'Awesome' success for Canadian blogger

SYDNEY - Depressed by reading bad news daily and with his marriage failing, Canadian Neil Pasricha decided to try to focus on the positive and come up with 1,000 simple, free, awesome things, posting one each day on a blog.

Pasricha said his blog 1000awesomethings.com aimed to highlight life's simple pleasures, which were often taken for granted, such as finding forgotten money in a pocket, putting on underwear straight from the dryer, or fixing electronics with a smack.

Little did he realize his blog would strike a chord and attract 40,000 people a day to join his discussions on how to enjoy the last triangle of a potato crisp at the bottom of the bag, or the pleasure of laughing so hard that you cry.