Bin night was last night, and out in the suburbs we have three wheelie bins still out on the kerb. Here we see a small 120 litre bin for the weekly rubbish pickup, a double sized 240 litre bin for the fortnightly recycling rounds, and something new: a triple sized 360 litre bin for people [...]
Archive for August, 2012
The many colours of Melbourne Bike Share
August 28th, 2012
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Normally the bicycles that are hired out by Melbourne Bike Share are coloured blue. But what other colours do they come in?
Red Rooster presents real time train information?
August 22nd, 2012
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At Southern Cross Station the rightmost screen of the next train displays on each concourse usually display useless advertising: it fits in with the general level of hostility the privately operated station has towards commuters. However in early August 2012 something amazing happened, when Red Rooster advertising took over the screen. So what is so interesting about it?
Moving Telstra payphones for fun and profit
August 16th, 2012
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A few things have been happening to the payphones in the Melbourne CBD. The first is a change to their colours, but the second is a lot more sneaky.
Hitting the front page of Reddit
August 15th, 2012
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Yesterday I was looking through the statistics for my blog, when I noticed a rather large spike in traffic to my site. So what caused it?
