You like cheap beer even more? Of course you do!

Then this site might be right up your ally. boozle.com.au claim to have an up-to-date database of special beer and spirit prices from 1000′s of stores right across Australia. It will even return results within your local area. I haven’t tested the accuracy of the listed prices, but it’s a gold medal idea.

Check it out.

My plan is to post a new picture every single day. With a little luck, some people might stumble across the site, enjoy the shots and maybe even leave a comment or two.

Before I go, I guess I should give you a link: photos by damon

Similarities

• Both enable to to quickly add a bookmark/reference of a website to a central online location.
• Both use a nifty Firefox plugin to get the job done.
• Both are searchable.
• Both use labels, but while del.icio.us can assign many labels to one link, Notebook allows a link to belong to only one label (or notebook).
• Both allow you to share your bookmarks with others.

Differences

• del.icio.us user pages are visible to everyone, Notebook pages have to specifically shared.
• del.icio.us allows you to save a single link for a friend, which will appear in a special list on the recipient’s page, but Notebook only allows the sharing of a whole notebook.
• You can use Notebook as a simple note-taking tool without having a link to the original source.

Conclusions

I like the idea of having all the online services that I use in a central location. Google is making a good go of making this a reality. But for the time being I think del.icio.us will continue to be my online bookmarker of choice, just because of the multi-label and networking functions.

I’m sure these two applications were not designed to be in direct competition – which makes a direct comparison a bit unfair – I couldn’t help but notice that they both provide a similar service.

My Google usage

Daily use:

• Search
• Gmail
• Calendar
• Reader

Weekly use:

• Maps

Less frequent use:

• News
• Images
• Docs and Spreadsheets
• Groups

The last word

While Google may not be catering perfectly to everything I do on the internet, they’re making a damn good go of it. Here’s hoping they don’t get all nasty and start charging for all their services.

This week I have chosen a wallpaper by Tuan Nguyen who runs a photoblog: ayusaki.com. He has a selection of other pics for wallpaper use and his photography is very good. Check it out.

In order of them popping out of my brain:

• C’orked (Wine)
• WAYN (Social networking/travel)
• Access World Forums (MS Access Forum)
• last.fm (Music)
• SonyEricsson
• POST Billpay
• Remember The Milk (Reminders and To Do lists)

Well, that list isn’t nearly as big as I thought it would be. Maybe there are more, but I think you get the point.

As a weird coincidence, when I arrived at work and checked my emails, I had “You’ve got a new message from Marilyn on MySpace!” waiting in my inbox. What a perfect time to log in and check out what’s been happening since I first registered. I used the super-cool Gmail search feature to find my registration email to remind myself of my login details and surfed my way over to MySpace.

When I logged in it was easy to see that I still had only one friend: my real-life friend John from Barking Sparrows

In the 8 months since I registered my account, I had 40 profile views, no comments and only 1 friend. It was time to cancel my account:

Then I was asked 4,000 times to confirm that I wanted to erase myself from the early-teen hangout forever:

So to all my non-existent MySpace mates, you will have to try getting in touch with me another way from now on.

It seems that the traditional forward-facing bicycle is getting a bit old, a bit stale for some people. If you feel that you fit into this group, maybe you should check out the Sideways Bicycle. I wonder how long until my Local Bike Shop has one in stock?

Personally, I think this “invention” is a load of rubbish, but nobody cares what I think.

I don’t think either of our cats would stand for this kind of behavior. They wouldn’t like it much at all.

Don’t push the red button!