In the meadow by the river

For a variety of reasons to do with my paranoia about file backups, as well as a slight lack of orderliness, my photo catalogue has burgeone...

Seen at the Outpost exhibition on Cockatoo Island. As long as you're having fun!

Had a lovely day with S and c at Outpost on Cockatoo Island. That is a exhibition of "street" art, including graffiti and skateboa...

Almost a year. Impressively lackadaisical.

" The Choir " opened at the Sydney Film Festival yesterday in a simultaneous world premiere with an event in Los Angeles. By a twi...

We rented and watched I Am Legend last night. ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz . As far as cautionary tales against the genetic mo...

Well, you can't be inflammatory if no one's reading. So what the heck? Another tidbit that caught my eye is from Barry Gewen in the ...

A while back, a certain very good professor friend put me on this blog. I had a read and promptly chucked into my Google Reader feed list, a...

September 14, 2007 marks my last post. More than seven months have passed, and now I wonder if I can recapture some of the fun I experienced...

The experience of success, great or small, often encourages the building of expectation that further success is a logical extension of that ...

Ah, Spring. That glorious time of year when a young man’s mind turns to thoughts warm and wet. Lapping waves, freshening breezes, and clear,...

Went to Middle Head yesterday to watch the start of the Sydney-Gold Coast yacht race, drawn by the fact that there were boats, and that the...

and forgot to post it. "Wow. I have been living in Australia for the past two years and 10 days. Isn't that exciting? Of course, th...

Martin Durkin's "Great Global Warming Swindle" is on the ABC as I type. Cool... Aunty's living on the edge. This is the fi...

Apparently, David Malouf is recognised as one of Australia's finest writers. I heard an interview with him on one of the ABC's podca...

I haven't posted about any books lately, largely because my completion rate has fallen dramatically. However, since the last book post I...

Wow. I have been living in Australia for the past two years and 10 days. Isn't that exciting? Of course, that's not including 10 day...

The Guardian reports that the Cutty Sark's burnt ! That's really disappointing. Update: Photos

Yesterday I read something that really bothered me. A post on BoingBoing , specifically, posted on Sunday. Here is the title of the post: Ir...

First things first, a great deal of respect to the ANZACs. Today is ANZAC day, where we remember and pay respect to the Australian and New Z...

I just listened to the April 23rd podcast - June Callwood 's 2002 Dalton Camp lecture. Get it on the Ideas podcast site here while you...

it was warmer in Ottawa than in Sydney today. Unbelievable, it was only a max of 18 or so degrees. Maybe we better plug the car in... The DN...

The best laid plans of mice and men. I wandered out to bring the car up to attach the trailer in order to convey my nearest and dearest (obj...

Yes, it is positively shocking that a month has gone by and nothing has been inscribed here. Since then I've been sailing twice, both wi...

This having your own boat thing appears to be paying off. That, or the handicapping system is being really kind to me. Today we did a handic...

Light winds are, I am told, the most challenging to sail in. I think I would qualify that to claim that racing in light winds is difficult....

The pictures are posted here.

Well, it is all done and dusted. She came home on Monday, kindly dropped off by her former guardians. We hadn't had long to get acquaint...

My, it's been a while since I've put anything here. Since then, I've 1) Gone sailing, with a consistent level of success, 2) Pos...

And now something a little more highbrow. This is a really well written book, and much slower in pace than many. This suits Stevens' (th...

Full disclosure: I really like Pratchett, and the Discworld novels. I've read a bunch of them, and enjoyed every one, and have even laug...

Props to Nick for telling me about this book - I bought it on his recommendation in Canada during our trip there over Christmas. It's th...

Finally put up some photos from the trip to Canada on Web albums There are also some on Flickr. Also, but not from Canada, but Australia Day...

Normally, we end up landing in the dark when we get back to SYD, so it was a real treat to have pretty clear conditions (and light) coming i...

Beautiful day to be back on the water yesterday... if only my performance had done it justice. In the cadet race (the earlier, shorter race ...

Here is the picture that Simone sent in to the Sydney Morning Herald. The boy (at left) really tried very hard to defeat his nemesis (the gi...

Just got back from three weeks in the old country. Lotsa pictures, too. As there's time, (and as was promised with the Cambodia tour), t...

Another Saturday on the water, and what a day it was. There was only the lightest of breezes in the morning, but around lunchtime things rea...

Nothing like the movie , that's for sure. It's a lot better by virtue of having the whole backstory to give the tale some context, w...

Saw a promo for this movie a while ago, and we just rented the DVD and watched it. It's pretty understated and cerebral; the humour is t...

Whoa... either Hal's really freaking brilliant or he's on an extended disassociative experience. Basic premise: underlying the '...

Pretty good bit of science fiction here - the Moon and Mars have both been colonised, globalisation is reaching its logical conclusion back ...

Instead of sailing a normal race course around our normal sailing patch of the Parra, we had a marathon, sailing from near the Concord Bridg...