ANUBUS CREATION

The economic climate

2008-10-06T06:10:00.000-07:00

It seems lately the world is under great economic pressure. And it stems from the american problem of people not being able to pay their mortgages. Banks for too long had been willing to fork out money to people with little basis of proof to pay the debts back. And now that a lot of these motgages are being foreclosed, the lenders are feeling the pinch. The current situation is dyer. If these banks go bust, then a lot of people will suffer, but because the minority of people cannot make the the repayments, theres seems little hope that the banks will stay alfoat. So the solution seems to be for the american government to "invest"700 billion dollars into the struglling financial sectors to keep their heads above water until the climate passes. My problem is that why have these industrys let themselves to teeter on the edge of a cliff when they had a good clear view of the drop before them. 6 month ago we saw on the news obout the "sub prime mortgage problem" and yet i'm sure in those same 6 months millions of dollars where lent to individuals unable to make their repayments. Is it the taxpayers problem that a bank faulters?The ceo of any main bank is earnings millions of dollars to run his ship successfully, but where are these people now, you here about companys going under, but it seems no one is held responsible for the mess. There are 2 reasons for a bank going broke. One of course is unpaid mortgages, But when it comes down to the bottom line for profit, surely you would just stop giving out money to every tom dick and harry who asked for it when the statistics showed a problem arising. The second is the stock market. Banks take your money and invest it, and the majority of the time make a lot of profit. For the last few years i've heard the banks and mining sector making "record profits" on the stock exchange and also in everyday buisness. Then one day theres a major drop and thay dont have a leg to stand on. The paralel can be shown with a gambler. Race after race you might win, but it only takes a few unlucky moments to drop a lot of money fast, then you panic and make rash desicions to recoup the lost money, but you've taken 5 steps forward and 7 steps back. Then you loose faith and try and spread your money to make some kind of profit, but by spreading your capital you can only profit minimally, and the risk of lose is still there.

The other issue is with superanuation. The current trend {like a bank} is to take your hard earned money and invest it. So basiclly it's like giving your super to a stranger and hoping they will turn a profit. For most young people it's not of concern, because they wont be acessing the money for years, but what if you had planned to take your super out today in a lump sum. A month ago it might have been worth 300 000, but now your super company would just say

" Sorry, with the current climate your super is only worth 200 000."

A good friend of mine used to be involved heavilly with stocks {stock broker/banker} and saw the best and worst of the trade. It was common place for suicides and depression to occur, when someone took a "sure tip" and then found out they had lost their familys entire inheritance. Is it really fair to have an industry where peoples lively hoods can dissapear before their eyes? Of course it is, there are numerous industries where it ocuurs. Gambling, alchohol, tobacco, are all legal yet if you get yourself in trouble with them, no ones going to fork out 700 billion dollars to pull those people out of dept. The individuals are allowed to suffer but the conpanys harvesting their souls will be rescued if need be to keep them offending. In a time of crisis and fianacial doom, it hasn't stopped credit card companys from sending out their letters of approval, even so called current affair television shows who supposebly are fighting for the rights of the little aussie battler are promoting the new david jones credit card like it's gods gift to humans. You sexy it up with a super model and a glamouress party, but you forget it's just another way for people to get themselves in dept. { even alan jones the puppet freely promoted and advertised the phone number for people to sign up to it}

There is certainly an issue with big companys making big profits, and then falling out of the sky with even the slightest of economic trouble. Ceo's do not have nostradamus as their middle names, but surely they saw it coming, and should have plan b's if such things occur, Because it's not only the lenders who are self destructing, but they take with them the lendee's, the construction sector, the retailers, the employees and now it seems they take the taxpayers with them aswell.

World Crisis?

2008-09-30T06:40:00.001-07:00

Some say the world is at the stage of a great resesession, and with the american morgage crisis and stocks going down by the second, nay sayers are predicting the worst. but who really gives a shit that the fools investing in stocks are loosing money. the stock market is nothing more then a greyhound race withouth the greyhounds. One week you loose, one week you win. It really is nothing more then flamboyant gambling. For years i've whatched shares of banks gain steady profits, bHP,CBA ect. have seemed to add profits little by little, each and every week. Sure they take a dive now and then, but the next week they are back to adding one or 2 percent to their share price. I then wonder why that when they loose 5 percentent in 24 hours people think the skys about to fall. The reson is simple, there are 2 types of investers. One is the long term invester and the second is the get quick rich invester. As with any get quick rich scheme, most of them fail { trust me}.
If you invested in bhp 10 years ago, i i'm guessing that even with a 5 percent decrease in value that you would be still a head { if i'm wrong/right let me know, cause at present i'm too drunk to research it. } But, if you invested last week, you would probally cop a 5 percent lose. The only real losers of such a drop are the gamblers, not the investers. What pisses me off is the fact that when these bunch of lunatics actually loose alot of money, rather then make billions of dollars of profit, the world reacts like a meteor is about to crash into tasmania and destroy life as we know it. Stock market crashes should not interfere with our way of life, because the stock market is a farce and should be removed from our lives for good. Investing has become a way for people to take a "calculated" bet, even super anuation companys now depend on blue chip stocks to profit for their clients. But when a crash occurs it sets in motion a unique set of events we could do without.

Firstly, the world becomes paranoid about which shares are garbage and which are safe, and similar to a greyhound race, theres no one actually controlling the beast. So once a few dicks begin ditching stock, every one says to them selve, " Man, i gotta get out of this stock before it's too late" and before you know it hundreds of stocks have depreciated. In the same breath. the other half of investers react and say to them selves "Hey. this stock will bounce back, i'm gonna buy it now and sit on it for a while". The ebb and flow of the market is dexremantal to how the dollar value of each share is valued.
The us govermanet wants to save the big banks by granting them 700 billion dollars, Over the last 8 years the us goverment has spent billions of dollars to fight the war against terrorism. and i'm sure that it has saved hundeds of lives, but if that same money was spent on third world countrys and the sick and neady, it would of saved thousands of lives{if not millions}. So the world has come down to not help the neady, but help the priveleged.

The crisis is real, but from this week to the next, i'm not too sure why the world should fall into a heap. If interest rates rise, it only means 20 a week extra. Most people blow 20 dollars on beer or smokes or the movies or other types of uneeded extravigantises every week. so if they really wanted to, they could support the habit of a mortgage. But instead, they winge about the extra 20 dollars while planning a trip down the coast. If the world climit scares you, tighten your belt for a few months till the storm fades, and go back to your selfish ways, because the starving girl in tanzanier wouldn't want you to miss out on your trip to bega next year.

Banks Suck

2007-06-08T09:18:00.001-07:00

Being self employed for 6 months, it is impossible to get a loan from a bank. But Apparantly if you are employed by a self employed person for a few months, the bank will take that as a steady income and gladly give you a loan. I dont blogswear much but thats fucken crazy. In other words if i had been working for a self employed landscaper for 3 months and received regular pay slips, i could take them to a bank and take out a decent sized loan, hardly any questions ask, but the owner of that buisness would be unable to get that same loan because he is is classed as self employed, not employed, and would have to wait until he had 12 months of book keepings to access the loan.

The other frustrating thing about banks is that if you work somewhere and receive weekly payslips, not only can you get a loan but you can borrow a few hundred thousand for a house, but if a self employed person wants to borrow a measly 5 thousand dollars for a car, it is deemed too much of a risk. There is nothing to say that the employed persons job is safe, he could be fired or retrenched at any second, or may be taking out the loan with the knowledge he will leave that job as soon as the loan money hits the bank.

If i knew 6 months ago what i know now, i would of applied for my loan a month before i was due to leave my old job, showed them my payslips and borrowed ten thousand dollars for a ute.Then left that job to start my buisness.

In talking with an independant loaning agency, they seemed quite happy to loan me money, at a similar interst rate, but their catch was minimum 15 thousand dollars, and all of that had to be transfered to the car delearship, so in other word i couldn't use any of the money for a trailor or a pond pump, over 4 years the repayments where about $100 a week,

I have banked with the commonwealth for over 15 years, and deposited tens of thousands of dollars with them, yet the tight arses cannot provide me with a measly 5 thousand dollars,

Not only that, if i want to open a buisness account with them, it would cost me $50 for them to confirm my abn is legitimite. A process that would take less then 30 seconds to do via the taxation website, And then it would also cost me fees and so forth every year for their privilidge of using my money to invest with. I wish every single person would withdraw all their money from the commonwealth bank, and show them we dont need them, they need us, and see how it feels to be left without money. Fuck the commonwealth bank and it's billion dollar a year profits, and its ceo's being paid tens of millions of dollars, yet a hard working small buisness owner cant get a small loan due to their pathetic salary requirements.

Getting ripped off sucks

2007-05-11T08:19:00.001-07:00

Megafeatures has come across it's first con artist, I spose i should be thankful i finally got paid some of the money i was owed, but it pains me to think i worked my ass off to be screwed over $175. Thankfully it was only $175, but for a small buisness like mine it is around 25% of earnings lost for that week. When i look back at procedings, i spose i did make an error by not making it 100% clear what my terms where, i only made it 99.9% clear, giving this person .1% leway to try it on. Now if it was the first time this person ripped someone off, i might understand i was at fault in someway, but word on the street, from reliable sources, says that there has been numerous occasions money has not been paid. So basicly it seems this person goes through life employing people to do a job, looks for a reason to disagree with the amount owed, winges and disputes the amount until the tradesperson just wants to cut his losses and get paid "something", and ends up settling with an amount far less then they are owed. I am sure this person would be the first to winge to their own employer if they were short changed in their own pay packet.

