I enjoy walking around Wangaratta: clean air, exercise, time to let my mind wander. But often, my thoughts are interrupted when a car pulls up and one of its occupants asks for directions to a particular business, service, or event.
Hi all, When a potential client contacts me, these are some of the preliminary questions I am likely to ask. 1. What does your business do? 2. How long has it been operating? 3. Do you currently have a Website?
I finally bit the bullet and decided to convert a website that had not been built with mobile phones in mind to one that could be easily viewed on a mobile. This means that the pages are now responsive and
Unless you only get your news from a Donald Trump-authorised news source, you would know that The Testaments is Margaret Atwood’s recently released sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. I loved The Handmaid’s Tale when I first read it a few decades ago.
Although this blog is mainly about science fiction, I sometimes read non-genre literature to see what the other side is up to. Jonathon Franzen is one of my favourite non-genre authors. This is a review of Purity, the fourth of
I very much enjoyed being challenged in my thinking by the two novellas in this collection. It contains two very different stories: Caught Between Love and Loss, and the title story, A Refugee’s Rage. Caught Between Love and Loss This
The Windup Girl is one of the most imaginative dystopian science fiction novels I have read. It has fantastic world-building and is peopled with flawed characters who primarily look out for themselves. The novel is set in a future Thailand
When the Floods Came is a well-written and imaginative take on an apocalyptic future. The novel is set in England, where a virus has wiped out most of the population. A few people live in isolated pockets using technology that
I wrote this personal essay for a subject in my BA in Internet Communications. It is about the influence of two books, 1984 and Stephen Donaldson’s Lord Foul’s Bane, on my reading and writing. The best books, he perceived, are
This is a copy of a speech I wrote for a writing subject in my BA in Internet Communications. Whatever happened to the technology singularity? I am here tonight to ask what happened to the technology singularity. We don’t seem
I thought I better post something to prove I am still alive. I have been so busy studying that I have not had time to regularly post on my blog. In fact, I am feeling guilty as hell that I
This video is a remediation of Advance Australia Fair made for my BA in Internet Communications. The remediation uses the anthem to critique Australian society.
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