What's more pitiful than an empty pool in summer?

I mentioned previously that Victoria Park pool is being revamped. The baby pool has been closed since Easter while the Olympic pool was closed for cleaning between mid September and late October. That was the plan anyhow.

Apparently some structural problems have surfaced and its now anyone's guess when the pools will reopen. A recent letter to members offers sincere apologies but fails to nominate a date for the reopening, indicating it's unlikely to be before Christmas.

The question on everyone's lips is why the hell work on Olympic pool didn't happen during winter. Why wait till a Sydney spring when most people resurface for the swimming season? If the pool had shut down in June these unforeseen problems would have impacted on far fewer people. As it is, the City of Sydney must be losing a bucketful in anticipated income and potentially more than a few disgruntled swimmers. The crèche and cafe are virtually deserted. On those recent sweltering days it was almost more than I could bear to see the starkly white tiles where once the glimmer of blue radiated from King Street to Parramatta Road.

The Rose Hotel fails web marketing 101

The Rose Hotel has a new website, and it violates web marketing principles that have been well known for more than half a decade.

Sheesh! I thought the only people who still built elaborate sites that took minutes to load were first year graphic design students...

The company behind the design is based at the corner of Buckland and Myrtle Streets, which could explain how they got the gig.