Scott doesn’t usually MSN me, unless he wants something. On Wednesday I gave up on my old iPhone 3G, and converted to a Samsung Galaxy S running Android.

As soon as school finished, Scott logged on to MSN. I assumed he was after my phone. Here’s the transcript of our online conversation, poor spelling/grammar and all.

It actually did happen that way. Scott’s in year 8, but the day before, a kid in his year had stuck something on his back. Scott chased him, and then the year 9 kid joined in. There was pushing.
The next day the year 9 kid decided to take it further, came up to Scott and punched him.
Amazingly Scott thought first and decided not to punch back (he tends to attract trouble), and simply got behind the year 9 kid’s knee and pinned him to the ground, basically as self-defence.
I have to say that I’m proud he stood up for himself, and even more proud that he thought first, and decided to stay out of trouble.
On ya!

I’ve just started promoting my new Halloween Australia website, Halloween Australia.
It’s written from the ground-up in php, with a mysql database to store halloween events.
The goal is to let local families spread the word on how they plan to organise trick-or-treating.
In previous years, a family in my suburb has dropped leaflets telling people to tie a balloon to their front fence. Although I don’t always get one.
And sometimes they’ve decided to celebrate Halloween on the weekend, instead of the actual day.
The events section also lets you list community halloween events that are open to all, such as school or community parades.
I’ve put some of my favourite halloween recipes up.
In the next few days I’ll add a few more forms to allow people to submit photos, recipes and stories to the site.
It’ll be fun to see how well i can get it ranking in the weeks leading to Halloween.
I haven’t done much link building yet, but I will probably start this afternoon.

Yes, I’ve read that Google can index Flash sites.

I’ve also read that serious SEOers stay away from building Flash sites.

So here’s a very primitive Flash illustrated kids poem I wrote when learning Flash. I won’t mention any colours, but next week I’ll do a search for the coloured animal inside, and see if it’s indexed anywhere.

Here’s the poem:

Brrreeeport is the new blog word-of-the-week. From Microsoft’s blogger Scoble, it’s an attempt to let unpopular blogs become popular by getting listed on Technorati for the word Brrreeeport. So the word doesn’t actually mean anything. It’s embarrassing to get caught using it – it means I’ve read Scoble’s blog. Eek. I’ll try not to do it again, even for a new word.

Like ‘Festy’. My oldest has just started high school and bumped into the word Festy. He doesn’t actually know what it means, but everyone uses it, so he wants to. And in my attempt to become hip, I looked it up, naturally on Google. And according to Urban Dictionary, it’s just the latest word for ‘Gross’.

In my latest attempt to beat the mid-life crisis, I just bought my first pair of hipster jeans. Even tho they’re on the way out, I still feel extra hip. Yuk yuk.

The other things I got from Scoble were blogcode and storycode.com. Skip the first, and go to StoryCode only. I started browsing alphabetically, and got lost hopping from book to book review. All these books I’d love to read. That others have recommended. A good idea.

Óne day, when my landline and ISP work on the same day, I’ll finish updating this blog. Until then……