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I don’t think that many romanticise war too much these days. And there is something very poignant and compelling about seeing the fruits of war.
In northern France and Belgium the unimaginable scale of loss wrought upon so many families in the great wars of the twentieth century [...]
Another ANZAC Day and another day to remember the sacrifices made by Australian and New Zealand forces. Those who serve in battle never get off lightly, even if they manage to survive seemingly unscathed.
This year I remember some family members – Claude and Tim from Crows Nest, [...]
I recently discovered that one of my ancestors was arrested by the British in 1828 as a pirate and sent to Australia as a convict with his death sentence commuted to life in the colonies.
It was pretty cool to discover that I have both a pirate and [...]
This rare video of US Air Force Colonel John Boyd shows his 1991 House Armed Services Committee Testimony and is worth watching. Many consider him to be one of the best strategic thinkers of the twentieth century and his ideas have influenced many of [...]
Yesterday in New South Wales there was a major shift in the state’s political landscape. We saw a significant shift in voting with enormous swings against the ALP across the state and especially in traditional heartland seats.
The Liberals won seats in which they’d [...]
I had a chat with Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian) on ZDNet’s Patch Monday along with Open-source software advocate and developer Jeff Waugh (@jdub) and James Purser (@purserj) from Collaborynth, a consultancy that develops collaboration tools for business, government and not-for-profits.
You can listen to our discussion on this nifty embedded [...]
Even though it was once said ironically, it has always seemed to me that Australia really is the lucky country. Our national anthem, Advance Australia Fair, sums it up:
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil…
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts…
We’ve boundless [...]
There is a lot of talk about revolution happening now in online communities given the unfolding events in Tunisia and Egypt. This has got me thinking about the nature of revolutions. There’s a rather nice list of revolutions and rebellions on Wikipedia for those who are not up [...]
The fight for women to get the vote was a monument to cooperation, ingenuity and collaboration on the part of many women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These women educated themselves and their peers about women’s issues and agitated for women’s rights. And the women of Australia [...]
I like Paris in winter – there are not too many tourists and the queues to get into museums and galleries are much shorter. Of course, in 2010 western Europe experienced snowpocalypse and many people suffered from cancelled transport and were forced to spend days trapped in airport [...]
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