So here I am on the Gold Coast for a couple of weeks looking after my mother, and having something of a vacation. I have heard good things about Peter Jackson’s new film, King Kong, so after the gym tonight I took myself off to see it. Given I am a visual effects kind of [...]

My mother is currently recovering in the Gold Coast Hospital from an operation for bowel cancer. It looks like she is going to be ok, but this has (of course) had me thinking about her a lot. This is my telling of one of my favorite of her stories.

Sometimes things happen in life that make you pause and reflect, and parents becoming sick is a big one.

My mother is currently recovering in hospital after a pretty serious operation. She was diagnosed a few weeks ago with bowel cancer and they were extremely keen to get in there and remove it. On top [...]

This week marked the real end of the school year for me, with the screening of the graduating films at Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square in Melbourne. It was a very celebratory night for [...]

Once upon a time it was seen as admirable and dignified to leave a bad experience behind and move on. To not dwell on it and certainly not to profit (monetarily) from it. Today it seems that if you don’t give the press and the public EXACTLY what they want, they are baying for blood.

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Recently in Australia, the Intelligent Design debate has been quietly sneaking into the public policy arena. Wikipedia does a much better job of explaining the details of the argument, but basically Intelligent Design is the assertion that certain features of the universe and of living things are so complex [...]

You would think that the prospect of a two hour walk to get home after midnight would deter most people, but eleven year olds can get funny ideas sometimes. And I was always a particularly stubborn one.

It was summer holidays and I had been at work with my father all day, helping out and [...]

On a random browse of the internet (I was looking for Australia’s territory in the Antarctic) I stumbled on a map with a slightly disturbing caption – "This color map of Australia is courtesy of the CIA Factbook".

THERE IS A CIA FACT BOOK? And its online!!

So of course [...]