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tcpipI have considered working with a small band of others to establish an alternative to livejournal given their recent introduction of ads (soon it will be like yahoo, just you see). Much more planning is needed at this nascent stage. I would be thinking in terms of fixed-fee, lifetime membership.
Working and studying life has consisted of fixing broken servers, working on Access databases, and designing styles for PHPWebsite and Mac OS X training. Tonight I start CCNA Semester Three (Switches) after a six month break. I can barely remember Cisco IOS commands. I'm sure it'll come back to me, but I still feel a bit nervous at the moment.
JK Galbraith has died. An economist (and historian, and sociologist) who actually cared what happened to people. He even managed to make economics interesting. I am fortunate to own (and have read most of) several of his books, including his one work of fiction, The Triumph.
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geoff, finally gets recognised as the inventor of wireless internet.
Edit I suppose I should mention that I gave the service at the Unitarian's last Sunday with Dr. Paul Mees from the Public Transport Users Association giving an excellent presentation on "putting the public back into public transport". Mees is an exceptionally good speaker, having the facts and figures on the tip of his tongue - and a dash of humour as well, referring to me as "Rev. Lev". It is particularly foolish how much the private providers are leaching off the government (about twice what the old PTC used to cost).
Working and studying life has consisted of fixing broken servers, working on Access databases, and designing styles for PHPWebsite and Mac OS X training. Tonight I start CCNA Semester Three (Switches) after a six month break. I can barely remember Cisco IOS commands. I'm sure it'll come back to me, but I still feel a bit nervous at the moment.
JK Galbraith has died. An economist (and historian, and sociologist) who actually cared what happened to people. He even managed to make economics interesting. I am fortunate to own (and have read most of) several of his books, including his one work of fiction, The Triumph.
geoff, finally gets recognised as the inventor of wireless internet.Edit I suppose I should mention that I gave the service at the Unitarian's last Sunday with Dr. Paul Mees from the Public Transport Users Association giving an excellent presentation on "putting the public back into public transport". Mees is an exceptionally good speaker, having the facts and figures on the tip of his tongue - and a dash of humour as well, referring to me as "Rev. Lev". It is particularly foolish how much the private providers are leaching off the government (about twice what the old PTC used to cost).
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Date: 2006-05-02 05:21 am (UTC)And, yeah, I'll miss Galbraith. I had a lot more time for him than for most of his colleagues.
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Date: 2006-05-02 06:09 am (UTC)Ahh, I was working on the notes on the back of my copy of The Triumph, when it was his first novel.
Galbriath had his critics; neoliberals, Randriods and the like who accussed him of supporting benevolent elitism over individual freedom. It would almost seem that they (Rand, Rothbard, Friedman) actually hadn't read The Affluent Society and the disjunction between public poverty and private wealth and why it matters.
His ideas, I believe, I still extremely important, indeed perhaps more so.
My brother once said...
Date: 2006-05-02 05:38 am (UTC)Trudi, you keep going to school and going to school and one of these days...KABLAM!
Re: My brother once said...
Date: 2006-05-02 06:09 am (UTC)You're sixty years old, have a dozen qualifications, have seen the world and are still confused?
oh, TCPIP
Date: 2006-05-02 05:43 am (UTC)ok...I sleepie now!
Loves Mr. Australian friend!
completely off topic....
Date: 2006-05-02 05:54 am (UTC)Citizenship and Globalisation
Research Priority Area, Deakin University, Australia
Seminar Information
Honouring Sites of Pain, Trauma and Resistance in East Timor
Michael Leach
Time: 4:00 pm Wednesday 3 May 2006
Venue: The Blue Room , Building B, Room 2. 20, Burwood Campus,
Deakin Univeristy
Abstract:
This paper examines the way difficult sites of imprisonment, trauma and resistance are being remembered in the newly independent nation of East Timor. Most societies have their scars of history, and a range of places, sites and institutions that represent the legacy of these difficult periods. Following 450 years of Portuguese colonialism, and a traumatic 24- year struggle against Indonesian occupation, East Timor has a great many sites which chart a painful legacy of colonialism, civil war, and resistance against neo-colonial occupation.
These important, but often ambivalently regarded sites of historical memory recall traumatic episodes in the national history, raising difficult questions of heritage conservation, particularly where budget resources are limited. How are such places to be remembered? How do people and societies cope with painful memories? Should these aspects of national heritage be expunged or memorialised? This paper examines East Timorese responses to these difficult issues since independence in 2002.
Michael Leach is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. He has previously taught in Politics at the University of Queensland, and at South Thames College in London. His publications include Leach, M. and F. Mansouri. 2004. Lives in Limbo: Voices of Refugees under Temporary Protection. Sydney: UNSW Press; and Leach, M., G. Stokes and I. Ward eds. 2000. The Rise and Fall of One Nation. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
* There is no entry charge and everyone is welcome.
* Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Campus map:
http://www.deakin.edu.au/campuses/burwood-getting-there.php
Re: completely off topic....
Date: 2006-05-02 06:10 am (UTC)I get a few things from Michael Leach on the grapevine, but I'd somehow missed this one. The fact it's on in Burwood at a time I'm often in that part of the world is good news!
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Date: 2006-05-02 10:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 11:25 am (UTC)I'm unaware of that one, but it is funny...
List of quotes on our friend JKG here:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith
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Date: 2006-05-05 02:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-05 02:47 am (UTC)I like to spy on strangers :)
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Date: 2006-05-05 03:30 am (UTC)Ahh, there's only one you know ;-)
Dead Journal
Date: 2006-05-02 10:59 am (UTC)You mean, like Dead Journal?
Re: Dead Journal
Date: 2006-05-02 11:21 am (UTC)Dead Journal is too g*wth. Also we're looking at a different model to the dead/live system... Something we're familiar with... More on this later.
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Date: 2006-05-03 12:25 am (UTC)Someone pointed out there's a RP con coming up in Canberra over the Queen's Birthday weekend. Is that the one you said you'd be coming to? I'd love to have someone visit me :D
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Date: 2006-05-03 03:28 am (UTC)Unfortunately Phenomenon clashes with Retrocon, which I'm running a game at.
Love to visit but I can't be at two places at the same time.. Damn!
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Date: 2006-05-03 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-03 07:11 am (UTC)Holy water? Or Blessed wine? Or the Java God?