Category: STEEMIT

FLOTE 101 – LEARNING TO FLOTE

FROT January 3, 2020

I HAVE BECOME A FLOTER For 2020 I have decided to leave behind the ever more censored platform of Steemit and start posting on Flote. One of the things I learned early on from Steemit is that a really simple […]

I AM ANAL

FROT November 28, 2019

YES, I HAVE SOME ANAL TENDENCIES Now I don’t mean that in some sort of sicko pervert way – I mean I like my stuff to be organised like a Formula One workshop. A few days ago I saw a […]

LIVING VICARIOUSLY

FROT November 25, 2019

Get a dose of speed. Long ago in the 90’s I was into the new sport of downhill mountainbiking. Back then we started out riding hardtails with three inch travel forks and it was like racing kango hammers. We got […]

WITH ALL THE ANGER OF A JILTED EX LOVER

FROT November 22, 2019

I BUGGERED OFF FOR THREE MONTHS On my third birthday back in August I celebrated by totally quiting all use of Steemit. I was pretty pissed off about having all my illusions totally shattered. Back in 2016 I was writing […]

A Roadmap For Discussion

FROT November 7, 2019

Everything We Have Been Told Is A Lie – A Roadmap For Discussion & Community Engagement! I believe almost everything we have been told is distorted to reflect the interests of those peddling lies. After a lifetime of incredible travel […]

THE PARTY IS OVER SO REMOVE YOUR TATTOOS NOW

FROT August 18, 2019

REMEMBERING THE GOOD TIMES Back in February 2018 when I originally wrote a post about millenials defacing themselves with crap tattoos, it was the middle of summer in New Zealand, it was hot and sunny, I’d just spent the whole […]

FOOLS GOLD

FROT August 12, 2019

Unless you are clutching real gold in your hot sweaty hands, you probably don’t actually have any Most of the gold that is being traded in the world doesn’t really exist, and pretending to have gold is a sort of […]

MAN BUSES ARE SEXUALLY OPPRESSIVE

FROT July 18, 2019

MAN MUST GO BI The Wellington City Council has admitted that its use of German MAN buses is oppressive people of non-binary gender, so it is now planning to replace them all with new electric buses from Bus International (BI) […]

WHAT I WANT FOR MY THIRD BIRTHDAY

FROT July 16, 2019

So long and thanks for all the steem Now I know I said I was going to quit whining about the demise of Steemit, but here is one last post about Steemit… Although I’m not really using the platform any […]

RANDOM LOLERS PART 666 – THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

FROT July 9, 2019

BABOON’S SPHINCTERS Serious fuckers need to spend more time looking at baboon’s sphincters. It does them a lot of good, and I always like to do what I can to help serious fuckers.       Was that all a […]

HEADING DOWN SOUTH

FROT July 4, 2019

ON THE FERRY TO PICTON The first step to going down South (I’m talking about New Zealand here, so “south” doesn’t mean Mexico!) is to catch the ferry across the Cook Straight to Picton. It can be rough on a […]

Let’s all be PAL’s

FROT July 1, 2019

I’m not really me anymore, but is anyone online real anyway? It’s been about 10 months since I mostly stopped posting on Steemit as @sift666 and swapped over to @frot And then not long after I began powering down all […]

HUMOUR HAS BEEN BANNED ONLINE

FROT June 30, 2019

Despite the fact that all laughter has been declared offensive, I still like to have a bit of a chuckle – and it also goes really well with hoovering down some prime sticky bud. The fact that it helps ward […]

HOW TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

FROT June 13, 2019

Americans know how to dress themselves better than any other nation. The key to making America the greatest nation on earth again is for Americans to be proud of their bodies and their sexuality, and to stop being inhibited – […]

Kiwis vs Aussies

FROT June 11, 2019

Bleeding Aussie Roo Shaggers As a Kiwi, sometimes I am horrified to be mistaken for an Aussie. Usually by Americans. So now I’m going to explain some key differences between Kiwis and Aussies. People in other countries often assume that […]

