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One of the hardest things about losing someone is not knowing what to do with yourself. Sure, there are things to do right after someone dies: breaking the news to others, sorting out leases and mortgages and utility bills, cancelling their mobile phone, closing their bank accounts, organising the funeral. These logistical tasks are not […]
February 23, 2011
In English, the only nouns that get capitalised are proper nouns. Place names like streets and countries, names of organisations, names and titles of people, trademarks and brand names, titles of books and magazines, names of TV and radio shows. The internet is none of these things. It’s not a place, it’s not a publication, […]
February 21, 2011
The hobby farm between Logan and Mount Tamborine in South East Queensland where I grew up has a tiny creek running through the front of it. The two houses on the property are far away from the creek, built, in 1977 and 1981 respectively, above the 1974 flood line. I distinctly remember my dad pointing […]
February 18, 2011
Here are some of the things that happened this week. The Business Council of Australia thought it would be a good idea to cut disabled services to pay for post-flood and cyclone reconstruction. CBS’s foreign correspondent in Cairo was viciously assaulted. She left hospital and went home on Wednesday. Targeted social media platforms for particular […]
February 16, 2011
“[N]o man is capable of being your best friend. A best friend is someone who goes to get their nails done with you, and I can’t respect a man who gets a pedicure.” Chelsea Handler has a strange definition of “friendship”. From Musings of an Inappropriate Woman — You said it, Rachel. There are so […]
February 14, 2011
Over the next three weeks I have about 20 meet-up-and-catch-up meetings scheduled and I am looking forward to them as well as thinking very seriously about how to approach them and what I want to get out of them. About a third of them are with people who have already told me they might have […]
February 11, 2011
Relocating is hard work so it’s a shortish one this week. News Ltd’s new iPad newspaper The Daily effort fails to impress the reviewer at ReadWriteWeb, falling down predictably by just putting a normal newspaper in the shape of an iPad. In related news, The Age has had a resdesign in an attempt to retain […]
February 7, 2011
After my first couple of days in Melbourne I have had a few suspicions confirmed: 1. A dryish 17°C is the perfect environment when you have been getting brow-beaten by 35°C and 100% humidity for two solid months. 2. My skin does not appreciate the humidity suddenly disappearing and I was right to bring my […]
February 4, 2011
Today is my last day in Brisbane before moving to Melbourne, but that’s no excuse to let the news picks slide! So here they are. Enjoy. Russia and the USA have just signed a new nuclear arms treaty called START. The process started almost a year ago. Politics is slow. I found out that there […]
February 28, 2011
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