I like to think that not having me as her gardener is punishment for her. but of course , she wouldn't give a crap, cause she will move on to her next tradesman to take for a ride, i would love to publish her name, but of course i would be sued for defamation, but karma will catch up with her one day, and i'm sure there will be a few gardeners out there waiting for the day she gets screwded over, so she can get a taste of her own medicine.

Rules of buisness

2007-05-11T07:46:00.001-07:00

Starting a new buisness brings great excitement, but also can bring frustration. Personally i think any new buisness which can break even or run at a small loss for the first six months is doing ok. Basicly you have no repeat buisness to start off with, and word of mouth advertising is limited to your first successes, both of which are vital in turning over a prophit. In my opinion the groundwork you are building, ie happy clients , is worth it's weight in gold.

You can spend lots of money advertising, but advertising has it's limitations, it's when mr blog recommends his friends about you, thats where money is to be made.

Take for instance the printed yellow pages, it has cost me $1100 for a year, and i have yet to receive a paying job from it. The yellow pages representitive went through the speil that it was vital to any buisness to advertise in it, that you will be missing out on huge amounts of work without it. And yet 2 months after hitting the streets it has failed me. The funny thing is that i am not alone in my critisism. Recently a landscaper called me { ironiclly he found my number in the yellow pages} when i got to the job site, he too said that yellow pages doesn't attract much work at all. in fact he gets maybe five or six calls a year, from a similar investment, a couple of which may turn out to be a paying job. His main income is found by letterbox drops.

Which asks me this question, if he knows yellow pages is not worth the $1100, why doesn't he invest that $1100 in more letterbox drops each year?

In hindsite, i would not have advertised in yellow pages. My main source of income is the internet, followed by letterbox drops.then word of mouth, followed by yellow pages. And yet yellow pages has cost me the most amount of dinero. I spose it's in people physci {sighkee} that yellow pages is a must have for every buisness. I think most people who use yellow pages are looking for a Branded buisness or retail outlet. To me, i dont see a lot of people would pick up the yellow pages and say, " um, which one should i choose?" Their are just looking for the number of a buisness they already know of, or a buisness someone has mentioned to them.

Recently the same yellow pages rep contacted me regarding yellow pages online. He knows i have an ad in the yellow pages book, he knows i am a sole trader, and he also knows i have didley squat from the yellow pages book, so now he thinks i should invest another $1000 in the internet side of things.

I know understand the tactics used by yellow pages, and although not illegal, i think it is morraly corrupt. They know more people use the internet these days then flicking through a book. So their first concern { especially to someone new to buisness} is to sign you up for the printed version of yellow pages, so once you pay your money it takes you a few months to realise it's not a great source of income, then when you tell them that they say " Well you should try internet advertising aswell " and hound you to sign up. At that stage most buisnesses would say to themselves " well shit, i need jobs somehow, heres another $1000 for yellow pages online.

I beleive the online version is the only one that should be regarded as logical and beneficial, but the tactic to sign you up for the useless printed version is unfair to small buisnesses like myself.

But hey, they are cashing in on it, making lots of money, employing a lot of people, so if i owned yellow pages i guess i would employ similar tactics.

My old boss had a great saying, whenever a costomer would compliment him or the buisness, he would say to them "please tell a friend" and the amount of people that would actually do it was amazing. I remember hundreds of costomer over the seven odd years i worked there saying

" My friend said to come here" and all it cost him was a mothful of oxygen and a smile. And then they too would become a regular costomer. So although i havent made a million dollars as yet, i have made some friends, who i know would not hesitate to recomend me to their friends.

For example, the following are a few emails i have received recently from costomers, i didn't ask for these comments, but they made them because they are happy with my services

costomer 1

"pls ring Di about an ongoing maintenance program for our home
Di has been very happy with your work"

costomer 2

"Again Thank you for your time – the house would look rubbish without your work."

Both these costomers have employed me for a job, then called me back to complete another one, and have suggested my services will be used next time. So the 40 cents it cost me for them to look at my website has paid me well,

so when you look a the big picture, advertising for small buisness isn't about forking out thousand of dollars to big companys to "not" promote you, promote yourself, look after every single costomer, because they may earn you hundreds of dollars by passing on your number to a few friends.

How to win { or how not to lose }

2007-05-01T07:05:00.000-07:00

Well , another loss by the mighty engadine crusaders, and although it's early in the season things don't look too good. I spose theres only to alternatives, we lose more games, or we dont lose games. Like any team sport, individuals can't be blamed, the team as a whole must look at itself and work at fixing the basic principles.

After a devasting loss to a team who also hasn't won a game, i try and look for reasons as to why we lost.{and to why we lost so convincingly} I try and put myself in the shoes of chelsea manager, jose mourinho, he is in charge of one of the worlds best soccer teams, and although lots of money has been spent bringing together players of a high calibre, they dont win games because of individuals but because of the team work. If i was to be manager of chelsea, would they still be so lethal?, of course not, because he brings out the best in each player.

So what makes an average team successful?

Firstly i would look at the formation of the team on the feild. Proffesional teams go into games with a set formation, and maintain that formation during the whole game {unless a manager sees the need for change} Which means at all times you know who ,when and where your team mates

will be during the game, and the more games spent learning these mentalitys the more you can profit in the way of goals or good defence. Our lack of formation provided our opposition with at least three of the five goals they scored. Now, going back to jose mournho, what does he do to maintain the formation of chelsea.? Basicly, he as manager sets the team, asigns the positions and each player remains in that position, something our team MUST do if we want to win games.

Unlimited substitution is great, you have a chance to come from the feild, and return into the game at will. But used incorrectly can demolition a sides formation. My suggestion as a coach would be to maintain positions as much as possible. Which goes back to set positions for players.

IE our team has 16 player, and we use a 4-4-2 formation, one is goalie giving us 15 players on the feild if all are fit. As a coach i would asign a 6-6-3 rotation program, which means there are 4 defenders on feild with 2 substitute defenders, 4 mid feilders on the feild with 2 mid feild substitutes and 2 attackers on feild with 1 attacking substitute. As changes are made, people can instantly know where they are to play, and can be aware of team mates roles and responsibiltys. I think it also would allow to make changers quicker because your not looking onto the feild thinking"who should i swap with". and as a group you can make changes on a more regular basis.

The other reason for set positions is so as individuals at training, you can focus on what your role on the feild is, so defenders could work closely at training and "bond" with fellow defenders, we arent blessed with a lot of time to train, so what we do must be quality.

I do beleive defence is the most important aspect of a good team, but i guess as a defender you aren't rewarded with the prospect of scoring a goal, hence the reluctance of people wanting to play as a defender, but as a team you must play your strenghths, and if our team was to focus on set positions i know we can win, and even make the semi finals.

Another part of our game needing tweeking is our inability to pass amongst ourselves to gain majority of the posetion, it seems when we have the ball we instantly need to score a goal. If we take time to set positions and pass the ball around, gaps will open up, we dont have to force the issue, whatching a premier league game the other night i noticed the midfeilders bringing the ball forward from half way toward goal, and they stalled time while the defenders set themselves on the halfway line and attackers found their way to the goal box. Then they attacked, scoring a goal, it seemed all to easy, but players were set in formation, giving them the chance to play set plays. They werent in a hurry to score, because if they had lost the ball, all players were out of formation to defend, and at least 2 of our goals on the weekend were goals against the run of play, our team had no time to defend because our formation had been in tatters.

We defanately have a worthy team, and if we can play smart we will win some games, but if our formation woes continue it will be be more of the same score lines.

Australian Politics

2007-02-19T03:54:00.000-08:00

Politics in australia has become so predictable, that i could write labours policy overview just by reading the liberal policy sheet and doing the opposite. It seems John Howard says one thing, then Rudd disagrees, not because he has any original ideas but he plays the for and against game of winning votes. Not once through australian history have i heard a prime minister do things he knew were going to be extremely unpopular to the voting public. I mean , if you were coming up to an election and you knew 70% of people were against joining the war in iraq, the sane thing to do would be wipe your hands clean of it and say "no war for aussie troops". John Howard doesn't do things because they are popular, he does them because they are the morally right thing to do. Whatching a show this afternoon called "saddams road to hell" , the show confirmed to me that ridding the world of saddam "at all costs" was nessesary. About a decade ago, saddams troops murdered over 8000 people and buried their bodies in shallow graves in the centre of iraq. This show was the story of the now free iraqi people digging up the bones to finaly give peice of mind to loved ones that had been "waiting" for their safe return or confirmation of their deaths. As skeleton after skeleton was removed from these shallow graves, clues were given to how each person was brutally murdered, some where blind folded and shot, others seemed to have been bounded and buried alive, small children were thrown in pits with their mothers. body after body was exumed and added to the pile for identification.

Over 8000 people were found in this one area, and searches are still uncovering grave sites all over iraq, so the number of people murdered may never be known.

