs in particular the reduced speed limits. And now police cars are being stationed along side road works to reinforce the message, what a waste of police resources. Despite all this effort most people still don't slow down until they see the police car. So what's going on? The TV ads stress that the reduced speed limits are there to protect the road workers, does this mean the public doesn't care about the road workers? No, I believe the road workers don't care about road workers. Most people don't reduce speed when they encounter these road work signs simply because a) they place them too far ahead of the road works, b) so often there are no road works, they've just left the signs up.
If road workers care about their safety they should be vigilant about covering up the signs when they are not actually working.It's called crying wolf.
The Bruce highway on the Sunshine Coast has been in a state of disrepair for years yet the speed limit remained 110kph except for one particularly bad section where it was reduced to 100 khp (as if that would make any difference). The recently the road was resurfaced, yet for weeks the speed limit was reduced to 80 khp, why, because the lane marking wasn't finished (there were those temporary plastic lane markers). The road was finally safer than it had been for years yet the speed limit was reduced. These illogical rules and behaviours are why drivers ignore speed limits.
This will change when I'm Emperor.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Good Business Advice

As I continue to work on these Business Manuals for e-Training Manuals I'm struck by the common sense expressed in these manuals, but at the same time I realise how few businesses apply these principles. I know so many businesses that could benefit greatly from applying these business ideas.
But I guess that's why they remain small businesses that only ever dream of becoming big businesses.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

SPAM

Even though I've cranked-up my Spam filter to the point where I'm loosing real emails I still get about five Viagra emails a day, all from the same place.
  1. How do they get through when my real mail is being effected?
  2. More importantly why do these spammers believe that if you don't want to buy after one email that you are more likely to buy if they send you five everyday? Makes no sense, even if I wanted Viagra the last people I'd buy from are these spammers.
  3. Why do they send it to me with an .au address, don't they know that in Australia, thanks to our government subsidy I can buy ALL my drugs for far less than any Canadian Pharmacy?

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Why, Why!!!!!!!!!

Why do people insist on using multiple exclamation marks? An exclamation mark is also a full stop (period to yanks) which means it's the end of the sentence. Therefore the next exclamation mark is an empty sentence. An exclamation mark is for use where the preceding text is surprising not to lend emphasis. Multiples just look DUMB.