Lap Band Surgery/Eating Disorders and LoudMouth Golf Pants
Today I discuss why it’s important to think carefully about Lap Band Surgery, especially if you have an eating disorder. I also plead for LoudMouth Golf Pants …
nicholasperkins.com (2008–2009)
Posts from my first blog at nicholasperkins.com, covering internet censorship, politics, atheism, and everyday life in Brisbane.
I’m appearing on Today Tonight, tonight!
I have crawled from my sick bed to let you all know that I will be appearing on Today Tonight tonight discussing the issue of why fashion excludes sizes 16+. …
Excel Tutorial – COUNTIF
Have you ever had a spreadsheet with 150 lines of data and you need to know how many times “Red” appears in a cell? The COUNTIF function in Excel is for you. …
Testing Excel expressions with the IF function
I figured it was time for another Excel tutorial. This time I’m looking at the IF function. IF is really just like it would be in a sentence. If A=B then …
Brisbane Event: The Illustrators exhibition
This Friday night at KiLN Gallery is the opening of their latest exhibition called The Illustrators. The exhibition features work from some of Australia’s …
Read →Even a man can fat it all over the place and look fancy
This is my first post over at the new blogAxis of Fat, which is bring run by Natalie and her friends. You should check it out, or not. Axis of Fat is an idea of …
Read →There was movement in the station…
I’ve moved the blog this evening to a subdirectory of my website. You’ll now find my blog at http://www.nicholasperkins.com/blog/. For the next month or so you …
Read →Training. Yes, that thing.
(A quick update frommy Bridge to Brisbane 2009 donation page. I’m still raising money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, so go and donate now!) So …
Read →Varsity Veggies – a big success
My mum has been working hard over the last three years to organise a community garden in her local community. The official opening was today and Natalie and I …
Read →Why do men want to run marathons all the time?
I read a blog post today by Undomestic Diva titled “ Quality vs Quantity in the bedroom“. If you haven’t read it yet, then I’m not going to spoil the fun. Go …
Read →BTUB meet-ups grow ever larger
[Image not archived: A bunch of people at BTUB] A bunch of people at BTUB As always for the first Friday in the month, it was the regular BTUB meet-up at the …
Read →Always something informative on the Net
Thanks to a find for mine for pointing me to this Google Maps link. It’s a custom map showing details of the current Swine Flu outbreak. It is amazing the …
Genetic Defects - is this Evolution in action?
I had a very interesting thought today, and I want to share it with you. This isn’t based on any scientific evidence, nor am I suggesting that I am right. But …
Read →Organisation - Getting my blog back into shape
Hi loyal reader. I’m sure there is at least one of you. When I began blogging back in December 08, I didn’t put too much forethought into this place. All I …
Read →Reproductive Rights and Family Planning - Hillary Clinton has the balance right
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has recently been asked to comment on her views regarding Reproductive Rights and Family Planning, including abortion. …
Read →Queensland Election - Day one too many
So welcome to day 3 of Election ‘09. Or is that two days? That’s neither here or there. What is important is a look back at the last few days of the election. …
Read →Queensland Election - It’s time!
So it’s time for Election ‘09! ALP v NLP. Bligh v Springborg. The electors of Queensland, sick of the tired Labor government will do the only thing it can. …
Read →How the Internet brings childhood friends together
Think back to your childhood for just a moment. Ponder back to when you were 3, 4 or perhaps 5 to your earliest memories of being in existence. Think back to …
Read →Australia Day is not Invasion Day
January 26 is Australia Day for me, not Invasion Day. I don’t agree with the word ‘invasion’ and think it is divisive. Over the Australia Day long weekend, …
Read →It’s time to take action NOW!
Senator Stephen Conroy has posted a new blog post called “Minister Conroy on: Promoting a civil and confident society online“. Sounds like crap, Senator. Sen. …
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