Random thoughts and observations
Prince Edward caused a stir this week when he said risk was an attraction for young people participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Responding to a question in Australia about the death of a young man while on an unsupervised bush walk, the prince said the award is popular with youth because it has [...]
You often hear that emergency services personnel dread attending car accidents and informing families about fatalities. They are no joy for journalists either. You sort of become hardened after a while, but it’s never easy to write about a life being lost, especially if it was a young man speeding. Nothing can restore a young [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
