Not being a big believer of buying "stuff" for X-mas, L&I decided to make the Australia Day holiday into a country getaway. We bought a small gift to put under the tree for X-mas, but the real gift was a 'special weekend away' over the AUstralia Day weekend ( Read more... )

Last weekend I went on a field trip to Bacchus Marsh as part of the Integrated Catchment Management course. The field trip showcased what 'Grow West' a project of the Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority were doing to improve the Werribee River and surrounding land ( Read more... )

So I had a look at this facebook thing....

From first impressions its another version of orkut - that 'collect lots of friends to prove to everyone how cool you are' webpage which did the rounds about three years ago. So what's the wrinkle that makes its the 'The next big thing' TM?

And does this mean live journal is OldSkool?

Well damn it. The second reading blew the geographer's argument out of the water ( Read more... )

The first lecture in the Catchment Management course got my back up a bit. In defining "catchment" the lecturer's sought to avoid using a geographer's approach (ie catchment = drainage basin) in favour of a broad encompassing definition that that included social, economic and environmental aspects of living in a catchment area. My thinking ( Read more... )

One of the issues in the transport unit we have covered was the 20/2020 target. The Victorian Government has committed to the goal of achieving a 20% modal share for public transport by the year 2020 - i.e. of all motorised journeys undertaken in Melbourne 20% of them will be done by public transport ( Read more... )

I had a lovely hoilday in Perth.
but whilst I was away someone stole my bike.
(And my puncture kit, helmet, winter riding gloves, raincoat, etc)

Is it just me or does anyone else see a similarity between Kevin Rudd and Mr Mackey?
Just putting it out there M'kay

I just recently saw the film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, the Ray Bradbury story about firemen who burn books ( Read more... )

That George W ... old oil man that he is, favoured invasion of Iraq because Saddam threatened to sell oil in Euros, and in doing so threatened the convertability of US dollars into oil ( Read more... )