Still Life With Cat

Last night I went out to dinner with my regular dinner-having crew. We ate at a Greek place in Glenelg (old beachside suburb), so after we ...

Peter Carey has a really excellent, impassioned piece in today's Age on what the elimination of territorial copyright will mean for Aus...

Here's an unforeseen advantage of temperatures in the mid-forties: free solar heating! Just had a lovely refreshing yet non-heart-stopp...

Last night late I went outside with the big torch to see if my frantic watering of the lemon tree (after falling into an exhausted early-eve...

Following the lead of Laura from Sills Bend , I am not going to say too much about the content of the concert, in order not to spoil it for ...

*Sings* 'To-night's the night ...' *Does little dance* I'm spending the morning packing the picnic supper and the othe...

In today's Age there is an account by sports writer Greg Baum of the terrific tennis match last night between teenage rocket Caroline W...

From my iPhone ...?

Blogger has rolled my blogroll. Actually I don't know whether it's Blogger or me, but it's not you. I mean I'm not offended ...

And thank God I work for myself, at home. Probably would have stayed up to watch the Inauguration regardless, though, I think. (And be payin...

As Pav's IQ drops to a single digit in the face of intelligence-erasing adorabilification, we bring you Zooborns . And thanks to the Boo...

THE GOOD -- Alicia Molik's commentary. Possibly the most intelligent, articulate and personable player Australian tennis has ever produc...

I never know what the appropriate response is to those road signs. I always wonder whether I'm supposed to say 'Oh, OK, I'll jus...

Well, there's a no-brainer. Carn the nurses.

The Minding Animals conference in Newcastle looks like an absolute blinder: interdisciplinary, international, brilliantly well organised if...

I love blogging. I do. But as someone who's been reading blogs of various stripes for over four years now and therefore knows more than ...

... says today's Adelaide weather forecast. Yesterday the temperature got up to 41.3 degrees, some time in the early afternoon, and most...

In the wake of the Windschuttle hoax there's been a lot of discussion around the online traps, in the course of which I observed as par...

Ever since I spilled champagne into the (white) keyboard of this now-venerable eMac, thus rendering it un-usable, I have instead been using ...