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Once a Johnny Liberal-Man camped by a Ballot Box,
Under the threat of the union running free,
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his polling boiled
"Who'll come a-Voting, for Liberals with me?"
Voting for Liberals, Voting for Liberals
Who'll come a-Voting for Liberals, with me
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his polling boiled
"Who'll come a-Voting, for Liberals with me?"
Down came the voters to feed on the new Tax Cuts
Up sprang the blogs and they spammed him with glee
And they sang as they stowed those Tax Cuts in his Ballot Box,
"We'll come a-Voting for Liberals, with thee".
Voting for Liberals, Voting for Liberals
We'll come a-Voting for Liberals, with thee
And they sang as they stowed those Tax Cuts in his Ballot Box,
"We'll come a-Voting for Liberals, with thee".
Up drove a Union, mouthing off and striking fast,
down came the tradesmen, one, two, three,
"Where's that jolly Tax Cut you've got in your Ballot Box?"
"We'll be a-Voting for Liberals, with thee".
Voting for Liberals, Voting for Liberals
We'll come a-Voting for Liberals, with thee
And they sang as they stowed those Tax Cuts in his Ballot Box,
"We'll come a-Voting for Liberals, with thee".
Up jumped a Liberal-Man, sprang into his Ballot Box,
"You'll never make me a Labor-Man see,
And the Rudd may be heard as you're passing by that Ballot Box,
"I'll be a-Voting for Liberals, with thee?".
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Copyrite - Lonz 2007
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Same ol' Lonz. New I wouldn't have to post that poem.
Great to see you. What do you think of BlogSpot so far?
Yes I was going to ask the same question Lonz.....
BlogSpot?
Nothing special for a technology that's been around for so long.
I have not found how to find people easily....but then BB is pretty dumb in that area...privacy stuff I suppose.
Just need to get on top of how it works for my E-Commerce product, same R&D as for BB.
Editing is better on BB.
Finding stuff is better on BB.
Response is faster on BB
Visibility is better on BB...if you want to hide in a hole use this Google product.
I would expect that Google has provided GMail and Blogger/Spot to help with THEIR R&D.....demographics frequency of use, size of Posts and comments, uptake of advanced features, social network sctuctures...all the usual things that interest statisticians, marketer's, sociologists, developers etc.....but on blogs the samples are free because we do it and they log and analyze it!
Give me BigBlog any day...it's more alive!
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?ui=blg&hl=en
You kidding Les? Have you actually tried that with any success?
There are other ways terry if that doesnt work for you.
Everything about Blogger is available by Googling.
blogger errors, blogger templates, blogger problems, blogger recently updated blogs,blogger search
The truth is out there :)
How's it going Lonz. Saw your comments on my BB post. It seems that - if you can hit the top one way or another, it seems to stay there without your help. It's like a flywheel effect. Once you are at the top of the popular post list, it's the first thing people click on, 'cuase they want to see what's going on, so your hits go up and up.
Les: I tried that Les, but I found it was as hard to find what I wanted as finding a needle in a haystack! You get so many false hits on Google etc.
I must admit though that I have been able to track down some info I needed about animation on the BlogSpot help - not that it did me much good. Blogger just doesn't handle animated GIFs well. It cuts down the resolution by about half, and the images look like crap after that, even though they are animated. And you have to find a sight to host your images for you.
Catch up later
Jeeze Lonz. Do you really have to have that moderator think on? The first time I came across Blogger, I commented on a blog hosting Technology issues. I left about 3 - 4 comments there, and to my knowledge they still haven't been moderated yet - 1 month!!
I can understand why you've got that option enabled! But if you take too long to moderate, I may just give up commenting on your posts.
Terry, I have changed to a modicum of moderation....immoderate?
Terry, I think something else is going on with your post hits, it looks like there may be a robot or two generating hits, as there are very few comments being added. The other Posts on the Home page are not increasing at your rate. They didn't increase at that rate last week. It started over the weekend.
