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Two months with a dslr

Two months and thousands of pictures have passed since I bought my Pentax K200D. Since buying it the camera has been no more than an arm’s reach from me day and night. I have begun climbing the learning curve of photography and started to develop an understanding of terms such as aperture, ISO and focal [...]

From beyond the grave ii

A little follow-up to my piece concerning Grzelka et al. I received an email from Cassandra Traill concerning Anthony Grzelka, reproduce below in full:

I dare you to have a reading with Anthony Grzelka. I think you’d do a Lisa Wilkinson.
“Don’t criticise what you don’t understand – the times they are a changin’ ” ~ Bob [...]

From beyond the grave

Ghost?

There has been some media coverage in Perth recently concerning the so-called “Psychic Taskforce”, a show put on at the Burswood Ballroom in September, promising audience readings and messages from beyond the grave. Consisting of three members Anthony Grezlka, Scott Russell Hill and Deb Malone the “Psychic Taskforce” claimed, among other things, completely unsupported [...]

Death Race

In “The Fast and the Furious” I described how road fatality statistics indicate the pure ineffectiveness of current tactics by the police and government to reduce the road toll. I would like to take some time to examine some of the real issues around the rate of deaths on our roads.

In recent months the government has moved [...]

The LG Viewty and why I didn’t buy an iPhone

It will probably come as a surprise to most people that I didn’t buy an iPhone. If you were a market researcher and interviewed me a few months ago you would have put a tick in all the boxes that indicated that I would definitely buy one. However, when my mobile phone plan expired I [...]

Community vs. “community”

One frequently hears the word “community” whether it be in a news report, a government communication or in the name or role of an organisation. The word evokes an image of a group of people united by shared culture, geographical location or some other relationship. Community is frequently used to refer to the general population [...]