Saddam was the modern day hitler, he controlled his army and used them in the genecide of his own people. Saddam tried to invade kuwait, hitler tried to invade europe. Both these men needed to be stopped.

In america, if you plan to kill someone and murder them, depending on which state your in, you yourself will be killed, if you take ONE life, you are no longer fit to coincide with society. So why does someone who kills more then 10 000 people not become a worldwide priority to invade a country and remove that person from society. Morally it should of been done the instant the americans new about the crimes, but there was a coruption of interests "oil".

America probally had some idea of Saddams ways in the begining of his reign, but to interfere would of meant loosing access to the vast amounts of oil iraq produces. So rather then make waves, they turned a blind eye to it all, sent donald rumsfeild to iraq on the odd occasion to sip tea and pose for the cameras, just to confirm their right to iraqi oil supplys.

The kuwait war was an exercise of the might of america, and the protection of kuwait and saudi arabias oil feilds, but it did lead to an important idea.....that saddam was dangerous and must be stopped. Clinton tried to rid him from the earth, but failed, but the negative exposure damaged saddams image, leaving him open for a future attack.

Then 9/11. Basicly what followed was a desition of the american goverment to either retreat or attack, and i dont think terrorist cells bargained on george bush to attack in such a way as to knock down their doors and enter their country.

Now, going back to politics, and in paticular the buffoon known as Kevin rudd. He is the ultimate vote junkie, i dont think a word comes out of his mouth without the little voice inside his head saying "will this win me votes" Of course thats what his hired to do , try and win an election, but i think smart australians will see through his "for and against ideals"

Recent debates in parliment have shown a side of kevin which i think the whole of australia should whatch, Firstly he is an extremely arrogant individual, asking the same questions over and over again, trying to "catch" the prime minister on a technicallity or his beloved phrase

"did you not say, on the 12th october 2003 that.....blah ,blah,blah.

Basiclly he has no real original input to make other then look through the prime ministers last 10 years of office and "find" contradictions and mistakes.

Then, once he asks such a question, rather then listening to the answer, he sits down, starts fumbling through his paperwork titled "The life and times of J Howard" and appears to ignore the answer, like he's so happy with the question that the answer is not worth listening to. On top of this, he also turns his back and speaks to fellow labour colleagues, like a child ignoring an authority figure. Kevin knows the retreat of the coalition troops prematuraly will devastate iraq and lead to the regrouping of terrorist cells, but he also knows the voting public dont really care what happens to iraquis, as long as aussie troops are safe in there own beds and he becomes prime minister, he will be fulfilled and thats why he will not answer the question posed to him by the prime minister.

The funniest thing in the recent debate over john howards comments about senater obama policy of troop withdrawel, is rudd wants to say "you have damaged ties with a person who may well be the new resident of the united staes" well yes thats correct, but at the start of the war the labour goverment condemmened george bush for going to war , and on many occasions stated that bush and blair had alterior motives for the war and that both both bush and blair lied to the world about weapons of mass destruction. I'm sure from where george bush was sitting he would of found those comments damaging in nature, and he WAS, still is , and could still be the president for the next few years.

So it seems rudd thinks the practice of having a say is irresponsible if it comes from john howards mouth but it's ok for him to have an opinion because,,,, well i don't know to be honest. Rudd will be the worst thing to happen to this country, because his going to follow the popular vote rather then the "right thing to do "actions. combined with the affiliation with the unions, and his inexperianced labour team, i am scared to see labour come into power.

The years before john howard was elected were statiscally atrocious, foreign dept was massive, unemployment was high, taxes were scattered and difficult to understand. He has been tough and unpopular , but at school i seem to remeber the tough and unpopular teacher were the ones who tought you the most. you might of disliked them { dont get me wrong "i" like john howard}

but at the end of the day they acted and behaved that way to get the best out of you,

Making money from the web

2007-02-11T06:12:00.000-08:00

Now that i run my own buisness i have found time to try and enlarge my earnings using the net, ebay is a great source, as i can sell stuff that i don't need ,or even sell stuff that i manufacture {like water features i build}. In the last few days i have sold about 50 bucks worth of stuff, and it seems there are some cool people using ebay to get a bargain. so i have have a great deal of confidence in the ebay system. The other alternative is online surveys and compitions. At first glance it sound very rewarding to join such sites to earn "reward points" which accumulate to real money rewards, but can you really get money for opinions? In the last few days i have signed up for a dozen or so of these type of money making options and so far it looks like i have $1.80 worth of rewards.

Basiclly most sites offer you a chance to accumalate reward points, the more surveys you answer the more money you are offered, but is it really worth my time to be involved in such offers.The typical advertising behind these sites is answering questions to make money, the more surveys you answer the more points you are rewarded, meaning the more money you can "aquire".
So far it seems i have spent alot of time answering questions, with very little "reward points" being given, but the main premise is "we will email you more surveys which offer better reward points, and so far i haven't received any of these high paying surveys. Now ,although i have only been involved in these sites a few days i just have to wonder if these promises will be fulfilled. Who knows , i may just be inendated with high paying surveys very soon, but chances are the original questionare is there main focus. Of course market research plays a huge role in larger buisnesses, they want to know what people are willing to purchase via the net, but the chances someone can make decent amounts of money just by answering a few questions seems a bit too good to be true
What i did notice is that the majority of these sites offer a bonus if you "tell a friend", similar to a multi level marketing buisness. They say"Tell ten friends, and when those ten friends tell ten freinds each we will give you ....such and such" . a paticular example was a site i saw which claimed it would give me a digital camera or an xbox 360 if the above process was fulfilled. I looked through my contacts and thought "fuck yeah, i have ten people to email" but then i also thought "those ten people wouldn't be bothered emailing ten people and would delete the email as soon as they read it." and a spose i would be the same.
A little bit later i realised there are alot of people who are looking to make a few dollars via the internet, in one way or the other, and a wondered if there was a way to use contacts in such a way to build up process of "recomending"

For instance, it's extremely easy for me to make another email adress, lets say i made one "damos surveys@hotmail.com" and then ten people who read this blog sign up for an account using "there name"survey@hotmail.com. i would be able to recomend that paticular account as a potential person to survey. you would then log into the site , complete the survey and then be given the choice of "recomending a freind" Now this is where the catch is....

if you were then to reccomend ten contacts, and the other nine people did the same. i personally "would" {unless theres a loop hole i do not see} be rewarded a digital camera. Now of course that means there are 100 people involved in the system, but the internet has millions of people hunting for "money making options" but the beauty would be the system would be there "to be utilised the next time a survey panel offers such a reward system"

What it really means is having a seperate account for "surveys"which you log into maybe once a week, surveys which are found by me. Alot of of the surveys don't actually give you an actual prize , they might give you extra "reward points" but if you accumalte these points and prizes it's money you can make just for a few minutes of your time.

Of course at this stage the only person benefiting grately would be me, except for minmal reward ponts gained by yourself, but once ten people are my contacts, any other person to join would be added to your system, below you so as you yourself would have a contact list of ten.

Once a system is set up, the only real thing for each person to do is check there emails for surveys, complete the survey then " recomend all of there contacts to the site"

To me, i think it would work, and prizes/bonuses could then be sold on ebay for profit, and also the sites do give you a little bit of money for the involvement. My counter says nearly 1000 people have seen my site, if only 25% of those people reacted to such a system that would mean 250 people would be invoved, which would bag myself and quite a few others a substantial reward.
I would apreciate any feed back on the system, positive or negative. tell me what you think and we could always give it a trial run to see if it works

The birth of MEGAFEATURES

2007-02-02T05:42:00.000-08:00

At last, i have created a buisness. Over the last few years i have trialed and partaken in a few different ideas regarding buisness adventures, and most {actually all} of these haven't evolved.

{ which is probally a good thing"} From Gambling to greyhounds , from plants to "multi level marketing" I was always on the forefront of "i'm gonna do" buisness adventures. But now finally the step has been taken to commit to this buisness, not because i'm out of ideas but because this IS the idea. A brief stint at flower power has showed me that water features & fishponds is something that i can excell in, and working with this idea i can grow my buisness into not only a maintenance and construction based buisness but also produce water features for retail sale. Everything related to this industry interests me,,,from pond plants to fish species, from cement statues to water fountains, somewhere throughout my life these aspects have taken an interest to me.
As "i" look back over the last few years, i now see the evolving of Megafeatures. From the small plaster of paris sphynx i tried to chisel, to the two shelf plant shelving i nailed together, Two things were common....education and creation.........and it will be these two things which will build my buisness into something alot of people don't expect it to be.
An extremely important part of that education comes as a surprise, but i feel it must be said, but my time with amway WAS not a waste of time.....or money.........I may not have made any money....in fact it cost me a bit of money and possibly a few freinds along the way, but the "life education" which i gathered from the experiance has been beneficial...and i now realise that not once have i ever said to myself "that was a mistake"....and infact if i saw a way to build an amway buisness again i would jump at the chance....because the idea is right ,,,it's just a matter of finding people who belive the idea is right for them at THAT precise time in their lives..
Amway taught me how to be a buisness person,,and what it would be like to be "in charge"of a buisness. I had proof of this when i took over paint wholesalers revesby. The previous year before i took over as manager the store turnover was about 180 000. My first year turnover was just under 250 000 and the year that i left it was just over 300 000. And the reason for this was that i followed the amway mindset...."make a friend, make a costomer, not just a sale"
Theres hundreds of books around that teach you "self help" techniques but the ultimate has to be "how to win friends and influence people". I remember it was the first book that shane my amway "dude?" gave me. i read the first few chapters and was hooked, not only that ,was eager to put the ideas to good use. And from day one i could see the results in the sales.
Just before i left the paint shop, i lost the motivation to continue with the attitude, infact, motivation not here, and it combined with other circumstances shook the foundations of those around me. They were the best of times , followed by the worst of times....you gain a friend, then loose a friend, but the education involved is priceless.........{S>Q}

