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
September 14th, 2006 at 01:27pm
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.
![Map of underground cabling work](/wp-content/undergroundcablingmap.gif)
Back in March, the corner of Limestone Avenue and Coranderrk Street, which had some unrelated cabling work, looked like this
![Limestone Avenue and Coranderrk Street in March 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/thumb-PICT0038.JPG)
In August it looked like this
![The corner of Coranderrk Street and Limestone Avenue in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-1.jpg)
![The corner of Coranderrk Street and Limestone Avenue in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-2.jpg)
I then moved on to the Mount Ainslie Substation where I got some better photos than last time
![Mount Ainslie substation in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-3.jpg)
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.
![Mount Ainslie substation in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-4.jpg)
![Mount Ainslie substation in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-5.jpg)
![Mount Ainslie substation in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-6.jpg)
The areas which needed to have grass replanted have been covered in straw
![Mount Ainslie in March 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/thumb-PICT0050.JPG)
![Mount Ainslie in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-7.jpg)
![Mount Ainslie in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-8.jpg)
This is the view looking down the fairly straight path to Limestone Avenue
![Mount Ainslie in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-9.jpg)
I then attempted to replicate a photo I took in March, with little luck due to being unfamiliar with the modes of the camera.
![Underground cabling building in March 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/thumb-PICT0053.JPG)
![Underground Cabling building from Mount Ainslie in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-10.jpg)
As I continued towards Limestone Avenue, I spotted some wildlife, firstly a magpie
![Magpie on Mount Ainslie in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-11.jpg)
![Magpie on Mount Ainslie in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-12.jpg)
And some kangaroos (alongside Batman Street, which is actually called Quick Street on the Ainslie side of Limestone Avenue)
![Kangaroos on Mount Ainslie in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-13.jpg)
![Kangaroos on Mount Ainslie in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-14.jpg)
And some birds
![Birds on Mount Ainslie in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-15.jpg)
![Birds on Mount Ainslie in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-16.jpg)
And more kangaroos
![Kangaroos on Mount Ainslie in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-17.jpg)
On Limestone Avenue there is more straw
![Limestone Avenue in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-18.jpg)
![Limestone Avenue in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-19.jpg)
From the corner of Limestone Avenue and Allambee Street, the underground cabling building can be seen.
![Underground Cabling Building from Limstone Avenue in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-20.jpg)
More magpies in trees on Allambee Street
![Magpies on Allambee Street in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-21.jpg)
In March, this area had a fence around it
![Allambee Street in March 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/thumb-PICT0063.JPG)
![Allambee Street in March 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/thumb-PICT0065.JPG)
![Allambee Street in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-22.jpg)
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.
![Allambee Street in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-23.jpg)
From a little bit further down Allambee Street the building looked like this in March
![Underground Cabling Bauilding from Allambee Street in March 2006](https://samuelgordonstewart.com/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/thumb-PICT0069.JPG)
![Underground Cabling Building from Allambee Street in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-24.jpg)
The corner where Allambee Street becomes Currong Street has changed a bit too!
![Corner of Allambee and Currong Street in March 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/thumb-PICT0072.JPG)
![Corner of Allambee Street and Currong Street in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-25.jpg)
From near the corner of Currong and Boolee Streets I had a very clear view of the Underground Cabling Building.
![Underground Cabling Building from Currong Street in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-26.jpg)
And more straw at the corner of Currong and Boolee Streets
![The corner of Currong and Boolee Streets in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-27.jpg)
From the intersection of Boolee and Ballumbir (err, sorry, they changed it to Cooyong Street for some painfully pointless reason) Streets
![Underground Cabling Building from the corner of Cooyong and Boolee Streets in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-28.jpg)
In March I took a photo of the building from the lawn above final leg of the cable journey
![Underground Cabling Building in March 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/thumb-PICT0090.JPG)
![Underground Cabling Building from the corner of Cooyong and Boolee Streets in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-29.jpg)
And then set about taking more photos of the building
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-30.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-31.jpg)
Look! Another magpie!
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-32.jpg)
More from the building
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-33.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-34.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-35.jpg)
Better cross the road
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-36.jpg)
Some more photos before I do
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-37.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-38.jpg)
In March
![Underground Cabling Building in March 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/thumb-PICT0096.JPG)
Now
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-39.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-40.jpg)
Window washing?
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-41.jpg)
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.
