& How I delayed at least 25,000 people's journey to work this morning By iconoplex.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:50:41 +0100 This is not an exciting story, despite the title. But it’s true. And it happens to dozens of people every day, and is the reason why getting to work in London can sometimes take so long. First, let me explain that this is not a story of me causing a fire alarm to go off, for anti-terrorist police to close a station for half an hour, or some dramatic incident that has left TfL seeking an ASBO against me. This is a story that starts with a strap of a backpack. This strap, in fact: This morning I caught a tube from Baron’s Court on the District Line heading East. Normally I change at South Kensington for a Circle Line to Moorgate, or hop off at Mansion House and walk up to the office through the City. This morning I had decided to stay on the District line until Blackfriars, and change there for a Circle line. It’s a man’s perogative, etc. The tube this morning was very busy. During the Olympics it has on the whole been very quiet, but this morning it was the normal 8:15-8:45am peak time crush. I was stood right next to the door at the very front of the train, crushed in by about 20 other souls attempting to share the exact same square foot I was stood on. At Victoria, as is often the way for the District Line, a lot of hustling and bustling went on as people fought their way out to the platform, and others tried to struggle onto the train. After around a minute, the doors closed. Except for the one next to me. Looking down, it was jammed on my bag strap. Swearing, I attempted to free it. It was jammed solid because the hydraulic pressure of the door was pushing against it, but not with sufficient force for the door to close. The guy next to me tried to help. The guy on the platform waiting for the next train also tried to help. Neither of us could free it. Moving it simply led to the door moving along a bit, keeping the strap jammed. Then the sound of hydraulics releasing was heard, all the doors on the train went to open, and the driver climbed out of the cab. The release of pressure had allowed me to unjam the strap, and recover it into the train. The driver confirmed we were all fine, climbed back into the cab, closed the doors, and off we went. I apologised to those around me for delaying their journey, even though the total delay was perhaps 60-90 seconds. Then realised everybody else on the train was delayed, too. Then a thought about queuing theory and a little knowledge about how loaded that line is with train traffic at that time of the morning hit me: I had delayed tens of thousands of people. Let me explain how I worked this out. The District Line is composed of rather large gauge trains. I estimate that conservatively, each train is capable of shifting 2,000 people during peak times. There were certainly at least 2,000 people on my train this morning. Yes, they are only 6 carriages each, but each is certainly capable of holding nearly 350 people, and frequently does. I’m prepared to revise my numbers down if shown evidence. In addition, the District Line platforms are not just used by the District Line. They’re also used by the Circle line between Gloucester Road and Tower Hill. A glance at any “passenger information display” on a platform along this part of the network during rush hour will tell you the mean time between trains is 1 minute. There are close to 60 trains an hour going along that piece of track during rush hour. Because my train was delayed for over a minute, this must have caused the train behind it to be given a red signal. This in turn would have caused the train behind that to be given a red signal, and so on. This buffer effect would be dampened beyond Gloucester Road going West, because the Circle and District lines diverge, giving more time for the red signals to switch to green, meaning scheduled trains would not have to stop in an unscheduled manner. However, there would have been at least - I think - 5 trains affected by this delay in addition to my own. So we’re now up to 12,000 people in total delayed by my bag strap jamming a door. It gets worse. I changed at Blackfriars to a Circle line train. I got off the train I had delayed, waited 60 seconds on the platform and got on the Circle line train immediately following it, obviously now delayed. Cautiously making sure my bag was far from any doors, I boarded aware this train was now at least 2 minutes late against schedule. Satisfied at the figure I had come up with of around 12,000 delayed passengers, I had assumed I had done no more damage, until we got to Aldgate. The tube system has a tendency to expect passengers always want to be moving all of the time. Any delay of more than a minute or two at a station is always explained via an announcement. As we sat at Aldgate, the driver announced we were being “regulated” by a red signal. Looking out of the window, I could see an East-bound Metropolitan line train crossing our tracks to head across to East London. That’s when it hit me. We were “out of position”. The train was a couple of minutes late, and so the guys running the switching had decided to give priority to the Metropolitan Line train, and we were held for approximately 4-5 minutes. Whilst this part of the Circle line between Aldgate and Tower Hill was not as busy as the District/Circle line Tower Hill back West, a 4 minute delay was enough to ensure that the train behind us was going to be red signalled waiting for us to clear the platform. That would be enough for the train behind that to be stopped. And that would be enough for the train behind that to be stopped, which would probably be on the shared part of the network. That would be enough to cascade across the whole part of that line back to Gloucester Road, causing delays to perhaps 12 trains in total. By now the numbers per carriage were down a little as we were close to the end of peak, but there was probably at least 1,000 people per train out there. Rounding up for the few more probably still around the Victoria area, and we’re up to 25,000 people. There’s obviously some fudging here - people boarding