Budgets get cut, but not air-conditioning. At a very large Queensland state primary school in the outer western metropolitan suburbs of Brisbane, teachers’ resources budgets were cut from $500 to $400 per year (when in fact many teachers spend upwards of thousands of dollars). Within a month of this, the principal and deputy principal offices had air-conditioning installed with no announcement or justification to teaching staff. An interesting financial decision in regards to looking after teachers and students.

Telstra blocks business emails. Telstra Business Broadband has now decided that if you send more than 200 emails in one hour, then they are missing out on revenue, and they want to charge extra. No warning, nothing, just blocking of your emails. Following our phone call to Telstra, the young man says yes, they are doing this and it will cost to have the block removed. He said they will have it fixed in 20 minutes. A week later it is still not fixed. Now they say it takes at least 10 days to have it fixed! So any small business who sends customer newsletters or runs functions can get caught. No warning, no information just legitimate emails not getting through.

Close call. Thunderstorm, Thursday March 3, 9.15pm, very erratic aircraft circuits over outer suburbs Brisbane, near Browns Planes, very dodgy there for a few minutes. Looked like there was a storm in the vicinity of the airport, however there were at least two aircraft that were flying at each other, one seemed to have to descend quickly to avoid being in the path of another.

Bordering on a deal. Not sure how fast Borders is going down the gurgler but I receive its newsletter online and it’s still  offering reward points if you buy books. Called Borders VIP Loyalty Program, you get one reward point for every dollar spent. Amass 100 points and you get a $5 shopping voucher

Leggings allowed as pants for Melbourne Cricket Club members. Advice from the MCC website, with someone on behalf of the MCC suggesting that it is OK for women to wear black tights, provided there is an under garment over the top. Click through for the whole dress code details.