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Happy Birthday Lawsie

Ye gods, it’s a year since John Laws turned 70…a whole year…how is that possible? Who sped up the calendar?

Anyway, Lawsie is 71 years old today, so happy birthday Lawsie!

Last year, when Lawsie turned 70, I tried to ring in to wish him a happy birthday, but I was about the 750,000th person to call in so they (Lawsie’s producers) added my name to a list of well-wishers, I also sent him a birthday card. I remember I spent most of the morning listening to Lawsie, I even sent him an email. John Williamson also dropped in to Lawsie’s studio to sing a few songs.

I remember walking across the Dickson Playing Fields about a week after Lawsie’s birthday, and people were still greeting him with birthday messages when they rang up to talk to him.

I’ll be at work for most of Lawsie’s show, but I remembered to send John a birthday email…I sent this at 2:36am whilst listening to Lawsie’s former exectutive producer Stuart Bocking, who is now the host of New Day Australia.

Happy 71st birthday Lawsie,
I can’t believe it is a whole year since your last birthday…I remember where I was when John Williamson invaded the studio, and where I was when I left a birthday message with one of your producers.

I hope you have a great day John, and I hope that back of yours isn’t causing you too many problems these days.

Best wishes,
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra

Samuel

August 8th, 2006 at 07:56am

Section 84 Update

Later this week I’ll be completing another photographic tour of the Section 84 developments, but before I do that, I have some interesting information. It would appear that the Canberra Centre section of the developments are nearing completion, and various stores are moving in, and having utilities set up.

I have it on good authority that JB Hifi will be moving from their current location near the Civic Bus Interchange, into a new store in the Section 84 developments.

Also, it would appear that the stores in the City Markets will start moving into the new section in September or October.

Also, those of you who happen to use the Canberra Centre car park, you might like to know that the main office on level one, above the City Markets, has moved about twenty metres. The move was completed over the weekend.

Stay tuned, more information and photos are coming a bit later in the week.

Samuel

August 7th, 2006 at 08:51am

Samuel’s Footy Tips: Results

That was a pretty good weekend overall.

AFL Round 18: 5/8 (62.50%)
NRL Round 22: 4/7 (57.14%)
Week Total: 9/15 (60%)

Totals:
AFL: 75/144 (52.08%)
NRL: 78/152 (51.32%)
Total: 153/296 (51.67%)

Samuel

August 7th, 2006 at 06:40am

Samuel’s Musicians Of The Week

A few weeks ago I mentioned that the Little River Band may make another appearance in the Musicians Of The Week award due to very large number of fantastic songs they’ve produced. So here they are again, and this time the feature song is Emma.

Oh pretty Emma
you sweet pretender
why don’t you stay around
what’s your dilemma
won’t you please tell me Emma
I don’t wanna lay you down

sometimes it’s hard to bend
turn around
you better start all over again

(Please tell me Emma)
(Please tell me Emma)
Don’t get excited
you’ll be invited
wait for the wheel to turn
don’t be impatient
you’ll get liberated
and everybody’s got to learn

you have got
to make a contribution
then you can start
to draw your own conclusion

(Please tell me Emma)
(Please tell me Emma)
(Please tell me Emma)
(Please tell me Emma)

Emma, Emma, Emma I’m still waiting.
(I’m still waiting)
Emma, Emma, Emma

Sometimes it’s hard to bend
turn around
you’d better start all over again
all over again
(Please tell me Emma)
(Please tell me Emma)
(Please tell me Emma)
(Please tell me Emma)

Emma, Emma, Emma
start relating
(start relating)

Oh pretty Emma
you sweet pretender
why don’t you stay around
Oh pretty Emma
you sweet pretender
I don’t wanna lay you lay you lay you down

Oh pretty Emma
you sweet pretender
I don’t wanna lay you down

Oh pretty Emma

(oooh oooh oooh oooohoh)
(oooh oooh oooh oooohoh)
(oooh oooh oooh oooohoh)
(oooh oooh oooh oooohoh)
(oooh oooh oooh oooohoh)
(oooh oooh oooh oooohoh)

Samuel

August 6th, 2006 at 06:48pm

Melbourne Radio Ratings

I was going to write a report about the first Melbourne radio ratings period following the 3AW/Magic frequency swap, and then I realised that the ratings periods in Melbourne overlap.

