As you may be aware, next week is when Australian schools are under obligation to provide standardised tests to students in classes (or years) 3, 5, 7 and 9 who have not been withdrawn from participation by their parents (or by their school in very special circumstances in which this is permitted).
For those who may [...]
Cars…. and more cars
Actually, I’m not much of a car-kind-of-bloke, but I do enjoy seeing and driving beautifully designed cars… and since the 70s, I’ve driven some pretty nice models. One that comes to mind is the Citroën SM. Of my personal favourites in terms of design are not necessarily those that have been [...]
Every so often, I peruse Robert Mealing‘s site. And each time, there are new wonderful additions to the gallery.
Here is someone who has a keen eye for balanced detail… his photography (and his thoughts – but that’s another story) well worth perusing.
As an example, have a look at this incredibly sensitive and ever so evocatively [...]
… I’ve only made some rather quick changes to this blog.
What I’m very pleased about, however, are the updates (and moving over 70 pages) to the Newsletters of the Association for Tarot Studies (now at their own subdomain: Newsletter.TarotStudies.org, and the registration of steiner.edu.au (though I do need to do a fair amount of additional [...]
When will the new government pick up the pieces left by the previous one with regards to leaving an innocent victim of a regime that has… let’s be sensitive in this description… ‘different’ values to our own and imprisons someone without a fair trial!?
It’s about time that perhaps Australia looks at Israel in terms of [...]
A number of years ago, I wrote a brief reflection which I titled ‘On the lie of suicide bombings: how to maximise support by presenting murder as suicide’ (this was prior to the establishment of this blog, but basically the equivalent, ‘published’ as ‘octant‘).
If I can reflect a little on the worldwide current situation, there [...]
…and we all thought that mainland China was over the top!
Now it seems that our still new-ish Federal Government is intent on stepping up its invasive prohibitions. This is certainly another (and unexpected) example of the kind of stuff my previous post mentioned, without only a few days ago aware that this was on the [...]
Those words, penned in 1674 by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (Canto I, l.64) in his L’Art Poetique, has unfortunately so many resonances in today’s socio-political climate.
At one level, this can be seen on a common basis as one boards flights: the fear of some flight incident is driving society to measures reminiscent of fascism – and the [...]
ok. I’m impressed. Having just returned from an Adobe launch of the suite, it also makes me feel that my poor fourhares.com site (which I have only the past week given a major face-lift) is some decade behind the times, and likewise my skills and abilities!
I look forward to fiddling around with both DreamWeaver and [...]
Here it is!
Finally decided to copy-cat what so many others are doing and create my own weblog!
…but of course, this does not mean that my main site is being left – in fact, I suspect that I’ll still be spending more time updating and creating pages there than I’ll do here, but we shall see!
So [...]