Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Nov 4, 2009, 10:02 pm
I’ve interviewed dozens of ‘famous’ people but today’s chat with Cadel Evans was certainly one of the highlights of my radio career. I’m a cyclist but Cadel is cycling ...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Nov 4, 2009, 9:38 pm
We first met Ian ‘Dicko’ Dickson when the first series of Australian Idol burst onto our television screens. Back then he was sometimes referred to as the nasty judge but the nation has since well...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Nov 4, 2009, 7:04 pm
Would you let a complete stranger hold a sharpened blade against your neck? I did yesterday. I was sitting in the barber’s chair considering what an odd thing hair cuts can be yesterday afternoon. ...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Nov 4, 2009, 4:16 pm
Sadly it’s always been a part of school yard life and while we’ve woken up more and more to the often devastating effects of bullying, in the past our children would at least have the safe haven o...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Nov 3, 2009, 5:45 am
It’s now been six years to the day since I started blogging. The first time I ever heard of blogging I thought, “What a stupid idea. Why would you want to share all your most personal tho...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Nov 2, 2009, 1:03 am
If you’re in a capital city in Australia you’d better make sure your front garden is looking good. Google’s getting ready to put your home on the world stage with another round of pictur...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Nov 1, 2009, 7:35 pm
News broke last week that the reigning world road race champion, Cadel Evans, was leaving his Silence-Lotto team. Today we’re hearing that Cadel has signed with US team BMC. It seems that in th...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 30, 2009, 5:50 pm
… and let’s push this thing down the hill. One thing history teaches us is that we don’t learn from history. Australia wasn’t hit as hard by the global financial crisis as ot...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 30, 2009, 12:15 am
If you were given the chance to save someone’s life, would you? It’s not a difficult question for most people. We all like to think that given the opportunity we’d save another person’s life....
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 28, 2009, 7:21 pm
Don’t you just love it when you find out something you enjoy is doing you good? I’m always fascinated by the research that comes out every now and then to tell us that things like red win...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 28, 2009, 12:03 am
He’s just turned 28 and his music keeps getting better. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before he breaks the lucrative US market. You’d have had to be living under a rock in A...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 25, 2009, 9:50 pm
What’s the strangest place you’ve found something you’ve lost? On Friday evening I was getting organised for bunking down in the Cranbrook Baptist Church as part of last week’s ride for cance...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 23, 2009, 8:04 pm
We cycled just over 100 kilometres to make it from Cranbrook to Albany yesterday afternoon. The conditions were cold and sometimes wet but with the end in sight we powered on towards our goal. We had...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 22, 2009, 7:26 pm
Video of the fifth official day of the Perth to Albany ride. Yesterday we cycled from Katanning to Cranbrook. We cycled around 80 kilometres. We stopped for an amazing afternoon tea at the Tambellup ...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 21, 2009, 9:08 pm
Video of the fourth official day of the Perth to Albany ride. Yesterday we cycled from Wagin to Katanning. We cycled 55 kilometres with much of the distance being against the wind and we encountered ...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 20, 2009, 8:58 pm
Video of the third official day of the Perth to Albany ride. Yesterday we cycled from Pingelly to Wagin. We cycled 100 kilometres with much of the distance being against the wind. You can still dona...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 20, 2009, 7:28 pm
Video of the third official day of the Perth to Albany ride. Yesterday we cycled from Pingelly to Wagin. We cycled 100 kilometres with much of the distance being against the wind. You can still dona...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 19, 2009, 8:08 pm
Video of the second official day of the Perth to Albany ride. Sunday was a rest day but we were back on our bikes yesterday riding from York to Pingelly through Beverley and Brookton. We cycled 87 ki...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 19, 2009, 7:37 pm
Video of the first day of the Perth to Albany ride. We cycled 98 kilometres from Perth to York on the hottest October day in 13 years. Some areas of the journey we faced hills and temperatures up to...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 16, 2009, 10:15 pm
We’re finally on the road. At nine o’clock this morning our team of seven cyclists and our trusty support crew said goodbye to friends and family as we left 98.5 Sonshine FM in Como to be...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 15, 2009, 8:19 pm
(I really need your help to get the word out about this. Please read and act on the ‘Help spread the word’ section of this post.) It all begins tomorrow. I’ll be one of seven cyclis...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 14, 2009, 9:38 pm
Here’s a free tip. If you’re a wanted fugitive, try to resist the urge to update Facebook and be careful who you choose as a Facebook friend. Maxi Sopo has learned the hard way that what ...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 14, 2009, 8:01 pm
Time has gone so quickly and I’m now only a couple of days away from riding from Perth to Albany to raise money for Cancer Council WA. If you haven’t had a chance to donate yet you can head to my ...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 14, 2009, 7:49 pm
Australia’s first ever national research findings on chaplaincy in Australian government schools have just been released and the results are very positive. According to the 688 principals who parti...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 11, 2009, 6:30 pm