trains at the “correct time” for them, did not realise the train they were getting was in fact the one after the one they had expected, and they did not suffer any delay. But I also suspect that this effect wasn’t dampened until after the peak ended at around 9:30am, and there were people who boarded their trains at 8:30am or before still out there (it can take 60 minutes easily to get from the “end” of a line into central London), whose journey had taken at least a few minutes longer than normal. I doubt many noticed. I doubt anybody cares. But it did make me think about how queueing theory applies to real world problems, and how when TfL moan about people keeping coats, bags and belongings clear of the doors, or jamming the doors to squeeze on rather than wait 6 more minutes for the next train, that they might have a point. If you cause a train to be delayed, you are not simply inconveniencing the dozen or so people glaring at you in your vicinity. Or the people on the rest of the train who would glare at you if they could. But in fact, you have a cascade effect down the rest of the network. Tens of thousands of people delayed, because you didn’t want to wait 5 minutes. Or because you didn’t keep an eye on your belongings near the door. I’ll certainly be more careful in future. The next time I’m sat waiting for a signal to clear or am told that we are “being regulated”, I’ll wonder about whose bag or foot was to blame, and how the numbers of people flowing through London make butterflies flapping their wings on the network capable of huge cascading effects on transport infrastructure. Full Article
& Reading Less, writing more. Or "How I learned to hate Twitter and Facebook" By iconoplex.co.uk Published On :: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:57:43 +0100 I love knowing what my friends and family are up to. I love finding out about the latest thoughts going on within my peer groups. I enjoy reading many blogs, newsletter and emails. I used to regularly get over 400 emails a day including group/mailing list traffic, followed over a thousand people on Twitter and was friends with more than 250 people on Facebook. I subscribed to over 200 blogs. I read all of it, all the time. Mix in LinkedIn, reddit, Hacker News and a few other corners of the web, and we’re suddenly talking about a lot of data flowing into my head. I’m led to believe that some even value the contributions I make myself from time to time. However, I’m about to start dialling all that down. I’ve made a start in some places, but over time I’m going to stop reading anywhere near as much short-form (twitter, Facebook, etc.), a little less medium-long form (blogs), and use the time to start reading longer form work again (books) and creating more. The reason is not because of burn-out, cynicism or some other excuse: I’m not arguing that it’s all pointless, and I’m not being a Luddite. I just want to create more, and there are only so many hours in the day. This was prompted by going back over my resolutions posted here in December, and realising I’ve made little progress: I need to get my weight down. I’m finally prepared to do something about it. I’ve been doing a lot of reading up on this in recent months. Worried that as I attempted to cut calories I actually gained weight, I decided to go back to the science the calorie-counting diets are based on and made a shock discovery: there is no science. There is absolutely no evidence that calorie counting works. Not one experiment has been able to show that calorie-counting is successful. Managing carbohydrates? Different story. I’d like to write about this some more, and I’d like to share my diet in detail and provide some raw data almost “live”. Consider it a series of scientific experiments on one person done in public. I need to think about the details of doing this more, but this is one resolution that I need to kick up a gear on above any other. I want to create more, so will aim to not go more than two or three consecutive days without working on something creative in 2012. It could be writing (here, for example), it could be code for a personal project, or it could be something I’ve never really tried before (music? art? Don’t know yet). I basically want to spend less time reading/consuming and more time doing stuff. David Tate provides excellent inspirationif you want to consider doing the same. I’ll try to document as much of that as possible here. I have failed at this dismally. I mean, really, really, really badly. I get to be quite creative in my work, but that wasn’t the goal here. My goal was to be somebody who contributed more online than I took, and in that respect, I’ve failed dismally. I have a lot of ideas in this regard as to how to correct this fault, but it’s going to take a few weeks of planning to commit to it. I know by reading less social network commentary, blog output and community websites, I’m going to have more time to do that planning, and also to create things. I work long days, and have just a few hours a day in which to address this, so please be patient with me. I’m going to try and shift from always being behind/late for almost everything going on in my life, to being early. I don’t know how I’m going to do this, but I suspect if I can pull it off, I’ll be calmer and happier as a result. This, I am happy to report, seems to have actually happened for the most part. Public transport not withstanding - including my own self-sabotage - I tend to be where I need to be on-time (or early), far more than I was last year. Back to the main point: by reading what’s going on out there, by trying out new apps, by listening to all these voices, I am feeling engaged and plugged in, but only as a consumer. The purpose of the Internet is not to simply consume but to create, amend, edit, destroy, vandalise and promote. Ideas, content, products, whatever. Also, am I the only one who has noticed how exhausting this hosepipe of information can be on a daily - even hourly - basis? I’m tired of consuming. It’s worse than television - at least with television an editor or commissioner has attempted to do some curation. So I’m not departing, I’m not shutting down accounts, I’m just going to read a great deal less online, to the point the relevant apps might disappear off my phone. In return, I should be able to produce a few new things to share. Watch this space! Full Article