IMAGINE IF THE DARWIN AWARDS BECAME AN ANALOGY FOR LIFE

FROT June 8, 2019

 Maybe we are becoming stupider by the day, but we haven’t noticed yet? Probably best not to contemplate that – it might make us paranoid. FROT WEBSITE http://www.frot.co.nz FROT BLOG http://www.frot.co.nz/design/blog PALNET FROT https://www.palnet.io/@frot STEEMIT FROT https://steemit.com/@frot STEEMIT SIFT666 https://steemit.com/@sift666  

STRANGER STALKING IS ONE OF MY FETISHES

FROT June 4, 2019

For some reason I have a fetish for taking photos of strangers. I lurk about with my camera waiting to get a snap of them. And then I post their pics online and hopefully my unwitting victims never know! Here […]

TAKING A TRIP TO THE WILD SIDE

FROT May 27, 2019

HANGING OUT ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS This one time, I had to take a trip to a whole different kind of neighbourhood. Feeling a bit apprehensive, but keeping in mind that without photos, nothing ever really happened, […]

WHY DO WE DO THIS SHIT?

FROT May 22, 2019

MAYBE I NEED TO TAKE A BUCKET OF ACID AND TRIP OUT Like most real people who blog, as opposed to bots who generate posts on social media using AI, and all the secret agency employees who polish their knobs, […]

ON THE BUSES

FROT May 19, 2019

Cruising about on the electric buses Double decker buses are a hot new photo platform. Wellington’s new electric double decker buses are actually pretty cool – cruising through Newtown there are all sorts of sights to be seen from the […]

BACK WHEN MEN WERE MEN AND CARS WERE AS WELL

FROT May 17, 2019

BACK WHEN MEN WERE MEN AND CARS WERE AS WELL Get hard and go off Back in the 70’s “trans” didn’t mean some ladyboy in a mini skirt. It meant a hardcore car like a 1973 Ford Mustang Trans Am. […]

I HAD A CLEAR OUT

FROT May 10, 2019

A WINNER ON A WINDOW SILL Riding along on a double decker bus I saw this guy just sitting on his windowsill, lots of tats, an ear thing the size of a golf ball, having a smoke and drinking some […]

UNHAPPY MEALS FOR SAD FAT NUMPTIES

FROT May 7, 2019

 WHY DOES ANYONE EAT THIS CRAP? One in ten New Zealanders are on antidepressants. Although 10% is an eight-fold increase in total prescription numbers from 1998, it’s still a hell of a lot less than in America where 25% of […]

THE FULL TRANNY SUSPECT LIST

FROT May 3, 2019

A VERY LONG LIST OF POSSIBLE TRANNIES The full list looks a bit madcore at first glance, but it’s amazing how many of them are highly suspect.   The men, possible Female To Male’s (FTM) are harder to spot than […]

THE SECRET TO RAPID WEIGHT LOSS

FROT May 1, 2019

LOL YOURSELF TO TOTAL BUFFNESS If you can LOL so hard that clear jelly like substances come out of your nose, rapid weight loss is guaranteed. And if you can make clear jelly come out of your arse as well, […]

REAL ART – NOT SOME STONER CRAP

FROT April 19, 2019

DONE BY A PROPER ARTIST There I was walking past a flash inner city art gallery and in the window was a painting that looked just like something I might of done myself after a session with so primo sticky […]

MISUNDERSTAND ALL YOU SEE

FROT April 14, 2019

WAKE UP SHEEPLE Back in 1967, not long after they replaced Paul McCartney with the new guy – the taller, right handed, and narrower faced Fake Paul (aka Faul), The Beatles put out the album that was all carefully written […]

Always be your true self

FROT April 10, 2019

How I became a disgruntled Steemit bitch Back in the early days of Steemit I was a total believer and I used to work my arse off. Despite reading that the whole thing was a ponzi sheme and that Dan […]

CHICKEN FREE CHICKEN

FROT March 15, 2019

A new generation of meat Sunfed meats are made from premium yellow pea protein, they cook, feel and taste just like animal meat but are healthier, both for you and the planet. Chickens farting are putting the planet at risk from global warming, […]

LOLLERS FOR AFRICA

FROT March 12, 2019

A week of FROTTAGE on GAB – What might it look like? One of the cool things about GAB is that being pretty new, it hasn’t yet been overrun by fake AI accounts trying to promote various agendas like make […]

HOW TO REVERSE AGING WITH CHAIN SMOKING

FROT February 17, 2019

 THE KILLS Music this century has all turned to shit, so it’s hard to find any bands that don’t suck. One of the very few good ones was The White Stripes. They kicked arse. And there is another duo that […]

TO SHARE OR NOT TO SHARE?

