I am not Zaphod, or, How unpopular is it possible to be?

In the blogverse I have done that narcissistic little experiment akin to googeling yourself in the greater internet. I looked up “who links to me” and added their link to my site (down the bottom go look now, but come back, I’ll still be here).

This is what I found.

I am nothing.

Zaphod may have stepped into the The Total Perspective Vortex and realised that* he was the most important being in the universe but I live the crushing reality that, in terms of my reciprocated contribution to or rather from the web, I am a nothing; see:



I’m writing this blog for 2 + 1** reasons. Firstly because knowing about technologies like blogs it is what I do for a living and secondly to put a few photos up for friends and family, mostly of Baby Girl cauz’ that’s all they want to see. So I never set out to be popular or create a digital crutch on which to augment my sense of self-worth. Lucky really because yahoo divines that -1 people link to me! MSN suggest that I may be a little more popular reporting that 1 person links to me. Yay, that means that I have an average of 0. There was some poetry in having -1 links to me, 0 is, well, nothing. I wonder what you have to do to get an imaginary number of people linking to you.

I note that I am so unpopular that the immensity of my nothingness has broken the code at line 618. I bet that the code never had to calculate negative popularity or perhaps through some mathematical trick my popularity really is imaginary.

* I so wanted to write “…realised that he could have his cake and eating it too”, but I doubt that any but the most ardent Adams fans would get the reference.
** I also want a good excuse to invite myself to Grogblog and buy Darp a beer or three for his excelent contribution to the Benelong electorate and the internet in general.

Banksia blechnifolia - 20th Sept

The blechnifolia is comming along nicely, as are the Isopogon anemonifolius and the Hakea laurina. I'm looking forward to seeing it flower. It self seaded from a garden tree in Rosedale, Southern NSW

It's your world - reclaim your public space

It would be good if Adbusters (from whom I pinched this image) had a more international presence.
Unfortunately you can't use their web form to start a campus JammerGroup unless you are from the USA or Canada????? What The !!
You’d think that an organisation that was opposed to globalisation would have a global presence or is good fight restricted to North America?

Banksia blechnifolia

The blechnifolia (a rather pretty prostrate banksia) have just started flowering after a little over 18 months. They are in partial to full shade in very sandy soil - part native soil mix part sand and a little osmocote about 20cm thick over building rubble in a small raised garden. Of the three plants in the garden - the one that gets the most sun has flowered first but the other two plants look to have 2-3 flowers each. It’s taken about 5 weeks to grow from a tiny apical bud to an 8cm high cone that has not yet finished growing. Reading up about them on the web suggests that they prefer a drier environment but we have a drip water system in that delivers a slow drip for an hour once every other week and all the proteaceae are thriving.
I’ll post a few more photos as it grows.
The isopogons are goint to flower this year as well, should be very pretty.

American Hypocrisy

Whilst this is scary, This is truly wacko or should that be Waco

Now you've had your laugh.

I can't help but to think what the response would be if this same footage were shown in the US except the people involved were clearly muslim. Imagin if you would, camps in the middle east for fathers and sons, bringing their wives, daughters and grandparents to fire powerfull wepons. It would, I imagin, result in a moral panic. People would be bombed.

Nuf Sed