& "That's not a proper sport!" Oh yeah? By iconoplex.co.uk Published On :: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:45:00 +0100 A couple of lovely people I know have suggested that some of the Olympic disciplines are not “proper sports”. This sentiment is one frequently echoed by compatriots of losers, stand-up comedians and miserable bastards the World over. It has now seeped into the social consciousness and zeitgeist to the extent that many people mistakenly think “sports” are one thing - typified by physical endurance, stamina, or skill - and “games” are things anybody can do really, probably whilst having a pint at the same time. Let’s put to one side that “the Olympics” are actually called “the Olympic Games” (or in French, “Jeux olympiques”), and just assume the “point” of the Olympics is to promote “sporting disciplines”. Why do I feel certain that every single one of the Olympic disciplines is worthy of the name “sport”? Even archery, which I reckon I could have a good bash at it with the right kit despite being a perfect example of how bad Guinness can be for your waistline, or boxing which is standing around and punching people when they didn’t even borrow that DVD off you in the first place. Yes, I’d even include dressage where the horse is the one actually doing the moving about, whilst the “competitor” sits atop in a fine hat looking more English than a teapot in a red phone box (even when the competitor is French, which must be embarrassing for them). All of these can be - and in the context of the Olympics, most definitely are - sports. To explain, let’s just focus on what makes something nothing more than “a game”. Any activity can be made into a game. All you need is a way to keep score and some rules to make sure the scores actually mean something. Staring at a wall: how long for without looking away? Making a cup of tea: judges could taste-test quality, or there could be speed trials. Having a nice sit down and a biscuit: how few crumbs can be counted on your lap afterwards? Most games are obviously a bit more involved and preferably prefer people either getting naked or putting things onto a spring-loaded donkey (or both!), but the point is I could make a game out of writing this very post if I wanted. Or even this sentence. (4 words, 0.6 seconds, 100 words/minute, if you’re interested). “Gamification” is a major social force in the web application industry right now, to the point where sitting in your office and pressing a button in an app on your phone can make you “Mayor”, which is why I don’t use FourSquare: I might become an annoying prat who asks for a third of a Londoner’s council tax to spend on bicycles and zip lines or whatever. Games are obviously more fun when there is a degree of competition, and therefore the scores must be fairly comparable. You and I might decide to play pooh-sticks for example, and we will have a grand old time as I crush you and claim glorious victory and then we’ll go and get an ice cream or something. The fun is in me beating you without “cheating”. Or you usurping me and claiming a surprise victory, perhaps (like that’s ever going to happen, you fool), all whilst not kicking me in the head as I sing “We are the Champions”, etc. This is a game: any activity at which there are some established rules allowing the participants to keep score, and where the point of the rules is to make different participants scores comparable with each other. Cheating isn’t just “naughty” - it stops it becoming a game, because the scores are no longer comparable. If I turned up to pooh-sticks with laser-guided remote-controlled precision sticks with outboard motors on them, I can’t claim a fair victory when you’ve just picked up that stick with a leaf on it next to that weird moss on that rock, no not that one, that one over there, no, there you moron… yes, the bent one! Providing the game is fair then, I would argue that any game can become a sport. How? Other people caring about the outcome. If whilst I am thrashing you at pooh-sticks, a small crowd appears and starts cheering one or the other of us on (hint: I’m very charismatic, they’ll be cheering for me mostly), then we have a sport. The number of people who care about the outcome or who want to have a go themselves determines how “sporting” it is. Once we start keeping World Records, or we meet regularly to do contest on a schedule we share with non-participants, and arrange ourselves into leagues, and perhaps start making money from the gullible fools who fawn in my pooh-stick abilities, then we have a moderately successful sport. Sport is, I think, simply any game, where non-participants care about or are interested in the scores and who wins. If the dressage, archery or boxing events at the Olympics, it’s pretty clear there were non-participants who cared about the outcome. In some cases, they really cared to the point where they flocked to Twitter, barely able to type through their blubbering tears about how wonderful and marvellous it is that somebody they’ve never met who happens to be considered by International Law to be a citizen of the same part of the World as them despite living 3,000 miles away, beat somebody who lives 300 miles away who they do not share such a close bond with due to them suffering the genetic disadvantage of being French. So, here’s my cut-out-and-keep guide: In both games and sports, people keep score somehow In both games and sports, rules ensure the scores of different participants are fairly comparable In games only the participants care about the comparison, in sports there are non-participants who also care If this still doesn’t make sense to you, think about what sports would become if nobody cared? Or even if the outcome wasn’t scored or measured? What exactly would those footballers be doing if nobody nobody cared about the score? What would the by doing if they didn’t bother keeping score? Just what is it that Usain Bolt would be proving by running really quickly if nobody was watching? Or some people were watching, but were not measuring how fast he was running? So the next time you hear somebody say “that’s not a real sport”, despite there being a clear loyal following of non-participants, maybe point out that it might be an activity whose outcome they don’t care about, so that can mean it’s not a sport to them. But to the participants and to their followers, and to the people around them, it is very much a sport. And what they’re saying is a smidge hurtful to all of them, even if it’s just pooh-sticks. So, you know, try not to say that. It makes you sound a little bit mean. Full Article
