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ready to go……………….

Batteries are in and wired up, sun will be shining soon and the trip will be on.

Only a matter of motivation.

Flat Plate Heat Exchanger

Flat Plate Heat Exchanger

30 plates

Use this flat plate exchanger to preheat vegetable oil as a biofuel prior to the filter and/or injection pump to improve viscosity and flow.

Using a standard fitting size of 1/2″ NPT threads you can select a barbed fitting to suit any hose line you may have.

The heat [...]

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Revealed: Australian airport with most bird strikes

Perhaps this header should have read -

Planes hitting Birds ? After all there is generally only one loser yet we seem to want to believe it is the bird’s fault?

Follow the link for the full article.

Revealed: Australian airport with most bird strikes – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

A new report [...]

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Fuel, power bills to rise as NZ gets ETS

Fuel, power bills to rise as NZ gets ETS – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

New Zealanders are bracing for higher electricity and fuel prices with the introduction of an emissions trading scheme (ETS).

From today New Zealanders will pay around three cents a litre more for fuel.

Electricity bills are set to increase [...]

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The media go wild

Always amazing to see the media first of all coming up with a story eg Election annnouncement ?

Then generating the background and leadup.

Media is full of rumours and speculation about a soon to be announced election. Pretty amazing stuff?

August election.

I guess it is / was to be expected, a bounce in the polls and a quick honeymoon.

Time for an election?

Julia and the rush to the TOP

A bounce in the polls and Julia Gillard appears to be on her way.

The media and Tony Abbott have already brought out a few statements made by Julia that are the complete opposite of what she is now saying or has said – such is the joy of politics I guess?

Kevin Rudd definitely [...]

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The Stick

Wordpress upgrade version 3.0

The upgrade from version 2.9.1 to 2.9.2 never actually happened as at each attempt the process failed.

Thinking it was an issue with the upgrade package I thought that I could wait for the next upgrade and this would over ride or remove the issue I was having with 2.9.1.

I was wrong.

So my [...]

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Palmer backs down from super tax claims

Palmer backs down from super tax claims – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Mining magnate Clive Palmer has retreated from his earlier claim that he had scrapped mining projects because of the Federal Government’s proposed resource super profits tax.

Mr Palmer owns one of the largest deposits of iron ore in the world, carved [...]

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Pedal-power to the phone

Want to talk more? Keep pedaling, says Nokia.

The world's largest mobile phone maker has launched four low-priced handsets and a charger that can be connected to a bicycle's dynamo to power the phone while the wheels turn.

The bicycle charger models — some with a standby battery time of up to six weeks, FM [...]

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Barnaby Joyce helps out

Senator Barnaby Joyce comes to assist Tony Abbott

Colourful Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce was among those coming to Mr Abbotts defence.

“What someone might say to their lover in the heat of passion is entirely different, or should be entirely different, to the lady checking out your groceries at the supermarket,” he said

via Coalition [...]

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Coalition defends stright shooting Tony

Coalition defends ‘straight-shooter’ Abbott – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Tony Abbott says he was only trying to be “fair dinkum” with the Australian people when he admitted sometimes not telling the truth on The 7.30 Report last night.

Mr Abbott told interviewer Kerry O’Brien that he sometimes says things in the heat of [...]

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Abbott under fire for gospel truth gaffe

Abbott under fire for ‘gospel truth’ gaffe – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

In a gift for a Federal Government struggling in the opinion polls, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has admitted not everything he says is true.

Mr Abbott has told The 7.30 Report he sometimes says things in the heat of the moment [...]

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Opposition seizes on Rudd outburst – ABC News

Opposition seizes on Rudd outburst – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been accused of “losing it” during a fiery exchange over his climate change record with 7.30 Report host Kerry O’Brien last night.

A visibly angry Mr Rudd called O’Brien “mate” and accused him of living in “7.30 Report [...]

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Conroy pledges not to broaden filter scope - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has given a pre-election undertaking not to broaden the Government's proposed level of internet censorship.

Senator Conroy says the scope of the content covered by the Government's proposed mandatory filter will not be widened by a future Labor government.

“We are making it very clear, this is our policy: refused [...]

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Money won't buy happiness: Bernanke

Source ABC News – Money won’t buy happiness: Bernanke.

One of the most important figures in the world’s financial system has told a group of American university students that money will not buy them happiness.

The head of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, has advised the students not to pursue careers solely to [...]

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UTBox |Internet Fax, including Fax by Email, Fax Broadcasting and sending and receiving SMS from PC

With the rapid uptake of VOIP many users are getting caught out as they dump their POTS (plain old telephone systems) when they find that their analogue fax devices no longer work over the VOIP account – YEP – there certainly is a difference..

One way to overcome this is to use and IP based provider [...]

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Ethical Jewels – who would have thought?

For the inexperienced fine jewellery buyer, the world of diamonds, gemstones and handmade jewellery can be overwhelming. For the experienced buyer, information about the products and services being offered is often limited or vague and the end result can be disappointing.

via Ethical Jewels-index.

RP Data Property Reports – House Prices and Property Prices

RP Data Property Reports – House Prices and Property Prices.

Interesting site and suggested by TV SeriesGalore on “The Board”

Check out your local area and see if it really fits, perhaps you will be inclined to sell? perhaps you will wonder why you ever lived there

Property speculation or just having a look [...]

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Damn good politics if you ask me?

Source: ABC News

Mr Hodgman says Mr Bartlett has broken his promise in order to hang onto power.

Don’t they all? Isn’t this one of the rules of politics?

“It was deliberate, not only recanting from his original position, but it did directly leave the Governor, in my view, in a invidious position where [...]

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Australia needs 35 million people?

Give me a break.

We appoint a population minister in the Federal Government and their role appears to be one of planning for infrastructure for future population growth.

Perhaps we need a more defined role for such a Minister?

Perhaps we should appoint a Minister for Sustainability so we can get an idea what this [...]

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We need to blame someone?

The media carry on about Christine Nixon and the Victorian fires shows how silly we have become in trying to assign some sort of blame for things that are beyond our control.

Any manager or supervisor assigns or delegates operational responsibility to someone else when they are not working. The expectation that because someone is [...]

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Update to 2.9.2

Bear with me while it happens.