FROT February 16, 2019

CAN I BE ARSED? After finally waking up to full extent of all the fake accounts on Steemit, I mostly lost interest and stopped posting at the start of February. Now that I’ve got my head around the extent of […]

SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH

FROT February 8, 2019

HIT THE BEACH Sometimes when I want to sit and contemplate things, I walk down to the beach, and sit on the sand watching the waves, the walkers, the surfers, and the dogs playing. It really helps put things in […]

DOES EVERYTHING ALWAYS TURN TO SHIT IN THE END?

FROT January 31, 2019

ARE WE ALL TOTALLY BUGGERED? OK, now I’m about to get all philosophical. A job I’m half way through doing at he moment is scanning a relatives album of wedding photos. Many good things came out of that wedding but […]

ALL I COULD SEE WAS PINK HITLERS

FROT January 25, 2019

GAY NAZIS ALL OVER THE PLACE Imagine if you packed so much primo bud into your PAX 3 vapouriser that after you smoked it while watching Keven Smith, all you could think about was Hitler. In gay pink.  When you […]

WHAT ON EARTH AM I DOING BACK ON STEEMIT AS SIFT666?

FROT January 21, 2019

I have multiple Steemit personalities! On my second anniversary of being all steemy I decided to break loose of all my old patterns and switch over to my #2 account, @frot, as my main account. All my out of date […]

WHO ARE YOU? – TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER!

FROT January 15, 2019

I THINK I GOT SCAMMED Over the weekend I decided to start have a break from Steemit and Discord on Mondays, and yesterday I did that. Before any of you say I don’t know what day it is, here is […]

WHAT WOULD A TEENAGE BOGAN DO?

FROT January 13, 2019

WHAT WOULD A TEENAGE BOGAN DO? WHAT THE FUCK IS A BOGAN? Yesterday a complete twat called me a bogan. That really cracked me up. These days I couldn’t be further from being a bogan. In fact I’m a boring […]

THE MARTIAN ANAL DIVISION

FROT January 11, 2019

THE MARTIAN ANAL DIVISION I once wrote about a short story by Philip K Dick, called “The Martian Anal Division”, and it was about a parallel version of our world in which everything is run by and for the benefit […]

THAT SINKING FEELING

FROT January 10, 2019

GOING DOWN LIKE A SINKING SHIP Like all of us who have been around a while, eventually I’ve come to recognise that sinking feeling. I know that a couple of my Steemit friends are about to do posts revealing some […]

WHO HAS THE BIGGEST COCK?

FROT January 2, 2019

Get your dick out and measure it I have at least four loyal followers who regularly read my posts, but I have no idea how big their cocks are because I haven’t asked them. I suspect that two of them […]

FINANCIAL ADVICE FOR 2019

FROT January 1, 2019

I KNOW THE FUTURE Being a day ahead of most of you, I know some things you don’t. So this is all intended as financial advice. You should fully commit every dollar you can borrow and invest in my predictions: […]

A NEW RECORD FOR BEING KICKED OFF WEKU

FROT December 28, 2018

WEKU BANNED ME AFTER ONE POST! I know I’m an offensive prick, but even for me this is impressive. While Steemit was being screwed over by Hardfuck 20 a few people I follow started talking about a new site called […]

OF COURSE MEN SHOULD BE ABLE TO COMPETE AS WOMEN!

