My first article! Heavenly taste of Israeli hummus This time last year I returned to Melbourne after almost three months in Israel and I’m depressed thinking about it. I’m depressed not because I miss Tel Aviv’s beaches or the gorgeous long curly hair of beautiful Israeli women, but because I miss the felafel. Yes, I’m putting food before hot, sexy Israeli women! I’m putting food before women...

My first in a new series of Aunty Insider posts. This is an opinion piece. It’s not to accuse any one particular person, group of people or business. The people I work with at the ABC are wonderful hard working friends and are as much stuck in this stressful position as I am. I respect all of them and only take aim here at a broader, general picture of which affects us all. I speak only for myself...

This is really cool. The video I made about hummus in Israel last year (link to the video) has been noted by www.hummus101.com, THE best site dealing with hummus and other tasty chickpea dishes. Big thanks to them for the appreciation. Apparently though what I thought was just THE best hummus in the world may turn out to actually be a dish called Msabbha (click to read more about this great dish as...

I just won the UK Lotto sweepstakes! 1,000,000 pounds! Oh… hang on! No I haven’t! I never have…never will. Neither will you or your dad or that annoying guy who works at the local 7-11. You see it’s another scam to get your personal details which will allow the crook access to possibly your bank account, identity, credit card and maybe your wardrobe safe where you keep your...

Scam emails are all the fashion these days. Most of them claim to be from an African girl who was left some millions of dollars from her recently deceased aunt or uncle who died brutally at the hands of the local militia and would like your assistance in getting the money out of her war torn country. You! Yes, you! You have been chosen amongst millions of people. Why you? Why not? After all, you...

I really have been in two minds about Twitter. On one hand here is a new service that reminds me of facebook status updates but announced to anyone who cares to listen, and on the other hand a new craze that everyone I know is getting onto and putting up posts about their every mundane movement. In recent months the number of users has climbed dramatically and C-lebritites like Oprah and Ashton Kutcher...

The “Fail Whale” is the graphic of a whale held up by a flock of birds illustrated by Yiying Lu (@yiyinglu on twitter) It is employed during periods of downtime by the social networking service Twitter.com, which allows users to submit and share brief messages known colloquially as “tweets.” When Twitter gets overloaded, users see the “Fail Whale” error message. See...

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What’s a Gravatar? A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on blogs? I use one and you see it with my posts. Yes, that smiling face to the left. When you post a link or comment on a blogsite with...

Seems where ever you go these days people like to sit at cafes with free Internet access and surf the web. In this case here I am at a cafe blogging about the two others in the cafe also blogging. Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]