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All aboard the gravy train
By Phil Lees Tuesday April 27, 2010
There is enough beef waste in the US to fuel trains. Via The Guardian: US rail operator Amtrak may have given the term “cattle car” a whole new meaning with the first test of a biodiesel train that runs on beef byproducts. Operating on a $274,000 (£178,000) grant from the Federal Railroad Administration, the state-owned [...]
Trolling as the food writing
By Phil Lees Saturday April 17, 2010
Terry Durack over at the Age manages to both pit Sydney against Melbourne and suburb versus suburb by attempting to pick the worst suburb for eating in each city. There is good food to be found everywhere in Australia – it may be behind closed doors or in people’s backyards rather than in restaurants or [...]
Food blogger tip: How to block the worst diet ads from Adsense on your blog.
By Phil Lees Tuesday April 13, 2010
I both earn money from AdSense and pay Google for ad space – so seeing a terrible looking ad on my blogs and getting exposure hurts. If you do visit a couple of Australian food blogs, eventually you’ll be served up with this diet ad – as Simon mentions over at his site: You might [...]
Getting my focus back.
By Phil Lees Sunday April 11, 2010
The Australian food bloggers’ conference (which I’ve also written about over at SBS) seems to have had the effect of lighting a gigantic fire under the collective arses of Australia’s food bloggers. I feel like I’m back on the blogging bandwagon and have a decent reason to post again. The conference gave me real chance [...]
Maybe people aren’t drinking it because it tastes like shit
By Phil Lees Tuesday April 6, 2010
There’s a short article over at The Age mapping the decline of the big Australian beers as a failure of their marketing. Their reason for the fall from grace of VB and Carlton: Image is also one of the reasons why there has been strong growth in mainstream craft beers such as James Squire, Little [...]
Last Month on SBS – March 2010
By Phil Lees Friday April 2, 2010
I also write over at SBS’ food blog, Mouthful. Here is the last month of posts: Eels for Jesus The Australian Food Bloggers’ Conference 2010 The perfect Australian burrito What happened to the future of food? The Tabouleh War
The new layout
By Phil Lees Friday April 2, 2010
After deliberating over food blog templates for a good six months, I’ve decided just to make a change to the layout completely on a whim rather than putting in the hard work of redesigning the site. My only gripe with the previous template was the way that it treated short posts – you’d have no [...]
Moving your food blog from Blogspot to WordPress
By Phil Lees Monday March 22, 2010
At the Australian Food Blogger Conference yesterday, Michael from My Aching Head mentioned the process of moving a blog from Blogspot/Blogger to WordPress. I’ve had to do this three times over the past few years for friends. Here is the step by step process for moving a blog from Blogspot to WordPress. It does require [...]
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