MEGADETH RULES {part one of many}

2006-11-09T01:20:00.000-08:00

Question..... Is there a band out there that seems to be just perfect for your own taste in songs/music. A band that impresses you so much that you want to listen to them every chance you get, and you never get bored. A band that every time you buy a new cd you say to yourself, "fuck yeah" . Well luckily enough, i have that above band in my life and i'm addicted. Megadeth to me are everything i like in music and more, their songs are everything from heavy metal to slow balads, and dave mustaines song writting abilitys are unmatched in the genre.
A perfect example is "Promises" . You can watch an awesome video clip someone has made on you tube using final fantasy footage and the above song at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXFjcDY-F_s

I only heard this song a few days ago and cant get it outta my head. Another acoustic version can be found at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw0PAaSplxw

Megadeths background is rocky and has continued to change it's line up over the years. Dave mustaine IS megadeth and is the songwriter. He began his career as the lead guitarist in metallica and wrote some of their early songs off kill em all and a couple off ride the lightning, until he was kicked out for alchohol and drug issues by lars and james. Angered by the sacking, he vowed to form his own band and Megadeth was born. Their first albulm i beleive was too thrashy and dave has been quoted as saying he wanted the songs to be faster then metallica, Hence the thrasiness of most the songs. But when he decided to slow things down the true song writing ability took shape. Over the years his albulms have evolved, he's taken risks, and not everyone apreciates the corners he has turned, but to me every albulm tells a story, and every song has something to offer, whether it be heavy riffs or melodic guitar, whether it be great lyrics or catchy drum beats, i can find greatness is every song he has written. The band members have come and gone but dave is the vital ingrediant and with the release of a new albulm this year ,things keep getting better and better.

I was lucky enough to see megadeth in october and it will go down as the best concert i have ever seen. Every song they played was my favorite and i'm stoked that they will be coming back in 2007.

Other awesome songs to check out are A TOUT LE MONDE {live}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IWLcwLe7z0

Or IN MY DARKEST HOUR {live}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Az-Oz8jrkc

and last but not least is a song from the megadeth concert i was at in sydney. the sound quality is pretty bad . i was down the front a few rows back in front of the speaker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pnCwXJc9A

George Bush

2006-07-18T00:18:00.000-07:00

For the world's most powerful man, george bush leaves alot to be desired. In a never ending comedy of errors he has again shown that he lacks the " presence" of a true world leader. It is true he is only human, as is every president or prime minister, and to think that he doesn't have candid conversations would be ignorant, but within these candid conversations one would hope you would come away from the insight into his personality with awe and inspiration. You would hope that you would see true leadership qualitys and determination. But alas, poor george, we know him too well, the lastest footage of him chatting to prime minister blair shows a side of him {and possibly a side of world politics} that leaves you uninimpressed with his abilitys.
Don't get me wrong, i did support his views on iraq, something had to be done about saddam, and i beleive the iraquis will be better off with him gone, and afghanistan i felt was the correct thing to do also, the world will be better off in the long run with the demise of the tallaban, so i applaude him for having the courage to go against popular descision and invade both hell holes, but foreign policy needs more then a leader to go in with all guns blazing and shed blood.
As we have seen in both afghanistan and iraq, the removal of terrorists cells takes more then killing a few hundred "outspoken" soldiers and hoping that the borderline terrorists decide to call it a day. The idea that for every terrorist you kill two more are born rings true.

For Example, Habib {name made up . not a real person}, his wife and two young children are gunned down leaving the local market place in bagdad. The evening news reports that all four family members are killed, showing photos of the two young boys and wife sprawled in the car, blood every where and footage of sobbing family members at the scene. Instantely the iraqi community condemn the us army and george bush and vow revenge for the murders.
Never mind the fact habib plotted and partook in many car bombings and murders, never mind the fact he was a known terrorist who supported saddam and his filthy regime, The sad part about a situation like this is that many of the family and collegeus would of known of his involvement in terrorist acts, yet they would cry foul about his death and seek revenge for the murders, as if he was an innocent bystander.
The really sad fact about the middle east is the amount of ignorant, selfish, poor examples of human beings residing there. Here we have not one country but the majority of countrys housing groups of terrorists and murderers. Fighting for nothing but the sensation they have killed their enemy. Let them kill each other, go for it guys, blow up your neighbours, it means theres one less dickhead to breed and continue your sorry legacy. What was once the land of the bible and jesus has turned into the hell hole of the world, They aren't going to listen to George Bush, they arent going to listen to Tony Blair, they aren't going to listen to God, they listen to their own stupidity and hopefully a bomb detonates really close to their ears so they can't listen to anyone. Harsh words but at least i'm not sendind a bomb into someones backyard.
Now where was i, oh yes, George bush.....The biggest problem with the current situation is that many middle easterners dislike him, for whatever reason, so he has no clout in their dilemas, and he can't win this battle through another invasion, so his involvement should be minimal. As with all the battles between lebanon and syria and israel and palestine, they will eventually minimilse in their ferosity and be page 24 news in the not too distant future, Until the next pack of misfits save enough money to buy some new bombs and it will start all over again.
My solution to the problem, and it may sound like a joke but i'm deadly serious, send a maned satelite to look down on the middle east, when a bomb is fired , use heat sensors and video playback to pinpoint where it originateded from, once found, imediately send a medium sized rocket onto the site and blow up anything within 50 metres of it. You would at least kill the person who fired it and also get others so scared to launch a rocket that they would refrain from doing it as much, As metallica said "fight fire with fire"

Thats not how you play soccer

2006-07-03T11:46:00.000-07:00

Recently the tactics of australian soccer players has been put under scrutiny worldwide because of our highly physical way we play the game, and on a weekly basis i see why our game has been seen in this light. Week in and week out i see shameful displays of over physical tactics in our local league. The main blame i give to such behavour is the lack of control referees in our compition have over the players. One such example is as follows,,,,,,

i had made a break into the goal box and was running for the ball when a defender blatently slid and "studs up" smashed into my ankle. Falling to the ground i thought at first my ankle was sprained or broken so i stayed on the ground and waited for assistance from the side line. From behind me i could here the oppositions saying "get up faker" and one guy even tried to pull me to my feet, the refferee blew a penalty and i was helped from the feild. { we missed the goal box penalty to jeers and laughter from the unsportsman like attitude from the opposition."

Later in the game there was another incident when the goalie fumbled the ball and it dropped behind him, i saw the loose ball and as i was about to kick it, a defender blatetly pushed me in the back knocking me over. As i looked up i was shocked the game had continued, how was it an outright push in the back had been overseen. i limped back to the centre of the feild and said to the referee " what's the go with not giving a penalty for him pushing me in the back" and the response was ridiculous

" They {the other team} would of whinged if i had given you another penalty."

Yes he actually admitteded to not giving the penalty because i had already received one and it would of made the other team whinge to him. I admit the referee was young and probally hadnt reffered a large number of games but we pay for and expect good referees.

In the said game, i was picked on because of my size and was pumbled off the ball on numerous occasions, most of which would of earned a yellow card in international standards. every week i seem to get comments after each game like "gee, you got taken out alot" or " you got hammered a few times today" Soccer is a ball game, not a pyhsical game and i'm sure if you sent a video of one of our recent games to fifa they would be appalled to see the way some of the defenders are abusing their size to take attackers out, because they know the refferees in our league allow bully tactics to remain unpunished. In another instance during the game i was making a dash into the goal box when a defender charged at me and obstructed my run, digging his shoulder into me for good measure,

i turned to the referee and and commented on the obstruction, the refferee hadnt seen it but the defender had the hide to lie and say, " i just held my ground" it's ridiculous situations like this that sometimes make me wonder if i will sign up next year, is there any point in playing a game if you want to follow the rules and to play with skill and team work when your opposition play like thugs and continually cause me injury. Luckilly there are a few teams in our compition which play the beautiful game as it should be played, unlike,,,

CRONULLA RSL

YOU GUYS SHOULD BE EMBARESED AND HUMILIATED WITH YOUR TACTICS, YOU DONT PLAY SOCCER ,YOU PLAY DIRTY AND KARMA IS A WONDERFUL BEAST WHICH WILL CATCH UP WITH EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU JERKS

"Go the crusaders"

Sigmund Freud

2006-06-04T19:39:00.000-07:00

From first glance one could determine Sigmund freuds work as self indulging, self analysing crock. But like most theorised work you have to take the good and the bad.

