Feb 25th, 2010
Met the wonderful Miss Glenda for dinner the other night at Rumi, which is an elegant but loud Lebanese restaurant in East Brunswick. It’s Lebanese in the sense that many smart restaurants in Melbourne are Greek, French, or whatever. Ethnicity is a train track rather than a station, to mangle what Samuel Delany said about [...]
Jan 11th, 2010
We’ve been advised to go home early or late because of the 45 degree temperatures today. I’ve been hard at work, of course, so I’m leaving late. Spare a thought for me on the bike. But I must leave sometime to save the poor pooch, who has taken to playing with his water and backup [...]
Jan 6th, 2010
Well yes, we did get married. I haven’t posted for so long it seems that this website has been forgotten. In fact I’ve grown a little allergic to this whole business of publishing on line because of a couple of site invasions by phishers. Wordpress has almost been ditched; I’ve had a go at the security and gotten rid [...]
May 6th, 2009
Well the wedding is nearly here and with it the honeymoon. We’re determined to travel light this time – a four wheel drive seems packed for two weeks on the road but we’re talking two 32 L day packs – and we’re casting about for novels to take with us.
Sep 24th, 2008
I’ve been labouring at IT, dang it. I really hate the stuff. I’ve moved a whole bunch of sites off the old Rumspringe Coop server to a commercial hosting provider. No more operating system problems! The downside is that their email service is very slow, but on the whole I’d recommend it. So I’ll probably [...]