The Freethinker (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
THE last time the South Wales Echo squared up to religion, religion – in the guise of Stephen “Birdshit” Green – shouted back BOO! The paper scuttled away in full panic mode, apologised to Christians for offending them, and promptly removed the offending item – a column by Dan O’Neill – from its website. Well, [...]
IOL (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The sacking of New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma has sent ripples through the Australian political arena.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Sydney, New South Wales, Australia BA9 departs Bangkok at 18:10 on 16OCT Home sweet Home at 07:05 on 17OCT
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
A solo round the world trip from London to Quito via India, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Around the South Pacific
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
MCI scores are calculated using two different methods. The first, the simple weighted average (additive) measure shows overall competitive intensity. The second, the multiplicative method, is more complex. It prevents markets with an overly wide spread of underlying raw scores from exerting undue influence over, or skewing, the final result.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
DUBLIN, Ireland - (Business Wire) Research and Markets () has announced the addition of the "Market Competitive Intensity (MCI): New South Wales, Australia" report to their offering. Datamonitor's MCI Index offers a robust framework for measuring the development of utility Market Competitive Intensity. The MCI assessment draws on nine underlying metrics grouped into three broad clusters:...
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Glenn McGrath's Test career finished 18 months ago but the honours are still arriving and he will be awarded life membership of Cricket New South Wales.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Day 168 - Arrived in Sydney at 9am local time and deciding not to rush (and finding no meal included in the flight!) sat in the airport and had a coffee and breakfast. My first two awakenings in Sydney were firstly, it's a bit damn cold (9 degrees Celsius and the coldest they've known it for a while - typical!)...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Back in Adelaide (South Australia) after a few days visiting friends (who I met in New Zealand on the first trip) in Buronga (New South Wales), just across the Murray river from Mildura (Victoria), where the Greyhound bus goes. I mention this because I spent 8 weeks in just one state (Western...
Sterling Adventures (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Some fab pictures from our trip through Cwm Dwr to OFD in South Wales last weekend...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Sydney 20th You know that job I wasn't bothered about before I left (which I mentioned in passing in July blog entry) well I did a second interview for them at 9am the morning we left and they called me in Ireland to say I got it, and I really do want it so now all I have to do is resign... That 1st day back I resigned...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Ok, so I haven't actually left home yet, but those of you who know me expected to see an entry before I left. Still so many things to do...... I need jumpers. What was I thinking, New Zealand in the middle of winter..... bugger. I can't stand the cold. I've just started to freeze my bottom off in Sydney and I'm heading...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia So, it's been a little while since I've written again. On Friday, my part of the job here was finished. So Saturday, Jacqui and I took off driving North and East, then back West. I had gotten to trade in my Toyota Corolla rental car when I took my coworker to the airport on Monday. Now I'm driving...
The Tin Drummer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Woman fined for fire engine theft A 45-year-old woman was fined after she admitted stealing a fire engine while its crew dealt with a flood near her home. Catherine Durant was "irate" when she entered the cab of the fire engine before reversing it, crashing it into a brick wall and a car, South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said. Durant, of Pontypool, admitted aggravated vehicle taking...
