For some general detail about Australia Day and my personal views please check out my post from Australia Day 2009.
First, let me wish everyone a Happy Australia Day 2010 wherever you are.
This year, I am marking Australia Day by participating in The Great Australian Internet Blackout.
The Blackout is a protest at the Rudd government’s dictatorial [...]
Your right to create, circulate and follow links is threatened.
This issue is very serious.
Watch the video to find out more and visit the www.Right2Link.org website to take action to protect your rights:
Further reading:
An Open Letter to the UK’s national, regional and local newspapers
NewsNow.co.uk Free Linking Q&A
NewsNow.co.uk
Way back…last century…(yes, it is way back now, especially bearing in mind how far we have come in such a short time)….with my Private Eye hat on I used the Internet to find out things about people. It was surprising how much was out there – back then.
Today it is even ‘worse’. I laughed when [...]
Note: This post was originally published on June 21st 2009 and should be read in that context.
For a long time now, I have suspected that is the financial crisis may not have bottomed. I have been very sceptical of published positive comments of some real estate agents and politicians, who have heralded imminent better times.
I [...]
Earlier today we learned that Australia is to proceed with mandatory Internet filtering.
I have written blog posts about this issue in the past (which will be moved over to this blog in due course as the others are closing).
Here is a copy of the email I wrote to Senator Conroy, via the Get Up campaign [...]
One of things I do on my blog is challenge staid old ways of thinking about life and how best to live it.
It is so easy to drift through life without giving thought to how limited thinking adversely affects us, and those we interact with.
Many people think that rats are dirty, unpleasant creatures that must [...]
Here is an impressive resource with useful foreign phrases.
It is a collection of phrases in many different languages with sound files for some of them, which is very easy to use. Find what you need fast.
I am impressed by the design, the relevancy of the information, the out bound links and the way the contents [...]
Today, 6th of June, is the anniversary of D Day when, in 1944, allied forces stormed ashore to start the liberation of western Europe from Nazi oppression.
More from Wikipedia here.
This year, which is 65 years on from D Day has been marked with a parachute drop by 3 Para – landing near Pegasus Bridge; a [...]
Where is our society going wrong? It is becoming increasingly obvious that much is amiss with our society today.
One of my aims with this blog post is to focus on simple, yet powerfully profound issues. Some of what I write may appear simplistic, however that is deliberate. Sometimes simplicity is refreshingly good for focusing the [...]
Psychology, the mind, thinking, wisdom, Philosophy….these are all things which have interested me for a long time.
I find it fascinating how we can be convinced that one particular course of action is right, yet it may not be. The idea can at times seem so logical and popular.
Take the wearing of face masks for protection [...]
Today, Saturday 25th April is ANZAC Day.
Anzac Day is a national public holiday in Australia and New Zealand, and is commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I and also to commemorate [...]
I was brought up in England, which included some time spent in rural areas. I was also fortunate in having a good education.
Today I was shocked to read that what presumably must have been a significant number of children in the Manchester area of the United Kingdom, did not know where fruit comes from. As [...]
Monday April 20th, this year, is Patriots’ Day – Marathon Monday.
Patriots’ Day is a civic holiday (in some American areas) commemorating the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. More here. And here.
Besides having a personal interest in American history and culture in general, I find [...]
Police phone tapping powers start in the state of Queensland this year. (News article).
‘Phone tapping’ can include a variety of communications technologies, be they speech, music or sounds, data, text, images or signals.
Predictably some civil libertarians are very concerned about the issue.
To some extent I can understand where the civil libertarians are coming from and [...]
Most of the readers of my blog are in North America. No doubt many of you have heard something of the horrific bush fires here in Australia, most notably in the state of Victoria.
The Victorian fires are the worst in Australia’s history and at least 108 126 173 181 200 people are dead, around 750 [...]
Australia Day 26th January, 2009
Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Today is Australia Day. Most of the readers of my blogs are based in North America – the USA and Canada so hopefully this will give you all some more insights into the Australian way of life.
Australia Day is a special public holiday here in Australia [...]
Our society is undergoing a paradigm shift.
Some of the old ways are crumbling. Take privacy for example, which is a subject I commented briefly on in my article about people search in Australia. We are in an increasingly visible world.
From the perspective of my Private Investigator – Private Detective, spook hat, I am only too [...]
This morning I read a shocking (but unsurprising) article which claims:
Food industry held facts on killer bugs, according to an Australian government survey
When we view the source article in The Australian news online the situation appears even worse!
I quote:
The Food Regulation Standing Committee had agreed to a food industry request to hold off releasing [...]
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