One of the nice features of Facebook is that each day (under memories) it will show you all the posts you’ve made for all the years you’ve been with the platform. It’s fun looking back over the years. But increasingly I’ve noticed that there are fewer post in recent years and not as much engagement….
Unless you’ve just emerged from an untrackable wasteland somewhere I expect you’ll have encountered Artificial Intelligence of one form or another. It’s on phones, your car, on Facebook, in MS Word etc etc. And now a Chinese company has produced DeepSeek, its answer to ChatGPT. To me, it’s like so many Chinese endeavours. Take the…
While we’re waiting for work to start on the kitchen, bathroom, and laundry (not in that order) at our house Pete and I have been busy transforming the garden. The next three pictures are ‘before’ shots. After the chooks went to a much better home we brought in some raised garden beds and removed some…
The holiday period is over. There has been another attack on a Sydney synagogue with swastikas being painted on the walls. The perpetrators tried to set the place on fire, too. More and more it echoes the events in Germany in the nineteen thirties. It’s no surprise that anti-semitism has gathered pace since nothing was…
Time flies, doesn’t it? We’re already a week into 2025. In Australia that means we’re about halfway through the annual summer hiatus, where everything is on hold. All the TV shows are on holidays so you get endless repeats or ‘lifestyle’ programs like border security or real-time cop shows like RBT (random breath testing for…
Today we in Australia will experience the summer solstice – specifically, Saturday, 21 Dec 2024, 7:20 pm (approx) in Brisbane. It will be the longest day, with daylight for 13 hours and 41 minutes. At round about the same time, Europe will be enduring the winter solstice. London’s daylight hours will be 7 hours 49 minutes….
The international news has been full of two things of late – the final fall of Bashar Al Assad’s despicable regime in Syria and the shooting killing of the CEO of one of America’s largest (for profit) health insurance companies, United Healthcare (UHC). First, the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson. He was shot in…
Life goes on in the new house as we make changes to suit us. Peter has built some storage in our outdoor room, using flat packs from Bunnings, and we’ve done a bit more work in the garden. I suspect gardening will be intermittent for some time. The weather is not particularly hot, but it’s…
This time last weekend I was starting my low fibre diet in preparation for a colonoscopy the following Tuesday. The very worst part of having a colonoscopy is the preparation, cleaning out your intestines so the doctor can see what’s happening up there. Steamed white fish, steamed chicken breast, peeled white potatoes, white bread… at…
I’m pleased to announce that the new house now has solar hot water and solar panels. We enjoyed solar at our previous house and these days it’s even more important to be able to reduce power costs. Despite living in a country with an abundance of quality coal, natural gas, and uranium, household power prices…