THE BAD

In reading bits and peices of his thoeries , The first problem with his work is the statement that all males have sexual feeling towards their mother from a young age. 100% of sane males don't have feelings for thier mother, Of course there are people out there who fall into the "sicko" catergorie who would have sexual inclinations towards their mother but lifes full of people who have disgusting fetishes about certain things. It doesnt mean the feelings are universal amongst males.Freud admitted through life he was jealous of his father because he was involved with his mother, Unfortuantly he beleived it was shared feeling among all young males, and decided to declare this as a natural, universal feeling.

A lot of his personal feeling transpired in his work. Sigmund frued was a flawed human being, and seemed to know alot about pychological problems because he himself suffered from numerous mental issues. Of course he has the right to analyse and give solutions to the problems, but like many philosiphers , they tend to thoerise on an issue then try and support these thoeries with unprovable ideas.The mere fact that you can't prove some of his thoeries wrong or right gives some of his work merit.

THE GOOD

Although i have read minimal information regarding his work {mostly because i have lost one of the books i borrowed from the library "sorry sutherland library"} There was one aspect that stood out, and it was his theory that the human mind/soul is in a constant battle to deal with physical reality. He believed humans were actually more comfortable in spirit form, being born into the physical world was foreign and alien to the human subconscious.Mental diffilcultys, such as depression and anxiety were classed as the failure of the mind to conform to the hybrid spiritual/physical form. He stated that the human mind yearned for death, which he called the death drive.

As darwin and so many other scientist discovered, all living things have been designed to SURVIVE and maintain thier own species through survival of the fittest adaptations and breeding. Freud's statments don't nesesaryily argue these facts but adds the death drive as a form of survival, to be in peice with the fact that death awaits...

In reading into his thoughts one has to understand freud was and congregated with some troubled souls.He mixed with people with suicidal tenancies { his patients , especially} and researched some awful human suffered mental conditions, so it's only natural for him to think human life was spent in constant struggle to maintain saneness, and when the struggle was lost, depression, anxiety, schitophrenia ect. entailed.

He beleived in every human being there a surpressed subconscious which controlled certain emotions and behaviour. It's like the voice you here in your head when you see someone you don't like, you say to your self

"I'm going to ignore this person and tell them what i think of them" but as they aprroach your physical/interactive side takes over and you say how good it is to see them and how you guys should catch up one time soon. Or when you try to give up ciggerettes.You say to yourself

"I'm not going to have any more smokes and before you know it you've bought another pack and have one hanging from your mouth. There does seem to be a struggle between your inner voice and your physical voice,

The most noted peice of freuds work is the "freudian slip" The situation of blurting out something you mean, then trying to PRETEND it was a mistake or imply you meant it as a joke. In such instances it seems we've let our gaurd down and alloweded the inner voice to have a say in the physical world.

It makes you wonder what human existance would be like without our inner voice, where we acted on inpulse and without control.I believe it's what sets us apart from the animals.

Blogging the hand that feeds me

2006-06-01T00:58:00.000-07:00

On a recent visit to my blog i noticed my side bar is no longer a "side"bar, It has now become a "below" bar {If you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will find my below bar in full action}. Why it has decided to perch itself at the foot of my blog i have no idea.I definately didn't ask it to move down there, and computers apparently only do what they are told to do. So i pose these questions, is there a blog gremlin out there rearranging peoples templates, is there a glitch in blogs system which can cause unrequired moving of stuff, have i done something to cause this extremely frustrating scenario. Now i know there has been over five hundred viewers to my blog , thats because i sneakily added a counter to the top right hand side of my blog, maybe , just maybe one of these visiters has had the same problem and can give me some advice.

Now my other qualm regarding blog is the lack of comments, out of these five hundred plus views very rarely do i receive a comment, and i have a theory why:; When surfing the blogs via "next blog" i realise the content of all the blogs i read have no significance to me whatso ever. I read the first few lines then........click "next blog" i then read the next blogs first few lines.....click"next blog and so on and so forth.Apparently no one else writes cool stuff like i do, Apparently my blog is the only one worth reading. Sound familiar, i guess we are all like that, other peoples blogs are n't interesting because we didn't write it. {except of course Joe Joes blog cause i get a mention sometimes}

If i was a dog i would of just taken a huge bite of my owners hand as he passed me a huge juicy slice of turkey, because in fact i enjoy blogging, but i had to vent my frustation cause it sucks having a below bar?

The Problem with Managers

2006-05-23T06:46:00.000-07:00

Working in a large company has its ups and downs, the largest problem with hierachy in a large company is the passing of the buck to the employees, who work the hardest , get paid the least and seem to get the least amount of apreciation possible.In such an outfit it can become rediculous how the uper management abuse their privledges and just don't seem to "get" the idea of teamwork. This is how the system works

*The "area" manager comes in and does a lap of the store, pointing out all the jobs that need to be done, writes a list of said jobs and passes it on to the landscape manager.

*The landscape manager then rerights the list { yes - actually sits down and copys nearly word for word of the areas managers list} who then in turn passes "his" list down to the staff.

*The staff spend an hour or two going through morning routines and maintenance, then move onto the areas managers list.

*The landscape manager then writes down what he's supposed to complete during the day, but instead of actually doing his list,he passes his jobs down to the staff.

*The landscape manager then sits in the office for hours on end apparently ordering products for the yard and costomer orders but for some reason every second phone call is from an irate costomer wanting to know why their order is taking so long to come in.

*Then instead of handling the irate costomer, The landscape manager tells the staff that he "hasn't ordered it yet because......so tell the costomer it will be another week before it arrives"

A classic example of laziness is the constant amount of times a "job" to do is to call a company in regards to an order, instead of calling the company himself { which would take about 30 seconds to do} he finds one of our lists and writes

"call such and such and ask when our order will be here"

If he was flat out doing other things just maybe we wouldn't mind such a task, but we all agree he is'nt doing much during his day, so why should we do our job AND his job,then be asked at the end of the day why we have completed our original tasks.

Don't get me wrong i love my job and take pride in what i do for the company, but i have no respect for a manager who sits on the fence line and dishes out orders, doesn't do what his paid to do, leaves HIS problems for us to sort out and treats his staff like slaves rather then workmates

enuff said

The Da vinci Joke

2006-05-14T03:19:00.000-07:00

When people try to determine the da vinci code, Already there judgement of the man leonardo "da vinci" is mistaken. Firstly his real name is not Leonardo Da Vinci. "Vinci" is actualy the town leonardo resided in and "Da" has the meaning of "of", hence leonardo da vinci means

Leonardo of Vinci.

So all those people looking to break the OF VINCI code seem to have misplaced the meaning of their pursuit.

The other embaressing truth that hunters of the da vinci code omit is that Leonardo's work, although filled with pure artistic genius also contains falsitys and fakes to amuse the artist, to conflict and befuddle the viewer.

The shroud of turin has been proven to be a work of art, a peice of cloth said to have jesus's image imprinted through it's folds.It has also been proven to be a fake , produced by leonardo himself, so we know he didn't always convey the truth through his work. { carbon dating has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the shroud is hundreds of years older then the time of jesus}.

The main focus of the theorys of the da vainci code and the holy grail resides around one {if not the most famous} of his works:

THE LAST SUPPER

Although i have only read the first few chapters of a number of books regarding the holy grail and the theorys that jesus had a child, there are a few factors which can discredit the idea of a holy bloodline.The first is obviously the bible.The second is the fact that his blood wasn't holy to begin with so any child born to jesus and mary wasn't any more special then you and me. So although we can try and prove or disprove a birth, once it might be proven as accurate, the child would not be from the seed of god, because god never existed,and the child would be "just" the son of what we would now call the "pope".

The ideas conveyed by some da vinci code hunters regarding the "hidden"images and workings in the last supper lean towards the ridiculous.Firstly to study each person in the painting and paint a picture of what said persons reaction to the announcement of a betrayel would be is unesasary. We are not looking at a photo of the event, nor are we looking at an accurate version of the occasion. Leonardo painted what he thought may have been the situation and added some of his own touches for artistic purposes.Of course the person to the left of jesus is mary, It doesnt take a scientist to see that { Infact my five year old clearly pointed out it was a lady}.But to look at the composition of the gap between herself and jesus and come forth with the "hidden" symbol of "M" is a bit uneeded.The reason there is a gap is simple. If you were to draw each group of apostles on either side of him as symetrical you give the painting a unrealistic, scripted feel. Leonardo off set both sides of the apostles to add realism and a sense of unscripted happenings. Like a snapshot at a birthday party from a camera. This mistakenly through the years has been seen as the actual moment in time of jesus's announcement that one of his apostles will soon betray him.The actual occasion {if it indeed even occured in history} would of been very different.

The influence of the painting has come from descriptions from the bible and also from other artists perception of the event. The first problem with the source is that never in history has one word of an actual , original bible ever been discovered. It has been rewritten over time ,probally added to and moulded by the inscriber throughtout time, things omitted and added to suit the beliefs of cristianity, all of which gives us the "present day account" of the bible. If you gave 10 artists a blank sheet of canvas and asked them to paint a picture of the same episode of the bible, you would get 10 different versions of the event

It comes down to the influences and mindset of the artist, they can do what they please because there is'nt a right or wrong answer.If you then chose one of their works to base your theorys on you will only be theorising a theory. Similar to the steven hawkins debacle. He produced a "theory" on black holes then based his calculations on a asumption. {but the black hole thing is another nights blog}

But thats what they continue to do regarding the last supper, they look too far into things, tell them selves they are geniuses for working it out then continue down the wrong way street, luckily there are no cars on the road to halt them on their travels.