Could it be that the Liberal posts are getting better "support" than the Labor's?
most people on blogger and wordpress claim their blogs on http://technorati.com it has a good blog search engine
Very possible Lonz, although you know more about this than I do, I would think that the most popular post doesn't depend upon comments being made at, just people landing on the site. And if the post gets to the top, it's like a flywheel. People click the link to see why that post is so popular, and so create another hit.
But, as I said, you could be right. Who am I to complain. I really couldn't care less whether I appear on BB or not. I just like talking to people on their blogs.
(If you think I created a robot to do that - well I wouldn't know how!)
Terry
After all, I've only had 30 years IT experience!
Lonz - good boy, you listened to me. Thank you!
We are only paws in their hands. I outlined all of that technology on one of my posts...R&D I think.
There has never been a sustained hit rate like yours before. The best "natural" rate I have seen is about 200/day, maybe 1000 for one day, but not 2000/day for 5 days...hehehehe (denial of service etc).
Moderation removed - good stuff.
The reason I need to make so many comments, is that I'm getting to the age where I forget things and I need to go back and add a bit more all the time. If it's annoying to you, think about my poor ol' fingers.
And you thought that Grotty could waffle on! Sheesh...
Lonz Lonz, we're gonna have to start calling YOU Grumpy!
Les, I am being stalked by "The Chief" on Actvie... do you know him/her?
Les,
http://technorati.com seem to be updating in real time. Are there settings somewhere to adjust the speed for slow readers?
I didn't do it - truelly, even though I did lie about not knowing how. I think it's just because the issue that I posted on is so topical at the moment.
Or maybe your right and the Libs have cottoned on to a good thing and are milking for all they can. I can't see how it would do them any good though! The majority of the Sensible comments have refuted me! And rightly so. I made the post when I was pissed, and regreted most of what I wrote afterwards, seeing how shallow and unsupportable it was.
It has generated a lot more attention than I want unfortunately. I prefer anonymity for the most part in political and religious matters.
Terry,
not suggesting you are cooking the books, just noticing big changes in BigBlog operation lately. I then to think that the suggested 007 job of she who lives on a boat is at sea in a large pond of blogs...she seems to have targeted you and me for a while. Tried to stir up gripes while her "blog would not work" etc.
All just people doing jobs.....remeber my post where "I got you going"?.......many a true word in jest? BB could be struggling for its continued existence....maybe the carnival is over? The new post rate is very slow 1-10/hour, hits/comments are just dribbling in in really. ...mumble. .mumble.. MUMBLE!
Lonz...if you mouse over them they stop (technorati)
I'm gone from bb
p.s
those that are displaying the wrong time can go
login/settings/formatting
change time to your area
"The Chief" ?
Sydney time is near the end of the list box....GMT+10
I run site meter on my blog...its quite a good stat counter...it shows where people enter your blog from and exit...and other features like where they originate...towns etc
cuts down on a lot of the silliness!!!
click on the site meter logo on my blog to read about it
Hi Lonz, Hi Les.
Took your advice Les and installed a site meter today. It couldn't have been easier to do.
Speeaking of 'The Chief', he/she? left a comment on my BB site asking me to contribute to the political blog. Fancy that, an ignoramous like me being invited to comment on a subject the I am demonstratebly totally ignorant of!
I saaw that he/she/ left the same comment on some other blogs as well.
Terry
Don't worry about the cheifs Terry...Those Wankers will disappear as fast as they came in a couple of weeks after they have drummed up some more business for Bigpond.
Thats just like Bigpond..sending in some flunkies to set up blogs after 2 years.
What was wrong with them setting up a help blog at some stage in that 2 years to help people that where having problems.
My advice would be to leave them to their imaginary friends and watch them have imaginary arguements with themselves
Yeah Les. I guess you're right. I just don't have the history of that blog to know whos who, but I did go to the site mentioned and I notice that no one is commenting on it.
Sorry Lonz, didn't mean to leave you out of the conversation, but I read your comment to Les yesterday about Chief, and then I get a comment on my blog for the same person...
Terry
hello lonz, must check on 'The Mutineers'
Looks to be a general drop off of comments on political blogs across the board.
