Wife back tomorrow… yaaayyyy!!! :D

Can hardly wait… not seen her for a week and that’s a week too long… well *I* think so… not sure if *she* does

Ok… and so back to more mundane things.

I’ll keep updating the MoneyMaker pages and adding details of what where when and who but it’s time to get back to what I *used* to do which was post on stuff that interested me in the general world outside the realms of ‘cyber finance’
 To begin with I’m again watching the abysmal [...]

So… it starts!

Starts? Yup… ‘invested’ in a couple of online investment programs to see what happens. This is a risky business so I’ll not be too specific until they actually pay out… one is supposed to pay out in two days so hardly a long wait… the other in a month. Keep watching the space… if either [...]

Getting serious slowly…

Just sent the application off for an Australian Business Number (ABN). The ABN is essential over here for business regardless where the income comes from.
If this online stuff takes off (which I honestly believe it will) I’ll have to declare the income. I doubt I’d have to pay tax on it of course… all ‘profits’ [...]

Another page done.

The description of the Payment Processors is all bar done now. I just need to add details of how to get your money *out* of the system and it’s done

Oh bugger.

Like I said earlier… I bought a USB box to use to access the old HDD but so far I’ve not been able toget into it. All I see is one part of the Toshiba configuration and none of the files etc behind it.
 I’ll ring the support guy and ask if this is ‘normal’ [...]

Did I mention the dog?

Seems he missed the wife as well as he left me a little present this morning. I stepped in it as I wandered half asleep into the bathroom… ewww… what a job first thing in the morning.
After that the day could only get better
My mother said “It’s lucky”. My retort was it was [...]

Just to add to the merriment

After getting the wife to buy me a new PDA, I finally discovered a new repairer of the old machine! Grrr… they’re up in Queensland, and when I rang for a quote they said oooh…. around $200 or so… agghh…!! I *have* to repair is as it originally cost around $1500 and the new one [...]

So I got the Toshiba back!

Went over to Danka and picked it up. Total repair cost was $1,094.94 which included a new DVD drive ($600), an 80Gig disk ($268.18) and a 2.5″ disk ‘enclosure’ (i.e. box) for the old disc. Labour was $72.22.
 Not cheap but less than buying a new one… or even buying a new desktop. On the [...]

Ah well… wife gone… I’m all alone :(

A week by myself… well alone except for the oldies and the kids… and dogs… and cat… and fishes…Â and the housework… groan…
I was going to spend the day on the computer but instead I had a go at our bedroom… which I assure you was several months overdue for detonation. I managed [...]

Australian TV is the pits.

Yet again Channel 9 is messing about with the coverage of the Commonwealth Games. Not content with ignoring almost all countries performances and all sports which didn’t have an Australian participating *and* in with a chance at Gold…
… they are now delaying giving us the closing ceremony.
Bloody useless coverage… but the alternatives are either pay [...]

New food poisoning vaccine on the way.

At last real progress seems to be on the way regarding a vaccine for food poisoning. As a start there is evidence supporting trials for a Listeria vaccine, an often fatal infection carried in food.
There are real hopes the research can be made transferable to both a more common cause of food poisoning caused by [...]

Harping on about seals.

Canadian ‘hunters’ have begun the annual slaughter of baby harp seals expecting to shoot or club to death around 350,000 of the helpless animals.
Clubbing is preferable for the sealers as it damages the fur less though there are regular reports of the animals being skinned whilst alive and being left to die in agony.
In some [...]

Talking of money…

I joined Gainpay a few days ago to see what it was like. So far I’ve been bombarded with emails for which I get US$0.005 cents… yes a half cent per mail. Sounds like not a lot yet, I agree, but I click on the mail links while I’m watching tv or doing other tasks [...]

Going to be quiet here next week!

The wife leaves tomorrow morning for a week at Uni and getting stuck into the final year of her MBA. The kids, oldies and I are left behind to manage as best we can.
She leaves at 6:30 in the morning… I didn’t even know there *was* a 6:30 in the morning… especially on a Sunday!!
Anyway… [...]

Well the lappie’s fixed.

Had a call Friday afternoon telling me the laptop is fixed and ready to be paid for and collected. Once I have that I’ll be well sorted.
The problems with the lappie were legion including a failed DVD writer, a failed HDD and a collapsing OS
The reason I needed it repaired… at the cost [...]

Took the kids skating.

 The kids got the the exercise while I spent the time playing with the new toy. Damn fine piece of kit this… though it *ought* to be for the price! I connected it up to my bluetooth keyboard and off we went… loads of fun
 I’ve since also paired it with my [...]

Workload.

Was intending to do masses today, but as ‘Phannie’ reminded me, I’d not even had time to rejig the theme I’d chosen to make it look right with the site! So… tomorrow you say? Well maybe not. The wife is off to Uni for a week from Sunday morning so maybe it’ll be an extra [...]

The PDA!

Seems to have a wireless connection which I used with some success to browse the net… tho the screen is a little on the small side to see much. Maybe there is a setting to tweak to at least make the page properly visible. As it was I couldn’t even see any Google ads.

More theme issues

Ok… installed ‘Revved Up’ and looked at it most of the day but decided I needed to reinstate the MWÂ theme until I can find some suitable graphics to replace the ones currently in the RU theme.. which won’t take long.
 In the meantime I’ll leave this here for a day or two… it really [...]

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