FROT December 27, 2018

MEN ARE ENTITLED TO BE WOMEN Anyone who complains about men competing as women is just a sexist bigot! This is all perfectly fair and reasonable: A biological male who identifies as a transgender woman has won a women’s world […]

HOUSE WITH A VIEW

FROT December 23, 2018

EVERYTHING IS PINK OK – I’m only posting this to make all you northern hemisphere dwellers jealous! A few minutes ago, @kiwideb said “look how pink the sky is” – and although it was already after 9pm, it’s the longest […]

WHY I QUIT USING INSTAGRAM

FROT December 20, 2018

I HAD TO GET MY SORRY ARSE OFF INSTAGRAM People sometimes wonder why so many people quit using Steemit. I think a big reason is because they start out full of hope, and they are looking for the next big […]

FOOD

FROT December 19, 2018

FOOD 101 – Some Basics Of Eating Well We all have to start somewhere, and while some people who know their stuff are probably going to think this is all a bit simplistic, my aim here is to get people […]

THOSE THAT KNOW, MOSTLY SHUT THEIR FACES

FROT December 13, 2018

HOW TO BE POPULAR I’ve learned all sorts of things here on Steemit this year. One of them is that posting popular opinion gets you followers, upvotes, and much love. But calling bollocks on widely believed opinion gets you unfollows, […]

WE NEED TO STOP MOANING AND GRUMBLING.

FROT December 10, 2018

Here’s a few LOLers Losing a shitload of money on cryptos really sucks but at this point we are pretty fucked up so every day we might as well LOL until shit comes out of our noses. So to that […]

WE ARE BEING SWAMPED BY INVADING HOARDS

FROT December 9, 2018

Here in New Zealand tourist season has just started, and as well as the usual constant stream of planes landing, there is now a multitude of giant cruise liners coming into the harbour. This is a photo I took yesterday […]

BITCOIN REPEATS LIKE A PLATE OF SAUSAGES AT MIDNIGHT

FROT November 29, 2018

Bitcoin is just like sausages One thing about cryptos I have only finally grasped this month is that all cryptos follow Bitcoin. So my ingenious tactic of selling Bitcoin (because I thought it would crash) and investing in other cryptos […]

I HAVE NO FRIGGING IDEA

FROT November 25, 2018

Are we really in the shit with cryptos, and on Steemit, and about to get our arses spanked? After two years and three months on Steemit, I went from being a nobody, up to maybe being a small somebody, but […]

THE TOSSER

FROT November 22, 2018

Is it possible to do a Steemit post by tossing a coin? A strange experiment…Sometimes I find notes and ideas I have written down long ago and end up reading them and wondering if I am a complete fruitloop. This […]

TELL ME HOW AWESOME I AM

FROT November 20, 2018

THE FEEDBACK IS MY FAVOURITE PART! On my blog people think I’m some sort of god. They constantly give me positive feedback. It’s nothing like on Steemit! “The people have spoken, the bastards.” Mark Twain You are such a morron! […]

THREE NEW STEEMIT DEVELOPMENTS

FROT November 16, 2018

SteemPlus (good) SteemPress (good) and the Crypto Apocolypse (bad) There is an accepted order to the way this sort of thing is usually done – first the bad news – we are all screwed part one, and then some more […]

TESTING STEEMPRESS

FROT November 7, 2018

WordPress plug in – Steempress – Lets see what happens this time OK – what I’m doing here is doing a post on my WordPress blog and posting it straight to Steemit – so I didn’t actually go to Steemit […]

SOON THE WHOLE WORLD WILL FIND OUT WHAT A PERVERT I AM

FROT October 31, 2018

My reputation is about to be destroyed by a hacker. Here in New Zealand it’s Halloween tonight. (It’s World Vegan day tomorrow but I’d better not go there or I might start provoking angry outbursts) And everyone here is getting […]

IMAGINE HOOVERING UP SOME STICKY SHIT

FROT October 28, 2018

Imagine sucking down some primo weed from the vape and watching some freaky shit going on. But being too baked to type words can lead a mind to pick up a pen and make shapes… Do shapes have meanings? Is […]

SOMETIMES I LURK ABOUT TAKING PHOTOS OF STRANGERS

FROT October 28, 2018

Is Steemit buggered? I sort of lurk on Steemit too and check out what my Steemit friends say about stuff. This week it’s all about hardfork 20 – opinion ranges from “everything is fucked and I’m going to Weku”, right […]

EVERYONE THINKS I’M A WOMAN

FROT October 25, 2018

The whole time I’ve been on Steemit, most of my followers have assumed I’m female. Because of that I have developed a Sexual Identity Disorder (SID) – I now have Online Gender Reversal (OGR). This all came about because I […]

SHOULD WE BE DOING MORE SHITFORKS?

