Articles

Go Slow

One of the things with children's educational institutions is the close proximity of children in your household with children in others. I don't remember the last time I rubbed my head against that of...

Coming Home

The cab ride to the airport was uneventful and got us there with 2 hours to take-off, so we stopped for coffee and cake before going through security. Button wasn't too keen on having her toy put thro...

Nothing to report

Day 20: Custom Work in a Commodity World

[](https://bendechrai.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/day20.jpg)A husband and wife operation, the guy tells us he can mak...

Day 4 (again): Technology

Coffee Tasting Results

### The Coffees

How do you relate to your twitter followers?

You see, my twitter feed is public, so it's not like following me will help you, unless you're interested in what I have to say and want that delivered to you. I don't know why @QuitSmokingZone is int...

VPSLand Staff: illiterate, incompetent or just don't care?

Time passed, servers churned, and for the most I was happy. Then MooBox's VPS dropped off the face of the ether. An email to support had the issue resolved in slightly more time that I'd hoped and all...

Senator Stephen Fielding Seeing Spots

While the solar flares debate, which Senator Fielding has recently cottoned on to, has been around for many years, no evidence exists to link them to the current warming, according to Graeme Pearman, ...

Australian Bushfires - Housing the Homeless

Like so many people around the world, we have been touched by the devastating effects of the 2009 bushfires that have swept through Victoria and New South Wales and wanted to use the skills we have to...

StixCampNewstead - the next BarCampMelbourne - seeking sponsors

So what is this StixCamp I speak of? The first ever BarCamp in Australia was [BarCampMelbourne](http://barcampmelbourne.org/) 2007, and it was held at Lake Eppalock. Given two people got lost and ther...

3 months of news; has microblogging killed the blog?

Could it be that more frequent microblogs on Identica and Twitter are to blame for the drop in frequency on this site? Or was it just a busy time of year? I'm not sure.