True Blue: John Williamson

I don’t think I have ever really REALLY listened to the words of this song. I’ve been affected by the music, I’ve heard some of the words, but I’ve never really listened. Tonight, I did. And I realised that in my lifetime, that True Blue Aussie has, indeed, all but disappeared.

Hey True Blue, don’t say you’re gone…
Say you’ve knocked off for a smoko,
And you’ll be back later on
Hey true blue, hey true blue
Give it to me straight, Face to face
Are you really disappearing?
Just another dying race
Hey True Blue

True Blue, is it me and you?
Is it Mum and Dad, is it a cockatoo?
Is it standing by your mate
When he’s in a fight
Or just vegemite
True Blue I’m asking you

Hey True blue can you bear the load
Will you tie it up with wire
Just to keep the show on the road
Hey true blue hey true blue
Now be fair dinkum
Is your heart still there?
If they sell us out like spongecake
Do you really care?
Hey true blue

True Blue, is it me and you?
Is it Mum and Dad, is it a cockatoo?
Is it standing by your mate
When she’s in a fight
Or just vegemite
True Blue I’m asking you
True Blue, is it me and you?
Is it Mum and Dad, is it a cockatoo?
Is it standing by your mate
When he’s in a fight
Or just vegemite
True Blue
True Blue….

Vegemite is not true blue anymore… So what does it mean to be True Blue? Does anyone remember?

Electronic Gold

Many of you will be vaguely aware that I am playing online in some pretty high risk ventures (which is why I am not playing with much… some risk thousands… UGH). For most of these, an e-gold account is needed to fund the venture (and for most, you only need about $10 to get started).

But this post isn’t about those risky ventures. Its about the value of gold itself. I have a Konfabulator widget (now Yahoo widget since Yahoo bought them out) sitting on my desktop which tells me the price of gold: it checks about every 30 minutes. As I write, its $683.89 US dollars an ounce. I wish I had thousands in my egold account because with the way gold is rising (about $90 in 3 weeks) you could make profits just by buying it thru egold.

A word about gold purchase online: you need to do it through an exchanger. The best one for Australians is e-forexgold. I am not much aware of others, because I use e-forexgold: I can use BPay or a deposit card at the post office to fund the account and that suits me well.

Its worth considering: When I signed up for egold and put money in the first time, the price was $US544… now its $US683. Nice profits if you can get them, in just four months.

CAUTION: The price can fall just as quickly. YMMV.

Update 10/5/06: The price of gold topped $700/ounce today. How far is this going to go? And how much is it tied to the oil prices? One wonders about artificial inflation.

Update 11/5/06: Added kitco charts. The first is a 24 hour chart, the second an 8 hour chart (US Dollars). You can see how the price fluctuates over the day, but the overall direction is UP

Update 15/5/06> Gold just took a dive from $716 to $687. Glad I only had $2.74 in egold. Now its worth only $2.45. Thats life. Glad I had not been paid yet, by any of my programs.

I’m not looking anymore, its too nerveracking.