While searching for the work hacksaw I heard a bit of John Faine's show on the station formerly known as 3LO. He was quizzing a education ministry spokesman about a report showing school literacy standards had dropped in the last decade, despite a billion dollars poured into that particular problem. Both of them waffled on and completely failed to ( Read more... )

At the dawn of the Third Millenium I became involved with some independent filmmaking groups, some working on fanfilms and others on original material. As a keen media SF fan I’d read a great deal about filmmaking technique and had some prior experience in the 80’s & 90’s ranging from super 8 film/vid home movies to 16mm film productions involving ( Read more... )

My fear that Janet had Ross River Virus has proved negative, though she has got "a" virus and it's damn pesky. So many things to do but this heat stops you doing them, all I've managed to do lately is downloading of 70's SF shows & some horror classics (including House that Dripped Blood, one for you Rod) and uploading my SF pics to facebook. Still ( Read more... )

Was rather surprised to notice that I'd not posted this year, though this reflects my increased favouring of facebook. Probably not a lot to say either, though I have recovered from my back to work gloom, though I now have to try to talk J out of hers, which will be ten times worse ( Read more... )

Another year almost ended and i must admit this has been a definite plus in most respects. The biggest thing has been holding a steady job that pays well, rather obviously that makes all the difference, and makes other good things like overseas holidays, paying off mortgage, model shoots and increasing the DVD collection possible. In nerd terms ( Read more... )

The Green Guide had an article today about the wonder of digital radio. Curiously I first heard about this when I was in the Aust Bureau of Stats over 15 years ago, back then it was planned that analogue radio would be phased out in the early 2000's, which clearly didn't happen. I suspect that was because the AM talkback stations literally had the ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/09morrison.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

Talk about a generation gap ! That even beats the McNamara's ! It also says a lot about who outlived who.....

Had an enjoyable day at the Austrek Xmas party, tempered by the sad news about ultimate sci-fi fan Forry Ackerman and (on Sunday) radio host Richard Marsland, and now I hear that greatest pin up model of all Betty Page is in a coma and unlikely to be with us much longer ( Read more... )

I really hate it when religious nutbags stuff up education, but also have no time for people who are completely stupid in the opposite direction ( Read more... )

Have finally been getting around to listening to the revival Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy radio series. As most of you blog readers know I ran the local Hitchers club for some years so I have more than the average interest in the productions ( Read more... )