Racefans Ramblings

2010-01-08T21:33:00.001+10:00

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POWER on...

2007-04-10T20:11:00.000+10:00

I Know I have been away for a while, and have had quite a few reminders, but I have had a traumatic few months with my back, and getting back into University, and something had to give. Sorry. I knew if I posted so I would be hounded so I just quietly slipped away, but I am BACK!!!From the ABC, I have been watching Will for a couple of years, since his first "one off" race in the Indy on the

Big companies shamed for over-packaging

2007-02-06T22:35:00.000+10:00

Monday Feb 5 21:15 AEDTA Victorian green group has dumped on retail giants Coles, Woolworths and a host of manufacturers, alleging they damage the environment by using too much packaging.Environment Victoria's annual DUMP awards, now in their third year, name and shame the companies the green group says harm the environment with unnecessary and damaging product packaging.The awards are judged by

Nature's voice Attenborough to retire

2007-02-06T22:02:00.001+10:00

Monday Feb 5 20:36 AEDTSir David Attenborough, the voice of the television nature documentary, has announced he is retiring. A sequel to the highly successful BBC series Planet Earth is being planned, but Sir David has indicated he will not narrate the new show, called Life."If I go to a network controller and say that I want to make a three-year series, then they'll rightly be concerned about

Water trade would prevent restrictions: scientists

2007-02-06T22:02:00.000+10:00

Last Update: Monday, February 5, 2007. 7:10am (AEDT) Scientists say under their plan, residents could profit from their water savings. (ABC TV) Water trade would prevent restrictions

Climate report fails to highlight extent of global warming, Flannery says

2007-02-02T15:10:00.000+10:00

Tim Flannery says findings by the UN are conservative. (File photo) (ABC) ABC-Online -Climate report fails to highlight extent of global warming, Flannery says The Australian of the Year, scientist Tim Flannery, says a new report on climate change grossly underestimates the speed at which global warming is effecting the planet. The report from the United

Break in eastern drought expected within months

2007-01-31T20:28:00.000+10:00

End in sight: Climatologists believe the drought may soon be over. (ABC TV ) Can It Be True?The ABC ran this story today on their on-line service. If true it will save a lot of political consternation in the comming years/months and weeks as the South-east corner of Queensland gets to critically low water levels. The only question is, will it be in the right

PM considers funding for Qld waste water pipe

2007-01-30T14:17:00.000+10:00

Queensland has asked for money for water recycling infrastructure. (File photo) (ABC TV) I have been watching this story and wondering when the Queensland Government would get around to the paperwork.In the past few days here in QLD, Australia, we have huge tracts of land in the West and North that have been in drought for up to 10 years (Thanks to global

Mr Beattie says the drought is so bad that there is no choice but to introduce recycled water. [File photo]

2007-01-29T10:33:00.000+10:00

Murray-Darling ... the PM says the old way of managing the river system has reached its use-by date. (File photo) States reluctant to hand over Murray-Darling State premiers have reacted with scepticism to the Federal Government's $10 billion national plan for water management. The Prime Minister,

Faulty meters 'depleting' Murray water

2007-01-12T09:31:00.001+10:00

I saw this on the nine msn news site today... I wonder who dreams up these figures. However I once worked in a position where the farmer told them about a faulty meter, and they still didn't fix it for over 12 months...Friday Jan 12 00:23 AEDTFaulty meters are allowing billions of litres of water, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, to be siphoned out of the Murray-Darling basin, a report

Amazing Trivia from Psychology

2007-01-06T19:19:00.000+10:00

Smile Away the Flu Happy people heal faster. The link between positive thinking and the immune response. Keeping your chin up when you feel lousy really does help you heal. Neurologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a link between the body's immune response and a positive attitude. Their conclusion: Happy people heal faster. A group of 52 Wisconsinites volunteered to

North Qld physicists play down nuclear power fears

2007-01-06T11:10:00.001+10:00

Last Update: Thursday, January 4, 2007. 12:41pm (AEDT) Two north Queensland physicists have labelled the potential effects of radiation from nuclear power sources as 'overstated'.Dr Peter Ridd and Dr Thomas Stieglitz from James Cook University are calling on politicians to investigate in earnest, developing a nuclear power station near Townsville. Dr Ridd says another Chernobyl type accident at

Democrats urge SA Govt to buy Cubbie Station

2007-01-06T11:09:00.001+10:00

These two stories from ABC online show some of the stupidity of the factions in the south of Australia. For one Cubby Station's allocation is made from hundreds of smaller allocations they bought off others, and is not a huge amount of water in the larger scheme of things, and secondly, Queensland uses a tiny fraction of all the water from all the Murray-Darling river system FROM QUEENSLAND!!. I

States called on to act on water recycling

2007-01-02T20:08:00.000+10:00

This is the first of a series of post I intend to do regarding the effects of global warming on our little corner of the world. I will look at the impact on the Ozone layer and the hole to our south, the potential of rising sea levels, (which will effect many other nations far more, as I sit on top of a mountain range...) politics, and temperature and rainfall patterns. This was in todays news,