FROT October 21, 2018

Code and updates and all that geek stuff is not my gig at all so I generally shut the fuck up about all that because I don’t understand it. And I might go speeding out of control and crash into […]

GAB IS A DANGEROUS HATE SPEECH SITE

FROT October 20, 2018

GAB IS A DANGEROUS HATE SPEECH SITE THAT NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN No social media site poses a greater threat to civilization than Gab. The hate speech is so thick on Gab that it’s a wonder people haven’t started […]

WHAT NOISE DO KIWIS MAKE?

FROT October 19, 2018

Like many New Zealanders I was totally unsure what noise Kiwis made. All the ones I’ve seen (in zoos and fruit bins and stuff) have been silent. But when they are pissed off – they go “squark” – check out […]

AM I TURNING INTO SOME SORT OF CHRISTIAN?

FROT September 16, 2018

All my life I’ve always thought of Christians as people who have been brainwashed into believing an utter load of bullshit, so that they will do what they are told. Although I do believe we all interacting with vast patterns […]

MY SECRET TO SUCCESS ON THE INTERNET

FROT August 28, 2018

Britney Spears was my ticket to the big time. Back when she was having her first breakdown and doing all sorts of weird shit, despite having no talent whatsoever, she was really popular. The handy thing about Britney is that […]

A TRIP AROUND THE BLOCK

FROT May 28, 2018

A TRIP AROUND THE BLOCK I decided to go for a walk but I only got half way down the path when I saw a freaky mushroom and stopped to take a photo of it. Just taking a photo of […]

I gotta quit worrying about shit

FROT May 1, 2018

I GOTTA QUIT MAN I gotta quit worrying about shit. As well as trying to work out every conspiracy for the past century as usual, this week I’ve been checking out accounts on Steemit right left and center and concluding […]

THROBBING GRISTLE

FROT March 21, 2018

THROBBING GRISTLE Back in 1975 a band was formed in England that would change the face of music. I’m not talking here about The Sex Pistols or The Clash. I mean Throbbing Gristle. http://crackmagazine.net/2016/04/throbbing-gristle-back-catalogue-to-be-repressed-on-vinyl/ They didn’t invent punk, heavy metal, […]

CRYPTOCURRENCY 101

FROT January 14, 2018

CRYPTOCURRENCY 102 – MY PICKS FOR 2018 This is my January 2018 update to the Crypto 101 post I wrote in May 2017. Those recommendations  did amazingly well, and this is my second crack at predicting he future. The original […]

CRYPTOCURRENCY 102 – MY PICKS FOR 2018

FROT December 28, 2017

CRYPTOCURRENCY 102 – MY PICKS FOR 2018 Way back in the depths of history eight months ago when I did my Cryptocurrency 101 post it was a very different crypto scene. I was a bit nervous about doing a post […]

DEMANDS FOR A BETTER STEEMIT

FROT November 3, 2017

MY UNREASONABLE LIST OF DEMANDS FOR A BETTER STEEMIT   By sift666 While we are all thinking about changes and updates to Steemit, I’d like to post my Xmas wish list Only a week ago the site wasn’t working at […]

DOES ANYONE REALLY WATCH VIDEOS

FROT October 25, 2017

DOES ANYONE REALLY WATCH VIDEOS ON STEEMIT? By sift666 We all have different ways we like to absorb stuff, and videos are not my gig. Yesterday one of my favourite Steemians did a post with ELEVEN videos. https://steemit.com/informationwar/@dwinblood/i-love-to-share-intelligent-people-like-these-people-because-they-destroy-the-media-and-left-narrative I actually […]

AND I WANNA BE

FROT October 4, 2017

AND I WANNA BE – ANARCHY! When Johnny Rotten walked out on stage and sang “GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, SHE AIN’T NO HUMAN BEING” in 1977, he was the opposite of boring. And that’s what I’m looking for in Steemit […]

BOYCOTT ZIONIST ISRAEL

FROT September 19, 2017

IS THERE A WAY TO STOP THE ZIONISTS FROM COMPLETING THEIR GENOCIDE OF PALESTINE? Most people are aware of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, and some even believe Israel’s actions are reasonable. But the four maps of Palestine / […]

I AM NEW TO STEAMIT

FROT September 2, 2017

Hi everyone, my name is Angelique. I am very new here but heard am gonna meat great guys right here. I am a professional fashion designer, model, waitress, stripper, and pornstar in Las Vegas, and I love meeting new people […]

PUNCH AND JUDY ARE PUPPETS!

