This isn’t meant to be a geek blog, but I want to vent a little here. I contacted the manager of a commercial website yesterday to point out the site didn’t render properly in Linux.
It’s the first site I have ever come across which does not view sensibly in Linux. The response:
“Thanks for letting us [...]
I’ve been checking out the new beta version of the Flock web browser. It’s the best version of this Mozilla-based browser that I’ve seen so far.
While the others had easy access to Delicious and Flickr, so did Firefox via addons.
The new Flock also integrates seamlessly with social networking giants Facebook, Twittr and You Tube.
Once you [...]
I see that Opera has released a new version of its web browser. I’ve never been tempted to try Opera, because there’s a fee to remove the advertising links, but I may have a look at this out of curiosity.
I stopped using Internet Explorer a long time ago. I didn’t like the constant popups and [...]
The population of Victoria is five million people, but I was the only one of them today on the summit of our second-highest peak, Mt Feathertop.
The mountain was awe inspiring, humbling, powerful and beautiful in a mesmerising package of contradictions.
Normally I have Friday spare to pursue private business, but I swapped it for today to [...]
I saw a disturbing report on SBS news last night about the Aral Sea disaster in Kazakhstan. The world’s fourth-largest inland sea has been decimated by commercial exploitation and mismanagement. Here are some of the facts:
Forty years ago the Aral Sea surface was 66,100 square kilometers with an average depth of 16.1 metres and a [...]
Well it’s almost sunk in that I’m a Dad again. The twins were dragged reluctantly into the world at 10.26am and 10.27am on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 almost two weeks before Juliet would have been full term in her labor.
The vital details:
James Peter, weight 6lb 12oz
Margaret Johanna, weight 6lb
Mum and babies are doing well. Hopefully [...]
I wrote this article in February 2002 in response to a campaign by Senator Julian McGauran and Tim Fischer to obtain a pardon for English officer “Breaker” Morant, who ordered the killing of prisoners in the Anglo/South African War.
I was annoyed that McGauran took up this issue without any community consultation. It was the only [...]
I'm a 41-year-old father of four working as a newspaper editor at Mount Gambier in South Australia.
