In May 2015 publisher News Corp decided to shut down the free âmXâ newspaper after years of falling circulation. Targeted at commuters in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane â the newspaper had for years had saved money by sharing content between the three markets, with only slight modifications appearing in each local edition.
Archive for May, 2015
A street so new it isn’t on the map
May 26th, 2015
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Despite my love of the Melway, there are some days when I can’t be bothered walking over to my bookshelf full of them and looking up a street, so instead I turned to the “electric street directory” that is Google Maps. However on this occasion, I was searching for a street so new I couldn’t find it on the map.
Fixing my blog robot
May 25th, 2015
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One thing you might not know about this site is that I don’t actually wake up each morning and type up a new blog post – I actually write them ahead of time, and then they get pushed out to the site at a time I decide. Unfortunately this doesn’t always work, such as what happened to me a few weeks ago.
Lost dog in the middle of the highway
May 22nd, 2015
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This is the story about the day I took my cat to the vet, and found a lost dog along the way.