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Chief Turnip becomes “biggest knob”?

Just having a look at the 2CA website (hooray, they finally updated the AFL schedule), I noticed that they are running a webpoll, namely “Who is the biggest knob?”, with the options being Germaine Greer, Jon Stanhope, The Breakfast Boys, Tom Cruise and Paris Hilton.

As I write this post, the results are as follows:

Jon Stanhope 56.0%
Germaine Greer 28.0%
Tom Cruise 6.0%
Paris Hilton 6.0%
The Breakfast Boys 4.0%

So our beloved Chief Turnip is Canberra’s biggest knob…sounds about right.

Samuel

10 comments September 14th, 2006 at 01:27pm

Underground Cabling Photographic Tour #2

Back in March I conducted a photograpic tour to document the underground cabling work being done to supply power to a new building in Civic, in early August I conducted another tour to provide an update on the progress of the cabling and the building.

I am pleased to report that since the first photographic tour, all of the cabling work has been completed, and all of the holes in the ground have been dug over. The building is also coming along nicely, as can be seen in some of these photos.

Firstly, let me remind you of the route taken by the cabling.

Back in March, the corner of Limestone Avenue and Coranderrk Street, which had some unrelated cabling work, looked like this

In August it looked like this

I then moved on to the Mount Ainslie Substation where I got some better photos than last time

I noticed that there seems to be a telecommunications device of some sort right next to the substation…it looks to be too small to be a phone tower, so I can only assume that it is a device setup to enable ActewAGL to monitor the substation remotely.

The areas which needed to have grass replanted have been covered in straw

This is the view looking down the fairly straight path to Limestone Avenue

I then attempted to replicate a photo I took in March, with little luck due to being unfamiliar with the modes of the camera.

As I continued towards Limestone Avenue, I spotted some wildlife, firstly a magpie

And some kangaroos (alongside Batman Street, which is actually called Quick Street on the Ainslie side of Limestone Avenue)

And some birds

And more kangaroos

On Limestone Avenue there is more straw

From the corner of Limestone Avenue and Allambee Street, the underground cabling building can be seen.

More magpies in trees on Allambee Street

In March, this area had a fence around it

And another spot which had a fence around it, this spot is in fact the spot which was the location of a photo and video of a horizontal directional drilling machine at work.

From a little bit further down Allambee Street the building looked like this in March

The corner where Allambee Street becomes Currong Street has changed a bit too!

From near the corner of Currong and Boolee Streets I had a very clear view of the Underground Cabling Building.

And more straw at the corner of Currong and Boolee Streets

From the intersection of Boolee and Ballumbir (err, sorry, they changed it to Cooyong Street for some painfully pointless reason) Streets

In March I took a photo of the building from the lawn above final leg of the cable journey

And then set about taking more photos of the building

Look! Another magpie!

More from the building

Better cross the road

Some more photos before I do

In March

Now

Window washing?

It was around about here that a passer-by informed me that he had “seen better buildings”…perhaps, but I wasn’t there for the cosmetics, I was there to document Canberra’s changing skyline.

Another magpie

Things have changed since March

Back in March, the building looked a tad less finished from the bridge over Coranderrk Street which leads to the CIT Reid Campus

Due to a recent photograpic tour of a different part of Canberra by another person on another website, being conducted by means of trespassing, I wish to assure you that I have, at no stage during my photographic tours, trespassed. The closest I get to building sites is sticking the lens of the camera through the peep holes.

Samuel

15 comments September 14th, 2006 at 10:18am

Blog View Stats for July

It’s time to catch up on some posts I’ve been meaning to write for a very long time, so let’s start with the overdue Blog View Stats for July.

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

There were 7,666 page views in July, down from 10,046 in June, and 3,611 visitors, down from 4,083 in June.

There were 3,213 views of the front page on all of its URLs.

The most popular articles were:

• Here’s The Schnappi Video
• What’s Really Happening at ACTION
• John B1_B5 Adds To The “Voice Of Reason” Confusion
• Bigpond block emails from Gmail and
• ASIO Apprehend Alleged Bomb Threat Emailer

Google once again remained the most popular search engine, despite a tiny drop, with 89.32% of all search engine referrals coming from Google. Yahoo was next with a slightly improved 9.14%, and MSN was next on 0.59%.

The top ten search keywords were:

1. schnappi video
2. samuel gordon stewart
3. samuel gordon
4. Schnappi video
5. riotact
6. 2ue studio
7. louie the fly
8. samuel gordon-stewart
9. stan zemanek cancer
10. larry emdur

Among the odd keywords were

• what was temperature in sydney at 3am 29th July 2006?
• primary school and english and blog
• 机场建设费 fuel
• 东航 tips
• Mike\’s Windmill Shop manager
• if is child sidebar blix wordpress
• conversation of making a booking, you are a customer calling a restaurant
• australian off-air mp4
• bagpipe music on webstream
• spatchcock gobledegook
• heatseeker browser
• spring nut
• animal taxi software
• 积分活动accumulate
• Combino air-conditioned
• policy¾ggar%melbourne
• common words for lunatic
• funny cityrail ringtones
• how much would 8 bananas cost from woolworths

Internet Explorer lost a bit of ground but remained the most popular browser with 66.17% of the readership, Firefox gained and was next with 28.60%, Safari dropped to have 4.21%. Mozilla Suite, Opera and Netscape were under 1%, with Konqueror and others under 0.1%.

Windows was the most popular Operating System, and gained a small amount, with 90.31% of the readership, followed by Mac, which recorded another drop, with 7.98%, and Linux which gained slightly, to be on 1.62%. All others were under 0.10%.

The vast majority of readers were in Australia, althought the number did drop a few points to 79.28%. Next was the US with 6.67%, The UK with 3.94, and Japan with 2.27%. The rest of the 73 countires were under 1%.

The most popular files for the month were:

• My conversation with John Kerr prior to the Christmas Cruise, downloaded 166 times.
• Wayne Mac on 6PR, downloaded 130 times.
• My call to John Kerr on his 64th birthday, downloaded 128 times.
• The original intro to Samuel’s Persiflage, downloaded 123 times.
• And Mike Frame’s first moments on-air from Bunnings Belconnen, also downloaded 123 times.

The top referring sites for the month were:

• The Spin Starts Here: 282 referrals
• The RiotACT: 54 referrals
• Brown Noise Unit: 5 referrals.
• Whoi.sc: 5 referrals.
• tommyiscooldotcom: 5 Referrals.
• also tied for this position is Deus Lo Vult: 5 referrals

Bandwidth
July 2006: 6,770MB
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

7 comments September 14th, 2006 at 06:00am