& "Projects not posts" By iconoplex.co.uk Published On :: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:34:53 +0100 In recent weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about this site, and it’s sister blog p7r.io and deciding what to do next with one or both of them. The problem with blogs is that it is so easy for them to die. A few weeks of negligence, and they lose their vibe. Also, I’ve struggled to identify what content is most suitable in both places, because whatever content I think of requires a slightly different format. Last week as I sketched out various ideas, a phrase hit me out of the blue: “Projects not Posts”. I don’t want to write posts. I want to work on projects. I am a developer, data miner, machine learning scripter, meta-programming type of guy with a deep interest in writing fiction, public policy, politics, technology, teaching coding, entrepreneurship, agile and lean methods and a whole load of other stuff besides. I frequently think “I should do something around ‘x’” only to realise it doesn’t fit into a blog narrative, nor does it really suit a blog of its own, and so it gets dropped. Why? Why not just drop the blog structure entirely? Why not go back to a traditional “personal website” structure? It might sound ridiculous to go back to some Geocities-era concept, but I’ve come to realise short-form writing doesn’t allow me to do what I actually want, and I spend more time thinking about what a blog “should” be rather than just sharing cool stuff. Also - and here’s the killer - I want to work on much bigger projects than any blog can reasonably accomodate. I want to roll out applications, publish long-form writing, and other forms that don’t “fit” the blog format. That leads me to thinking that in this renaissance age of self-publishing I should be looking at playing with structure, and other forms of output (possibly even, dare I say it, books…) You know what makes blogging work? RSS. However I can still maintain an RSS feed, and most people now “subscribe” to content via Twitter or Facebook if they’re interested. And everything else? For me it’s a block. So, some 11 years after the original incarnation of iconoplex and 6 months after the first incarnation of p7r.io, I’ve decided that they will “merge” (both domains will point to the same content), and the content they hold will be… different. I’m going to spend the next month starting a few projects and getting some content ready for “launch”, but for now it seems, blogging is over for me. Something much more exciting will follow. Full Article
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& ¿Ayuda XHTML al Posicionamiento Web? By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: Utilizar XHTML puede ayudar a mejorar el posicionamiento Web. Por una parte, se consigue que el código de las páginas Web sea más limpio y claro a los ojos de los robots de búsquedas. Facilitar la labor a este robot siempre es un punto a favor del posicionamiento... Full Article
& Navegadores en el Posicionamiento Web - ¿ Cual usar ? By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: ¿Para que navegador diseño mi sitio? Parece difícil la pregunta, pero no, la respuesta es simple, PARA TODOS. Bueno, si usted se refiere a por que navegador se puede guiar par diseñar su sitio para que los robots de búsqueda lo vean bien, pues pruebe un Lynx... :-) si, en serio, creo que esa es una vista más cercana de cómo ven los robots de búsqueda los sitios, pero bueno, hablando realmente en serio, la realidad es que.... Full Article
& Registro en Buscadores - ¿Manual o Automático? By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: El registro en los principales buscadores debe ser manual, de forma tal que se puedan cumplir todos los requisitos de la forma más óptima, lo cual con una herramienta automática seria difícil de lograr. Además ya en varios no es posible la inclusión automática pues uno de los pasos del formulario a llenar solicita la escritura de una cadena alfanumérica que se muestra en forma de imagen ruidosa la cual ... Full Article
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& Densidad e identificación de las palabras claves por parte de los buscadores By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: Un abuso de frecuencia en la palabra a menudo es interpretado como spam y es penalizado. Debemos mantener siempre el contenido de las Webs legible para las personas, pues además del tema de las penalizaciones de contenidos hechos solo para buscadores debemos tener en cuenta que el objetivo final de nuestras Webs e llegar a los usuarios y ofrecerles contenidos de calidad que ... Full Article
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& Valor del ranking de Alexa en la promoción Web By posicionamientobuscadores.developers4web.com Published On :: La información de tráfico de Alexa es a menudo un valor llamativo cuando deseamos analizar el éxito de un sitio por la cantidad de visitantes que posee. Sin embargo este es un valor al que se le concede en múltiples ocasiones más importancia de lo que realmente debería representar, o más bien se podría señalar que no siempre es interpretado de forma correcta. ¿Como lograr aparecer en el ranking de Alexa ? ¿Como mejorar el raking en Alexa? ¿ Como interpretar y usar el valor del ranking de Alexa ? Estas son preguntas comunes... Full Article
