Category: Social Commentary

The levels of spam I receive have been growing in the last few months. Much of it comes from this blog. Last year my approach was to require commenters to be approved. An email would come to me and I would approve them, or not, if they were spam. Lately the spam level has gotten… Continue reading Too much spam

This Christmas I noticed for the first time the use of the term “Happy Holidays”. I cannot find who created this term. It is closely related to the term “Happy New Year”, so I suspect it came from that. Ideas often take some time to make it to Australia. It seems this trend started in… Continue reading Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays vs Saturnalia

For those of you (the whole world outside Australia) who have not discovered the joy of Vegemite, click [here](http://www.vegemite.com.au/). We worked out our consumption was 500 grams per month; therefore we need 6 KG to last the year. Fortunately, the supersize jar of Vegemite is 1 KG, so we only need 6 jars.