The public are tiring. The media are tiring. It is becoming increasingly harder for the media to put a negative slant to the daily events but still dress it up as interesting.
The lead in stories are now about other things.
3 weeks to go. Shit! wheres me tardis
Yeah, Terry's hit ratio is almost 300:1...must be a generation of TV watchers, no interaction. Take ouy my comments and the stooges it rises to 400:1.
Have a go you mugs:
http://lonz.bigblog.com.au/post.do?id=174000
terry's blog is on the top of the list on the bigpond home page.....the top one directs from the picture of howard and rudd....thats why he would be getting more clicks than usual without comments....lots of people wouldn't intentionally be going to his blog...and therefore not comment
yeah, I had a look at his post title too....lots wouldn't comment on that as much as if the post was titled "who is better for Australia Rudd or Howard"
from memory you can change the post title can't you? Save....then edit the post...and not lose the link from the bp home page...
also he has other turned off....so that dramatically reduces the comment ratio.
If he changed the title and turned on other he would most likely get 10 times as many comments given that he is on the bigpond home page with a picture link.....but then he would have to listen to all the crap comment s too.
Hi Lonz. Hi Les..
I turned off other comments a few days ago to try to sort out the jackals. Besides I lost interest in BB almost as soon as I came over here. Didn't even look at BP home page - thanks for the info.
I bet you're right about the title about the title Lonz. I didn't intend it to be so, but the title that I gave it must sound more contraversial than a question like title. My ttle is a statement of dislike - so I guess it drew a lot more interest. And here am I trying to keep a low profile for crissakes.
Terry
I just had a look at the BP home page. Did you notice that they edited out the first sentence? The one where I said that despicable word 'bloody'?
How bloody kind of them to spare me from embarassment. Sheesh!
be interesting to see what this does
http://www.bigpond.com/news/technology/content/20071102/2080144.asp
I don't really like facebook...I had one for a couple of weeks and ditched it...same as myspace....
ps...I think there is a button to make url's point in comments.....also if you uncheck comments to open in a separate box they are more user friendly
Let's seewhat happens tonight.
http://lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
James 1,10-11
10 Cuz sum dudes has cheezberger leik every second and dats not so cool but its k cuz they gonna die.
11 And leik, dey can have a billion cheezbergers but den they die anyway so who cares?
10 But the one who is rich should take pride in his low position, because he will pass away like a wild flower.
11 For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich man will fade away even while he goes about his business.
Interesting about that merger Les. Can't say that I'm inpressed with either Facebook or MySpace either.
You make a link clickable by using the a tag in the comment and include a href.
I think the way Lonz has his comments set up is the best. That way you can just close the comments window when your finished and you don't have to rewind to get back to the post!
I didn't do any deliberate set up, just went clikety click to get running, Les made a few corrections for me.
ahrtfhttp://anonymouslefty.blogspot.com/
You can also use haloscan for comments in blogger as the blog above does
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When the rain is pouring down, do they say raining cats and dorgz because cats and dorgz have paws and so it is pawing cats and dorgz?
30mm overnight here.
cat in da roof sayz,
it paws and so it duz paws
Been raining paws here too, but pondy says only 6mm. Seemed like more than that!
Another telephone sized branch fell off our huge grey gum tree in zero wind this morning. Took down Power Optus phone to old Jack's place. Missed Mrs Lonziz car by a meter. Min was in the other drive way.
000 - a broach took to power lines down....."do you want Police, Fire, Ambulance"...you tell me who I want..a branch took to power lines down....."do you want Police, Fire, Ambulance".
On the third go..maybe Firs, do they have Chan saws? I thought I need SES. "We can't connect you to SEAS, but here is their number ...CLICK"
SES.....blah..blah..blah...We will send the Power people...CLICK"
That was two hours ago!
Mewey brought in a little mouse he had killed last night in the HEAVEY rain. He spent the next hour throwing it in the air and killed it another dozen times.
Eventually I put him and the "mouse" outside in the rain. He went of still killing it. When he came back in he smelt like a HUGE OFLATULANCE, pooooo.