Ratings #3 (which I covered here) went from February 12 to April 29, which places it before the frequency swap.

Ratings #4, which I was about to write a report for, went from March 26 to June 10, which puts the frequency swap in the middle of the ratings period.

Ratings #5 started on May 7 (six days after the frequency swap) and finished on July 29, I will write a report about this ratings period when the results are published, as this will provide a direct comparison of the time directly before, and directly after, the frequency swap.

Samuel

August 6th, 2006 at 06:40am

Photo of Coranderrk St/Constitution Ave intersection at 5:34pm on Wednesday August 2nd

Here is a photo I took on Wednesday at 5:34pm looking towards the Coranderrk St/Constitution Ave intersection from the foot bridge which crosses Coranderrk St and joins the Reid CIT campus with the area in front of the convention centre.

The photo is out of focus a bit, but I think it worked out well…I like the effect the moving cars had on the slightly longer than usual exposure time, which was the camera’s attempt at compensating for poor light.

Samuel

August 4th, 2006 at 02:45pm

Blog View Stats for June

Time for the Blog View Stats for June.

The webstat reports and the Persiflage download stats can be found at https://samuelgordonstewart.com/wp-content/blogstats/2006/june/

There were 10,046 page views in June, down from 14,259 in May, and 4,083 visitors, down from 4,787 in May.

There were 4,482 views of the front page on all of its URLs.

The most popular articles were:

• Tired
• Unwelcome Behaviour
• Dickson College Protest
• John B1_B5 Adds To The “Voice Of Reason” Confusion and
• Birthday In Review

Google once again remained the most popular search engine with 90.09% of all search engine referrals coming from Google. Yahoo was next with 8.70%, and MSN was next on 0.58%.

The top ten search keywords were:

1. samuel gordon stewart
2. schnappi video
3. Samuel Gordon Stewart
4. samuel gordon-stewart
5. 2ue studio
6. SAMUEL GORDON STEWART
7. samuel gordon
8. samuel stewart
9. dickson college
10. wheel of fortune rob elliot

Among the odd keywords were

• calendar whiteboards
• 2005 2006 email contacts of fuzhou @hotmail.com
• my coffee cup braddon
• why is it neccessary to have outside broadcast production
• samuel gordon stewart meeting
• kryal castle
• citcard reviews
• Kambah Dickson Cook Hall
• early bird worms
• automatic door saturday night live
• 234 802 554 9993
• optusnet mail christmas card 2005
• Samuél Stewart
• male model dreadlocks
• sunfire T2000 blog
• fasha dog spam
• pie graph and sleep deprived
• boys in skivvies
• clive stuart cycles

Internet Explorer gained quite a bit and remained the most popular browser with 67.32% of the readership, Firefox dropped and was next with 25.80%, Safari also dropped to have 5.01%, Opera had a slight drop to 1.49%. Mozilla Suite and Netscape were under 1%, with Konqueror and others under 0.1%.

Windows was the most popular Operating System, and gained a few points, with 89.77% of the readership, followed by Mac, which recorded a large drop, with 8.63%, and Linux which dropped a bit, to be on 1.56%. All others were under 0.10%.

The vast majority of readers were in Australia, althought the number did drop slightly, 82.96% of readers were from the sunburnt Country of sweeping plains. Next was the US with 4.63%, Japan with 3.38% and the UK with 3.26%. The rest of the 69 countires were under 1%.

The most popular files for the month were:

• Mike Frame’s first moments on-air at Bunnings Belconnen in Real Video format, downloaded 123 times.
• Editorial Echoes #8, downloaded 88 times.
• Mike Frame chatting with Bruce Huskings, manager of Bunnings Belconnen, and 2CC’s Bunnings Broadcast, downloaded 84 times.
• Wayne Mac talking about “Don’t Touch That Dial” on 6PR last year, downloaded 84 times.
• Mychat with John Kerr before the 2005 New Day Australia Christmas Cruise, downloaded 81 times.

