The world is really big. But regardless of how big the world is, we can’t all live in the same place. There just isn’t room.
The world is so big, in fact, that it has up to 39 different time zones. Hey, my country alone has seven. In order to organise all these time zones, there [...]
I find it extremely interesting frustrating amusing that my Private Health Insurer included a little brochure entitled “Giving back to members” with my latest 7% price rise notification.
Perhaps an example of giving with one hand; taking with the other?
Greenpeace have launched a campaign against Japanese Whaling by using Origami. Download and make an origami whale, send it to Greenpeace and they’ll deliver all the whales to the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo.
Whaling has been a personal issue of mine for many, many years now, and I’m happy to continue supporting Greenpeace’s [...]
I recently fell in love with Foxit’s free pdf reader. It sits on my desktop, takes up very little room and starts almost immediately. Added to the package is the brilliantly handy pdf-download Firefox extension, and I am a happy little vegemite. (For my non-Australian friends, that is very happy indeed.)
Now based [...]
I live in a drought declared area. Water is a precious resource at the moment, and it is really hard to turn on the news and not hear at least one story about the lack of water, political options to save/catch/create water and the doomsday stories about what will happen if we continue to [...]
I’ve found some pretty weird things wandering through Feedmap and checking out my local area, but this actually has me very interested. SecretGeek.net, who just so happens to live and blog within a nice Sunday drive of myself, has just released v2 of TimeSnapper, a program that will sit in your memory taking screen [...]
I always get a certain thrill out of seeing fellow Australian doing things online. Face it, we are only ~22 Million people out of billions, and we have a tendency to get lost in the crowd sometimes. Start thinking closer to home, and the chances of running into someone from the same state is lower [...]
