Right then! I was going to save this for her birth­day… but seems she’s decloaked before I was ready… I sneak­ily signed up dai­syn­erd as a birth­day present, reas­on­ably sure she’d never post, but that she could use the thing to read our secret and pro­tec­ted entries,…

My cur­rent favour­ite waste of time: The Secret Life of Numbers

I am so dis­ap­poin­ted and angry at Amanda Van­stone’s response to this ship being ‘escor­ted’ back to Indone­sia. She says it demon­strates that excising the islands from our migra­tion zone was the right thing to do. Excuse me? How, exactly? I didn’t expect her to be any…

Mel­bourne Museum has improved remark­ably since I was last there. The Stor­ies from a City exhib­i­tion was fas­cin­at­ing. I was intrigued, inspired, rapt. This is fairly rare in my encoun­ters with Aus­tralian museums. Some of the present­a­tion was innov­at­ive. Some­times it…

Ha! In shame­less acknow­ledg­ment of the irony here, let me point you at this rant in which predat0r shreds LJ while using it. He also blames me for intro­du­cing him to it. Guilty as charged: he expli­citly notes that I want kudos for know­ing him. Yup. It’s not just that…

Friday night, impov­er­ished in Mel­bourne… Anyone want to come to The Croft Insti­tute with me tonight? Dub & reggae and it’s only $5 if you’re there before mid­night. Plus funky sci­ence equip­ment décor…

Watch­ing a doco on SBS about traf­fick­ing in humans. Slave work­ers, sex slaves, traf­ficked across bor­ders from Mexico to the US, into Japan to ser­vice Yakuza, around the Balkans by the Albanian gangs work­ing with the Rus­sian mafia. It’s ter­ri­fy­ing, infuri­at­ing. Anyone…

Great week­end. Party here Friday was won­der­ful, then sleazemon­key had a Mex­ican Day of the Dead party and then Christin­a’s house­warm­ing… I’m on my way out to the Spiegel­tent so that I can pre­tend I didn’t really miss the whole of the Mel­bourne Fest­ival. There are…

So, ever since I became an Lj addict while over­seas, I’ve been spread­ing the word and passing the codes around. Here’s a brief intro­duc­tion to my new gang for those of you who may not have met them yet… some are using their journ­als, some are just using the thing to…

In that limbo before a party. Most people I know are going to some sort of Hal­loween do tonight, but for me it’s an Autumn fest­ival, designed for when things are dying as Winter begins. So, yes it’s Halloween/All Hal­low’s Eve in the North­ern Hemi­sphere right now, but…

Finally got hold of the address for the ultra-nifty world browser with satel­lite imagery. You can add your own book­marks, zoom in to Paris, find the youth hostel you stayed in and mark it. You can search for a land­mark and it will move to it. You have three degrees of…

(seems some people missed this post as it was made on a Friday night… so here ’tis again) Mel­bourne people!!! Looks like my wel­come back party (yep, very close now, Friday Octo­ber 31) will be at my place after all… E‑mails have gone out; if you didn’t get one,…

agwat kindly saw me off at the Sydney air­port. An hour and a half of the third book of the Tawny Man series and I was des­cend­ing into sweet Mel­bourne. Christina, nuwishas_tail and sleazemon­key met me at the Mel­bourne end. There’s an advant­age to having a friend who’s…