In the LAnd of the Free
I’ll never get used to the cattle-class trips across the Pacific. Purchasing carbon off-sets for this trip might assuage my conscience, but it does nothing for my back. The company I chose, Cleaner...
View ArticleTravails in the US
I’m currently at a convention in Hawaii – life is hard for some. Apart from running OLO I also manage (at arms length) a Civic video store, and once every two years am obliged, at huge personal...
View ArticleWanted – new team member
OLO is published by The National Forum, which in turn contracts Internet Thinking to do that job and employ all the staff etc. Internet Thinking has also financed the growth of The National Forum....
View ArticleUnder the Moruya Moon (9)
It may be autumn, but the living is still easy at Moruya. Not that we are there, but in the heat of the summer it was a great escape from a parched and baked Canberra. Our newly insulated shed was as...
View ArticleGreedy for Broadband
What is the true value of a national broadband infrastructure? That’s a big ball of string to unravel, or perhaps it’s a tangle of fibre optic cables. At the very least, it is in the eye of the...
View ArticleWe are the Illuminati
Or at least I think I am. Someone on the ABC was discussing them, and it sparked my curiosity, but I only caught bits at the end. So I Googled it. After discarding options like ‘the Illuminati on...
View ArticleWe all need a saint – but choose carefully
It didn’t take long for some of the facts about the new Premier of NSW to surface. The fourth estate did their homework, and sure enough an article in the Sydney Morning Herald (by a woman, details...
View ArticleNo Country for Old Women
Almost over now-the trials and tiny pleasures of a three week visit with my ageing mother. At 86, she manages,but only just. Things fall off the trolleys of shopping, home maintenance, nutrition, and...
View ArticleWhen visiting Cuba, mind the gaps
There is so much more to say about Mexico, including my revelation on the road to Veracruz after a chance encounter with a copy of Bjorn Lomborg’s Sceptical Environmentalist. Seeing the spirit and...
View ArticleNorth of the Border
Greetings from Miami Beach, far from the winter of Canberra and its blustering political winds. It was more salubrious (and expensive) than expected. In reality, I am now in Perugia, Italy. Miami seems...
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