I was just curious to see if a title like the one for this post would cause people to open it. In a recent article that I read concerning e-mail campaigns it talked about using such 'tricks' to lure people in to opening your e-mails. It then goes on to say however that you can't be blatantly tricking people as this will just P' off your recipients so there needs to be at least some reference in the letter to the title. If your e-mail title reads "Show this Friday" or "New Album Out Soon", as…

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I'm a Kiwi living in Australia and I love this nation. This country was the one which accepted my wife and her family as refugees from internally warring Nicaragua when her 'foreign' father's life was under serious threat. After being chased out of the U.S.A. before finding brief respite in Canada, it was Australia that opened it's 'arms' to this family!



Monday was Australia Day. Personally I think the date should be changed to a time more significant to all Australians… Continue

The song 'Tom Sawyer' – what it's about and why I would care to tell you.



Firstly, the chorus chants over and over 'Love Everyday, Love Everyday'. It's simple, generic, and a little cheesy to some. It's purposeful and I'll explain later.



The verses are a melding of my recollections of a more often than not carefree childhood and the river stories of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (books I read heaps of times as a kid) and a sort of nod to Twains anti-slavery themes.



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