The top referring sites for the month were:

• The Spin Starts Here: 386 referrals
• The RiotACT: 38 referrals
• GrodsCorp: 14 referrals.
• Brown Noise Unit: 11 referrals.
• Loadedog: 8 Referrals.

Bandwidth
June 2006: 5,900MB
May 2006: 14,680MB
April 2006: 32,130MB
March 2006: 12,350MB
February 2006 9,280MB
January 2006: 14,240MB
December 2005: 14,010MB
November 2005: 2,870MB
October 2005: 657.85MB
September 2005: 519.89MB
August 2005: 82.93MB

Samuel’s Persiflage Statistics

Samuel

2 comments August 4th, 2006 at 12:26pm

The Cunning Blonde

This one was sent by “Paul” to Stuart Bocking about a week ago…it’a nother Blonde joke, but it’s not your average Blonde joke…read on…

There was a blonde who found herself sitting next to a Lawyer on an airplane.

The lawyer just kept bugging the blonde wanting her to play a game of intelligence. Finally, the lawyer offered her 10 to 1 odds, and said every time the blonde could not answer one of his questions, she owed him $5, but every time he could not answer hers, he’d give her $50.

The lawyer figured he could not lose, and the blonde reluctantly accepted.

The lawyer first asked, “What is the distance between the Earth and the nearest star?”
Without saying a word the blonde handed him $5.

Then the blonde asked, “What goes up a hill with 3 legs and comes back down the hill with 4 legs?”
Well, the lawyer looked puzzled. He took several hours, looking up everything he could on his laptop and even placing numerous air-to-ground phone calls trying to find the answer. Finally, angry and frustrated, he gave up and paid the blonde $50

The blonde put the $50 into her purse without comment, but the lawyer insisted, “What is the answer to your question?”
Without saying a word, the blonde handed him $5.

$40 profit…probably come in handy at some stage.

Do you have something you would like to contribute to Friday Funnies? If so, email it to smoothwallsamuel@gmail.com. All contributions welcome!

Samuel

2 comments August 4th, 2006 at 10:39am

Samuel’s Footy Tips

Time for another weekend of footy tips, so here we go!

NRL Round 22
Storm V Tigers
Roosters V Knights
Warriors V Sharks
Rabbitohs V Panthers
Cowboys V Bulldogs
Eels V Dragons
Raiders V Broncos

AFL Round 18
Saints V Eagles
Blues V Demons
Tigers V Bulldogs
Swans V Bombers
Crows V Magpies
Lions V Cats
Kangaroos V Power
Dockers V Hawks

Samuel

August 4th, 2006 at 06:19am

Lack of content

Apoligies for the severe lack of content over the last couple of days, I was unwell for the few days before that and as such ran out of pre-written (or almost finished) posts to polish and drop into the schedule…and have since been too tired and busy to update the site very much…I wish I could afford some staff, I would enjoy making this my day job…it would prevent these low content days as well…

Anyway, things should be back to normal within the next day or two.

Samuel

August 3rd, 2006 at 06:19am

Interest Rates Will Not Rise

This morning at 9:30 the Reserve Bank Of Australia will announce their decision on interest rates, their decision, according to analysts, is most likely to see a rise of 25 basis points (0.25% for the humans amongst us)…but I doubt we will see this.

In my view, the citizens of this country are having a hard enough time managing their finances without the reserve bank adding an extra cost to everything. The ever increasing price of petrol and produce (amongst other things) are causing many prices to go up, and this is putting too much pressure on the economy for the Reserve Bank to put rates up.
Putting rates up is a move the Reserve Bank can use when we are spending too much money, not when we can’t spend any more.

I suppose it is up to the Reserve Bank, and somebody from there is smirking right now as they read this, as the decision was taken yesterday, but if they want the tabloid affairs television programs to have a field day with “The bank stole my house and forced me to live in their basement” stories, then that is their choice.

I won’t be near a radio when Lawsie makes the announcement at 9:30 (probably by crossing to a reporter), but I should find out around 11am when I have a break from work.

Samuel

3 comments August 2nd, 2006 at 08:14am