Posted in Cultural, England, The Main Thread on Dec 30th, 2007 No Comments »
While you’re in London always take the trouble to take in a West End show. If you line up the theatres/shows your interested in and then hit the box office at each and see what’s going for the evening. I tried We Will Rock You and Mary Poppins with no luck - no seats [...]
Posted in Cultural, England, The Main Thread on Dec 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Having first visited London over 10 years ago I have to confess I was never really that much of a fan - there’s no doubt it’s exciting to be in London - but when for example you come here for work it’s always a rush and too much time looking at the inside of a [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread on Dec 14th, 2007 No Comments »
With occasion lately to be confronted with death - for the first time, personally for me - which at 42 I consider somewhat ‘lucky’ (that I haven’t had to face this type of grief before now).
My cousin, Anthony (Tony) Wright, died on the 29th of November this year. A victim, like many others in any [...]
Posted in Cultural, Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Oct 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Immersed in War of the Worlds, Live on Stage! I can’t quite imagine how one could, audio-visually, make oneself feel any smaller… (and, in my case, deafer :-) )
A fantastic tale - an amazing concert - many talents - the story, a good way of reinforcing the hopelessness we live in, even in fantasy - [...]
Posted in Cultural, Poetry/Lyrics, The Main Thread, Video on Oct 24th, 2007 No Comments »
This is the most awesome piece of video art I have ever seen. In two parts.
Posted in Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Oct 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
That, the title, an infamous media line, immortalised by ‘The Dude’ in the cult classic The Big Lebowski.
But that’s not what I came here to talk about…
(another infamous line, coined by Arlo Guthrie in Alice’s Restaurant)
Both, in their way, are about what I’m thinking about writing about. I’ve observed a thematic tendency to my [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread on Oct 6th, 2007 No Comments »
There is a great story in the Austin American Statesmen (via Endgadget) of an 8 year old kid who did some software testing for a silicon valley chip-maker Actel. A $250 electronics store gift voucher was his reward.
It seems to fit in with a previous story of mine about the burning desire to learn and [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Building Websites, Technology, The Main Thread on Oct 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Well today, or more precisely what’s left of it in the US, the 4th of October, is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik. Neat… why haven’t we gone to Mars yet?
Off to TechCrunch40 (thanks to ‘mac’ for his observations) where one of the things which caught my eye was that there were a [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Oct 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
We have all heard of Wikipedia…
But do you know about Wikinews, or Wikibooks, or a host of other concurrent projects that the Wikimedia Foundation run on over 100 servers based in Florida, The Netherlands and Korea?
Whilst researching the Wikimedia Foundation I found the information I wanted and, as is usual with the Internet, quite a [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Canberra, Cultural, The Main Thread, Video on Oct 1st, 2007 No Comments »
And, while we are on ‘personal knowledge‘, its nice to see the young people of Canberra expressing themselves thoughtfully through their creativity.
‘Better Moments’ …
a good song by Nat and Julz…
and a nice video by 17 year old Andrew Babington.
I was led here by the Lights! Canberra! Action! filmmaking festival - which I bumped into whilst [...]