This is the Tasmania Devils founding member jumper, which went on sale last week.
I note that Aussie Rules footy jumpers are no longer referred to as ‘guernseys’, I’m guessing because they aren’t woollen anymore.
Anyway, it looks good and brings back some fond memories.
Needless to say, I’ve ordered mine already!
The original PS1 trilogy has been remastered and is now available at the PlayStation Store.
Three bonus levels that were previously only on PC have been included.
Now, I smashed these games when I was younger; playing through each of them multiple times.
Almost thirty years later, I have a feeling that my reflexes may not be up to the challenge, but I’ll give it a go anyway!
Tomb Raider I, II & III Remastered will set you back around A$45.
Microsoft Bing is using AI to write blurbs and descriptions for websites and other pages, and I had a little laugh to myself when I saw this today.
The part I have underlined is where the programming has made an assumption, based upon the words and descriptions used in the opening paragraph of the story.
Now here is the actual beginning of ‘Red Widow’…
Maria was a novice when it came to service stations. Never had she been able to top up
her car’s tank without spilling a little fuel over her hands. Even after seven or eight
attempts, it was always the first spurt out of the nozzle that caught her. It could have
been dangerous had she been a smoker like her husband.
I guess the AI has identified that the character is ‘working’ at the service station as she is manually filling up her car with petrol, which I suppose could be argued as being somewhat correct.
By the way, my short story ‘Red Widow’ can be downloaded on this website for free, but it gets a little rough and is not for the faint-hearted.
Link to Downloads page below.
The diagram below shows my account statistics from October last year to today.
Overall it shows that exposure is good, but sales are slow.
The green bars indicate the number of impressions, which you can see have been clearly on the rise, except for a slight drop in February.
To date, the number of times my books have appeared on Amazon webpages is approaching 400,000.
The blue line is the amount of money spent on advertising (pay per click), which has evidently spiked upwards during March.
The orange line represents sales, and this is a little puzzling to me. There were lots of sales in December, almost none in January, then it jumps again in February before bottoming out again in March.
As it stands, my books are experiencing almost 4,000 impressions a day, which is close to where I need it to be. I could slow down the amount of money spent on clicks, but in my case I am prepared to let it ride for now, as public exposure to my work is paramount.
In fiscal terms, over the course of six months I am running at a loss of around A$75. Up until March, the gap between sales and costs hovered between $20 to $30, which was reasonable. However, this month has cost me over $40 in advertising for only one sale, which has knocked the stats out a bit.
I must stress that in my case I have upped the bidding price on keywords for wider exposure, which has blown out the costs a little. I can turn this down at any time, but at this point am happy to leave things where they are.
Overall, I would recommend Amazon Ads, provided you do keep an eye on what you are spending.
Recently, my TAB account was elevated to ‘GOLD’ status, but is this something to be proud of?
I was notified of the change to my account status via email, but was a little shocked when I discovered how I qualified for this ‘promotion’.
I don’t know what is more surprising…the fact that $25,000 went through my account during the past twelve months, or that I passed right through ‘SILVER’ status!
Note: For anyone outside of Australia, the TAB is a betting agency.
I won’t go into a detailed review here, but I will say that this film had me laughing all the way through.
It’s big and loud, completely mindless and insane at times, but 100% entertaining!
‘Roadhouse’ is available to watch on Amazon Prime.
“Make it lame and gay.”
Judging by the reaction to Disney’s latest Star Wars trailer, it appears the line has finally been crossed.
How much longer is this crap going to continue?
I could write a lot more about this, but I’ll pull my punches here and vote with my feet instead.
There’s a link to the diverse and progressive ‘Woke-alyte’ trailer below.
Photo and video courtesy of Disney.
The big reveal of the club’s name, logo and guernsey took place yesterday.
The AFL’s 19th team (I won’t use the term ‘franchise’) will officially join the league in 2028.
The club is offering $10 ‘founding memberships’ which have sold like hot cakes. In fact, over 50,000 new members were signed up over the first four hours, with the number passing 100,000 within a day.
Here they are in all their glory!
The Parramatta Light Rail is indeed only weeks away from commencing.
The trams were running at near full capacity along the Carlingford line, as we encountered three within a ten minute period.
I have uploaded a short video to YouTube, and the link is below.
So, the signs were up and it was all systems go!
Excited to see the very first tram gliding along Church Street, I set out with camera in hand – ready to capture that historic vision!
Links to YouTube videos below.
PART ONE
PART TWO
I know I have posted articles in the past making fun of how slow this project has been, but I’m not trying to do that here.
There would have been work and testing going on, just not where I was filming.
As soon as I capture the trams in action, I will upload the videos onto YouTube and Rumble.
Speaking of Rumble, the links to the same videos are below.
Sean Carslake 