Random thoughts and observations
The Porepunkah Post Office is also a petrol station, takeaway food outlet, milk bar and mini general store. It’s by virtue of this multi-faceted role that one can drive to the front door when it’s raining, take half a dozen steps under the bowser shelter and collect mail from the post office boxes. It was [...]
I flirted with Fedora as my Linux option of choice for a couple of months, but I’ve now returned to Mepis. I first used Fox, which is a promising Fedora derivative. I’ll revisit Fox when they move out of beta mode and improve their English version. It has a great look and feel, and the [...]
A large chunk of the agenda for this month’s Alpine Shire Council meeting is devoted to Greenhouse emissions and climate protection milestones. The agenda confirms that council received funding to employ a Greenhouse Officer. I joked here when the job was advertised that I thought it was a horticultural position. But it’s no joke. Our [...]
I watched an excellent French movie on SBS last night called The Closet, starring Daniel Auteuil, Gerard Depardieu and Thierry Lhermitte. The main character was a nice, dull accountant who learns that he’s about to be sacked and contemplates suicide. A new-found friend persuades him to pretend that he’s a homosexual, thereby raising the spectre [...]
Circumstances can change quickly without rational explanation. Call it fate, fortune or God’s will, but it’s a fact. I could have been working in Renmark now as the local newspaper editor after pulling up roots in Porepunkah and shifting my family nearly half way across Australia. I’m pleased, of course, events didn’t transpire that way. [...]
