Last year, instead of doing the normal drunken new years resolutions forgotten as soon as the hangover fog disappears, I reviewed 2011 and looked at how I wanted 2012 to be different. The problem with some of my resolutions or goals was that they were not SMART. By SMART I …
I greeted in the new year with a picnic in the gardens at Heidi Museum of Modern Art. There is an exhibition of Louise Bourgeoise’s late works together with some Australian contemporary works by the likes of Kathryn Del Barton. Louise Bourgeoise’s art is much more feminine than I imagined …
In 1921 Kurtz Woolf wrote to Franz Kafka: “You know as well as we do, that it is usually the best and most estimable works which find little or no echo immediately” I just read this great quote in a piece by Jeffrey Eugenides in The New Yorker and …
In the early 1990’s almost everything stopped. In Melbourne, tram drivers abandoned their iconic trams in the middle of the streets where they were to stand for almost two months like icons to a broken system. The then State Government had fucked up badly had to sell the state bank …
I was cleaning my glasses the other day and they snapped in half. As a person with a very high prescription this was not good news. So I took myself off to the large Australian optical retailer, OPSM. The service was fantastic. Not only did they give me free contact …
At Uni I had a professor given to pithy aphorisms like, “Don’t take drugs, masturbate instead. It’s better for you.” She was wildly unpredictable and a fantastic educator who could see beauty in a framework. To her the structuralism of Lacan, Jakobson, and de Saussere amongst others, was a beautiful …
As an IT veteran, I’ve spent many an anxious night watching terminals waiting for the load to drop, a server to come up, or just looking for meaning in GB’s of log files. It sucks bug time. So I feel sorry for the technicians associated with Click Frenzy who right …
Inspired by the success of Cyber Monday, the post-Thanksgiving online sale in the USA, an Australian online retailer group have decided to create an Australian version – Click Frenzy. The online sale, which the promoters say will stop a nation, runs on the 20 November. With participants like Myer, Target, Just Jeans, Portmans, Dotti, Dick Smith, Bing Lee, Ted’s …
In 2009 the Australian Banks were required to notify customers of the $2 fee to use an ATM belonging to another bank. According to The Age there has been a 40% drop of people using foreign ATM’s which surprised economists who had forecast that there would be a negligible change …
So does social technology liberate us or enslave us? I was sitting at my local weekend cafe having a long macchiato (I know, I know) and the kids were having some babycinos when I spied a young bloke with four women sitting at a communal table across from me. There …
