How Amazon works — courtesy of David Gaughran

I don’t often reblog almost an entire post, but I thought this one was too interesting, and informative, to pass up.

Amazon’s Recommendation Engine Trumps The Competition
Posted on February 22, 2013 by davidgaughran

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I didn’t really have a marketing plan when I published Vokhtah, and to be honest I still don’t. I know what I should be doing — blogging, tweeting etc — and I am doing my best, but I have a very low threshold for boredom so I only spend about 10–15 minutes on Twitter per day. Sadly it’s not…

Birds of Tokyo — In the Veins of Death Valley

Sport — guilty until proven innocent?

Sport is not my area of expertise. Most of the time, sporting news goes in one ear and out the other. But not today because ABC 774 [bushfire warnings radio station] has been flooded with news of the findings of the Australia Crime Commission. In a nutshell, the…

K.D.Rudd as you’ve never seen him before!

Kevin Rudd tweeted a link to this fantastic spoof of himself and I just had to share.

An alpaca update and… a favour

I’ll start with two pictures of our alpacas minus their winter coats. And yes, I am trying to butter you up. :(

‘Smoke on the Water’.. and in the air.

It’s quite a lovely day today, with clear skies, very little wind and not too much heat, but I’m sitting at my desk with dry eyes and a blocked nose. Am I coming down with a cold? Nope, there’s just a lot of smoke in the air. None of that smoke is coming from…