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-42.jpg)
Another magpie
![Magpie watching the Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-43.jpg)
Things have changed since March
![Underground Cabling Building in March 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/thumb-PICT0098.JPG)
![Underground Cabling Building in March 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/thumb-PICT0099.JPG)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-44.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-45.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-46.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-47.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-48.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-49.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-50.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-51.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-52.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-53.jpg)
![Underground Cabling Building in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-54.jpg)
Back in March, the building looked a tad less finished from the bridge over Coranderrk Street which leads to the CIT Reid Campus
![Underground Cabling Building from bridge over Coranderrk Street in March 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/thumb-PICT0102.JPG)
![Underground Cabling Building from bridge over Coranderrk Street in August 2006](/wp-content/UndergroundCablingTour/2/thumb-55.jpg)
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
September 14th, 2006 at 10:18am
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:
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:
- schnappi video
- samuel gordon stewart
- samuel gordon
- Schnappi video
- riotact
- 2ue studio
- louie the fly
- samuel gordon-stewart
- stan zemanek cancer
- 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:
The top referring sites for the month were:
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
RSS Feed Downloads |
Month |
Downloads |
July 2006 |
1887 |
June 2006 |
1284 |
May 2006 |
1546 |
April 2006 |
1501 |
March 2006 |
1392 |
February 2006 |
815 |
January 2006 |
1661 |
December 2005 |
150 |
Total |
10236 |
Downloads in July |
Episode |
High Quality Version |
Low Quality Version |
Total Audio Downloads |
Transcript Downloads |
Total Downloads |
6 (July 2006) |
60 |
29 |
89 |
15 |
104 |
5 (May 2006) |
75 |
12 |
87 |
42 |
129 |
4 (April 2006) |
53 |
40 |
93 |
N/A |
93 |
3 (February 2006) |
83 |
60 |
143 |
N/A |
143 |
2 (January 2006) |
159 |
N/A |
159 |
N/A |
159 |
1 (December 2006) |
115 |
N/A |
115 |
N/A |
115 |
Total |
545 |
141 |
686 |
57 |
743 |
Episode 6 Downloads |
Month |
High Quality Version |
Low Quality Version |
Total Audio Downloads |
Transcript Downloads |
Total Downloads |
July 2006 |
60 |
29 |
89 |
15 |
104 |
Total |
60 |
29 |
89 |
15 |
104 |
Episode 5Downloads |
Month |
High Quality Version |
Low Quality Version |
Total Audio Downloads |
Transcript Downloads |
Total Downloads |
June 2006 |
90 |
22 |
112 |
42 |
129 |
May 2006 |
47 |
20 |
67 |
N/A |
67 |
Total |
137 |
44 |
179 |
42 |
196 |
Episode 4 Downloads |
Month |
High Quality Version |
Low Quality Version |
Total |
July 2006 |
53 |
40 |
93 |
June 2006 |
53 |
46 |
99 |
May 2006 |
79 |
48 |
127 |
April
2006 |
146 |
75 |
221 |
Total |
331 |
209 |
540 |
Episode 3 Downloads |
Month |
High Quality Version |
Low Quality Version |
Total |
July 2006 |
83 |
60 |
143 |
June 2006 |
66 |
52 |
118 |
May 2006 |
67 |
51 |
118 |
April 2006 |
115 |
83 |
198 |
March 2006 |
84 |
43 |
127 |
February 2006 |
81 |
39 |
120 |
Total |
496 |
328 |
824 |
Episode 2 Downloads |
Month |
Downloads |
July 2006 |
159 |
June 2006 |
156 |
May 2006 |
147 |
April 2006 |
171 |
March 2006 |
125 |
February 2006 |
98 |
January 2006 |
144 |
Total |
1000 |
Episode 1 Downloads |
Month |
Downloads |
July 2006 |
115 |
June 2006 |
68 |
May 2006 |
79 |
April 2006 |
100 |
March 2006 |
71 |
February 2006 |
64 |
January 2006 |
291 |
December 2005 |
80 |
Total |
868 |
Total Downloads By Month |
Month |
Audio Downloads |
Transcript Downloads |
Total Downloads |
July 2006 |
686 |
57 |
743 |
June 2006 |
553 |
N/A |
553 |
May 2006 |
538 |
N/A |
538 |
April 2006 |
690 |
N/A |
690 |
March 2006 |
323 |
N/A |
323 |
February 2006 |
282 |
N/A |
282 |
January 2006 |
435 |
N/A |
435 |
December 2006 |
80 |
N/A |
80 |
Total |
3587 |
57 |
3644 |
Samuel
September 14th, 2006 at 06:00am