Sleep’s effect on studies

2007-01-02T14:32:00.000+10:00

I love these sorta studies that prove my allergy to cramming, and the confusion it inherently causes in my simple brain box. I have always believed that the last minute absorption of large amounts of detail has the only effect of limiting recall of everything,EXCEPT THE LAST THING YOU READ!.And What do you know... I was right!Must go buy a lotto ticket!Studying sleep’s effect on studies: Better

Parasite makes men dumb, women sexy

2006-12-31T15:01:00.000+10:00

Does this mean that we got two excuses? From the Sydney Morning Herald1. Its genetic, so I cant' be blamed.. or now...2. It's a parasite, so I cant be blamed.Unfortunately this will be an excuse for people to deny the real root cause of mant of these problems..3. I'm dumb... careless and thoughtless, or hungover, or drunk. A common parasite can increase a women's attractiveness to the opposite

Psychology of food, ... Well DUH

2006-12-31T12:27:00.000+10:00

I found this post by Sandra Kiume, and I hsd to share it with you. What a facsinating description of what we all knew. Still we now know it is true... Though many people are concerned about overeating and obesity, usually it’s in the context of intentional bingeing and grazing. The Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, however, studies the unintentional overeating that contributes to obesity.

Notes for sharing

2006-12-30T22:05:00.000+10:00

I am experimenting with a new Google service called Notebook... I will use it to post cut out excerpts from interesting web pages. If it works ok I will use this and my blog-log to share others content, and limit my blog to my opinions and comments. (Especially if my back ever stops hurting- and driving me nuts!!) I will just post a quick note describing the content and existence of new links in

100 Things I didn't know yesterday

2006-12-30T20:35:00.000+10:00

An interesting story from the BBC News Magazine watcher...I must say I didn't know a lot of these either, What a great time waster!! 1. Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese".More details 2. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts.More details 3. Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style"

Gamble by Ambrose pays off

2006-12-25T22:50:00.001+10:00

From Crash.net, 22Dec06GOLD Coaster Marcos Ambrose took the biggest gamble of his life whenhe left everything behind and set sail for the United States a year ago.was a two-time V8 Supercars champion and at the top of the game when hedecided to try for a career in NASCAR -- the most popular andcompetitive motorsport leagues in the world.One year on and it looks as if the gamble is set to pay off

A European Racers Perspective of our V8 Supercars

2006-12-19T22:15:00.001+10:00

When you put it like this, I understand why we (Aussies) are so passionate. They (V8Supercars) really are the anti-thesis of the 21st century racecar, but boy they rub, race, and make one hell of a beautiful din. I have seen F1, CART, NASCAR, V8 Supercars, TOCA toys..., and many other categories. And they still win, with huge weights, huge Horsepower, and still only 1000ths of a second between

Whatever Happened to Online Etiquette?

2006-12-17T21:04:00.001+10:00

From a blog I accidentally found... It was in my reader so probably linked to by ( and From) Scoble. But it is certainly becoming more common, and moving up through so-called educated professionals, who use their on-line popularity to slander, defame, and attack. How long till the first round of seriously disruptive lawsuits??December 14, 2006, 11:58 am“Dear David, first off i would like to tell

2005 second hottest year in modern times

2006-12-17T20:56:00.001+10:00

I then found this from last year...Looks bad really! ABC Science Online Friday, 16 December /> The past decade has probably been the hottest decade since human agriculture began thousands of years ago, say researchers (Image: iStockphoto) This year is shaping up to be planet's second hottest in 1000 years, according to the latest figures.The World Meteorological Organization's

2006: Drought, floods, and broken records

2006-12-17T20:51:00.001+10:00

I just found this interesting. Evelyne, where will it end?...ABC Science Online Friday, 15 December 2006Planet Earth had its sixth hottest year on record and a deluge of severe record-breaking weather, according to a new report. The findings come from the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) preliminary report on global climate data for 2006, released today."All over the world we are

Nuclear debate

2006-11-06T14:58:00.000+10:00

Wel I will admit I cannot see a lot of viable alternatives to nuclear power in the context of greenhouse emmissions over time, But it is interesting that this whole debate is raging in public at the exact same time that the parliament is in a protracted and controversial debate on allowing embryonic cloning...The following excerpts are quoted from the (Australian) ABC from Mon 6th Nov.To start

Australian issues: A quick primer.

2006-11-05T16:26:00.000+10:00

It is very interesting that Australia has been in the grips of a prolonged drought for 7 years now. Finally the politicians have realized we have a problem! Why? Because several major cities and towns are now on severe water restrictions. Toowoomba recently proposed the building of a world best practice re-cycling plant to return up to 25% of the waste water to one of the cities dams. The

Daily Reader and Surfin links

2006-11-05T08:21:00.000+10:00

Well away we go. I am surfing through my Google reader backlog, which is in the hundreds today. I will also later post some interesting illusions. This will be a good idea to get some interest going early on. The first site I visited today was from a Google alert, and I found Bruce's Blog, which contained this little gem.So what do you have to do to find happiness? Are we wired up to be

My Ramblings

2006-11-04T13:49:00.000+10:00

Racefan's Rambling at Last: After years of using the internet, and search constantly for new and interesting info to absorb, I have finally decided to join the Blogosphere, and share some of the stuff I do and find. Searching for interesting and informative blogs has been, without a doubt, the single most effective method of trolling the net for interesting subjects. No-one can possibly "see"