If you’re looking for some good, Australian, parenting resources, you really can’t go past the stuff that David and Charissa Scotford are producing. Have a look at the promotional video in...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Oct 7, 2009, 1:28 am
I’ve loved the idea of the Kindle ever since Amazon started selling them, but being in Australia meant that I couldn’t buy one. The waiting is over. If you’re in Australia or many o...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 29, 2009, 6:45 am
To tell the truth I had never been much of a fan of bean bags. I considered them to be relics of the 70s which were trumpeted as being not only groovy, but extremely comfortable. I found them to be ne...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 24, 2009, 10:13 pm
I just got an email from a real estate company in Hong Kong. They specialise in exclusive and very expensive apartments in Hong Kong. Apparently they have clients who would be interested in living in...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 23, 2009, 8:05 pm
How will you use the 24 hours you’ve been given today? Would you use those hours differently if today was the last day of your life? Can you be absolutely certain that today isn’t the la...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 22, 2009, 11:24 pm
Compassion Australia’s Gifts of Compassion is open and ready for business. Their gifts help people who are battling desperate poverty. You can buy everything from mosquito nets to a carpentry w...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 22, 2009, 7:57 pm
It all starts again this Saturday. The Perth Royal Show begins at the Claremont Showgrounds from this Saturday the 26th of September until Saturday the 3rd of October. The Perth Royal Show is Perth&...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 21, 2009, 10:06 pm
Who said fishing was a waste of time? Have you seen that Lismore Police have been inundated with claims to a fortune found by four teenagers fishing in a northern New South Wales creek? Police are l...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 21, 2009, 8:13 pm
The circus has come to town. The Great Moscow Circus has taken over Langley Park in Perth until the 11th of October. Pauline, James and I headed along on Friday night and I must admit that it was ra...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 11, 2009, 10:21 pm
I count it a privilege to know AFL player Mark Seaby. He’s not only a great footballer, he’s a thoroughly great guy. While it doesn’t look like he’ll be playing for my favouri...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 8, 2009, 9:53 pm
If it hasn’t touched your life yet, I can almost guarantee that it will. We don’t like to talk about cancer so we can start believing that we’re alone in facing its cold hand. The r...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 6, 2009, 10:46 pm
Words really don’t come close to describing how I feel right now. On Friday night this world lost a generous, caring man who I was privileged enough to call friend. Mark Simpfendorfer left this...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 6, 2009, 8:04 pm
I love my kids … and it would seem they love me. They put a couple of notices in the Father’s Day section of yesterday’s Sunday Times newspaper. Emily wrote: Daddy, thank you fo...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 3, 2009, 11:03 pm
Thanks to Brian of brianeberly.com who posted this beautiful video on his blog. It’s a Greek short film made in 2007. Other posts you may enjoy: September 4, 2009 — Slava’s Snowsho...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 3, 2009, 9:09 pm
I’m not a big fan of clowns. To be honest I don’t see the attraction …. yet there’s something about Slava’s Snowshow that may just change my mind. I took James to the op...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 3, 2009, 12:49 am
Other posts you may enjoy: March 30, 2009 — The Power of Twitter February 27, 2008 — Friends or Acquaintances September 2, 2009 — Great service turns customers into raving fans June...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Sep 2, 2009, 8:23 am
How long has it been since you were surprised by service at a shop or business? I wonder why so many shops and businesses can’t get their head around the idea that if they offer great service, ...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Aug 28, 2009, 6:37 am
Other posts you may enjoy: August 20, 2009 — Radio Station Tours July 27, 2008 — Radiothon 2008 September 9, 2009 — Breaking the silence on cancer August 27, 2009 — Day Five R...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Aug 27, 2009, 7:03 am
Other posts you may enjoy: August 25, 2009 — Day Three Radiothon 2009 August 24, 2009 — Day Two Radiothon 2009 August 23, 2009 — Day One Radiothon 2009 August 21, 2009 — IR...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Aug 26, 2009, 4:39 am
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Aug 26, 2009, 1:21 am
This video contains graphic and confronting content but is worth watching. Don’t show it to your children but watch it because you love them and you want them to grow up in a a safer world. T...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Aug 25, 2009, 7:13 am
Other posts you may enjoy: August 27, 2009 — Day Five Radiothon 2009 August 24, 2009 — Day Two Radiothon 2009 August 23, 2009 — Day One Radiothon 2009 August 21, 2009 — I̵...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Aug 24, 2009, 4:00 am
Other posts you may enjoy: August 27, 2009 — Day Five Radiothon 2009 August 25, 2009 — Day Three Radiothon 2009 August 23, 2009 — Day One Radiothon 2009 August 21, 2009 — I...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Aug 23, 2009, 3:00 am
Other posts you may enjoy: August 27, 2009 — Day Five Radiothon 2009 August 25, 2009 — Day Three Radiothon 2009 August 24, 2009 — Day Two Radiothon 2009 August 21, 2009 — I...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Aug 20, 2009, 8:02 pm
I’m certainly not a hero but I have just signed on to Everyday Hero, a website that will collect donations for the bike ride for cancer I’m undertaking in October. You can be a real hero b...
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Rodney O. posted an article on RodneyOlsen.net - Aug 19, 2009, 10:34 pm
Want a list of the dirtiest websites online at the moment? Did you know that you’re risking infection just by visiting a dirty website? Symantec’s Web site ratings service Norton Safe Web has...
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