Privacy and GMail

Hmm. So, zara­bee gave me a GMail account and I notice that delve has one too and now jen_tlemnfarmer is tout­ing them. These are among the smarter folk I know, tech savvy and cul­tur­ally savvy. The T&Cs scared me, and so I don’t...

Moving right along

Applied for the Good Week­end Deputy Edit­or’s job. Fin­gers crossed. Spent a lovely Tues­day at ACMI, in the morn­ing watch­ing the unveil­ing of Adam Elli­ot’s Oscar for Harvey Krum­pet, and saying hi to Melanie Coombs, the pro­du­cer (who does remem­ber me...

Woot!

My abstract for the Living and Loving in Diversity con­fer­ence has been accep­ted. My first paper out of the thesis. It’s in Mel­bourne in Octo­ber, which is nifty. I’m still plan­ning to submit a paper for the Pal­impsests: Trans­Form­ing Com­munit­ies...

Site specific interventions

I wish I’d thought of this one. Mira Wrob­lewski took the Sydney Morn­ing Herald to the Press Coun­cil over its use of the term “illegal immig­rant”… and won. Given how strongly I feel that lan­guage affects the way we think, these kinds of inter­ven­tions...

Important upcoming political events

Sun 20 World Refugee Day Refugee and Asylum Seeker’s Festival 12.00pm — 8.30pm@The Fitzroy Town Hall 201 Napier Street , Fitzroy. Melbourne Drop in between 12pm and 5pm to enjoy a stun­ning show­case of tra­di­tional and con­tem­por­ary music and dance...