This morning I sprayed hime with Glenn 20 until he realiszed what was going on and then he ran away....now where is my can of read paint...(I painted my dog red when I was 10)
And you've only got one cat to contend with. I've got 5 of the blighters.
Is that called a paw of cat's?
Or a cathode in a pentode?
(cat-hode in a 5 element Vaccum tube)
Hence you have a pent-ode of cats when the 5 of them are poetically singing an ode......etc....
I have a diode of cats because Mewey Girl Died and Mewey Boy penned a diode in her honour.
wow 5 cats...you must be like the cat lady on the simpsons
I think I will have 2 kiwi horses in my first 4 this year in the cup
Gallic and Efficient
Haven't even thought about the cup yet. I usually don't until the last minute, then place a bet on what ever comes up on the toss of a coin. I usually win that way!
Lonz - you're a scream!
I just pissed myself! It's your fault.
I was going to pen a very smart comment about diodes, triodes and pentodes, being of the same vintage but you left me for dead - bugga!
I think a horse flew past the winning post
Di-odes
Oh Di Oh Di
Why did you Die
You made me Cry
Goodbye
My horse float is used to transport my models since new and his nickname is "Pegasus"...the flying horse float....the FLYING HORSE float...the FLYING horse float...
He has signs stuck on him:
"THIS VEHICLE HAS NEVER CARRIED AN ANIMAL"
I had a horse float many years ago when I was an auction steptoe....With that convenient ramp...just wheel the stuff in...drive across town and drop it off at another auction place....it was good fun.
The horse floats are very elaborate now and quite costly
New 4 years ago,double horse/axel/three doors/ramp/diviers/chest and bum bars/electic brakes.
$10.5k
Bars out. Curtains, portable toilet, solar panel and regulator, lots of hooks and tiedown points ceiling racks, GMC 850W generator, electric wheel chair/trolly.
Be Honest!!
Have you ever stuck your head out and said
"Hello! I'm Mr Ed"
Ney! Neeeeyy!
SOunds like a spectacular venue for carting around you aeros.
By the way, I never did get to tell you how I much I like that model that you use as a profile pic on BB. Self built? I'll bet it was. And what was that about a fence post? I never did understand that cryptic pic!
I had a dabble with radio model aircraft in my much younger days. Didn't have a lot of luck though.
The first model I biult wasn't much more than a pwered glider, which pretty typical of a first aircraft for beginners. Just before I was due to put the finishing touches on it, my father decided to pay one of his seldom visits to my room where I had the aircraft laid out on paper on the floor ready to start painting. He stepped on the fuselage and snaped it in two.
Rebuilt, the craft was a pretty good first effort for a beginner in my own opinion. I went out and bought a brand new 2 channel kit and installed it.
I had no-one to help me with the maiden flight, so I went out by myself. Fueled up, tested the radio gear, and started the engine.
With the moter ticking over, I tested the gear again form about 8 meters and it was working fine, so I went back to the plane, thought about how I would fly her, then launch my baby into the air.
Flew it around a few circuits and was ready to bring her down, when she was caught by a side wind, and whipped away a bit. I tried to correct her, but the radio gear had decided to pull a fasty on me.
That baby was so well balanced that I had to stand there and watch her fly away into the never never. Lost on her maiden voyage. As far as I know, she's still out there riding the breeze.
There were further epsidos that I eon't go into. Suffice to say, that I'm still in love with radio controlled flight, but have never been able to justify the cost since. I just have too many other interests (and they're all expensive). I envy you for your talent with your craft!
Come on Lonz. When are you going to let people comment on your more recent posts?
I think the comments are on now...Lonz
Hey Lonz --- the last 2 lines in your poem state a most unlikely situation --
And the Rudd may be heard as you're passing by that Ballot Box,
"I'll be a-Voting for Liberals, with thee?".
Now I just can't imagine Ruddy voting for a liberal - that's stretching it!
Terry
Mr Rudd is just a mercenary, he won't do anything as PM.
Rudd is just the easter bunny
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