Seasons’ Greetings
Wishing everyone a safe, peaceful, joyous Yule however you choose to celebrate. See you all in the New Year.
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AI and the arts
Artificial Intelligence has become the flavour of the year, with much discussion on the merits and the dangers of the new technology. Many years ago, around 1990 or so, I attended a class in programming for AI. Back then it was (of course) very rudimentary but the idea was that the program we were learning…
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Last-minute Christmas gifts?
When I was a kid finding something to give me for birthdays and Christmas was easy – just buy me a book. I loved to read and would often lie in bed after lights-out reading a book under the blankets with a torch. Actually, even when I was much, much older, buying me a birthday…
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Summer’s arrived
Summer has arrived with a smirk and a wave. All of a sudden the overnight temperatures are well into the mid-twenties and above and the humidity is through the roof. It’s not our favourite time of the year. We tend to let the air circulate through the house but there are times in this sort…
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Anti-semitism is alive and well
Peter and I are Baby Boomers, born in that particularly fecund period just after World War II. This means, by inference, that World War II was an important part of our family history. Peter’s father ended up in a German POW camp after being captured at Tobruk. My parents and their five small children lived…
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A gallery of lorikeets
Sometimes (quite often) the human world is a rather ugly place. I suppose it’s one of the reasons I write books – I can make up my own characters, their situations, and what happens. I don’t do dystopian or horror. There’s enough of that in the real world. Mind you, dystopian and horror still intrudes…
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Is net zero viable?
I’m pleased to see that recriminations over the failure of the Voice to Parliament referendum have finally been pushed off the front pages of the news. Having said that, I’m hoping things are still happening behind the scenes to do something about the Aboriginal Industry to make sure much-needed funds actually get to the people…
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Living in an imaginary world
I haven’t got much to talk about this week. I’m too busy living in my imaginary world writing a book. It’s good fun, quite challenging – and much less confronting than reading the news about the war with Hamas. There is some hope in our crazy world, though. There has been much interest and support…
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Innocent until proven guilty
I was a supporter of the #metoo movement when it started. I don’t know too many women who can honestly say they have never been subjected to sexual harassment, whether it be workmen on a building site hootin’ and hollerin’, unwanted advances from a close relative, innuendo in the workplace, right through to domestic violence…
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Here’s to the dinosaurs and dickheads
As I said last week, truth is among the first casualties of war, with both sides manipulating narratives to suit themselves, ‘false flag’ operations, or simply telling lies to cover unpalatable events. Did Israel bomb the hospital in Gaza? My immediate reaction when I heard the news was that I doubted it. To bomb a…
