We need leadership NOT more partisan politics
It’s time to accept that we need a national approach to quarantine and that inner city hotels with shared air-conditioning and limited or no access...
COVID-19 irony
The dreadful irony is that US funding intended to prepare science for a more rapid and effective response to a viral pandemic may have contributed...
Oops! That was awkward
That had me worried for a while. I thought for a moment I might have lost two complete blogs, this one and our travel blog,...
Economic self-harm
Why does a country with more than enough wealth to provide us all with a decent life insist on creating an unemployed underclass? That’s harmful...
MacOS Catalina Photos weirdness
When Apple dropped Aperture I switched to Adobe Lightroom for processing and managing photographs. One benefit is that Lightroom works with files stored in standard...
Lest we remember?
It’s that time of year again when Australians engage in our annual culture war about the war we don’t admit happened. For many, national identity...
My bucket overflowed
I wrote recently about completing my bucket list generated by Majella last year. The final item had presented a challenge because it required getting at...
I broke a blog and had to fix it
Over the past couple of months I’ve done some tinkering with my blogs for various reasons. Part of that involved condensing the installations of my...
Ticked the bucket list off
This time last year Majella conspired to create my bucket list of 10 items. Dutiful husband that I am, I’ve been working through that list,...
More tinkering in WordPress
Condensing my WordPress blogs (this one and our travel blog) into a single database and moving the associated files solved my immediate problem. I was...