Jesus, I know I'm not generally web-social and I have a boring life but I thought I could do more here than I have. The fact there are actual competent writers here doesn't help but, you know, I should at least try. I've just returned from celebrating ANZAC day in Sydney, For those non-Australians and non-Kiwis, ANZAC day commemorates the day we landed huge numbers of troops on the shore of Gallipoli in Turkey in order to have them mown down by Turkish gunners. Despite that, we established a bea… Continue

Well, I've just come back from watching the big APEC protest. I wasn't going to join in, the way I figure it Yanks* like attention (the only bad publicity is no publicity) so the best way to annoy them is to ignore them. Make a song and dance about them and they feel they have achieved something, like wasting your time making a song and dance at someone who isn't going to listen anyway. I've got better things to do than make such people feel vindicated.…

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I'm sure everyone here is bored with reading disclaimers about "this is my first time blogging" etc. Take it as read and be nice to me.

I know the photo is currently cacky, unless you are a fan of Zoids, but I'm not photogenic and have found I don't have any photos of me on this computer. I'll do something about that in the next couple of days, I believe there are shots of me being a drunken loon at work.

From what I gather, there are unwritten rules about these introductory pos…

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