From Slashdot:
[in] an interview in USA Today with Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime confirms that the Wii’s online component will be free to play. The outspoken Nintendo advocate says “We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. They’ll be able to enjoy that right out of the box. The Wii console is going to be Wi-Fi enabled, so essentially, you’ll be able to plug it in and go. It won’t have hidden fees or costs.”
Tags: Wii
Looks like a kiddies game called “kickball” which is big in the school yards of America (never heard of it myself) is booming amongst adults, at least according to MSNBC. Which begs the question for Australian readers, will handball be the next big Australian sport? Certainly I spent many, many lunch breaks playing and observing the Quintessential Australian school yard game as I was growing up. It wasn’t of course just about playing it, it was also the social thing around it…ok, I’m being old again, I’m reminiscing….time to be quite 🙂
Yikes! (via News.com.au)
THE Government has warned Australians of the threat of an imminent terror attack in the UK after police foiled a major plot to blow up aircraft…
New advice issued this afternoon by the foreign affairs department advised Australians in the UK or thinking of travelling to the UK to exercise caution and monitor developments because of the risk of terrorist attack.
“We advise you to exercise caution and monitor developments that might affect your safety because of the risk of terrorist attack,” the new DFAT advice says.
“Pay close attention to your personal security and monitor the media for information about possible new safety or security threats.”
Mother England is no longer safe again..what has the world come to.
Heard the hype yet? If you haven’t The Butterfly Marketing Manuscript is the best thing since sliced bread…who’s told me, well there’s Yaro, Mike himself, Joel, Eric, and half a dozen other people who I’ve never heard of, but somehow I got on their email lists and they sent me the same stuff…all of them.
So is The Butterfly Marketing ebook worth it…well, that depends. If you’ve ever thought (seriously) about flogging an ebook yourself, the simple answer is yes, if you have no intentions of flogging ebooks, well no. Perhaps it might be applied to some whizbang software package, but maybe not.
And yes, unlike some of the others who have tried to flog this ebook to me, I’ve actually purchased the book, after all, if there is so much hype, it should be worth a look, right? (ok, maybe not, but I just wanted to take a look).
It’s all about flogging ebooks…but I’ve said that already.
As someone who has a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in marketing, I should expect this sort of thing…but I didn’t. The methods recommended in this ebook are totally legal…but they are way sneaky as well (and that’s me being polite). Some parts of it honestly sounded like an Amway sales pitch, but my honest opinion at this stage: this guy knows how to sell ebooks and it’s probably worth getting a copy if you want to flog an ebook as well. If you aren’t interested in selling ebooks, don’t bother. The “Butterfly Marketing” moniker is false, it should really be “Butterfly flogging ebooks”…that would be more honest 🙂
PS: yes, there are affiliate links here, I want to earn my money back for the book, so if you feel like buying it, give to a good affiliate cause 🙂
Tags: Butterfly Marketing
Only in Australia, via the SMH:
A federal Liberal backbencher has called Kim Beazley a “fat so and so” after the Labor leader labelled him “weak” for supporting the Government’s controversial immigration laws.
Mr Beazley and West Australian Liberal Wilson Tuckey traded verbal insults, their faces within centimetres of each other, as they arrived at Parliament House in Canberra this morning….
Tags: Kim Beazley, Wilson Tuckey
Vanity Fair has the exclusive here. For those interested in 9/11 a must read.
Does anyone out there have a current coupon for namecheap? Looks like the old favourites have expired.
thanks.
Sorry to Trevor Cook on this one, because this Captcha comes from his blog, but it sort of says it all about Captcha’s for me 🙂
Yep, Captcha’s are yuck…particularly to vision impared bloggers and even people like me with 20/20 vision who hate them as well.