alexander’s mixed message

What was Australia’s illustrious Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer trying to say in parliament the other day? Apparently, a video of Douglas Wood and his Iraqi dissident captors was delivered to Australian officials by “message stick”. Does this implicate Australian Aboriginals in the sorry tale? (perhaps in retaliation for not saying sorry!), have the ancient ways …

the social bookmarking experiment…

I’ve recently joined the wave of web users to try online bookmark tools – specifically del.icio.us – known as a ‘social bookmarking’ tool. Del.icio.us is simple and, for what it does, it works very well. The social aspect is the real revelation though. You bookmark a page and see that others have also bookmarked it, …

another site launched

Quite pleased with this one: Melbourne University Publishing, it’s the first time I’ve had a high profile site with full css layout. Very accessible and pretty much compatible with most modern browsers, but best looking in firefox on a mac (of course!).