This month in Online Insights we see what locals think about the alcohol issues in Alice Springs that are making headlines around the country, rethink how humans are living right now, spare a thought for mum, and finish off with a dash of light relief. Tell ‘Em That’s Enough I spend a lot of each year up in the Northern Territory running marketing workshops for small business, particularly focussed on how to exploit the various...

Security Essentials Since our last segment, Microsoft has launched Security Essentials which is their free anti-virus software. Apart from OneNote, which I love, I am always hesitant about throwing my lot in with Microsoft but I have been convinced by Adelaide Tech Guru, Richard Pascoe, who wrote on his blog recently: “This is free software which I have been running ( a beta copy ) on one of my systems for a while now and during that time have...

Wobbles the clown Met some people last night who told me about Wobbles the Clown – was training as a doctor, then became a policemen, is a dietician, but now is a clown. Is that a career pathway or bush track? Anyway, he seems to be a very popular clown and I look forward to some video going on his site for more of a taste of his take on clowning. His site is wobblestheclown.com. But it got me thinking about the naming of clowns. Why do they...

Captain Skellett’s Science Blog Science Week ends today, so I thought I had better mark the occasion by sharing some science sites. The first is by a young, Adelaide-based, science communicator, Captain Skellet, who I met at a Twitter forum I was presenting last week. Her blog is like New Scientist meets Sex And The City meets Pirates of the Caribbean because amid the intriguing science articles, there are diary entries from the goings on...

Wunderground I have fallen in love with this weather site because it goes deep into weather conditions and ties together various weather resources in one spot. I particularly like the ability to overlay satellite, fire and severe weather information and then animate it (just like you see it done on television news). Adelaide had boring weather today so I switched the view to “continent” and got an eerie view of Hurricane Hamish. By...