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If anyone has a Porsche 911 or something similar that they can’t find room for you can keep it at my place - I won’t drive it, honest.
“You can’t coach that”
I love words. I love finding new words. Thought I might try to post a new word every week. So here goes:
Week 1 - pusillanimous
If you know the meaning of the word of the week, write a comment (no dictionary use of course)
I have seen on a number of blogs that I read (most recently at the bet shop boy) that China is restricting its citizens’ access to the “net” through what is being dubbed “The Great Firewall of China” (that one comes straight out of the genius department 
). You can check out your url to see if it has been blocked here.
Well the good news for me is that I am OK, 100% safe, if you are Chinese nothing to see here move right along. Yes, the citizens of that great collection of humanity can currently soak up all the coach wisdom that they like.
I think I see an opportunity for world domination here (insert evil laugh). Based on a quick (5 minute) search of some of the best known blogs that I can think of it appears that all the popular, high traffic blogs are blocked in China (that’s the market research done). Therefore all I need to do is promote myself as “The Blog for China” and I will have all the readers I need in no time.
I suppose there is a small problem related to the language. I wonder how you say “You can’t coach that” in Mandarin or Cantonese.
Afterthought - I think I need another blog category - “Crap”
Dear Madam Finance Minister (a.k.a. my beautiful wife)
Further to our recent discussion regarding the purchase of a new personal computer, I would like to make my final arguments. These are set out below.
And my final argument:
I really, really, really want one.
Your ever loving husband
Coach
There has been a distinct lack of activity here at cantcoachthat lately. I have been on a Whirlwind World Tour (WWT if you like) that included
Learn more about this other bat and ball sport at Cricket AustraliaIt’s good to be back.
“You can’t coach that”
Is it human nature to want to make money? Perhaps not, but it is a driving force for many people. Bloggers are no exception I suppose. Not only do a lot of people make money from their blog, there are a multitude of people blogging with advice on how to do so.
For some bizarre reason, the more of these “make money online” blogs that I see, the more I think of the “Amazing Ab King” and other similar exercise devices. You know the ones, for 3 easy payments of $49.95 and 10 minutes per day in front of the television you can have a washboard abdomen (not to mention well defined everything else).
Please don’t misunderstand me. I am not suggesting that such blogs do not offer good advice or that they are not well written. In fact I continue to look at some of them regularly. For example John Chowis an established blogger with a lot of worthwhile things to say, while although Chris Gill might not yet have the same level of readership he has plenty of useful advice especially in the area of SEO. There is just so many of them.
Is the “Ab King” that I saw advertised on the idiot box this afternoon any different from the equally amazing “Ab Blaster”? Is one making money related blog really any different from another?
Do they really work? Of course they do for some people. As a relatively new blogger I haven’t even thought of making any money yet. If I do I know there will be plenty of information out there to help out. I think though that like the Ab Blaster, success will be dependent on spending more than 10 minutes in front of the monitor.
For now I am just happy to have an outlet for my thoughts and perhaps to have a few people read them and share theirs with me.
“You can’t coach that”
John Chow dot com is a blog that helps people to make money online. He offers a link back to anyone who write a review of his blog.
This is a “This Is Your Life” style look at this popular and informative blog.
You came into the world on December 1 1995, evolving after 5 years from “The Wired World of John Chow”. Readers were later to find that your gestation period was a long one, with the John Chow dot com name being born many years earlier. You were welcomed into the world by an older sister The Tech Zone. 64 comments from readers greeted your first post, most of which were appreciative.
By the end of your second month, it was written that you were advertising free and not making any money. The writing may have been on the wall however, as the same article noted another blogger making $4700 per month from google adsense.
Another month goes by and on February 28 2006 your readers are treated to photos of the Chevrolet Z06 - what else would a dot com mogul aspire to own.
The months tick by and while your pages are largely filled with the miscellaneous ramblings of a dot com mogul, articles related to making money online are becoming more prominent. These include - how often should you update?; google don’ts and hot weather = lower income
By August 15 2006 you were the No 1 dot com mogul and by the September 29 2006 your google page rank was 4.
October 2006 saw a further move towards the idea of making money online with a four week trial part time blogging, full time income. Adsense revenue for the first week of the trial was $179.
In December of 2006, the first batch of the review my blog contestants made the news. This has been a very popular addition to your pages and continues today in a modified format.
December also saw the first anniversary of the first post. The title of this groundbreaking article - His banana is bigger than my bananas and features a MC Hammer dancing banana from a rival blogger.
2007 has seen a continuation of the focus on making money online. You offer a wide variety of advice to fellow bloggers on all aspect of making money from blogging and you are taking many blogs along for the ride in your quest for readers, page hits and advertising revenue.
John Chow dot com - this is your life.
A google search for the term “stupid criminals” returns 113,000 hits, so I am aware that I am not leading the field here. I haven’t even checked as to whether these two stories are reported elsewhere. They are local stories for me so I thought I would share them.
They both relate to ram raids where a car has been used to drive through the front doors of a shop after hours.
Case 1: A ram raider targeted a store that sells surveillance equipment. What he failed to realise was that the store made exceptional use of their state of the art equipment and the police had several excellent images for identification purposes and he was know to them. Case closed.
Case 2: Two exceptionally bright (and perhaps very lazy) felons decided that the best car to use for their ram raid was their own - yes folks their own. The unfortunate thing for them was that when they drove the car through the front doors it become stuck and they could not get it out. They had no choice but to abandon the vehicle and make their escape on foot. The police were able to apprehend the men based on the address on the registration. Case closed.
