Change of tack for Adelaide in the mortgage market By Ed Charles Adelaide bank has emphasised its commitment to achieving a five per cent share of the home loan market through the introduction of innovative products while increasing its margins through better use of technology.
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In The Black: Getting Things Done
From the February edition of In The Black. More from Dave Allen, Lifehacker and 43 Folders. The finest organisation systems available to mankind may not involve technology at all.
Weekend zucchini emergency. Urgent help needed
I’m in trouble. Three Zucchini plants all survived this year and there are just two of us. We are in urgent need of help. As each day passes the massed forces of the Zucchini threaten to take over. At first there was just one or two a week. Now its one or two a day. Three days ago I blinked and when my eyes opened I was confronted by a vegetable the size of a pot bellied pig. We need […]
The Sheet: Etrade walks ASX tightrope
By Ed Charles It’s been a frantic start to the year for the number three online broking company Etrade Australia, a firm in which ANZ Bank owns a 34 per cent stake.
Hop on the Krispy Kreme media bandwagon
Picture pinched from Il Fornaio. Yuk! Over at Espresso in The Age the editors are already licking their lips at the prospect of a drive through Krispy Kreme doughnut outlet in Melbourne. I’ve had the misfortune to eat these dubious sugar coated bits of dough. Double yuk! At first bite they have a pleasant crispy sugar coating but underneath is dough that does a disservice to the worst kind of white bread you can buy. Triple yuk! Soon we can […]
Five food challenges for 2006 (and koala)
Lucas (aka Crazy Gaijin) has tagged me to come up with my five food challenges for 2006. 1. Bake loads of different cakes and biscuits Especially a sponge cake, probably a traditional one using no fat but also a Genoese (made with butter) one filled with strawberries and cream. I’ll probably make a couple of each and gorge myself. I may share some with friends and neighbours. Or perhaps I’ll hide them and scoff both. There may be a small […]
Land of the giants
Steve walks down the street and over the road to an ofice carpark to harvest giant rosemary for our whole baked snapper. Then he reachedd over the first floor balcony to his house-sized bay tree. Brisbane in Queensland is land of the giants. My own Bay tree is barely 30 cm tall. Steve’s is more like 30m. Okay, 10m. These pics were taken on the 30th and we’ve only got back home and got the broadband firedd-up again today. A […]
The Australian: Balance transfers
From the Wealth section of The Australian in December Be careful about the fine print in balance transfers, reports Ed Charles
My food blogging predictions for 2006
Could 2006 be the year that the local foodblog community seriously starts to challenge traditional media? Predictions are a dangerous thing. But I’m prepared to put my neck on the line about the growth of food blogging’s in popularity in Australia. There are currently 49 local food blogs, about 80 per cent of them regularly updated. I reckon by this time next year there will be at least 250 – possibly more – if the current growth rate is continued. […]