Apple-Group.org

Although the Apple-Group.com blog (apple-group.org) has seen better days… Apple-Group.com has seen worse days, but hasn’t exactly seen better days in awhile. This is because Apple-Group has been fluctuating within + or – 100,000 web rankings (of 200,000). Comparatively other websites have come, surpassed Apple-Group, then crashed well below Apple-Group.

I am sure it is great sadness to many to hear that Apple-Group.com has not felt the effects of the economic downturn. In fact, Apple-Group.com has seen an upturn in activity! However… mostly from ash-encrusted spammers (its ashy in hell)… the way AGc and AGo look at it is, they wouldn’t bother spamming if they didn’t think people were looking. Heck! Why spam on some unknown webpage when you can spam on a mediocre webpage that a couple hundred people a day will see.

To the Spammers dismay… AGinfo (the apple-group bot) keeps a close eye on the forums along with the entire Apple-Group moderation team… so most spam sticks around for a few hours tops.

The moral of this story is to not give up when your chips are down,… and visit Apple-Group.com!

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PS>> The AGDT (apple-group development team) is working on a new webpage, hopefully one to compete in the top 1,000s. We will keep you updated here, the unveiling will be done on Apple-Group.com and Apple-Group.org first as a kind of beta preview.

Well I am outside the new Apple store Chadstone. The store is packed with staff and other people. Obviously some training session and special people invite guess I got left off the list. But I never even got an email about the store opening LOL.

I have set up a PhotoBucket account where I will post pictures live and blog here with WordPress.

http://s531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/w9cae/

TROPICAL ISLAND — 08/16/08 — A few weeks ago, our very own W9cae passed out some business cards to people at an Apple event in Australia!

It took until now before the statistics caught up and revealed what W9cae’s efforts to promote AGc in Australia actually did. Lets start by saying before his efforts Australia was #4 on the list of countries loving AGc. Right now Australia is #2 on the list and inching closer and closer to the United States of America.

#1 AGc City: Melbourne, Australia.
#2 AGc City: Sydney, Australia.
#3 AGc City: London, England.
#4 AGc City: New York, USA.
#5 AGc City: New Jersey, USA.
Australia would be #1 if it had the resources the US has to access Apple products and AGc.

So great work W9cae! Thanks for helping us get to where we are in the Aussie heart! (slightly noticed, which is better than in America where we are barely noticed)

You can now Digg posts made on AGo! Pretty sweet I know! give it a shot and lets see what happens!

To view click on the title and scroll to the bottom of the post!

 Heath Shaw and Alan Didak

The Collingwood Football Club has suspended both Heath Shaw and Alan Didak for the rest of the 2008 season as a result of the fact they lied to the club about a drink-driving incident that occurred on Sunday night.

These suspensions include both the home-and-away portion of the season and potential finals matches.

As a repeat offender, Alan has been fined $5000, while the original fine to Heath of $10000 remains.

As part of the club’s further investigations, it was established that Rhyce Shaw, while injured, was drinking over that weekend, and as a result he has been suspended for two matches and fined $5000.

All three players will continue to train with the team, and as contracted players, will be bound by the same standards and disciplines of every player at the Collingwood Football Club.

The incident involving Heath Shaw and Alan Didak took place on Sunday night.  Shaw crashed his utility into two parked cars, returning a 0.14 blood alcohol reading when later breath-tested by police.  Didak was a passenger in the car.

CEO Gary Pert described the situation as, “extremely embarrassing”.

“I don’t accept at all that there’s a drinking culture at the Collingwood Football Club, he said.

“We absolutley do not.  We have got a player group that isn’t playing like that, that lives everyday disciplined and focused on winning a premiership”.

Chief of football operations Geoff Walsh hinted to the proposition that with the loss of three key players, it will give some of the younger boys a chance in the senior side.

“We may unearth Chris Dawes, we may unearth John McCarthy.  They can come in and play cameo roles and they (can) galvanise the senior boys and get (us) over the line” Walsh said.

He added that there was nothing to be read into the fact that president Eddie McGuire, coach Mick Malthouse or captain Scott Burns was not in attendance, adding that Pert was the right man to be at the media conference.

“It could easily be Eddie or Mick, it could easily be Scott Burns or the players themselves … but Gary as the CEO of the organisation, carries out the policy and administers the policy as set by the board.

“I would’ve thought, in my humble opinion, that there is no better person than the CEO to be sitting [here].”

Pert was adamant it was “absolutely not” a problem at Collingwood, in the wake of the suspensions imposed on Alan Didak, Heath Shaw and Rhyce Shaw for their off-field indiscretions.

“I don’t accept at all that there’s a drinking culture at the Collingwood Football Club,” Pert said, who fronted a 45-minute media conference with chief of football operations Geoff Walsh at Lexus Centre on Tuesday.

“Unfortunately, yesterday and today, we are focused on two players that have made really poor decisions that have affected their behaviour, which I think they’ll regret for the rest of their lives.

“We forget about the Collingwood players that are disciplined and focused and doing the right things by the code of conduct at the Collingwood footy club.”