Codswallop

Well it's been over a month now, so how are Alan and Joe faring in their Andrew Kontra challenge? A brief recap, the challenge was to rank for the keyword Andrew Kontra. A search on Google shows Alan has the number one spot and Joe is trailing at number four. Interestingly LinkedIn profiles are ranking well taking the number two position. andrew-kontra dot com is number three (but that's cheating).

What about the other search engines? Looking at Yahoo! LinkedIn has knocked off developersrevolt for number one position and Joe doesn't feature until the second page in position nineteen. I gave up looking for their results on both Ask and MSN. I don't know if Alan and Joe suck or Ask and MSN do. I'm going with Ask and MSN sucking!

However both developersrevolt and everesti2 are blogs, so how do they fare in the blogsphere? Surely there couldn't be too many people blogging about Andrew Kontra.

The king in the blogsphere is Technorati. Surprisingly my last post is coming up trumps on the quick view with neither of them listed. The posts search orders by time which is not always the most helpful. At least Alan tagged his blog as Andew Kontra.

I'm babbling on a bit so I'll wrap in up by mentioning google's blog search engine. It's interesting to compare the results against google's main search results.

Recently Titleist launched a couple equipment related blogs which make for a very interesting read. The Tour blog covers the day to day activities of the tour van such as custom fittings for touring pros. For example Titleist's resident wedge guru Bob Vokey has posted on the various wedge grinds requested by players for varying conditions, such as the current Masters champion Zach Johnson.

The latest posting shows Aussie golfers Stephen Leaney and Michael Sim during a practice round while preparing for a recent tournament on the PGA Tour.

The second blog is by putter guru Scotty Cameron. Scotty covers more than just putters for the pros. There is quite a large community of putter enthusiasts and collectors of Scotty Cameron putters. Scotty blogs about this community and talks about some of his other areas of interest such as his art

Of course Titleist aren't the first golf equipment manufacturer to dip their toe into the blogging world. TaylorMade started a similar tour van blog at least a year ago. However it seems to be down. Does anyone know what happened? Actually it looks like their main site is down at the moment too.

The ever consistent Nick O'Hern had his best finish of the season with a third at the Travelers Championship. This pushed him 29 spots in the FedEx race from 71st to 42nd, 26 places on the money list to 39 with $1,208,465 and 1 position to number 24 in the official world rankings. Nick also leads in third round scoring average at 68.38.

One of my pet peeves is the amount of water wasted while waiting for the hot water to come through. I would guess it would be one of the major contributors to house hold water waste. In one place I lived in recently the wait was excruciating. It would take at least a minute for warm water to come through for a task as simple as washing your face, and that was after a brand new hot water service was installed!

I've been contemplating this problem while planning my new house. What can I do to reduce the delay in hot water? I've wondered what would be involved in insulating all the hot water pipes. Of course there's the option of diverting the cold water. Setting up such a system to cover all of the house hold taps would be difficult not to mention a pain to use.

Fortunately I caught a re-run of an episode of New Inventors last week. The winner was Enviro Save Water System invented by Lloyd Linson-Smith. What Lloyd has come up with is an ingenious way to divert the cold water from the hot tap back into the system for reuse next time you require cold water, no matter where in the house you need it. The best bit is it's fully automated, you don't have to think about it. When the hot tap is turned on, water flows through a value which measures the temperature. If it is cool the water will be directed to a bypass line and into a bladder. When the water reaches temperature it's redirected back through the tap.

Great job Lloyd, I will be installing an Enviro Save Water System when I build.

Hugg Me

Those of us with children would have probably seen Justine's music clips played occasionally between the morning kids shows on ABC. I've only seen two songs so far, Watermelon and I like to sing. Both are fun, energetic, entertaining clips. I tried purchasing the album over the weekend from my local ABC shop, however they were out of stock. I'm told the dvd will be out soon, even better.

You can listen to I like to sing on ABC's kids playground radio (select the 'Sing Along play list). What I like most about I like to sing is, that like me, Justine can't sing