Carnival of Australia

Welcome to the August 15, 2007 edition of Carnival of Australia.
Albert Foong presents How to remove negative thoughts and tame your monkey mind, Part 1 posted at Urban Monk, saying, “Controlling your mind – comprehensive and practical tips from the most respected systems, given the special Urban Monk treatment!”
Micellaneous Mum presents Australia – the food posted at Miscellanous Adventures of an Aussie Mum, saying, “Trying to give her non-Australian readers a ‘taste’ of Australian food can be tricky, but Karen gave it a go this week. See what you can do to add to the list!”
Mad goat lady presents Us Ozzies Aussies? posted at Mad Goat Lady.
Darren presents Redesign of Problogger.net posted at Problogger, saying..Ok so he didn’t actually submit therefore didn’t have all that much to say. But being fairly big news in the Aussie blogosphere this week, thought we could include it. Maybe Darren would be interested in hosting a future carnival, what do you think *hehe*
Martin presents The Beginners guide to RSS at Small Office Australia another stand out Australian blog post this week that definitely needed to be included in our Carnival.
Animals
Megan Bayliss presents Enter to WIN a set of Five Aussie Animal Finger Puppets posted at Imaginif…, saying, “Aussies may have a FANTASTIC work ethic, but all you have to do for a chance to win a set of 5 Aussie Animal Finger Puppets is to leave a comment on this blog. On the last day of August, names will be thrown into the hat and the one pulled out is the winner. C’mon Aussie, c’mon, c’mon.”
Business
Noric Dilanchian presents Dilanchian Lawyers – Trade mark law strategy kept simple for blondes posted at Lightbulb, saying, “On 11 August 2004 Fosters’ Australian lawyers filed trade mark application number 1015213 for its new beer brand, “Carlton Pure Blonde”. The following month the beer was launched. A year later the beer brand became Pure Blonde, dropping “Carlton”, except for use on the bottle neck label. What was Fosters’ trade mark law strategy or legal battle plan for the shift from Carlton Pure Blonde to just Pure Blonde?”
Meg presents Should I get my own Domain for My Blog? posted at Dipping into the Blogpond
Current Affairs
Roger presents Read this, you ignorant bitches! posted at typing is not activism….
John Lampard presents Drop posted at disassociated.com.
Family
Birdwing presents Domestic violence and the impact on children?. posted at Imaginif….
Sally presents Children’s book of the year awards posted at Scribblings
Jeanette presents Fun at the Fayre – or was it? posted at Imaginif
Outback
Andrew Boyd presents Dead Man’s Golf posted at On Blogging Australia, saying, “This is the wierdest thing I’ve seen in a while – a one-hole golf course where the green is a pile of rocks over a grave in the middle of an artificial lake.”
Politics
Barry Pittard presents The BBC’s ‘The Secret Swami’ – A Revision « Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba posted at Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba, India’s Most Famous Guru, saying, “An often maintained, highly successful Blogsite, exposing Sathya Sai Baba – arguably history’s most famous guru – and his mega wealthy, powerful and influential authoritarian cult, the Sathya Sai Organization. In a television documentary that has gone to many scores of countries, the BBC has termed Sai Baba ‘The Secret Swami’.
Gavin R. Putland presents John W. Howard’s Flowchart for Political Success posted at grputland.com.
Technology
bryce presents Keeping WordPress bleeding edge with Subversion posted at a strangled duck, saying, “Many bloggers use WordPress for their blogs, using Subversion to update WordPress makes things a lot easier.”
Leigh presents Blog Day 2007 posted at absoluteleigh saying ,”Blog Day is all about a day dedicated to discovering and sharing new blogs”
Jen presents Top 100 Australian blogs, Adelaide blogger meetup, that offer, little holiday at Semantically driven
Snoskred presents Am I A Good Blogger?over at Life in the country
Travel
Suzie Cheel presents A Romantic Birthday Outing | The Abundance Highway posted at The Abundance Highway, saying, “Where I live is surrounded by beautiful countryside, from the beach to the hinterland. This poast emcompasses the beauty of the Tweed Region.”
Cellobella presents Footprint posted at SultanaBlog
That concludes this fortnights edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of Carnival of Australia using the carnival submission form. Next fornight we’re off to Meg’s place for the Carnival.
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