Wow, my use of LiveJournal has just dried up lately. I feel that the more time I spend at the computer, the less inclined I am to actually update. I suppose it doesn't help that the Superthread on Interference takes up plenty of my online time. I would like to get back into LiveJournal again and return to the level of discussion I once enjoyed ( Read more... )

Well, the bandwagon of terrorism hysteria is certainly making great pace these days. I've maintained for a while that it is a complete over-reaction (not to mention a misdirected one) to a threat that borders on non-existent, at least in Australia and New Zealand. You're more likely to die from a goat kicking you in the head. But that doesn't ( Read more... )

Well, today my Nan returned to the Gold Coast and here I am, all alone in Melbourne. It's a weird feeling, certainly tinged with loneliness as my nearest family and close friends are an eighteen hour long drive away. I'm glad that Kate will be here in 2.5 weeks! And if any of my Melbournian LJ friends would like to meet up or are in the ( Read more... )

( Some observations on the media. )