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Home About Music Podcast Gallery News Contact       A Slice of Life commentary on issues in politics, culture, environment and technology 07 Oct 11 Isn’t the recent outpouring of emotion over the passing of Steve Jobs taking things just a little too far?  Midnight vigils at Apple stores?  Shrines? Millions of tweets, blogs, articles conferring almost saint like status on the ex Apple CEO?  Steve jobs certainly was a visionary.  Yes... Read Full Story

Home About Music Podcast Gallery News Contact       A Slice of Life commentary on issues in politics, culture, environment and technology 06 Oct 11 Recently, the well known columnist and blogger Andrew Bolt was found to have breached the Racial Discrimination Act .  Justice Mordy Bromberg found Bolt and the Herald and Weekly Times contravened the Racial Discrimination Act by publishing two articles on racial identity which contained... Read Full Story

Home About Music Podcast Gallery News Contact       A Slice of Life commentary on issues in politics, culture, environment and technology 04 Oct 11 Image via Wikipedia The image of ‘Mac’ and ‘PC’ have become one of the most recognisable dichotomies imaginable; PC is unfashionable, old fashioned, straight-laced etc. while Mac is of course creative , cool and free-thinking .  This advertising campaign has been so successful that... Read Full Story

Home About Music Podcast Gallery News Contact       A Slice of Life commentary on issues in politics, culture, environment and technology 10 Jul 11 Is Lord Monckton related to Marty Feldman ? You could be forgiven for thinking that they are the same person; the similarity is positively uncanny. FYI , the gentleman on the left is Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley , deputy leader of the UK Independence Party... Read Full Story

Home About Music Podcast Gallery News Contact       A Slice of Life commentary on issues in politics, culture, environment and technology 02 Jul 11 image courtesy of Edmund Tse My Dell Inspiron 1525 started to overheat and shut down randomly just after the warranty expired.  The machine starts feeling very hot to touch shortly after it starts up.  Applications run slowly or display the ‘not responding’ message, then, with... Read Full Story

Home About Music Podcast Gallery News Contact       A Slice of Life commentary on issues in politics, culture, environment and technology 26 Jun 11 Well…Winter has arrived, yet again. And, although I love Snow and the fun that can be had on the mountains in the cold months…I cannot say I like Winter. I am born smack bang in the middle of Winter, and I grew up just wanting a pool party or beach party or be able to... Read Full Story

Home About Music Podcast Gallery News Contact       A Slice of Life commentary on issues in politics, culture, environment and technology 14 May 11 Image via Wikipedia Some time ago Facebook changed it’s image viewing feature.  There was some discussion at the time around the social media traps, many cpommenting that they weren’t in love with the changes but eventually this died away and most seem to have accepted the... Read Full Story

Home About Music Podcast Gallery News Contact       A Slice of Life commentary on issues in politics, culture, environment and technology 23 Feb 11 one nation website One Nation Senate candidate Ian Nelson made this statement on ABC TV ‘s QandA program this week: Well, yeah, we have got some pretty poor leaders at the moment and I have to say that in sincerity. Australia’s policies are – you know, there’s a different dynamic... Read Full Story

Home About Music Podcast Gallery News Contact       A Slice of Life commentary on issues in politics, culture, environment and technology 16 Feb 11 Image by cinephobia via Flickr Did Tony Abbott ‘s “shit happens” remark show disrespect to the Australian soldier recently killed in Afghanistan ? No one is seriously suggesting that Abbott doesn’t care about the welfare of Australian troops; not even the government.  No one is... Read Full Story

Home About Music Podcast Gallery News Contact       A Slice of Life commentary on issues in politics, culture, environment and technology 12 Feb 11 Image via Wikipedia The always charming David Marr reports in today’s Sydney Morning Herald ”Appalling’ law lets schools expel gay students’. A SENIOR Anglican bishop calls it “appalling” and a gay and lesbian rights group condemns it as “deeply offensive”, but the Attorney... Read Full Story