I’m embarrassed how poor my handwriting has become. It was never good, but it’s become worse. I struggled to write neatly in primary school; now it’s impossible.
I can print letters okay, but cursive script is atrocious.
Today I wrote Christmas messages for some key contacts. I could barely read them myself. I blame two factors:
1) Typing. [...]
There aren’t many novels about newspapers. Stories involving print journalists are far fewer than those about lawyers, soldiers and police for example.
That’s a little surprising when you consider that journalists are writers. But when you think about it, we are craftsmen while novelists are artists. We ply a trade while they follow their creative spirits. [...]
Does anyone share my view that Christmas parties are overdone? I'm finding it a strain just keeping track of invitations let alone responding to them all and attending a reasonable number.
I'm grateful that people think to invite me, but in a town the size of Kalgoorlie it's a similar guest list at [...]
I’m typing this in ZohoWriter, a web-based word processor. It’s similar to Writely, but offers a complete suite with online equivalents of desktop programs for spreadhseets and presentations.
Funnily enough, I’m writing this on the day that Google formally integrated its online spreadsheet application with Writely to create Google Docs.
I like the look and feel of [...]
This web site is basically worthless, according to the Sootle valuation tool.
This website is worthWhat is your website worth?
Apart from a bruised ego, because I think this site is priceless, the quoted figure is meaningless. Of course, if my site had been valued at upwards of $64,000 like some others I would be hailing the [...]
I’ve been writing here since July 2003 and there are several hundred entries. The archive list was getting too long so I’ve installed this dropdown menu instead:
Select…
The cutting-edge news web site Crikey is offering a two-week free trial, which I’ve taken up.
I used to visit Crikey a lot when Stephen Mayne was writing. He had some excellent sources in the Victorian Liberal and Labor Parties.
The site doesn’t have much free content these days, so I’m interested to try out the subscription [...]
I was just writing an email to a former colleague when it occurred to me that I should post some of it here as well …
Kalgoorlie has some iconic attractions including brothels and two-up. Tomorrow’s front page features a dispute between a brothel madam and the local council over car parking!
Last week we had a [...]
I’m writing this in ThinkFree Online. It’s a free, web-based Java word processor.
The look and feel is familiar. It’s just like writing in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice, except I’m typing in Firefox.
It seems to be a fully featured word processor, with spell check and formatting options. Documents are saved in .doc format and there is [...]
We like to eat kangaroo meat once a month or so. Safeway in Wangaratta sells kangaroo kebabs, burgers, fillets and sausages. They’re great on the barbie.
This week we tried a kangaroo roast for our Sunday meal. What strikes me about the meat is how sweet it tastes. It really is quite distinctive.
Writing this reminded me [...]
