Last month I recorded a couple of pilot episodes of a new podcast series where I walk around Melbourne with one of the City of Melbourne’s “greeters”, Jill. This is a project cooked up between myself, Tourism Victoria and the City of Melbourne. We’ve recorded two pilots and I’d really appreciate it if a [...]

This post “I Don’t Respect Your Religion” by Cenk Uygur from The Young Turks is right on the money.
Here’s an excerpt:

Read the Bible, the Torah and the Koran. They are all full of violent, bloody fantasies that teach you over and over to kill your enemies. Christians love to think they are the exception [...]

Over the last few months I’ve been wrestling with the notion that there should be some kind of framework for geeks to do something positive in their local community. Something that isn’t tied to any particular religious, political or social agenda. Something that plays on the strengths of geeks and doesn’t require a full-time commitment [...]

More photos here. I won first prize for my costume. Airfares and accommodation for two to the Gold Coast with passes to the Indy. I believe that is a car race or something.

There are a couple of stories about podcasting in Australia in The Age today. I chatted with both journalists at length over the last month for the stories but ended up with two lines out of a 2+ page story. Go figure. All of my journo and ex-journo friends (including Mrs R) this morning counseled [...]

I’ve just published my review of The Coen Brothers’ new film, “No Country For Old Men”.
The Movie Show #45 - NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
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Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour before? It’s happened to me on my Lenovo Vista box a couple of times in the last few weeks. Out of the blue, the screen just starts flickering like mad. The only way I have found to restore the box to normal behaviour is to either log off [...]

As the twittories project keeps growing (we’re now taking registrations for twittories #2), it seems like the idea is inspiring others to do similar projects. I got this email today from Mr Mayo:
Cameron,
I’m a middle school teacher in the US. I have been following your Twittory project. I’ve joined to add a contribution to Twittory [...]

Have you ever stopped to think about how old you REALLY are? I don’t mean this arbitrary thing we call your date of birth - I mean how old you REALLY are.
Every atom in your body is old - REALLY old. Many of them, such as oxygen and carbon, are only produced via stellar [...]