• P2P

    Okay so I’ve signed on for the blog reviewing project (P2P project – link dead). This is a message to the person who’s lucky enough to get me: tread carefully and patiently, childe. This blog is merely two weeks old. I am yet young in the mysterious ways of the blog, and have been making…

  • Not many people know this, but I actually met Beck about a year ago in a nightclub in Sydney.* the night i met beck tells the story of that fateful encounter, and was first published in the 2001 edition of Going Down Swinging, a kewl Melbourne-based rag. Some of the tracks on the spoken word…

  • A Sydney-based poetry radio show called the Red Room has accepted two of my poems for broadcast! They’ve come up with some great ideas, including an epic poem (text and audio) made from a line of each successful submission. Tres kewl. Not sure yet whether the show is broadcast on any community radio stations in…

  • No offence intended to anyone in particular. I guess I’m just feeling a little wearied by hype. Hype would have to be one of the greatest drivers of nothing in particular since the invention of Trivial Pursuit. We have hype to thank for 3G mobiles, the Internet in general and the Strokes. Not that any…

  • The first line of my last post referred to all the fuss being made about blogs in the world, this time by wired news, and the responses of dedicated bloggers. While I agree that blogs have been somewhat revolutionary, in that people are now more able to amuse themselves without boring their freinds and relatives…

  • There’s some hilarious shit going down in the world, isn’t there? Now I’ve updated another page, although you won’t find much there except for a description of what will be there soon, and that is the 2nd edition of the happy farang … All is explained on the page, but make sure to check it…

  • What have these three got in common?

  • erm … Saturday. I shouldn’t even be here, doing this, on a glorious Saturday afternoon in Melbourne. But hey, I’m obsessed. I think it’s essential to be obsessive if you’re going to write a blog. Or at least, maybe it’s only the obsessive people who manage to maintain a blog of any substance. Not that…

  • We are operational at last! No more shall ye be forced to endure the boring details of my tech wanks [question: has anybody published a blog about bloggers obsessed with posting details of coding and/or formatting changes made during the previous twenty four hours?] … Whatever. This picture was taken in a carpark above the…

  • Or so they say … while I love HTML and everything it has done for me, the most frustrating (or, depending on your outloook, the most fascinating) part of learning code is this: it may take you days to figure out something that’s a massive problem onscreen but that is in fact a simple matter…

  • After some massive overhauling, I think I’m just about ready to start telling some stories, making some links work and generally producing for the benefit of all mankind. I’ll be trying to make text wrap around photos, which means that I’ll have to actually put in more text. Thus I’ll also be revising some of…

  • Now we’re really cooking with gas. It’s amazing just how much time it can take to straighten out a few tables. So, onto some serious content-creation.

  • Formatting issues are a bit of a problem, as is trying to adapt a blog template that’s been used by someone esle for your own purposes. oh well, I will get there in the end. I will also get around to telling the stories behind some of my photos soon.

  • About a year and a half ago, I spent a weekend at the Warrnnambool Hotel, as you do. It was a Jack Kerouac kind of experience. When Monday rolled around, I left town at about 2am, in the middle of a rainshower and some fog. I took this photo about two hours later, after nearly…

  • These images are based on a photo of a pink (salt) lake as seen through a car window on the road from Port Augusta to Adelaide, South Australia. Me and my girlfriend were coming back from a reconnaisance mission to Woomera, which was once a rocket town but more recently (and perhaps infamously) the location…