“You can’t coach that”
This may have been in the news for some time elsewhere but is being reported currently in the Land Downunder.
Stilnox, an apparently popular sleeping tablet is being blamed for a number of bizarre deaths and injuries. These include:
I would have hoped that we had reached a stage of medical advancement where these sort of side effects constituted a reason why the drug would not be released.
From the Sydney Morning Herald:
- Hey we put it on the “information leaflet” so we are ok - crap!Last month, Sanofi-Aventis’s Australia-New Zealand medical director, Gordon Hirsch, told ABC Radio hallucinations, memory loss and sleepwalking were known side effects of Stilnox and were highlighted in the product information leaflet.
- tell that to the families of those who died“Hallucinations and memory loss, for example, are uncommon so they would occur in less than one in 1000 people taking the drug and sleepwalking, for example, is reported as rare, so that would occur in less than 1 per cent of patients,” Mr Hirsch said.
- I feel so much better now!“And to date, the numbers of patients that have reported side effects while using Stilnox in Australia are well within these figures.”
Jim at I’m forty-what? tagged me on the idea of Simply Successful Secrets or in other words:
“What little secrets do I have that have helped me to be successful?”
I am supposed to come up with 5 or 10 little gems, but there is probably one thing for me that overshadows everything else so I will offer only that (I know, a bit of a cop out).
Any success that I feel that I have had has evenutuated after I learned a very simple truth. My measure of success had to be something that was unique to me. Something that was real to me rather than what society, family, friends and the world at large considered to be necessary to be a “success”.
For years I ran on the corporate treadmill, sometimes at a flat out sprint. The rewards were substantial. I was successful according to many definitions. Plenty of money, plenty of long lunches to celebrate having plenty of money and plenty of prestige and status. Oh yeh, a signigicant dose of misery to go along with it (can you hear the violins playing).
Anyway, enough of that. My advice for what it is worth - to be a success, be true to yourself and don’t measure yourself by anyone else’s yardstick.
So I think I am supposed to call on some others to share their thoughts. How about it:
(Tell me to get stuffed if you like)
I am not writing here as a money making exercise (is that a murmur of “just as well you loser” I hear?) although I must admit that the idea does have some appeal. If I were no doubt I would be much more interested in things as google page ranks. Just out of interest I used the page rank prediction tool at iwebtool. It gave me a predication of 4 - perhaps that is low but I wasn’t expecting anything at all after only doing this for month and a bit.
On a related note, iwebtool offer a directory to sign up on when you use the page rank tool. While I didn’t sign up I was perplexed by the number of categories available. There seemed to be thousands of them (well a lot). Some of them were a bit out there too - who would want to be in the “death” category. Each to his own I suppose.
Maybe what I need is a category called mongrel.
[via: the wrong advices]
To whom it may concern
As discussed yesterday via the hidden microphone behind the mirror in my bathroom, I am interested in joining The Conspiracy Theorists Association of Australia.
I have been interested in your organisation for quite some time and believe I have all the qualities necessary to make a valuable contribution. I cannot tell you what those qualities are because there are three people looking over my shoulder as I write this and they are sure to report their findings. You can however contact the Federal Police who I am sure will be able to supply you with all the hidden video you need to assess my application.
References are available from xxxxxxx and xxxxxxxx (this section of my application has been censored to protect the innocent)
I have taken the precaution of writing this application in biodegradable ink that will disappear within two hours to safeguard against the interception of my mail that has been ongoing for some time.
I look forward to your acceptance of my application and communication of this should be via the microwave link which was implanted in my head when I was in kindergarten.
Should I not hear from you I will assume that the organisation has been taken over by an unfriendly foreign power and I will instead continue my career in Federal politics.
Yours faithfully
Coach (or is it?)
Inspired by Saman I am going to give this speed linking idea a go. I am reading lots of blogs that I really like so I may as well do my very small part to help them out. So here is a list of the stuff I have enjoyed over the last few days:
“You can’t coach that”
Driving home from work this afternoon I saw a sign on the back of a bus advertising the new DVD hard drive recorder from LG. (now I am sure you are saying to yourself - wow I am glad I tuned into this post - but bear with me).
The tag line for the ad was “make this the last tv ad that you see”.
I would be interested to know what the reaction of those companies that advertise on tv would be to such an ad - on second thoughts, I know - they would be pissed off!
More to the point, I ponder the contrast between this situation and the copying of copyrighted material such as music cds and DVDs. It seems that the general consensus in our society that it is fine to record material from tv and then use that recording to not watch the ads. As PVRs become more widespread (in Australia at least) this situation could escalate and fewer and fewer people will bother to watch ads. This will of course be offset by people’s desire to watch now rather than record and watch later but I know from my own experience that I am in fact recording more content to watch at a time that suites me.
Of course when I do record a program I dutifully watch all the ads in their entirety 
“You can’t coach that”
Now that tobacco sponsorship has been banned in Formula 1 racing, Honda have painted their car in an environmental theme and they are “racing to raise awareness of environmental issues”
That’s funny, I thought they raced to sell more cars - more cars sold, more pollution. Not to mention that motorsport would have to be one of the most environmentally unfriendly sports out there.
I am actually a big fan of Formula and all forms of motorsport but this does all seem a little hypocritical.
“You can’t coach that”
Who is the Coach? - Self styled life coach to the masses; part time ballet critic; full time sports critic; nude twister umpire; unemployed still life model; "trust me, I'm on the internet"
A more serious look at who I am can be found on the About page.
