Gaming the Brisbane City Council buses.

Lots of people complain about Brisbane’s public transport system. Ways have been discussed to get free (or, at least, cheaper) travel. I’ve heard of schemes not touching off when you travel over 5 zones on a bus (or 15 zones on a train). There’s also the trick of using a brand new go card on airport trips, letting it go into a negative balance, then throwing it out.

These are obviously against the rules.

But what would it take to game the system without breaking the rules? There are a few ways to get discounts using go cards. But is it worth it?

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I’m back!

After a short hiatus in which several domain registrars were called many things, I’m back on the web!

I’m now hosted by Awesome Hosting and can totally recommend them if you’re needing a webhost. There have been a few changes to the backend structure, so I’ve pretty much lost all the images that I used WordPress’s media gallery to store. Needless to say, I’m not going to be using that anymore. I’m coming up with a better solution.

In the meantime, I figured I should post something – so here’s a picture (taken on a road trip with Luke) that poses a very philosophical question in a very literal way. Would you take The Risk?


The Risk