Image by State Library of New South Wales collection via Flickr Image by Dramagirl via Flickr Day 1 Wednesday: sitting on board the ‘Nancy-Bird Walton’ on the tarmac at Sydney International – that’s the real NB-W pioneer Aussie flyer in the picture – and there’s an announcement from the Captain who declares a ‘short’ delay,
Continue reading ...This time I’m heading to the US for a holiday … no conferences, no presentations, just fun. I’m very keen to have the opportunity to join in the celebrations following Barack Obama’s inauguration; I imagine the place will be bursting with bonhomie and pride. It deserves to be. I’ll be tweeting and blogging and uploading
Continue reading ...I’m heading to the USA for a couple of weeks. Despite the over-abundance of cold, white stuff over much of the country, it seems quite the right time to be going, I must say. I’ve set the alarm clock for 3am (AEST) later tonight to watch Barack Obama’s Inauguration ceremony. That is going to be
Continue reading ...I couldn’t resist posting Charlie Rose’s recent conversation with Ben Kingsley … for a couple of reasons. Firstly Sir Ben talks about the nuts and bolts differerences between stage and screen acting … something we all like to sift through. But in the second part of the conversation, he opens up in quite an extraordinary
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I can thoroughly recommend Alan Bennett at the BBC which is currently available from Audible.com or the iTunes store. I’ve just finished listening to the inimitable Mr Bennett reading what is a miscellany of his work from the past 30 or so years, and all via the BBC. By the way I very much also
Continue reading ...Ken Allan, a blogging mate of mine from Middle Earth aka New Zealand shot me a comment tonight on an earlier post to say how much he loved sunflowers. Right now my garden is abloom with them and I’ve brought a vase full of them into the house where they positively glow in the room.
Continue reading ...As I’ve written elsewhere here, I’ve spent a good bit of time microblogging – diversifying the way I engage in online conversation. Whereas once I would have written a blog message or two a day, I now find I am more likely to twitter and then take far more ideas from the Twitter stream into
Continue reading ...Image by luc legay via Flickr I feel as though I have been embedded in my social media for the past month. The chat has been relentless but fascinating, and it’s coming via several channels, the principal one of which is Twitter. The Twitter phenomenon continues to astonish with its ubiquity; just Google ‘Twitter’ and
Continue reading ...Image by Dramagirl via Flickr Along with 58 other people on the 365 (now 366) Photo group in Flickr, I joined the quest in 2008 to hunt down an image a day for the entire year. Others on the project shot brilliantly creative pieces … true works of art. Checking out their uploads was a
Continue reading ...Image via Wikipedia Now I’ve heard about these ‘meme’ things but for the first time last week I was tagged by Sue Hickton to release 7 or maybe 8 things you don’t need to know about me. Actually there are lots of things you don’t need to know about me, but you don’t need to
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