The next influence of da vinci hunters is the possibility of a secret society of people who conspire against us commoners to hide the truth. And low and behold leonardo is one of the conspiritors.It's appears to be common knowledge that leonardo wasn't a devout christian, and even to the point he dodged going to prison for his non belief of the gospel. So why would he be given the role of leader of such a group. It gives suggestion to the da vinci hunters that he joined the "Guarders of the holy grail" only then to give clues and hidden messages in his work about it's existance. For starters he would have NEVER been given the oppotunity to lead such a group.Who ever was in charge of recruiting a leader for the secret society

would not have chosen a non believer to be intrusted in keeping secret the worlds biggest sensation.And thats where the conspiriry theorys flouresh, because it clearly makes no sense to them why leonardo would be given such a role, they ignore this fact and declare,

" We assume he was the leader even though common sense says he wasn't, We assume he decided to join and then give the world clues of its existance even though theres no proof of these clues, now we are going to work with these asumptions to assume a bunch of more stuff"

The word assume says it all

"When you A S S U M E something you make an

ASS out of U M E

The other source of peoples imaginations of the secret society is groups like the knights templar and priory of sian. In hindsight any book basing their information on the priory of sian should be destroyed because it was an ellaborate hoax. The persons involved have admitted their deception and any theorys regarding or involving the priory of sian can not be taken seriously. In fact the da vinci hunters were so keen to promote the idea of the priory of sian documents they chose to overlook common sense, because the paper work at the centre of the fraud was entitled

"SECRET DOSSIER" and contained a list of all the apparent leaders of a secret society hidden in a small castle being used as a hotel.If such an important document ever existed , the owners would have close tabs on it's location, because here is a society who have been "undiscovered"for two thousand years", who have gaurded and recorded the holy blood line and to this day live amongst us. It doesn't make sense for such a group to be so clumsy.

The second part is even more humourous.The knights templar is said to be the "IT" group to be appointed the secret society. What the irony is that if i know about the knights templar, and recorded documents from hundreds of years ago mention the knights templar then obviously it is'nt a "SECRET" society. It appears to me the knights templar existed, and where nothing more then the royal gaurds of the day. Men trained to keep safe the king and his family in times of war.Of course the conspirosy theorist claim that duty their day job, while at night they converged secretly to back rooms to maintain their involvement in keeping the holy grail secret. Even some say the royalty that they protected were direct decendants of jesus, leading to the royal family of today.

Much can be said about the secret society theory, but the original information is only based on an asumption and the apparent "secret messages"one can find hidden amongst historical paintings and documents. I'm all for proving a child of jesus was born, but facts have to be used instead of theorys squeezed from a painting nearly 1500 years after the event.

2006-05-12T06:23:00.000-07:00

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm finally back on the net, after hours of frustratingly repetitive "internet option tinkering" with dial up, I gave up and joined broadband.With four modems, four driver discs, twelve cables and five or six calls to tech support you would think i'd be able to get online, but now my problems are no more, the world of online stuff waits before me .

So buckle up blog readers, 3 months of blog catching up awaits you { aren't you lucky}

THE SINGLE LIFE

2005-11-30T00:47:00.000-08:00

Whether its a blessing or a tradgedy the single life has transpired.After years of a relationship,it's a strange feeling to be "youngish" and free again.From the girl serving beers behind the bar to an attractive girl buying agapanthus, they are perceived differently to before. In the early stages of freedom/lonelines {whatever you want to call it} you can get caught up in the frustration of not beeing able to meet someone to hang out with, but considering some people never find a companion in life you can only roll with the punches and see what each day brings.

Would You Respond?

2005-10-20T00:03:00.000-07:00

I recently found an intersting email in my junk folder.

Dear Confidant,Permit me to share this opportunity with you, I am Mr.churchill landry ,a staff of a Bank here in Abidjan-Cote d'Ivoire,I am writing you following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of imense benefit to both of us. I am the personal accounts manager to the former Guinea-Bissau army chief(General Verissimo Correia Seabre, of blessed memeory.)IRefer you to this website for its detail please click(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3720218.stm)Now the bank has been waiting for his foreign business partner as he directedduring the time of deposit to come-up for the claim but since then no one hascome up for the claim.I personally know that no-one will come,because being his personal accountsmanager,he confided in that he used the trick to disguise him self beingsuspected of looting Government treasury.It may interest you to note that I know everything about this deposit and also know how to go about getting all the necassry approval for the funds transfer into any foreign account you may want, I seek your consent to present you as the foreign business partner to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. This will be disbursed or shared between you and I,I have every vital information related to this account back up any claim you may make. All I require is your honest Co-operation,Confidentiality and Trust to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee you that this will beexecuted under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breachof the law here, you can reply me through this email contact:Your swift response will be highly anticipated and appreciated.Best regardschurchill landry

This a extremely intersting email for a few reasons, the first thing i asked my self was could this be a "set up" from a government body, looking for "scammers"over the internet. I mean, if i responded would the fbi or cia knock on my door and arrest me for fraud {highly likely}

but..........if it was a legitimate "scammer" looking to launder money would i really be rewarded for my efforts?

Chances are it's too good to be true and i'm well aware for this scam to work the sender of the email would need my bank account details to transfer the money, so of course the email is now sitting in my junk folder where it belongs. You have to wonder how many people received the email, read it and thought "Hey this could work!" and i dare say some people would respond to it, just to tread the waters. the question is "Would you respond?"

Yeah . A Comment

2005-10-18T01:21:00.000-07:00

Since starting a blog i have noticed an unusual liking of my posts by people trying to sell stuff.Is it a coincidence that a person with a rash vest shop stumbled on my blog ,enjoyed reading it and then added "By the way, i have a blog you might like to check out?" or a person with a sexually natured name agrees with my ideas and then "spur of the moment" adds

"Here's a site that you might enjoy"

Of course not,

Because i doubt these people even read a line of my blog, there mission would be to leave there unwanted comments on my blog in the hopes that when i do log into their site i say to myself "You know, i do need a new rash vest, or i do need to pay 30 dollars a month to meet singles."

I wonder how many sites mr rash vest man has graffitied with his free annoying advertising, and wonder still how many times his name has been cursed because of his deceitful ways? Who knows, the guy might be a multi millionaire ,selling crates of rash vests throughout the world, but i doubt it.

I must admit, it's exiting receiving the "comment" email, you see your blog adress and think "Cool, someone has stumbled on my site and left a message."Then you go to the message and realise you've been had.I should be thankful, there only has been three of such intrusions but i have a funny feeling there will be more "friendly strangers" enjoying my blogs heading and then leaving their contact site. Then it stuck me, two could play that game, and revenge would be sweet, lets say i left a message on their site, claiming they had won 200 dollars, and all they had to do to claim the prize was ring a phone number before a certain date and time.

The phone number would be a long distance call to mcdonalds in the phillipines, costing the pain in the ass a few dollars for his efforts.he would waste 2 dollars but more importantly, he would realise how painfully annoying it is to be given misleading information.

The Silly Old Lady_ A True Story

2005-10-16T02:20:00.000-07:00

Caspian was just about to shut the doors of his shop for the day, When a nice little old lady wandered in "Darn it" he said to himself but allowed the lady to enter to store.

"Closing up were you?" she smiled as she placed her duffle bag onto the counter.

"Yeah, but that's o.k" caspian made his way to the back of the counter to serve her "What would you like today?"

"Well, actually i don't want to buy anything,"and she placed a small pamphlet onto the desk."I'd like to know if you think you have done enough to make it into gods heaven?"

Caspian looked down at the pamphlet and groaned to himself, a bible basher. It was already past closing time so he abruptly said "I don't believe in heaven" and walked back to the front of the counter and pointed towards the door "And we've closed for the day"

The little old lady opened the brochure and said, "God will open his heart to you and you will live for ever in heaven with him, you need to have faith in god because without him there is nothing."

Caspian had a few options, kick her out nicely, kick her out rudely, or have a debate with her. Usually he would usher them towards the door, but this time he decided to have a bit of fun.

"O.K ", he smiled. "What proof do you have of his existance?"

The little old lady scrambled into her bag and pulled out a worn copy of the bible.

"Everything you need to know is in here"

Caspian walked back to his side of the counter and picked up the bible."So you really believe the earth was created in seven days,that adam and eve were made by a ghost and snakes talk?"

Without hesitation she said "yes."

Caspian continued "and that one of each animal fitted and survived on noahs ark?"

"Yes"

"And that jesus could walk on water and cure deseases?"

The little old lady smiled and said "I see you've read the bible,"

Caspian pushed the bible back into her duffle bag and replied "Only because i was forced to at school, brainwashed at a young age into studying "God." similar what your trying to do to me now, push your beliefs onto me.If i came to your front door with my beliefs you would shun me away, so i think it's time you leave.

The little old lady picked up her pamphlet and walked toward the door.

"I have a great pity for you young man, your soul will be lost for ever."

"What ever"

Caspian swung the door shut behind her and smugishly waved her goodbye.He packed up his belongings, switched the lights of and left the building.As he walked toward his car the lady was waiting for him.

"I want you to have this" she held out her bible to him

"No thanks"

As he walked passed her she followed.

