Easy Way to Save Your Electricity Bill
I just grabbed some letter from my mailbox, and find out there is another electricity Bill from EnergyAustralia. It looks like how much it cost me this quarter is pretty much the same with last bill. Which is a bit weird, because i have tried to do some energy saving including changing same light bulbs, which for sure will reduce my electricity usage this quarter.
After checking more from the bill detail, i find out that there is actually 3 kinds of energy rate: Off peak, Shoulder, and Peak time rate.
So here is simple tips to save your electricity bill by understanding how EnergyAustralia charge us: Try to reduce your energy usage from peak time because the rate is very expensive.
| Time ( For Residential NSW) | Rate ( Excluding GST) |
| Peak (2pm-8pm working weekdays) (cents/kWh) : | 27.50 |
| Shoulder (7am-2pm and 8pm-10pm working weekdays and 7am-10pm on weekends and public holidays) (cents/kWh) | 9.9 |
| Off Peak (All other times) (cents/kWh) | 5.5 |
You can see from the electricity cost table above, the rate for peak time is around 3 times more expensive than shoulder rate and 5 times more expensive than the of peak time. So if you can reduce your electricity appliances during this peak time, for sure you can expect lot of reduction in your next electricity bill.
Bargain Sniper for freebies and vouchers
Last night, after having my dinner, i was watching Australia Current Affair show at 6.30pm, and it grab my attention because its talking about Best Daily Deals website. Some of the website they featured there is not a new website for me, because i have bought from them before. Here is some online deals website which get featured last night : Zazz, Dealsdirect, and also Catch Of the day. I’m very impressed with how fast CathOf theday website is growing so far. Maybe it takes only 1.5 years for “catch of the day” to grow their business to the level they got now.
ACA also featuring the Best site for freebies and vouchers : Bargain sniper . I knew this site is just launch, and i think they are very lucky to get featured in current affair show. After i watched that show, i tried to access the Bargainsniper website, but here is what i got: “This site have been suspended by our web host due to high traffic tonight“. So if u guys reckon your site gonna get feature in australia current affair one day, get ready and make sure you got enough bandwidht, otherwise its gonna be useless.
By the way, here is the top Australia Online Deals website , based on recommendation from ACA:
Best daily deals
Daily deals
Best deals on electronics and appliances
Dick Smith Electronics
Best deals on big brand cosmetics
Strawberrynet
Best deals on the perfect gift
Red Balloon Days
Best site for freebies and vouchers
Bargain sniper
kutukutubuku oscommerce security bug
I was browsing around and then i found this ecommerce website from indonesia which is selling a book online ‘www.kutukutubuku.com’. As i know, its not too many ecommerce site in indonesia can survive because it looks like not too many indonesian is ready yet to purchase stuff online from internet. But lately, because the internet connection is getting faster in indonesia which indirectly increase the internet user, i notice that there are some new comers in this market. And one of them is this indonesia online book shop called http://www.kutukutubuku.com/. The collection is quite complete, and it looks like it is managed professionally. It’s good to see that ecommerce is starting to emerge in indonesia.
But the reason i’m writing this topic is because of security reason. For some reason , when i visit the site i was logged in as registered user with user id=’ulzana’. It’s surprise me because i never register with them and i didn’t try to hack their site either. Please notice that i didn’t change anything or do anything harmful to their site. The reason why i wrote about this is because i wanna know if the problem is from oscommerce bug or other reason . I notice that they are using the free oscommerce as the ecommerce script, so this might be a bug from oscommerce. Anybody know about this problem from oscommerce?
And for the owner of http://www.kutukutubuku.com/, you guys need to put more effort to secure your site, because for ecommerce website, this is very crucial to make customer confidence and wanna buy from your site.
Japanese Kokeshi Dolls
I was walking around in some art shops, and i found this cute wood japanese dolls. Apparently its called Kokeshi dolls. Because its very cute, my wife decided to buy one of them, so we can put it in our living room. Curious about the kokeshi dolls, i did some googling, and find some history about japan kokeshi doll.
History of Kokeshi
Traditional Japanese Kokeshi began to be made approximately two hundred years ago sometime in the middle of the Edo period(1603-1867). The kokeshi dolls emerged out of local life and culture and were first produced in the north east area of Japan known as the Tohoku region. It is commonly thought that woodwork artisans of the time know as Kijiya, (which means woodworker in Japanese) originally specialized in wooden household utensils such as trays and bowls. Then they began to make small dolls in the winter to sell to the tourists who came to bathe in the many onsens (hot springs) near their villages. The few people who could afford the luxury of such a pastime bought the Kokeshi dolls as a souvenir and took the dolls back to their own areas where they were often passed on to the children. This, they thought, would promise a good harvest, as it was believed that it would create a positive impression on the gods if children played with the dolls.
There are 11 Type of traditional kokeshi dolls. Traditional dolls made today can be classified under eleven types : Tsuchiyu, Togatta, Yajiro, Naruko, Sakunami, Yamagata, Kijiyama, Nanbu, Tsugaru, Zao takayu, and Hijioro.
The kokeshi dolls now is sitting besides my TV in my living room, and it looks very charming. I think i might get another one because its so unique and cute.
Australian share market biggest fall
The Australian share market drop again to its biggest fall in more than 18 years yesterday. More than $104 billion was gone after panic selling. It is the biggest 1 day loss since October 16 1989, according to Commsec, which had a problem with server crash yesterday morning for about 20 minutes due to the excessive number of investors trying to sell or buy stocks. I actually got account with commsec as well, and i thought the problem is because of the Website update, but apparently they did have a crash with their server, which is actually something shouldn’t be happened to such a big and reputable company like commsec.
The fears of a US recession sparked a contagion that spread from Europe to Asia, causing the australian share market to drop again for a 12th straight trading day. The Australian Federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, told investors to calm down, DON’T PANIC. But the thing is when you hold a lot of stocks which dropped up to 25%, will you be not panic? I would like to hear from you guys, what you gonna do on this stage? do nothing, sell every stocks you got or even buy more stocks?
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