This is the last in my current nostalgia series. The photo was taken in October 1990 at Victoria Falls from the Zambian side.
I did a week-long tour of Zimbabwe and really enjoyed the spectacle of the falls. With another Australian, two Swiss and an Italian we hired bikes, hazarded the border crossing and took a [...]
I'm a member of the Hannans Rotary Club and it's now a requirement that Rotary members obtain a police clearance because we sometimes work with young people.
I think it's bureaurcracy gone made. We sponsor youth exchange programs but unless you're a host family (for which a police clearance is reasonable) we hardly have anything to [...]
I discovered an intriguing new technology gadget tonight thanks to the Google ads on my own site. It’s called GoPC and it’s a virtual operating system that provides a free service for accessing programs and data storage online.
It uses Suse Linux and provides a limited number of programs with the free service. These include Firefox, [...]
There were some nice highlights today to give me good memories of my weekend in the big smoke.
Up early, I discovered "the city that never sleeps" has a quiet spell between 5am and 6am.
I went for a run/walk, skirting the edges of The Domain and following the foreshore (it’s hard to run contiguously though traffic [...]
I got motivated yesterday to sort through some old clothes for despatch to the op shop. They were from my "big man" days when I weighed 14-15 stone. I’ve been under 13 stone for more than a year now, so it seemed safe to dispose of them and clear some space in the wardrobe.
Among the [...]
When I woke up this morning I had to blink a few times and check that the sun had actually risen. The unthinkable happened overnight when England won back the Ashes.
I’m not a gambler, but could have picked up pretty good odds a few months back on England winning the series. So where did it [...]
Full credit to The Age in Melbourne for running some interesting sidelines about the new Pope.
Who would ever have thought a former member of the Hitler Youth could become Pope? I’m one of those who think it’s irrelevant. Young Joseph did what he was told, was conscripted into the armed forces and riskily deserted.
One of [...]
