The high pampas of southern Patagonia reminded me, immediately and unexpectedly, of home. Not the lush, subtropical home of southeast Queensland, but the older, drier home of the Darling Downs: flat country, big sky, occasional hills rising without particular justification from the plain. The grasses are a different gold. The animals are different animals. But
Continue reading ...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 ...Updated August 29 2008. About a week or so after my return from abroad, all traces of my summer vacation had disappeared from the embedded FriendFeed post which I had set up … the remains of which appear below. I removed the feed because it kept updating, keeping pace with the social networks and posts
Continue reading ...Image by pixiesticks23 via FlickrI got all excited this morning when I learned that Flickr have finally introduced video uploads for Pro users ($US24.95 a year). Yes, I know YouTube is free … but aesthetics as well as economics enter into the equation when you’re deciding where to host your creativity. Personally, I like the
Continue reading ...I like to grab images of subjects related to theatre and theatres. I have a growing collection, some of which you can find in my Theatres set on Dramagirl’s Flickr page. I tag all of these public photographs with a pretty liberal Creative Commons licence. It’s a good thing to share these things around. A
Continue reading ...Well this was something I hadn’t thought of doing. A good idea is always worth ‘borrowing’ so I pinched the idea from the ever-stimulating Stephen Downes’ OLDaily e-letter this morning. He’s put together his own favourite photos of 2007. I’ve done the same. They say an image is worth a 1000 words, so here are
Continue reading ...The last papers are marked, results are in Gradebook, the prep for next semester is done, the office is empty! Aaah … No more posts on this blog till I open that office door, but my Tumblog will provide a diary of the best of each day and a memory jog when the time comes
Continue reading ...A weekend outside that is glorious, and I’m stuck into report writing and continuing the bash together a conference paper, due Wednesday. Not much of this so far. Nothing like a little bit of pressure to bring out the procrastinator in me. What I have done is to sort photographs into smart albums (in iPhoto)
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Catching up fast
Well I’ve had a bit of a break from the comment challenge but it was really all about taking a breath and organising my life. This challenge had got me busier than I had thought it would. It felt a bit like party time … dashing from one to the other and really not spending
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