"Answer me this then,"Caspian turned to face her "where in the bible does it say anything about dinosaurs, i mean if the bible is the story of existance, how come theres nothing about prehistoric man and sabatooth tigers and things like that?"

The little old lady paused for a second and said "Dinosaurs never existed, If it's not in the bible then it's not fact."

Caspian let out an almighty laugh"What about all the bones they find,buried for millions of years?"

"Non believers have buried them recently to fool people like you,they are nothing but fake." The little old ladys cheeks turned a bright shade of red,as if she'd embarresed herself, but she new she couldn't turn back now."it's a conspircy against the church"

Caspian chucked to himself and walked away" Go home and have a good look at yourself lady, That's the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard,not only do you lie to other people, your lying to yourself."

Chaos Rules Supreme

2005-10-16T00:38:00.000-07:00

Who pushed the button marked "utter chaos".It surely wasn't me.Like a chain reaction the happenings of recent months have blown most people away.Never before has their been so much turmoil in daily life.

But what if this is what was "meant"to be? In the future we will look back at this turning point and hopefully be grateful at our situations.The new people and friends in our lives may be better then the old, happiness may flow in abundance and we could just be on better paths because of the chaos at present.

A close friend believes in fate, and as a beleiver of the nostrodamus prophecies i totally agree, but the biggest problem with fate is that it can be bad as much as it can be good. Maybe we all should be grateful that broken relationships and an unforseen tradgedy is all that has crossed our paths.Fate could of dealt a far worse chain of events then the current situations.

On a recent pilgrimage south, stories were swapped to and fro with childhood friends, and came the realisation "shit happens". People are in relationships/out of relationships/having kids/not having kids/getting married/getting divorced/doing drugs/have given up drugs/have moved away/haven't left their parent homes ect. some people seemed happy, some people gaze across to the other side of the river and say to themselves "that grass looks greener over there". But with a schooner or a fruit tingle in their hand,the smile never left their faces, and it occured to me that they were happy to see me. Life only ends when you lay in the oak box, everything up till that time should be taken with both hands and made to good use, whether it be good or bad.

TODAYS MY BIRTHDAY

2005-10-12T03:05:00.000-07:00

The 12th of October 1978, the day the world began,

The 12th of October 2005, the day the world begins,

27 years ago, a child came into this world kicking and screaming like an irate banshee.Through life, that child had minor ups and downs, nothing to write home about, because the choices he made were safe and secure.

Flying from his nest, the teenager migrated north to venture into the big world. Alone and bored, he invited people into his life for friendships.

Big descisions were made, descisions which would infuence the country boys future from then on in. Happy, loved and secure our friend rolled through the next few years with a spring in his step, spraining an ankle every now and then but the wounds always healed.

Then from above, lightning crashed, rain poured and the earth shattered into a billion ugly peices. Our friend survived, through the dust and jagged peices of existance he found his original inhabitance. It had been unharmed. His memories flowed through his mind like electricity through water, he had missed his home.

The friends, the family,the comfort,and he wondered to himself why he had left?

No one had forced him to migrate, the journey was a lonely one filled with alot of pain but also a lot questions. As he reflected on his choices a figure appeared before him. "Who are you" he queried

"I am you" the stranger answered.

"You can't be me. I'm me" our friend shook his head in disbelief.

The stranger pointed to the unspoilt soroundings"You left your home to find yourself, is the answer to your question.You have done that now, now it is time to return to your home"

A tear rolled down our friends cheek, splashing into the ground below. The stranger continued "as you can see, there is nothing left but your home, the whole world is gone now, the big world only existed because you chose to make it exist, I am fate and i intervened, you belong and always belonged here."

The man dropped to his knees, sobbing ."What have i done" he cried " I have turned my back on those who love me, i have befriended those who would hurt me.What have i done"

The stranger pulled our friend to his feet, "you may go home now, but first there are 3 people who are waiting for you there"

The mans two sons came running towards him.He bent down and swept them into his arms with a strenghth he hadn't had for years.He placed the boys down onto the ground and waited for the third person"

"What are you waiting for" The stranger inquired.

"The third person who is waiting for me, of course" Our boy,our teenager, our man replied

"You haven't met her yet, My friend. Now go and be happy.

The End

The Start................................

The Journy

2005-08-06T01:29:00.000-07:00

In lifes journy the smallest disitions will make huge impacts to our lives........from what second we leave the house to what route you take to work......every single thing you do/say/behave/ect. during the day and night will mould your future.....If you are 10 minutes late for work, it may have just saved your life....If for instance you are on time, a fatal car crash may occur at the first set of lights you reach....if your running late you may pass the collision and continiue on your way......If your nice to the checkout chick at woolworths, who knows, she might remeber you next time you see her on the street and start up a converstion,leading to a friendship or more......If you had of ignored her while shopping and thrown the money at her rudely,you have forfeited the chance of her friendship........little by little the choices we make add up to our lifes outcome....your life can go from normal and what you had expected and hoped for, into devastation and unrealness in a blink of the eye.......alot of the times you aren't in control........all you can do is do the right thing by people, look after yourself and your loved ones and let the nature of things evolve.....you can't always get what you want out of life....

The World Wide Web

2005-08-01T02:29:00.000-07:00

When you boot up your p.c. and log into the web, there is an amazing process involved called html coding. It quite simply, is the language your computer reads so as it knows what it has to do. Until two days ago, i had no knowledge of its abilitys, until i stumbled on a great website called webmonkey. One of the greatest aspects of html is that anyone can give it a go, and virtually design their own website without paying any money to a server. Of course no one will see your site without a server, but to programme a website of your own is extremely fun and rewarding. With just the basics of html you can cut and paste your way into a proffesional looking page, even loading a basic game and a web counter is quite simple to do.

The html coding of every page and every site is availiable for public viewing. If you go to the top of your screen and click "view" and then scroll down to source you will see the html coding for this page {make sure you open another window and load it}. You can do it to every web page and see how the pages are formatted. At webmonkey you can learn how to begin your webpage trial by using their step by step instructions. Once you have established the beginnings of a page you can copy and paste items from other peoples html sources, or google your way through sites which give free html codes. A few items which are easy and work great are a web counter{which you can see at the top right hand side of my blog page} and basic games can be programmed into your sites. Once you have the basic concepts the choices are unlimited.

They don't make 'em like they used to

2005-07-29T09:52:00.000-07:00

It's a common saying, but humans have lost the need to do things magnificinty.....if you look at the last 2000 years most of the awe inspiring monuments are from a distant past.....the colluseum........the mayan temples.....the great wall of china were all built without modern technoligy and yet they surpass alot of our modern constructions........of course we still have our space travel and medicines and communications but our landmarks are quite simply boring....gone is the pride and patience of the great masters.......ancient sculptors and architects spent years forging and dedicating their existince to their wares, some of their work had to be carried out by there succesors for the mere fact so much time was needed to do things right.

The designs of modern architecture has delved into the ridiculous, with not beauty being the forefront but blandness and commoness taking over..........gone are the days when you could look at a design or building and be in awe......like fasion, the world has ventured into a realm of not what is beautiful but what conforms to the current trend.

You only have to look at the new batch of super models and feel a sense of monotony.....they all appear unwell, faces boney and lifeless, gone are the curves and sexiness, in with the waifs and eating disorders..........but thats the trend.

Paintings, sculptures, music has all been perfected by past cultures, we as individuals want to be different and brake new ground, so we have taken what is perfect and complete and changed it, not because it looks good or it sounds good.....but merely so it "appears" we have done something different......

Modern Art gallerys for example contain ridiculous peices of items being passed off as art, not because someone had skill or a keen sense of style, but because those rooms needed to be filled so as the next paying costomer has something to look at. A black canvas with a yellow dot in the centre, thats not art....a canvas with four green circles and a blue triange in the top right hand side is pondered by the art folk for hours, not because it's a master peice but because it has a hook on the back of it attached to a wall. It seems the sillier and blander a peice is the more someone is willing to pay for it. Hopefully this trend does not continue and the real artists, sculptors and the like forge their way back int the mainsteam...........

Nostrodamus {part 1}

2005-07-26T00:51:00.000-07:00

Whether you are a believer or a doubter some aspects of his amazing life can not be denied.The first thing to remember is he was a genius.....and a genius understands about life that others don't........for instance.........many people say "If he could tell the future why didn't he just write it down normally,why use such a strange and unreadable method of writing"........that is the true genius of Nostrodamus.......if you read a prophecy about yourself that you would die in a train on the 5th of october, chances are you wouldn't catch the train that day.......and if a king read he would be killed while jousting, chances are he would take up a different hobby.........if Nostrodamus had written it in plane english most of his prophecys would not come true, people would change their futures according to where and when and how misfortune would strike and that would render his prophecys as useless.......if however he wrote it in such a fassion that no one quite understood exactly the meaning of it.....the future could not be rewritten, and in hindsight readers would put two and two together and declare " ah thats what he meant"..........when he wished to Nostrodamus could be quite specific.......and some of his quadrants even contained dates/times and names of people throughout history.........

Nosrtodamus wrote hundreds of quadrants in his life {and a few letters to a king} and most can be tied down to previous occurances.........whether through exact names and numbers or general meanings, alot have already come true.........the real question is which ones are yet to have occured........in a future addition to my nostrodamus profile......you can make your own mind up to what, when and who the "unsolved quadrants" refer to.....and even take a quiz to see if you can decipher previous prophecys.....