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& Faith's Checkbook by C.H. Spurgeon By bible.christiansunite.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:29:49 GMT Faith's Checkbook by C.H. SpurgeonDevotional for Wednesday November 13, 2024The Unfailing Watch Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. (Psalm 121:4) Jehovah is "the Keeper of Israel." No form of unconsciousness ever steals over Him, neither the deeper slumber nor the slighter sleep. He never fails to watch the house and the heart of His people. This is a sufficient reason for our resting in perfect peace. Alexander said that he slept because his friend Parmenio watched; much more may we sleep because our God is our guard. "Behold" is here set up to call our attention to the cheering truth. Israel, when he had a stone for his pillow, fell asleep; but His God was awake and came in vision to His servant. When we lie defenseless, Jehovah Himself will cover our head. The Lord keeps His people as a rich man keeps his treasure, as a captain keeps a city with a garrison, as a sentry keeps watch over his sovereign. None can harm those who are in such keeping. Let me put my soul into His dear hands. He never forgets us, never ceases actively to care for us, never finds Himself unable to preserve us. O my Lord, keep me, lest I wander and fall and perish. Keep me, that I may keep Thy commandments. By Thine unslumbering care prevent my sleeping like the sluggard and perishing like those who sleep the sleep of death. View more daily devotionals online. Full Article Daily Bible Devotionals
& "नेपालमा ईन्टरनेटबाट खरिद बिक्री (Online Shopping)" By navrajsansar.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:00:00 +0000 नेपालमा ईन्टरनेटबाट खरिद बिक्री (Online Shopping) नेपाल लक्ष्यीत अनलाईन बिजनेस गरी रहेका केही वेबसाईटमा गएर भुक्तानी गरे पछी पर्व अवसर अनुसारका सामग्री वेबसाईट वालाले सम्बन्धीत कहाँ पुर्याई दिन्छन । अब भनिरहन पर्दैन बिदेशमा बसेका छोराछोरीले माततिर्थ औशीको दिन आमालाई सरप्राईज दिन चाहे भने मात्र पनि मनग्गे बिकल्प छन। ढोकैमा उपहार आईपुग्न सक्छ । दशैमा घरपरिवार लाई एउटा मज्जाको कालो घोर्ले खसी किन्दीन परोस वा बाबुको मुख हेर्ने दिन एउटा मज्जाको आईफोन दिन मन लागोस । मनमात्र गर्नु पर्छ, सात समुन्द्र पारी बसी बसी त्यहाँको अनलाईन ट्रान्जेक्सन गर्न मिल्ने डेविट वा क्रेडिट कार्डको साहायताले घर परिवारको लागी सामान किनि दिन सकिन्छ। मुन्चा डट कम, ठमेल डट कम, आदी बिदेश बाट भुक्तानी गरेर नेपालमा सामान सप्लाई गर्ने वेब साईट हुन। अमेरिका, युरोप बसेर नेपालमा उपहार पठाउन सकिने भए पछी यदी कसैले पोखरा बसेर धरानमा केही सामान पठाउछु नि त भनि हाल्यो भने अहिलेलाई त्यो अलि सम्भव छैन वा धेरै झन्झट छ भन्नु पर्ने हुन्छ किन भने मुख्य कुरा यस्ता अनलाईन पोर्टलहरु काठमाण्डौ केन्द्रीत बजारमा ब्यस्त छन। धेरैमा काठमाण्डौमै पनि अतिरिक्त शुल्क तिरे पछी मात्र सामान ढुवानी हुन्छ। दुई सय देखी दश हजार रुपयाँ मा बैकं खाता खोलेर पाईने एटिएम कार्डले ईन्टरनेटमा भुक्तानी गर्न मिल्दैन। अझ भनौ हामी सँग भएका एटीएम कार्डले पायक परेको स्थानमा रहेको मेसिन बाट पैसा निकाल्ने बाहेक केही गर्न सक्दैनन। प्रचलनमा रहेका अनलाईन ई-कर्मस साईटहरुमा भुक्तानी गर्नको लागी डलर बाट ट्रान्जेक्सन गर्न मिल्ने कार्ड चाहीन्छ। जुन सर्वसाधरण नेपालीको लागी आकाशको फल झै हो। डलर ट्रान्जेक्सन गर्न मिल्ने कार्ड पाउन आफ्नो आय स्रोत पनि डलर मै देखाउनु पर्छ त्यो पनि नेपाल राष्ट्र बैकको सम्पुर्ण प्रक्रिया पुरा गरे। सरकारी निती प्रविधीलाई आत्मसात गर्ने भन्दा पनि निति निर्माणतहमा रहेका ब्यक्तीहरुको अज्ञानतालाई कानुन बनाउने खालको छ। त्यसैले सरकारी तहबाट नेपालमा अनलाईन बिजनेस को क्षेत्रमा केही भै हाल्ला भन्न सकिने अवश्था छैन तर नेपालका निजी बैकहरुले नेपालमै ईन्टरनेट कारोबार गर्ने सोच राखेर काम गरी रहेका सस्था सँग मिलेर यसमा केही फड्को मार्न खोजेका छन । भाटभटेनि डिपार्टमेन्ट स्टोर, हरिलो डट कम, ई-सेवा आदी यसको उदारण हो । काठमाण्डौको प्रख्यात डिपार्टमेन्ट स्टोर भाटभटेको अनलाईन पोर्टलमा जानु भयो भने त्यस डिपार्टमेन्ट पाईने कतिपय सामान अनलाईन किन्न सकिन्छ त्यो पनि नेपलकै बैकको अनलाईन खाता प्रयोग गरेर। भाटभटेनिकै कुरा गर्दा सामान रोजी सकेपछी कुमारी बैकको अनलाईन बैङ्किग खाता प्रयोग गर्नु भयो भने भुक्तानी गर्न सकिन्छ । कुमारी बैकमा खाता छैन भने पनि तपाईलाई ई-सेवा ले त्यही बराबरको सुबिधा प्रदान गर्छ । लक्ष्मी बैक, बैक अफ एसिया, किष्ट बैक, एनएमबी बैक , सानिमा बैक आदीमा भएको बैक खातामा ईन्टरनेट बैङ्कीग को सुबिधा लिनु भएको छ भने घरमै बसी बसी ई- सेवामा पैसा ट्रान्सफर गर्न सकिन्छ । ई – सेवामा पैसा ट्रान्सफर गरी सके पछी तपाईले भाटभटेनी मात्र हैन अरु केही साईटहरुमा पनि बस्तु वा सेवा खरिद गर्न सक्नु हुन्छ। ई- सेवा मा मात्र पैसा जम्मा गर्न सक्नु भयो भने बुद्द एयरले उडान गर्ने स्थानको लागी बुद्द एयरको टिकट किन्न ट्राभल एजेन्टको मा पुग्नु पर्दैन । घरमै बसी बसी बसी मोबाईलको रिचार्ज कार्ड खरिद गर्ने देखी हवाई जहाजको टिकट खरिद गर्न सकिन्छ । सेवाग्राहीलाई सुबिधा दिने भन्दा पनि दुख दिने खालको सरकारी नितीलाई सरलीकरण गरेर ब्यपार गर्नको लागि केही उत्साही युवाहरुले नयाँ नयाँ प्रयोग पनि गरेका छन । हरिलो डट कम यसको उदारण हो । यस साईटको साहायताले तपाईले नेपालमै बसेर अमेजन डट कम, ईबे देखी वालमार्ट भन्ने बिश्व प्रसिद्द अनलाईन पोर्टलमा भएका सामान खरिद गर्न सकिन्छ । यसको लागि ईन्टरनेट मार्फत सामानको बिक्री गर्ने अमेरिककाको कुनै पनि वेबसाईटमा गएर आफुलाई मन परेको सामान रोज्नु पर्छ र त्यो सामान देखीन वेबसाईटको ठेगाना हरिलो डट कमको वेबसाईट मा गएर नेपाल सम्म आई पुग्दा सो समानको मुल्य कति पर्ने हो त्यसको कोटेशन माग्न सकिन्छ । यस पछी तपाईले नेपाल (काठमाण्डौ) आईपुग्दा लाग्ने मुल्य पठाउछ । हरिलो उपलब्ध गराएको मुल्य चित्त बुझेमा नेपालकै ईन्टरनेट ब्याङ्किगहरुको प्रयोग गरी भुक्तानी गर्न सकिन्छ । मुल्य कै कुरा गर्नु हुन्छ भने उदरणको लागी उनान्नसय डलर पर्ने अमेजन डट कमले बिक्री गर्ने किन्डल टच हरिलोले लगभग बार्ह हजारको हाराहारिमा नेपाल ल्याई दिन्छ । अमेरिकी डलरको बिनिमय दरको कुरा गर्ने हो भने नेपाल आई पुग्दा लगभग चार हजार नेपाली रुपँया बढी परेको देखीन्छ । तर अमेरिका बाट नेपाल आई पुग्दा लाग्ने कुरीयर खर्च, नेपाल सरकारले तोकेको भन्सार, मुल्य अभिबृदी कर जोड्दा मुल्य अनुचित मानी हाल्न पर्दैन । Full Article