FROT August 29, 2017

PUNCH AND JUDY ARE PUPPETS! And like many puppets they are controlled by hands up their arses. They are grotesque, ugly, and violent puppets who have different names and appear to hate each other. They like nothing more than to […]

WHO KILLED BOB MARLEY?

FROT August 18, 2017

WHO KILLED BOB MARLEY? This is all a theory, and like all theories it could be complete bollocks. But it does sound very likely to me, although I am a paranoid conspiracy theorist… Bob Marley would probably have preferred people […]

PAINTING IN THE STREETS

FROT August 1, 2017

PAINTING IN THE STREETS Street art has a long history, with certain times and places like New York in the 80’s being famous hotbeds of urban art action… Surprisingly my own hood, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand has a thriving street […]

A CENSORSHIP THREAT TO STEEMIT

FROT July 26, 2017

FLAG THE TRUTH AWAY New accounts are now being set up explicitly for the purpose of flagging/censoring content they want to suppress. These accounts are not regular users who like flagging a few posts – they have been set up […]

THE COLOR PURPLE

FROT July 9, 2017

I have a strange fetish for the color purple (the colour rather than the book) For this post heading I deliberately misspelt “colour” as “color” so that American readers would be able to understand what I was saying. But I’m […]

My favourite colour – Indigo

FROT June 6, 2017

My favourite colour – Indigo sift666  in colorchallenge Here is a photo I took of the Wellington coastline looking out to the South Island with the Picton Ferry in the middle. For all you exotic foreigners this is New Zealand […]

SHOOTING FOR THE MOON

FROT May 27, 2017

SHOOTING FOR THE MOON Lately a lot of people on Steemit have been using the phrase “Shooting for the Moon” Even on Steemit, where most of the people I follow realise that 9/11, vaccinations, global warming, and low fat cheese […]

DOES ANYONE STILL RIDE MOTORBIKES?

FROT May 24, 2017

DOES ANYONE STILL RIDE MOTORBIKES? Are motorbikes now just an old timers fantasy, like knights in amour or horses and carts? As a teenager I was obsessed with motorbikes, and as well as using them to get around I used […]

Taking Photos in the Weta Workshop

FROT May 23, 2017

Taking Photos in the Weta Workshop. There are really only two rules at the Weta workshop. No photos and no touching stuff. Despite living just down the road in a neighbouring suburb @kiwideb and I have never been to the […]

I’ve Been Taking Photos Of Strangers Again.

FROT May 21, 2017

I’ve Been Taking Photos Of Strangers Again For some reason I have a strange fetish for taking photos of strangers. I lurk about with my camera waiting to get a snap of them. And then I post their pics online […]

Mouldylocks on Youtub

FROT May 13, 2017

Mouldylocks on Youtub This Mouldylocks song and video is a LOLFEST. I suspect it’s getting a fair few more hits than Youtub is indicating, but that is the nature of the beast. Youtub do love to reset the view count. […]

DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY

FROT May 11, 2017

DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY Eight months ago, soon after I first discovered Steemit because @corbettreport recommended it, I did a post about worry Recently I was looking for that post to send the link to someone and ended up re-reading […]

AMERICAN GODS JUST BLEW MY DOORS OFF

FROT May 5, 2017

AMERICAN GODS JUST BLEW MY DOORS OFF Yesterday we sat down and watched episode one of the new American Gods TV series. We’ve been anticipating it for a while, but I was a bit uncertain that it was going to […]

Taking Photos in the Weta Workshop.

