by | May 20, 2007 | Uncategorized

So, David Hicks is back in Aus­tralia (I won’t use ‘home’ because the con­nota­tions of safety and com­fort do not apply to his con­tin­ued sol­it­ary con­fine­ment in a prison cell some­where in Adelaide). I find the word “free­dom” used to describe his...
Where’s my jetpack, then?

Where’s my jetpack, then?

by | May 18, 2007 | Uncategorized

We just found this in a magazine: the InHealth phone using NASA’s eNose tech­no­logy to sense what a user is eating and advise on diet­ary needs. Wel­come to the future, people. Talk­ing about tech­no­logy to drool over, Doug and I went to look at what...

Vale Ted Lord

by | May 15, 2007 | Uncategorized

Ted Lord was a poet and com­munity-minded indi­vidual who hosted Dan O’Con­nell poetry on a Sat­urday for many, many years in Mel­bourne. I was sad this morn­ing to read of his death, although he’d had a long life and from what I can gather,...