& font-colour:red>कम्प्यूटर - मोबाइल चलाउने सबैले एकपटक पढनैपर्ने By navrajsansar.blogspot.com Published On :: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:59:00 +0000 कम्प्यूटर - मोबाइल चलाउने सबैले एकपटक पढनैपर्ने हालै गरिएको एक अध्ययनले जनाए अनुसार मोबाइलमा घण्टौं कुराकानी गर्नाले तपाइँलाइ एग्रेसिव बनाउँने देखाएको छ । यदि तपाइँ घण्टौं कम्प्यूटरको अगाडी बसिरहनु हुन्छ भने, तपाइले स्वास्थ्य संग जोडिएका निकै समस्याहरूको सामना गर्नुपर्ने हुन्छ । इन्टरनेट सर्फिङ गर्नु तपाइँलाइ राम्रो लाग्छ होला, तर ध्यान राख्नुस यसले तपाइँलाइ समस्यामा पनि पार्न सक्दछ । एक ठुलो अस्पतालका आँखाका डक्टर डा. ए. के. ग्रोवरका अनुसार निकै तिव्र टाउको दुखाइ, आंखा रातो हुनु, आंखामा सुख्पन, गर्दन, पीठ्यु र काँधमा लगातार पीडा जस्ता समस्याहरू कम्प्युटर र ल्यापटप जस्ता इलेक्ट्रोनिक ग्याजेट्समा लगातार काम गर्नाले भैरहेको छ । एक्सपर्ट्सका अनुसार त कम्प्यूटरको स्क्रीनमा लगातार आंखा लगाइ राख्नाले आंखामा ड्राई आई सिन्ड्रोम नामको रोग पनि हुने गर्दछ । प्रयाजसो मानिसहरू टेन्शन, माइग्रेन अथवा वर्क लोडको कारणले यस्तो हुने सोच्दछन, तर यसको मुख्य कारण भने कम्प्यूटर भिजन सिन्ड्रोम (सीवीएस) नै हो । खास कुरा के भने यो समस्या हरेक बर्ष ६ देखि ७ प्रतिशत बढिरहेको छ । क्यालिफोर्निया यूनिभर्सिटीको एक स्टडीलाइ हेर्ने हो भने, ७० प्रतिशत भन्दा धेरै कम्प्यूटर यूजर्सलाइ बिशेष किसिमको चस्माको आवश्यकता पर्ने गर्दछ । कुरा– कुरामा रिस उठनु यदि तपाइँ लगातार मोबाइलको की- बोर्डमा औला दौडाइरहनु हुन्छ भने, तपाइलाइ नजानिदो तरिकाले ‘कर्पल टनल सिन्ड्रोम’ नामको रोगले ग्रष्त बनाउन सक्दछ । भलै तपाइलाइ म्यासेजिङले अर्को व्यक्तिसंग कनेक्ट गरि राख्दछ । तर यस कृयाकलापले तपाइको आंखाको साथ- साथै औला तथा हातलाइ समेत नोक्सान पुर्याउन सक्दछ । मोबाइलमा गेम खेल्ने बेला वा एसएमएस गर्ने समय मानिसहरूको औला निकै प्रयोग हुने गर्दछ । औलालाइ पटक पटक प्रेसरमा ल्याइरहँदा यसले नसामा समेत असर पर्न सक्दछ । हात झम्झमाउने, कुनैपनि कुरा पक्रँदा कमजोरी तथा हात काँध सम्म पुर्याउँदा पीडा हुने कारण पनि यहि हो । हल्याण्डको एक यूनिभर्सिटीमा २०० जना मानिसहरूमा गरिएको एक रिसर्च पछि यो कुरा पत्ता लागेको हो । मोबाइलको प्रयोग धेरै गर्ने मानिसहरू निकै चिडचिडेपनाको शिकार भएका छन् । यसो हुनुमा मोबाइलको धेरै प्रयोगनै मुख्य रहेको कुरा डक्टरहरूले बताएका छन् । पेटको समस्या हुन सक्दछ एक रिसर्चमा देखिए अनुसार मोबाइल फोनमा ट्वाइलेटको फ्लश ह्याण्डलमा भन्दा पनि १८ गुणा बढि हानिकारक ब्याक्टेरिया हुने गर्दछन् । समाचारपत्र डेली मेलका अनुसार, जांचबाट फोनमा पनि निकै खतरनाक ब्याक्टेरिया हुने गर्दछन पत्ता लागिसकेको छ । यसै कारणले फोन प्रयोगकर्तालाइ पेट सम्बन्धी गम्भीर रोगी हुने आशंका धेरै हुने गर्दछ । रिपोर्टमा बताइए अनुसार ब्रिटेनमा मात्र प्रयोग गरिएको ६.३ करोड मोबाइल फोनमध्ये १.४७ करोड यूजर्सलाइ स्वास्थ्य सम्बन्धी समस्या पाइएको छ । रिसर्च टीममा काम गरिरहेका केरी स्टेनवेले बताए अनुसार मोबाइल फोनलाइ यता उता राख्नाले त्यसमा ब्याक्टेरियाहरू बस्ने गर्दछन् । त्यहि ब्याक्टेरिया हाम्रो हात सम्म आइपुग्दछ । जसका कारण हाम्रो स्वास्थ्यमा ती ब्याक्टेरिया सिधै प्रवेश गर्न सक्दछन् । घण्टौं आँखाले नहेर्नुस यस रिसर्चमा काम गर्ने हेल्थ एक्सपर्ट जिम फ्रान्सिजले बताए अनुसार तपाइँ आफ्नो आंखाको क्षमता भन्दा धेरै काम गर्नुहुन्छ, यसले भिडियो डिस्प्ले टर्मिनल (भिडीटी) हुने खतरा कयौं गुणाले बढ्ने गर्दछ । एक अध्ययन अनुसार घण्टौं कम्प्यूटरको स्क्रीनमा आंखा लगाइ राख्नाले हाम्रो आंखाका लागि अननेचरल सिचुएशन हुने गर्दछ । हाम्रो आंखा र ब्रेनले प्रिन्टेट चीजहरूलाइ जस्तो रूपले हेर्ने गर्दछन, त्यसको तुलनामा स्क्रीनमा हेर्दा फरक प्रतिक्रिया दिने गर्दछ । जसका कारणले मानिसमा सीवीसी हुने गर्दछ । अर्का आई स्पेशलिस्ट डक्टरका अनुसार लामो समय सम्म स्क्रीन अगाडी बस्नाले निकै इनर्जी खर्च हुने गर्दछ, जुन आंखाका लागी निकै च्यालेन्ज पूर्ण हुने गर्दछ । दोश्रो कम्प्यूटरमा काम गर्ने क्रममा आँखा कम झिम्कने गर्दछ । प्रायजसो एक मिनेटमा १४ पटक आँखा झिम्काइन्छ । तर कम्प्यूटरको प्रयोगका बेला हामी ४ देखि ६ पटक मात्र आँखा झिम्क्याउने गर्दछौं । यसका कारण आंखामा स्व्इलिङ र मोतिबिन्दु जस्ता समस्याहरू आउँदछन् । केही कुरामा ध्यान राखौं आफ्नो कम्प्युटर स्क्रीनको कन्ट्रास्ट र ब्राइटनेसलाइ नर्मल राख्नुस । छिटो छिटो आँखा झिम्क्याउने गर्नुस । केही बेरको अन्तरमा आंखालाइ केही सेकेण्डका लागी बन्द गर्ने गर्नुस । यस्तो गर्दा तपाइँको आंखालाइ आराम पुग्दछ । यस्तो कार्य हरेक ३० मिनेटमा गर्ने गर्नुस । कम्प्यूटर यूजर्सका लागी बनाइएको स्पेशल चश्माको प्रयोग गर्नुहोस । यो चस्मा ती मानिसहरूका लागी बनाइएको हो , जो मानिसहरू लामो समय सम्म कम्प्युटरमा बसेर काम गर्ने गर्दछन् । के भन्दछ त रिसर्च ? लण्डन यूनिभर्सिटीको एक रिसर्च अनुसार, जो मानिस कम्प्युटरमा ४ घण्टा भन्दा बढि समय बितउँदछन, उनीहरूलाइ अन्य मानिसको तुलनामा १२५ प्रटिशत धेरै हृदय सम्बन्धी रोगहरू लाग्ने सम्भावना रहन्छ । रिसर्चबाट कम्प्यूटरमा धरै समय बिताउने मानिसहरूलाइ मृत्यु हुने खतरा अन्य मानिसहरूको तुलनामा ४५ प्रतिशत धेरै हुने गर्दछ । यदि तपाइँ हरेक दिन ४ घण्टा भन्दा धेरै मोबाइलमा कुरा गर्नुहुन्छ भने तपाइँको ब्यवहार एग्रेसिभ हुने गर्दछ । क्यालिफोर्निया यूनिभर्सिटी बर्कलेको एक अध्ययन अनुसार, ७० प्रतिशत भन्दा धेरै कम्प्यूटर यूजर्सलाइ कम्प्यूटर चश्माको आवश्यकता पर्दछ। हाम्रो पोस्ट मन परे लाइक शेयर गर्नु होला Full Article
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& 12/13 Mr. Pink's Porn Reviews News By www.mrpinks.com Published On :: Site News and Recent Additions - 12/01 - We have been informed of complaints of cross sales and cancellation problems with Incredible Pass. In response, we have chosen to remove our review of Incredible Pass. I'm not going to stand for companies that are trying to scam or screw over our visitors. If you have any serious complaints of any other sites, please email me and I will look into the issue. 12/13 - Porn Pros, Real Ex-Girlfriends, 18 Years Old, Cock Competition and 40oz Bounce have worked out a deal with MrPinks.com to offer discount pricing. Their monthly membership prices have dropped from $24.95 per month to $17.95 per month. The $1 trial still offers limited access. Full Article
& Decline in US Oil & Gas Jobs Amid Record Production By oilfiredup.com Published On :: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:43:42 +0000 The US oil and gas industry is experiencing a paradoxical trend: record-breaking production levels coupled with a significant decline in employment. Despite the United States achieving unprecedented oil and gas output, the number of jobs in the sector has been steadily decreasing. This decline is not driven by climate policies or the rise of clean energy but rather by the industry’s relentless push for efficiency and the cyclical nature of the market. According to recent data, oil production in the US has increased by 5% since 2019, reaching an average of 13.4 million barrels per day. However, employment in the oilfield sector has dropped nearly 20% from pre-pandemic levels. The oil and gas extraction industry employed approximately 112,000 people in 2022, a significant decrease from previous years. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this trend, leading to a loss of nearly 200,000 jobs in the sector, a 20% reduction in the total workforce. Although there are signs of recovery, with projections suggesting a rebound in employment levels by 2027, the current job market remains challenging for many workers. The industry’s focus on efficiency means that fewer workers are needed to produce more oil. This shift has resulted in job losses across various... Full Article Industry News
