Part of becoming a successful blogger is building relationships with your readers. So I thought I would take a leaf out of John Chows book and post a little about me and my trip to the to La Perouse which is overlooking Botany Bay here in Sydney.

We decided to have some lunch at the local Boat Shed Cafe Restaurant overlooking Botany Bay which is where Captain Cook discovered Australia.

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Here is the view from the Boatshed outdoor dining area. That’s my boat there right ahead… actually I’m just kidding!

That’s me on the left and my good friend Loui on the right. Behind us you can see part of Port Botany where ships come in to be unloaded.

My girlfriend Nat who is so understanding about how much time I spend on my iMac.

Don’t these dishes look so delicious!

Also at La Perouse you can see where they filmed part of Mission Impossible 2 where Tom Cruise rides the bike over the bridge during a massive explosion.

Don’t ask me how the hell this tool calculates the value of your blog because I have no idea and I really don’t care. All I know is it somehow has something to do with Technorati, and whether that matters or not is probably debatable. I just thought it would be fun to punch SpinDigg.com into the computer and see what happens. SpinDigg is now about three weeks old so I was really curious as to how much this blog calculator would say it is worth. So here is the verdict.

The SpinDigg blog according to this tool after three weeks is valued at $565.54. Not bad and better than what I expected!

Then I thought hmmm, what other blogs can I check to see how much they are worth. Well after seeing how Shoemoney and John Chow are competing for RSS subscribers, why not see how they fair against each other for blog value!

So in this showdown of true big league bloggers the results are…. drumroll please!

And the winner is John Chow by $616,477.

If you feel like wasting some time then check out the tool

Guess who just won a coffee maker!!! Well I did kind of, not me actually but my girlfriend Nat who happens to work at the club where she won it.

The coolest thing about it, is that my mum just happens to have the exact some coffee machine and it makes a great espresso. I love coffee, especially since I’m from an Italian background and espresso was the coffee I had growing up.

This is a pretty neat coffee maker which is made of stainless steel, can make two cups at a time, comes with two stainless coffee cups, milk jug and spoons and has a warming tray to keep your coffee warm.  Looks great doesn’t it… even better when it’s FREE!