I know it’s a sin to click my own Google ads, but sometimes I find them interesting and can’t resist.
Not that there is anything forbidden (I think) about the West Australian Apostolic District of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia.
I’m just surprised it exists because I had never heard of them before.
According to their web [...]
I admit that we lost contact with organised religion after the twins were born. It required a big effort to get the family to mass and the twins were a handful. Traditional denominations in Australia have lost members partly because they haven't been family friendly. As congregations grow older it's hard for parents to [...]
I installed Suse 10 on my Linux hard drive this week. It was a tough decision to override my faithful Kanotix, but being a compulsive experimenter I couldn’t resist the temptation.
Suse installed easily and comes packed with software including commercial products such as Java, Flash and RealPlayer. (more…)
It must be difficult being a clean suspect in a police investigation. Through no fault of your own, fate and circumstance could make you a person of interest.
The Age today reported the sad story of a real estate agent being murdered in Melbourne.
This triggered my interest earlier in the day when a breaking report said [...]
Psalm 119 is a long and beautiful psalm. I read it tonight and felt inspired to write about it. Being a sneaky bloke I tried to find some text online to cut and paste. Interesting!
My hard copy reference was the Good News Bible (1976) I still have from school. The passage I’m interested in is: [...]
It’s politically incorrect to question multiculturalism. I don’t worry about that, but I recognise that we can’t turn back the clock and change what’s occurred over several decades.
I do think it’s reasonable though to ponder if current tensions in Australia, and more particularly in Britain, would exist if our demographic composition had remained as it [...]
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.
