Official Off-Line Notice
I would like to inform my waiting public that updates will be very delayed due to a total lack of wi-fi coverage and the high cost of sitting in e-mail rooms typing. So you...
Author: Christopher Bounds
New Zealand the disabled way
It’s time to bring the saga up to date. When we last left our heroine, she was prostrate in Canterbury Hospital, and I don’t mean the one in Sydney. No, Paula had managed to...
Paula’s walk on the wild side
We’re a bit limited on the communications front at the moment: Christchurch is a city almost devoid of wi-fi hotspots, so most blogging is off-line and Paula and I feel particularly cut-off. Our iPhones...
Once more, dear friends
Well, here we are again at Sydney Airport, off on another adventure. Some things change (at last, KSF has a departure area that doesn’t look like a slum), some don’t, but the most interesting...
Abbott and Bishop: you get what you pray for?
I think Australia has finally gone bonkers, at least the Tory part of it. How could any credible political party elect a man who has such a casual relationship with principle an whose past...
links for 2009-11-23
The National Collection of Aerial Photography They've just added all the surviving wartime reconnaissance photos to this archive. Wow! (tags: Photography history)
Genova: perhaps an acquired taste
While the acting and photography in Genova have been justly acclaimed, we remain profoundly ambivalent about the film. Perhaps the script was one or two steps too clever, or was the ghost motif...
links for 2009-11-08
Tom Vander Ark: How Social Networking Will Transform Learning Have to do a blog on this at some stage: I don't know if I agree with all his assumptions. As usual, it doesn't take...
links for 2009-11-07
ChocoFlop – Non-destructive image editing application for your mac This is a rather impressive piece of software: worth a try and certainly cheaper than Photobloat. (tags: mac Photography free) Blogging About The Web 2.0...
I have to write something…
I’ve spent the last four weeks writing papers – well, really writing ONE paper – for my doctorate, and I have finally reached the state where I have to write about something else. Indeed,...