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how to save water

Few months ago, I signed up to Blog Action Day

On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment

If you haven’t guessed from the title, and from that short intro, this post will be about the environment - namely how to save water.

The reason for this topic is simply because Australia is facing severe drought conditions. A quick Google gives us an article from Wikipedia with the different water restriction levels currently in place:

  • Brisbane: Stage 5
  • Adelaide: Stage 3
  • Canberra: Stage 3
  • Melbourne: Stage 3
  • Sydney: Stage 3
  • Hobart: Stage 1
  • Darwin: none
  • Perth: permanent restrictions

As you can see pretty much all the major cities have some form of restriction in place. I’m not quite sure what ‘permanent restrictions’ for Perth really means, but either way it doesn’t sound good.
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Who Moved My Cheese?

On Monday my family and I arrived at the airport nice and early to be sure that I would not miss my plane, only to find that the flight had been delayed by an hour. So what was there to do in that hour? Visit the newsagent and read books of course!

Unlike most times where I just randomly pick up books that look interesting and read snippets, a particular book caught my attention: “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Dr. Spencer Johnson. Being one of the books on my ‘To Read’ list, I was happy to see that it was only about 100 pages with nice big font. The blurb claimed that it would only take half an hour to read, so with one hour to kill, I decided to stand there and finish the book.

If you haven’t heard of this book, it is one of the best selling motivation books. In my opinion, a quick and simple summary is:

Adapt To Change Quickly
The Quicker You Let Go Of Old Cheese, The Sooner You Can Enjoy New Cheese

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upgraded to WordPress 2.3

As some of you may or may not know, WordPress 2.3 was released about a week ago on Monday 24th September. So since I had a bit of time, decided I should upgrade from 2.2.2. After some drama with the incorrect file permissions of the uploaded files I finally managed to get everything working (I hope!) so now I’m using the brand new WordPress 2.3 release :)

With this upgrade I’ve also upgraded to K2 RC1 as on their page it is suggested to use RC1 with 2.3. The front-end should look relatively similar, with the exception that tags are now only shown when you view the full post - since I’ve disabled Ultimate Tag Warrior and now using the inbuilt tagging system that comes with 2.3.

If you do find any problems with my blog, please send me an email and I’ll go and try to fix it up!

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6 simple tips to help you snack less

If you know me, you’ll know that I’m not a picky eater and I can eat a lot - especially when it comes to snacks. And if you’re like me once I start eating/snacking I just can’t seem to stop! Initially, I tried the approach of no snacks at all with the reasoning that if there are no snacks then there’s nothing to snack on.

However, since I hadn’t snacked in ages, and knew I didn’t have any snacks in my room it failed horribly whenever sweets and junk food were in my reach - I just pigged out on them. Considering this “free food” is semi-regular (team meetings, birthdays etc) it doesn’t help with reducing the amount of snacking.
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dragon illusion

Another great illusion - and this time you get to make it! Have a look at the Three Dragons from Grand Illusions - the movie clip is really quite cool! After seeing the clip I actually went and made it straight away (much easier to make than the penguin) but sadly it didn’t turn out as nice as the illusion in the video clip. It seems like you need some light behind the dragon for it to work. Though I’ll still put it on my desk at work and see if I get any weird looks :)

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