Larvatus Prodeo Lifeline Queensland floods fundraising appeal
As previewed on this post, LP is sponsoring a fundraiser to assist those affected by the Queensland floods. We specifically went looking for a cause which would target funds to those who are likely to be already disadvantaged, and decided to partner with Lifeline Queensland.
Merkel 1, Col du Tourmalet 0
I’ve been ‘waiting for the photos to prove it, but Merkel and the Mountain ( described here) is over, and Merkel came out with a points decision, despite some setbacks along the way. The really short version is that I [...]
Fire disaster appeal reminder
Just a reminder that we’re running a joint donations challenge with John Quiggin to assist victims of the Victorian bushfires. The rate of donations has fallen off, and we’ve got a way to go to reach the goal of $10000 [...]
Fire disaster appeal
A number of commenters on a previous post raised the good idea of a dedicated fire disaster donations appeal thread. As I reminded folks on that thread, I posted a link on Tuesday to John Quiggin’s appeal. His thread is [...]
Fire disaster appeal fundraiser
John Quiggin is initiating a blog based fundraising drive for victims of the Victorian bushfires. Details (and of how to make a donation) are here.
Economy tanks, blogs suffer! (or… advertising and readership accountability post)
Here’s our regular update on how the blog is doing. First to the stats. June was a bumper month for us with 117430 unique visitors, 229301 visits and 1685704 page views. In July, we were back around the sort of [...]
Walking back to Zimbabwe
I’m not the world’s best Facebooker. I ignore it most of the time with the occasional looksee every now and again. But one thing about Facebook that is cool is rediscovery of lost friends. One of these friends is Nyasha. [...]
Blog issues
Since Mark put up a long post last night, you may not have seen this important one about the blog being broken. Basically, we’ve crashed under the impact of a horrendously vicious spam attack, and for the last three days, [...]
Another LP donation challenge!
j-p-z has once more come up with the idea, over on the Harry Potter (No spoilers!) thread.[1] A good cause will end up getting at least $250 and we all get some winter wordplay. Hereâ??s an idea, in honor of [...]
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