Gloucester Open, Runner Up
Last weekend I went and played a couple of rounds of golf up at Gloucester Country Club, the Sunday round of 18 holes was for the 2008 Gloucester Open and what do you know, I came 2nd in C-Grade with my nett score of 89. I’m not going to tell you what my handicap is, that’d tell you exactly what I hit for the round and well let’s say it was in triple figures.
Anyway, the runner up prize is a lovely vegetable steamer from Kambrook. Pretty sure this is going to come in handy, and actually we had been thinking of about buying one.
Pretty sure there are a couple more trophy days coming up in a few weeks, I’m playing next on the 1st weekend in November which I think is the annual green keepers event.
Another reason people don’t like politicians..
I was going through all the news and things in my RSS reader this morning and came across this lovely piece in the Sydney Morning Herald about ex-premier of New South Wales Morris Iemma. His recent resignation received a lot of press, though it didn’t really come as a massive shock considering how much he’d screwed up recently, but this latest news of an apparent demand for a lifetime pension and all the other perks that come with being a premier.
Considering the current state of the economy in Australia, the utterly ridiculous state of our hospital and health system in New South Wales, and not to mention the rising cost of housing issues faced by many, I’m of the opinion that the former premier can go fuck off. (sorry for the expletive.) Why the hell should we the tax payers pay for you to have a full time driver and car for life, and a further $130,000 or so a year?
End rant.
I’m With The Band - header
A week or so ago I mentioned that I was working on the logo / header for the new I’m With The Band website, well it’s finally completed (till I decide to tweak it again) and the only thing left to do now is to actually sort out the colour scheme.
The other thing I managed to finalise is the ability to subscribe to Reverb Street Press via email. Basically we setup a category on the IWTB website where each month we publish a downloadable PDF of that month’s Reverb and just by clicking on the cover you can download it. To make things even easier we published that particular category as an RSS feed and through the help of Feedburner we’ve now added a form on the front page of the IWTB website where all you need to do is enter your email address and voila, you get an email each month as soon as the new Reverb is published with a prompt to download it. It was tempting to setup an ‘auto-send’ email subscription however seeing as Reverb is around about 15mb it would break most people’s mail servers.
For now here’s what I came up with, along with the help of one of Reverb’s designer’s mates, for the header of the website.
I’m also finishing up a disco version, a dance club version, and more of a rock music version so that we can change them around every couple of months or so.
Time to finish up the rest of the colour scheme, I think I might also make the text larger and also customise each category header as well, oh and the Reverb signup form needs to look a bit different to the standard IWTB one so that people understand what they’re doing. Oh and I’ve also gotta lock in the advertising spaces so we can sell them off each month.
So yeh, almost complete!
And for those music fans out there, this month there’s interviews from Pete Townshend (The Who), Ian Brown (The Stone Roses), Coheed and Cambria, and not to mention Gnarls Barkley. Pretty damn tasty considering we’re a locally owned and produced press, and we’re not even based in Sydney!
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