FROT May 2, 2017

The Weta Workshop There are really only two rules at the Weta workshop. No photos and no touching stuff. Despite living just down the road in a neighbouring suburb @kiwideb and I have never been to the world famous Weta workshop. Yesterday […]

VAULT 7

FROT March 10, 2017

Vault 7 Bombshell Just Vindicated Every Conspiracy Theorist – The CIA Can Spy On Anyone Through TVs, iPhones, Smart Phones And Windows PCs Another deep state bombshell just hit the ‘net with WikiLeaks’ release of over 8,000 pages of once-secret […]

The sorry story of salt

FROT January 27, 2017

The sorry story of salt, and how we got fooled, again Have we been tricked into thinking salt is unhealthy, when actually it is vital to life and health? I believe so. When people are arguing about how healthy a […]

A Simple Explanation Of Bitcoin

FROT January 10, 2017

How To Explain Bitcoin To Your Grandparents – The Simple Way To Wrap Your Head Around Bitcoin Having a hard time explaining Bitcoin to your friends and relatives? Let me break it down for you real simple like, so even […]

I’M GIVING UP, I’M GOING TO QUIT

FROT December 7, 2016

I’M GIVING UP, I’M GOING TO QUIT It’s all too much for too little reward, and I can’t go on anymore. Now don’t panic, I don’t mean I’m going to quit Steemit, or even top myself. But I am going […]

The South Island of New Zealand

FROT September 30, 2016

The South Island of New Zealand One of the world’s most beautiful places. Despite living in Wellington, the nearest city in the world to the South Island, I’ve only actually been there on ten occasions. Catching the ferry for the […]

Did Facebook kill off email?

FROT September 29, 2016

Did Facebook kill off email? Up until around 10 years ago, email was a popular means of communication – we sent emails to people we knew, and they sometimes replied to them. But as Facebook really started to take off, […]

STEEMIT VS WORDPRESS

FROT September 27, 2016

STEEMIT VS WORDPRESS Some people are saying “Steemit will replace WordPress”. But I think they can co-exist happily, and I plan to keep using both. At this point Steemit looks to me to be a whole new technology, a complete […]

The killer thumbnail image – HOT CLICK BAIT

FROT September 25, 2016

The killer thumbnail image – HOT CLICK BAIT Can the right thumbnail image pull in viewers like a flock of birds to a moldy loaf of bread? A sub-culture that has long paid attention to front cover images is magazine […]

This new Steemit photo geek thing

FROT September 24, 2016

This new Steemit photo geek thing The hot new trend on Steemit seems to be to post a single photo with nothing else with it but some photo geek tech specs. Typically this will be something along the lines of […]

IT’S BEYOND OUR CONTROL

FROT September 21, 2016

IT’S BEYOND OUR CONTROL “Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not” – is an excellent quote from Ana Monnar The wisdom inherent in that saying is vast. People are endlessly addicted to worrying – from […]

Is longer really better?

FROT September 20, 2016

Is longer really better? What if we are really just hanging out to wipe our arse and get on with it? While watching some of the Rio Olympics running coverage, I came to the conclusion that the 100m sprints were […]

Why a Facebook misfit belongs on Steemit

FROT September 18, 2016

My controversial opinions caused a few issues on Facebook. It’s being reported that Mark Zuckerberg is freaking out about the decline in “personal updates” that is occurring on Facebook. People are still posting plenty of links to all sorts of […]

HOW’S YOUR ARSE?

FROT September 13, 2016

HOW’S YOUR ARSE? Americans say ass when they mean arse. An ass is actually a donkey like animal that makes braying noises (much like our New Zealand Prime Minister, but that’s another story) and is popular among people who either […]

IS STEEMIT THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET

FROT August 20, 2016

IS STEEMIT THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET OR JUST THE NEW FACEBOOK? I HAVE QUIT FACEBOOK When I quit using Facebook on the 1st of July 2016, I had several reasons for doing so. Luckily I just logged out rather […]

I HAVE FINALLY QUIT FACEBOOK

FROT August 1, 2016

So Long, and Thanks for All the Facebook On the 1st of July 2016 I logged out of Facebook and stopped using it. It’s been a month now, and I’m pleased to be free of its grip. I haven’t closed […]

FACEBOOK

FROT July 31, 2016

FAKEBOOK NO MORE How to quit Facebook and happily stop using it. Like giving up addictive foods, such as sugar, alcohol, bread, or coffee, I think the easiest way to quit Facebook is to do a clean 100% quit – […]