Simple ways to stay in touch

February 25, 2009
by Rodney Olsen
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feed-icon.pngDon’t you love it when you find ways to save time and simplify tasks? Isn’t it even better when it’s free?

Hopefully I can simplify the way you read this blog.

Did you know that you can read RodneyOlsen.net via email each day through FeedBlitz? Instead of having to visit my blog each day, it can visit you. Just click here, enter your email address, and you’ll never miss a post. You’ll get one email a day with anything I’ve posted on that day. It’s completely free and you can unsubscribe at any time so why not give it a go?

There’s also an orange button at the top of the right hand sidebar which makes updating easy if you read blogs through Bloglines, Google Reader, Yahoo, NewsGator, MSN or any other service. If you haven’t heard of RSS, Atom or site feeds before you can check out this article at Wikipedia for more information. Basically feeds make it a lot easier to read blogs and other information sources. If you read even a handful of blogs a day you can save a lot of time through feeds.

Can I encourage you to use one of these methods to get your free updates from RodneyOlsen.net? I’d love you to be part of the community that is continuing to grow here and I want to make it as easy as possible for you to stay in touch with every post.

Whichever way you choose to read my blog let me say thank you for doing so. I truly appreciate the fact that you take the time to read my random thoughts and participate in the conversation through your comments.



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Is your pet in your will?

February 25, 2009
by Rodney Olsen
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kitten.jpgWhat responsibility do we have to our pets? Should we make provision for our pets in our wills?

I wonder how many people are aware that William Wilberforce, the British politician who led the charge on the abolition of human slavery, was also led by his Christian convictions to help found the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Just last week the Animal Law Committee of the New South Wales Young Lawyers launched a brochure titled What About Me? It’s a plain language brochure designed to help people understand the options available when preparing their wills if they want to include provision for their pets.

Pets share the lives of the majority of Australians with approximately 65% of all Australian households owning a pet. While they are beloved members of our family, how many of us have thought about what might happen if our furry family members outlive us?

My regular Wednesday morning guest on 98.5 Sonshine FM is Ross Clifford who is the Principal of Morling College in New South Wales and current President of the Baptist Union of Australia. Each week we chat about a range of issues relating to spirituality and belief.

Today we discussed our responsibility to our pets and whether we should make provision in our wills for our furry and feathered friends.

You can hear today’s segment by clicking the play button on the audio player at the bottom of this post.

What do you think about the place of pets in our lives? Do we place too much emphasis on animals or not enough? I’d appreciate your thoughts in the comments section of this post.



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A Surprising Bank Bungle

February 25, 2009
by Rodney Olsen
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bankonline.jpgI was reading this morning that a Swedish woman was rather surprised at her bank balance when she checked out her account on line recently.

The balance was the equivalent of $1.76 billion higher than she expected.

Cornelia Johansson logged on to her internet bank to pay some bills. I guess you could pay a lot of bills with that kind of money. The amount had supposedly been deposited as a correction for a credit card purchase. The money was still credited to her account the following morning but a few hours later it was gone as mysteriously as it had arrived.

A spokeswoman for Nordea Bank later explained the mystery as “a technical mistake made by a company”.

What would you do if you found that much extra money in your account? Buy a small country? Would you spend wildly and hope that no one noticed? Would you be straight on the phone to your bank to get things sorted out?

I wouldn’t mind if I had $1.76 billion in my account for just one day as long as I got to keep the interest it accrued for the day.

I admit that I do sometimes get surprised when I check my balance online but it’s not because there’s any extra money in my account.



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