February 13, 2012

Duke of Edinburgh Award

Lake Tali Karng

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 [...]

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Charge the passengers of hoons

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 [...]

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Victoria Falls

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 [...]

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National police certificate

Western Australia police

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 [...]

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GoPC virtual operating system

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 [...]

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