typing the void

WordCamp Australia day2 After a great day at Word Camp Australia, my personal highlight of day two was definitely Harley Alexander of Baffle! inc who gave a fun and entertaining presentation on a simple but complex (yes, I just wrote that!) concept, WP_Query versus Query_posts. The great thing for me was that he is 15, [...]

WordCamp Australia, Day 1 Only about 75 people here, in a small hangar like cavern, quite appropriately called the big red box in canal street, Sydney. (Sorry, gotta complete my wordpress upgrade before I add the images!) On the bus home, hired macbook on my lap (don’t get me started on how my MacBookPro died [...]

Sydney is one of those cities that carries its own perfume, one you get a whiff of from open bus windows, moments stuck in traffic jams, or just walking down the street. It is the unmistakeable scent of gum trees, the eucalypt sweet-citrus that is as much a part of the city as the Harbour [...]

During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I’m growing a Mo. That’s right I’m bringing the Mo back because I’m passionate about tackling men’s health issues and being proactive in the fight against men’s depression and prostate cancer. For those non-antipodeans among you, a Mo’ is a moustache, ‘tash, lip-warmer, soup-filter, abomination, etc! I [...]

Had a lovely social in The Beresford Hotel in Sydney Wed night, thanks to a tip-off from the lads at Happener, with some charming ad interesting bods. I really love this friendly city and the open warm connections it is possible to make here. Anyway, the group is called a STUB, is for Sydney twitterers [...]

Nothing posted for months and now two in one week. Deluge! I wanted to post about the strange fruit I noticed in the park across the road from me, on my way back from the grocers something glinty caught my eye. Can you see what it is yet? let me get closer: I know you [...]

I was inspired today by being an inspiration. I guess I should explain. In the distant past, I used to be a photographer, before I took up the keyboard. My main forte was still life and small objects, nature isolated. You may recall at the start of this blog in the first posting, I wrote [...]

Net Neutrality. Arguably one of the largest threats to open democracy and freedom of information and content at the moment as it is being decided upon by people who don’t “get it” and people who want to financially control it, particularly in the USA. If the large telcos like Verizon are permitted to throttle parts [...]