Today’s rally against Howard’s indus­trial rela­tions ‘reforms’ was enorm­ous [photos: 1 | 2 | 3]. As big as the anti-war rally before we invaded Iraq. It was empower­ing and impress­ive… and like the anti-war rally before we invaded Iraq, I don’t think it’s going to…

Well, I’ve been a busy, busy beaver. The import­ant news is that I have pre­view copies of the Unique Trav­el­ler premier issue and it looks fant­astic. The art dir­ector is a genius. The die-cut cover works exactly how I wanted it to. The only embar­rass­ment is that despite…

You lot! Yes, you, read­ing your LJ friends list at work because it’s the end of the day and you’re sick of it. Or first thing in the morn­ing because you can’t get motiv­ated yet. Leave your desk! Come march in the city nd cel­eb­rate life as more than just a job. Tell…

Fin­ished mark­ing!!! (If you’re one of my stu­dents, go check OMAR, I’ve unlocked almost every­body’s grades except a couple that need double check­ing). (And talk­ing of OMAR, thanks daern, I know it’s been a night­mare for you but it saves my skin every semester.) Right,…

Fin­ished mark­ing essays. Only three stu­dent magazines to go. Sit­ting in front of my one sports vice, Wimble­don, watch­ing one of my cur­rent faves, Marat Safin, drink­ing red wine and eating 70% dark chocol­ate (thanks, Matt!). Mmm, life good.

It’s not often a stu­dent ter­ri­fies me with the social implic­a­tions of new tech­no­lo­gies. From one of the essays on ‘new digital media seg­ments’ by one of my stu­dents (repos­ted without per­mis­sion, but I’m claim­ing fair use as it’s less than 10%), talk­ing about the video…