Money by Numbers

2005-07-25T04:44:00.000-07:00

Gambling is definately a numbers game.....a true gambler doesn't go for the big win but plays the feild, using odds and statistics to his advantage.........but if there is a system of winning why doesn't everybody use it........the reason is luck and inside knowledge make up 50% of your chances......with statistics claiming the other 50%..........so if you can work a system out it doesn't always mean you can win every race............the true essense of sucsess in punting it to win by the day not by each race..........a wise man once said it is better to win a dollar then to lose ten.........of course that is common sense, but the theory works...........

example 1 you place a ten dollar bet on a dog to get a place.....it comes second so you might of just one five dollars.........you have just won 50% more then you started with.....that is a great investment, most stock brokers would cherish a 20% profit in their gamblings {stock market}..........so now would be the time to quit..........but you look at your money and say" I only have fifteen dollars, i need to play again until i have lot's of dollars".............you play again, ten dollars to place and again, you win five dollars.............you have now doubled your money{ a remarkable investment}.........NOW is the time to walk away............."but if i play again i could win heaps more"...........and so on

If you have a good day you might fluke it and win money, on the other days you will surely find some form of bad luck/misjudgment and lose........overal if you look at your total outlay compared to your overal winnings you would be surely disapointed.........again you might be lucky and have a profit , but again you have the chance of being below par.....

Another wise man said "In most peoples style of gambling, for every dollar you win, you lose two".........the number of times i have heard someone win money and then hear them say"this makes up for that hundred dollars i lost the other day" is astonishing.........the trick behind gambling is to know when to pull out and to return a profit EVERYTIME you play.........even if you only win two dollars, it's better then losing one.

Your starting money is the next big clue to successful gambling, if you had a thousand dollars in your pocket you wouldn't go and place a thousand dollar bet, nor would you throw five hundred the way of the TAB, {half your money}......... It would be more likely a fifty dollar bet!

meaning if you had ten dollars to play with the equivelant would be a fifty cent bet......if you played twenty games that session betting on "places" only you, and luck was with you you would make a tidy profit percentage wise.........dollar wise it may be meagre...........but hey you started with ten now you have thirteen.........thats 30% more then you began with.............on the thousand dollar starting point 30% would net you three hundred dollars.........thats nearly half a weeks pay in one sitting.........you will never win fast money in gambling.....you need to weigh up your starting price, spread your bets out during a days racing and combine it with your "knowledge of statistics"

In my short experiance with gambling i realised that there are rules .........The first thing to realise is that favorites are usually favorites for a reason.........alot of the time the favorite will come first second or third, but they will pay very little..........so if you had a system of putting ten dollars to place on all the favorites you would still probally lose{ or win very little if luck is on your side}

example 1 If you read the favorite had won the week before, it my be a sign that the dog was in

peak form..........you would place your bet and somehow the dog runs dead last.........what happened?.........you relied on second hand information...........unless you whatched that dogs previous win you have no idea WHY it had won..........there could of been a coliision at the first bend, or the even money favorite came out slow and found traffic, hampering itself and those in front..........it may of stepped up or down agrade..............it may of won by half a nose and only because it had a clean run from the rails in a one turn track..........a true gambler tapes each and every race and WHATCHES them intently........keeping a record of what he see's...........gambling to win requires serious education..........but if you have first hand knowledge of a dogs form you boost you winning percentage a little towards your favour......{then again the dog may of trounced the compitition in it's previous race but ran in to a spot of bother hence it's last position in the current race}........but luckily your system has you betting no more then ten percent of your dollar value anyway so the loss isn't so bad!!!!!

"Everybody has the worlds best system"

If that was true the world would be rich and the TAB would be going broke, and nine times out of ten the person relaying that information isn't a millionare from gambling.........if you go down and whatch punters at the TAB you would be surprised at all the different ways gamblers gamble......some bet by names of dog, some bet on the statistics provided, some bring their folders piled with newspaper clippings and information........... the only way to win is to remember back to highschool and decide on an algerbraic question, one which combines every single peice of information about each and every dog and staistic you have acsess to........

like a computer program it can be long and monotenous to actualy write the program but once it is done it is there to use at any time.......

"Let the system begin"

months ago i began compiling such a system, but there was a few major points i did not include........one was the use of video playbacks to whatch and take notes on..........another i did not include were the TAB's own statistic.........another was the inclusion of insider knowledge from trainer, owners and people in the greyhound industry and a few other minor details....but for every statistic and tip comes another half a percent to your tally of accuracy.......i will be posting statistics regarding most TAB races in a way which we can all use to make and mould a system of winning..........to begin with statistic i will look at are:

What position did the favorite come and what did it pay for win and place.............. it is going back to the basics of my system but it will gradually include a combined system and results of using the system..........once the system works on paper over a set period of time, the real test will come when real money is put on the table..........

check out stage one of the system at sydneysiderchat {link avaliable to the right}

you may have to join as a member but it is free.{if you do not want your email adress displayed at my site make sure you click the relevant box when submitting your application}

Apllications are accepted imediatley

Money Money Money

2005-07-24T02:10:00.000-07:00

In the ever changing world there is one thing that stays the same "the pursuit of happiness".........and the main ingrediant for most people is bucket loads of money.......you get up in the morning.........go to work.........come home...........eat...............sleep..............and start again.

Most of us work damn hard for our money, whether it is digging holes or trading shares, work consumes our lives. If you wake up in the morning and declare " I can't wait to get to work today" you are in the minority.....because most people dread the choice they have made for employment..........we live in a society where we have limited time to do the things we would like to do..............eight to ten hours a day are wasted at work..........four or five hours can be used as free time and another eight hours belongs to sleeping.................we yearn for the weekend to come around each week to regain some free time..........and monday arrives too soon........

One of the scariest ideals in life is change............like dogs, humans are creatures of habit........we brush our hair the same way each morning, we go through similar routines having a shower, and the thought of upending our lives to make a change for the "better"is terrifing to most of us...........it takes a brave person to make that discision to change their life and it doesn't always work out for the better..........but what if..............

WELCOME

2005-07-23T23:18:00.000-07:00

There are some amazing aspects of outer space..........the most interesting of all is the the things we see in the sky are actually of past circumstances.......most galaxys we can see with telescopes are only reaching our view today, when in fact the light has been travelling to us for years
Example1.........the galaxys we see today are not what they are at present, their light may of taken years to reach us {some far off galaxies take hundreds of years to become visable}.....in a way we are looking back to the past........that same galaxy may of exploded years ago.......but we will only find out once it's light reaches our planet....
Example 2.........it takes 8 minutes for the suns light to reach our planet..........so if the sun exploded we wouldn't know for eight earth minutes
Example 3........Einstein proved that gravity can bend light..........and the longer that light has to travel the further it veers from it's actual location..............meaning that the formation of the stars and other solar sysyems is not actually as we see it......it is a concotion of new and ancient space entitys curving through space and time to finally reach us in 2005.
Next time you look up into the stars, realise that each and everyone of them is usually at least ten times the size of our sun, each one is probally at least 1 million years old and the light you see today probally left that star hundreds of years ago.....realisticly that same star may not exist any more...........it may of blown up with the force of 100 nuclear bombs..........you won't know for another hundred of years.....

IN THE BEGINNING ?

2005-07-23T01:04:00.000-07:00

Ever wondered the meaning of life............or where the universe came from and is going..........everyone has there own theories, and every race, religon and creed has their own take on the world around us.........is anyone right.........through the years there has been two sides to the coin..........religon versus science.........these days with the knowledge we posess of the world around us, things like "The big bang theory" have been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt...............where every single peice of space matter {that out telescopes can see} is moving away from a common site.............but was does this mean to the religons of the world...........the concept of creation must be put into question with these findings, and yet christians turn a blind eye to reality............."statistic"- there has been more deaths caused by religious warfare and hatred then any known cause of human demise..........."statistic" the catholic church posseses the largest wealth of any single organisation, and if all assets of the church were sold it could distinguish third world poverty............for such a "loving" and Caring" group they have and will continue to stand on the sideline of humanity and watch it suffer............harsh words but also true words................
In the beginning god created the earth.............mans infactuation with himself has given us the idea that a human being is responsible for our world...........studies have proven that our earth is millions of years old and has been made up of vast varietys of animals before humans roamed the earth........religon suggests that humans appeared out of the blue....................fully grown..........knowing languages.........talking to evil snakes and eating from apple tree's...............the reality of this is so far fetched if you showed it to a visitor from another solar system they would think you are completely crazy.........and they would have every right to think that way................so why is it millions of people believe in creation and god and the bible...........quite simple really..............fear of dying.............it gives human beings solace that there is an afterlife................that when you reach the end of your life there will be a new beginning..........nearly every culture/race and religon beleive in the afterlife.........in ancient times, cultures thousand of miles away from each other,without any direct or indirect commmunication shared extremely similar beliefs..............why is it that the human mind evolved itself into a religious society........wheather it was in ancient egypt or the mountains of the andes.............there has been no known civilised society to evolve with the ideals of death is final.........they all felt there was something else to their lives then what we see on earth...............