& Trump's Draft Evader Precipice By hucksrealm.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 19:22:00 +0000 The United States is hovering at a precarious point in our history. The choice is to either go forward with moral clarity or succumb to our violent past with symptoms of racism, xenophobia, nativism, sexism, misogyny, ageism, anti-Veterans, anti-American values and more. Unfortunately, the party of Lincoln is wracked with dangerous splits with the only common factors being racism, sexism, equivocations and presidential obstruction. Party vision extends only to the present and disregards past lessons to integrate with the future. The most important factors seem to be hindering the President, haranguing Hillary Clinton and uttering senseless statements. Presumptive presidential candidate Donald John Trump spouts a litany of offensive equivocations, governmental and global ignorance, and flirtation with right wing racism and anti-Semitism. His attacks on people of color, Judaism, women and Muslims seem to evolve from the same extremist philosophy; and a misguided plan to generate support from a base believing the same. Trump’s early life shows incorrigibility with parental sentence of military school beginning at age twelve. The next six years were spent with a heavy program of military ethics, duty and honor. He seems to have rebelled against these and has displayed questionable patriotism, respect for the fallen and ignorance of American values. Reaching the age of eighteen meant Selective Service registration and Trump was no exception. Following indicates his draft history: 2-S school exemption 7/28/64 2-S school exemption 12/14/65 1-A induction eligible 11/22/66 2-S school exemption 12/13/66 2-S school exemption 1/16/68 1-A induction eligible 7/9/68 1-Y not eligible 10/15/68 Trump passed his military physical examination on 12/15/66 with no indication of any disqualifying conditions. He received two successive exemptions for college, but faced a Fortunate Son dilemma due to the Vietnam War heating up. Trump was briefly eligible for entry beginning on 11/22/66, but was able to achieve more 2-S deferments until July, 1968. He now faced the realistic expectation of military service since there were no more college exemptions to be had. The Vietnam War was at its apex following the Tet Offensive in late January, 1968, and troop strength was over 500,000. Trump underwent another service physical on 9/17/68 presenting a private physician letter attesting to a diagnosis of bone heel spurs. Young Trump was given an exemption of 1-Y, not eligible for induction except in time of national emergency or declared war. This seems odd since the young man participated in athletics at the military academy and secondly, the US was in dire need of more military manpower to fight the war. Subsequently, many young men were inducted into with minor medical or psychological issues to fill the rolls. Bone heel spurs were not necessarily disqualifying since men were being accepted with flat feet, a more debilitating condition. The only other factor to take into consideration is relatively simple-he was the son of a millionaire thus in today’s parlance, affluenza. Trump later bragged his condition was not painful and temporary thus negating the 1-Y rating given and proving his Fortunate Son status. He also stated his personal Vietnam was partying and bedding beautiful women with a developing fear of venereal disease. Donnie has refused to discuss the draft subject during the campaign rebuffing all questions. One can only ponder the fate of those who took his place in the draft. Full Article
& This Week's Playlist Theme By tamiandcraig.blogspot.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:49:00 -0400 If you keep tabs on our blog, you probably know we switch out our songs every week to keep things interesting - and to keep me from getting lazy. Every now and again we add a little theme to our playlist. This week, it's one-word song titles. Before music aficiondos flame us we'll own up to it straightaway - yeah, we fudged a little on the shoulder song by removing The from the title. Turns out we just did the only other shoulder song we have handy with a one-word title (Freestyler)! Full Article
& Will Your New Year's Resolution Stick? By tamiandcraig.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:58:00 -0500 Say, ever wanted the club to yourself during your workout? Sick of waiting on machines? Tired of setting up in the back row of full classes? Well, this is the week you've been waiting for... Pick a club, just about any club right now, and chances are you'll find the tranquility you so desperately seek.But not for long... Here in the States, at least, January is by far the biggest sales month for fitness clubs. Yep, come January 2nd (gosh, maybe even January 1st) practically every club from sea to shining sea will be packed with New Year's Resolutioners - those fine folks who promise themselves that this year it'll all be different. Yes, for two, maybe even three whole weeks they'll plug away. But then the reality of life sets in, and by February it's back to the same ol', same ol' - oh, there'll be a few new faces, but mostly the same ones as before.Will you be different? We hope so. If you're a newbie, remember this: Anything you do regularly for a month becomes part of your life. Healthy living - and that includes exercise - is for everyone. We know, because we both struggled with obesity for years. It's the fear of our past that motivates our butts right back into that gym week after week. So take heart... if a couple of previously-overweight geeks like us can get it done, surely you can! Full Article
& Our 'New Stuff' Playlist By tamiandcraig.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:22:00 -0500 This week's playlist (at left) probably seems unremarkable to most instructors, but for us it's a little different - see, we run mostly "old" songs in our classes. Old for us means anything before release 50 - mostly we gravitate to the 30's and 40's series, then throw in a 50's series track or two for good measure. Well, Tami picks a theme for each week's playlist, and this week it's new stuff only. Guess we won't need to blow the dust off any old CDs this time around! Full Article
