A good piece by paediatrician Zoe McCallum, in The Age, talks about the problems of dealing with children's weight in a constructive way.

The Australian Commonwealth Government raised taxes on ready-to-drink (RTD) alcoholic beverages by 70% this week.

A product concept, the KitchenSync, might solve some of the hazards a laptop faces in the kitchen.

Just a quick heads-up to anyone who hasn't seen mention on other blogs around town. On Saturday, 5th April the next Bloggers' Banquet will take place.

Do you know there's a wonderful soluble fibre supplement out there which you can add to almost anything? I'm sure someone's happy, but how dare the advertising suggest you add it to coffee!

Look what all those selfish seafood-loving tourists have done! No see, no touch, no flash in Japan.

How do you store your chocolate? At various times I've made sure my chocolate was happily resting in many places, but not in a ludicrously expensive wooden vault.

It seems the US diet includes eight ounces (235 gm) of meat per day. How much do you eat?

Some things seem so 'convenient' that you can't believe they could be a viable product. Today's exhibit is pancake batter in a spraycan.