Here’s something that will hopefully give you a reality check and some perspective on exactly how insignificant the human race actually is. Awesome!

I got this in an email recently. It’s supposed to be quotes from either the former or current Australian Prime Minister. It’s been around the net a few times and I’d be surprised if it actually came verbatim from the mouth of either of them.

However, I don’t care, its philosophy is spot-on. Gordon Brown and the liberal, PC, namby-pamby fucking British Thought Police should read it and inwardly digest its message.

Contrary to popular belief, pole dancing is not only confined to the sleazier side of the street.

This video clip is from the US Pole Dancing Championships and, as you will see, a girl has to be pretty darned fit to compete in this arena.

Now when I say ‘fit’ I mean as an athlete, we all know they’re FIT, don’t we?!

So I just thought I’d show you what you need to be practising on if you want to enter next year’s Championships. Great bit of music too.

I see that many of the big European supermarkets are gearing up to stop issuing plastic bags in their stores throughout the EU. This can only be a good thing, and about bloody time too!

Their various spokespersons are saying that the object is to raise people’s awareness of the importance of “re-using, recycling and reducing the consumption of plastic bags which are only used once”.

Ecologists have welcomed the decision, pointing out that the average plastic bag has a useful life of only 12 hours but takes 400 years to decompose.

Of course, it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that from 2010 they will be

(This is a re-print of a post that appeared in my CostaBlogger blog which is now defunct. I decided to knock it on the head when I had a few problems with its hosting provider.)

The ‘Gurus’ are always telling us that content is king and that we must strive to keep churning out ever-changing original content if we are to gain brownie points from the Great Gods of Google.

You can’t stand still for a minute or your site will plummet to the depths of obscurity, keep those fingers working and those words flowing.

Here, let me help you… Invest in this course, watch that video from ‘my buddy’ John Doe, buy now from my link and get all these useless re-hashed bonuses ($597 value) for FREE! You know the sort of thing, I’m sure.

Got a website? No good, what you really need is a blog. Here, let me help you…

Got a blog? No good, you need to be getting into social media. Here, let me help you…

Need I go on?

No matter what the doom-mongers may say, the Costa del Sol will always be the place where most of Europe wants to either spend its holidays, buy a home or retire to.

Being so close to Africa gives Spain’s southern coast its perfect climate yet it’s only 2 – 3 hours away from most northern European airports.

Ok, it might not be exotic like India or the Far East, or spectacular like the Rocky Mountains, but to most of Europe it’s… near! Plus it’s still in Europe, with all the infrastructure and familiarity that goes with it.

So contrary to what the nay-sayers would have you believe the Costa del Sol is still here and hasn’t sunk under a tsunami of greed and corruption.

If you’ve been redirected here looking for CostaBlogger.com then I’m sorry but due to unforeseen server problems I’ve pulled the plug on it. It’ll be much more interesting here anyway!

Apologies if this site’s not looking or working properly, it’s a bit of a work in progress as I’m upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress, changing themes and generally giving this blog a spring-clean ready to get it ROCKIN’ once more.

Thanks for your patience.

Everywhere you look on the internet, and every day in your inbox, you will find marketers and ‘Gurus’ offering you the latest ’sure-fire’ way to make sackloads of money for doing very little – or even nothing!

But before you reach for your credit card yet again just take a moment and ask yourself this: Do you realistically think that you could set up any ‘normal’ business and make it successful just by buying a $99 ebook and then sitting back while the money floods in?

No, I thought not. You will very soon be on the road to financial ruin if you follow such a path in the ‘real’ world of commerce.

So why do you think it’s possible to do it online? I’ll tell you why:

Are you stuggling to make a living online? Do you understand about websites and online marketing? Got any knowledge of SEO and SEM? Are you overdosed with all the ‘gurus’ out there emailing you and trying to get your money for the latest ‘must-have, guaranteed-income crock of gold?’ (Or is that crock of shit?)

Let me ask you a very simple question: Can you tear yourself away from your computer and go out there in the big wide world and TALK TO PEOPLE? You remember that, don’t you? Social interaction with real human beings!

Here’s an extremely simple method of earning real money for anyone with a modicum of website/online marketing knowledge:

I like my coffee in the morning, I’m not a caffeine junkie but a decent cup of coffee is on my ‘to do’ list every day. I bought a cheap 39€ (£29) espresso machine and I get my coffee from the supermarket. Nothing fancy, just own brand, pre-ground Arabica costing 2.98€ (£2.20) for 500g (1lb-ish).

Now, allow me to let you in on a little secret: making good coffee is not hard! I just load up the machine, get a shot of espresso, steam-up the milk and voila! Although I say it myself, I make pretty-damn-good coffee!

Why then, when I’m in the UK, can I not find a single so-called ‘coffee shop’ that can give me the same thing?