Mule post: "Shoots Are Greener in Australia?" a look at employment here and in the US ping.fm/TVZpb

Typo correction. *Total* employment up 27,300, full-time up 49,100. Part-time *down* 21,800

Who's doing all the hiring? Employment up in Australia in April! ping.fm/606sn

Regretting switching to FB Connect for social median. Plays silly buggers with my browser when it wants me to log in,

Wolfram Alpha search engine sounds like it'll be interesting ping.fm/kGGja

mayorofnewtown you should add replies to your twitter a/c to "Speak to your Mayor" on the blog

zemaj you were quoted too ping.fm/eQRlP

Jeffrey Goldberg no longer expects to get rich. Excellent reflections on broking and market downturns ping.fm/VofDp

An excellent podcast from planeymoney today that looks at the economics of piracy (high seas not digital)! ping.fm/1ykaz

Oracle buying Sun, which owns MySQL doesn't sound like good news for MySQL ping.fm/68MNc