& Our 'Old Stuff' Playlist By tamiandcraig.blogspot.com Published On :: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:43:00 -0500 What goes up must come down.What goes around comes around.One good turn deserves another.And... you guessed it:What's old is new again.Naturally. We did our 'new stuff' playlist a week or so ago, and now it's time rewind all the way back to the 30's series, because - well, for us at least - that's about as far back as we can go. (playlist at left)But anyway... We find it's a little like climbing back on that bicycle you haven't ridden in awhile - No matter how long it's been, one crank of the pedals and it feels just as natural as ever. It's that pleasant mix of comfort and familiarity that makes the whole experience just slightly more enjoyable than normal.Truth be told, though, here's what we really like about the 'old stuff' playlist: Even if we totally forget the choreography, we've heard these songs so many times we can fake our way through it and at least look like we know what we're doing! Full Article
& Tami Fulfills Her 2008 New Year's Resolution (pics) By tamiandcraig.blogspot.com Published On :: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:26:00 -0400 One of the things I most respect about Tami is the way she keeps her promises - both to others, and to herself. If you've been following our blog for awhile you may remember her New Year's Resolution to walk 500 miles. She had me put together a little spreadsheet on her laptop where she could enter her mileage each day. Next to each entry it showed mileage accumulated to-date, along with a comparison to the minimum mileage needed to complete 500 miles by year end. Every now and again she tried to turn the milestones into shoe-buying excuses -- "Hey Sweetie, I just crossed 300 miles - don't you think that deserves a new pair of shoes?" Well, it was my honor to walk the last 40 or so miles with her during our vacation in Montana's Glacier National Park these last two weeks. I don't know exactly where or when we crossed that 500th mile, but I do know that the mountains there in Glacier are a whole lot taller than the ones back home. I also decided I prefer climbing over descending - Tami practically runs down the mountains, leaving me stumbling along behind in a contrail of dust (see video below). She's a hiking machine. Me, I'm more of a pack mule - I get to carry the water, lunches, cameras, maps, and sunscreen. Which works out fine, since I'm always stopping to take pictures anyway! Enjoy... Full Article
& "Guru" in the Singular and Clarity about "Fall Down" By harekrsna.com Published On :: Editorial on ISKCON's guru tattva. Full Article
& It's Taboo, Prabhu By harekrsna.com Published On :: ISKCON enforces taboo restriction on discussion of guru tattva. Full Article
& Sun Poll Results on The "Lilamrta" By harekrsna.com Published On :: Editorial summarizing the recent Sun Poll on Satsvarupa's "Lilamrta". Full Article
& It's Taboo - Part II By harekrsna.com Published On :: A continuation of the previous Sun Blog thread, "It's Taboo, Prabhu". Full Article
& It's Taboo - Part III By harekrsna.com Published On :: A continuation of the previous Sun Blog thread, "It's Taboo, Prabhu". Full Article
& Request for Public Debate Re: ISKCON's System of Management By harekrsna.com Published On :: Call for debate on ISKCON changes to Srila Prabhupada's established system of management. Full Article
& Pump & Dump By leiden365.nl Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:00:19 +0000 Stap 1: Verkrijg een product voor jezelf. Stap 2: Maak het product aantrekkelijk voor anderen. Stap 3: Wacht tot anderen het product kopen en de waarde stijgt. Stap 4: Verkoop je bezit. Stap 5: Winst voor jou, verliezen voor anderen. … Lees verder → Full Article Blaat Paranoia
& May 19 2009 Radio Station History Australia - 2LT Lithgow - Macquarie's Central Western Network Station By www.radioheritage.net Published On :: Radio Centre 2LT, controlled by Lithgow Broadcasters Pty. Ltd. and an offshoot of Western Newspapers Pty. Ltd. commenced entertaining its 26,000 town listeners on June 7th, 1938. As Lithgow's "Sunshine Station," 2LT has won the confidence... Full Article
& May 19 2009 Radio Station History Australia - 2BH Broken Hill - "The Voice of the Western Darling" By www.radioheritage.net Published On :: 2BH, "The Barrier Miner" Broadcasting Service is the only station giving coverage to Broken Hill and West Darling districts under all transmitting conditions. Associated with 2BH is the Smilers' Club with close to 3,000 members... Full Article
& May 19 2009 Radio Station History Australia - 2MG Mudgee - "The Voice of the Tablelands" By www.radioheritage.net Published On :: Station 2MG, Mudgee, "The Voice of the Tablelands," owned and operated by the Mudgee Broadcasting Company Pty. Limited, is situated a mile from the chief commercial town of a very rich inner-western district of New South Wales... Full Article
& May 30 2009 Wavescan Column by by Adrian Petersen - Balikpapan's Oldest Continuous Radio Station By www.radioheritage.net Published On :: The Dutch authorities at The Hague in their homeland over in Europe began an interest in the usage of wireless very early. They established a Wireless Company in 1916, they installed two spark Morse Code stations on the Dogger Banks in 1917, they made their first wireless broadcast in 1920, they installed their first wireless... Full Article
& June 9 2009 Radio Station History Australia: 2PK "The Voice of the Golden West" By www.radioheritage.net Published On :: Parkes Broadcasting Co. Pty. Ltd. is the licensee of 2PK, which came on the air on October 5th 1937... Full Article
& June 9 2009 Long Lost Radio History Image - Toohey's Oatmeal Stout By www.radioheritage.net Published On :: Toohey's Oatmeal Stout sponsored 'Mrs 'Arris and Mrs 'Iggs' an entertaining program from 2UW Sydney, Australia... Full Article