Van Badham on the 2013 elections: There's little doubt that Rupert Murdoch's newspapers deliver prime ministerial victories in Australia... But that these backings at their most fervent can now only deliver a 1.2% is yet another suggestion in a broader dialogue that the days of the political influence of old media may be numbered.

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Because I promised I would blog about black swans once we were settled:

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So as of this afternoon, 84,500 words later, I've finished the 2012 edits of The Disappearance of Rafael Panaligan. *collapses in exhaustion* I...I hope this this will be the start of me learning to be human again, and not a hermit ( Read more... )

Mom and Dad flew in after there Continuum weekend to celebrate my 28th birthday with me. These visits are often a cause of stress and anxiety, because there is a prerequisite that daughter spends time away from Briony, and in this particular visit, Mum and Dad insisted on visiting house, meeting Carlos and Esther for the first time and could not ( Read more... )

It was apparently supposed to be the apocalypse this weekend so of course, Briony and I went out to see Thor. :p The trailers I saw had made it out to be Yet Another Superhero Movie, but several folks, namely
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So...uhm, after five wonderful days of public holidays (six for me \o/), I, and many of our colleagues walked into work and...found ourselves swimming in books. Oceans of books. Mountains of books. Infinite galaxies and constellations of books. Our only consolation was that out there, somewhere, all of our fellow librarians in public libraries were ( Read more... )

Because I am an idiot and forgot to tell everyone: guys, I lost my phone over the weekend and am currently uncontactable by mobile. ;__; Briony and I hope to resolve that this weekend, but until then, email, lj and dreamwidth are the ways to go. I think friends have B's mobile, so if you need to ping us, ping Briony.

Fare thee well
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When I came home, Briony insisted I had to sit down and watch this with her. I was hesitant, because I remember watching Cardcaptors, the English dubbed version when I was a kid, and not being very impressed. It was Pokemon for girls --- which just goes to show, you can never, ever judge an anime from its English dub. Both Pokemon and Cardcaptor ( Read more... )