A blog about nothing...

fnordmotors: i cried a little via nerdboyfriend.com So did...

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:40:41 +1000

fnordmotors:

i cried a little

via nerdboyfriend.com

So did I…

Another glorious Sydney sunset.

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:39:17 +1000

Another glorious Sydney sunset.

JohnnyA WordPress malware on MediaTemple | UH.LEE.KA

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:42:06 +1000

JohnnyA WordPress malware on MediaTemple | UH.LEE.KA:

trib:

Fuckers!

For my own future reference…

katreeeena: justinbarbour: jamesjunk: (via: freedomtodither) ...

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:34:33 +1000

katreeeena:

justinbarbour:

jamesjunk:

(via: freedomtodither)

"But, if we gals worry about men having totally unrealistic expectations about women based on porn..."

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:33:43 +1000

“But, if we gals worry about men having totally unrealistic expectations about women based on porn stars, how come men aren’t freaking out about romance novels, the kinds Nora Roberts and hundreds of other female novelists write and that thousands of women read?”

- Kat Wilder » She says romance, he says porn (via fnordmotors)

Today’s parcel. Looking forward to devouring this over the...

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:19:28 +1000

Today’s parcel. Looking forward to devouring this over the next week.

"You are in a position both enviable and unenviable; you get to be the first adults to teach the..."

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:27:09 +1000

““You are in a position both enviable and unenviable; you get to be the first adults to teach the digital natives how to be a tribe of nobles rather than savages.””

- http://www.acidlabs.org/2010/04/15/nodes-the-hyperconnected-nervous-system-and-digital-literacy/

There’s a certain something in the air when the sun is trying to break through the clouds just...

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:33:42 +1000

There’s a certain something in the air when the sun is trying to break through the clouds just after sunrise following heavy rain.

Greens are greener. Sunbeams are more golden. Rain clouds are a darker grey than they have any right to be.

Nature - HDR in 3D. <3.

Undercover

Mon, 31 May 2010 21:41:53 +1000

Another fun 8tracks mix.

Undercover

The raging torrent. Normally this is a dry stormwater drain,...

Mon, 31 May 2010 07:32:30 +1000

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

The raging torrent.

Normally this is a dry stormwater drain, but when it rains it becomes magically transformed.

Goodbye, Moon. Taken at around 18:15 tonight at Wentworthville...

Fri, 28 May 2010 23:18:51 +1000

Goodbye, Moon.

Taken at around 18:15 tonight at Wentworthville train station.

I’m really beginning to <3 Hipstamatic and Camerabag. They make taking photos so much fun :D

Invisible Glowsticks

Thu, 27 May 2010 22:47:56 +1000

You know, 8tracks looks like fun.

Invisible Glowsticks

I knew it would be a mistake to agree to put batteries back in...

Thu, 27 May 2010 16:44:34 +1000

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

I knew it would be a mistake to agree to put batteries back in the Ben10 car.

I shudder to think how much more he would play with this car if he had ever actually watched an episode of the show.

Breaking through.

Wed, 19 May 2010 07:19:10 +1000

Breaking through.

A cloudy Sydney Sunday afternoon.

Sun, 16 May 2010 15:13:17 +1000

A cloudy Sydney Sunday afternoon.

Want! For Elijah, obviously. Not for me at all. Oh no....

Sat, 08 May 2010 23:30:20 +1000

Want!

For Elijah, obviously. Not for me at all. Oh no.

fnordmotors:

that can’t be real

For Helen’s benefit… (via katreeeena)

Sun, 02 May 2010 18:18:30 +1000

For Helen’s benefit…

(via katreeeena)

I was completely unable to view tonight’s sun set from my...

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:49:18 +1000

I was completely unable to view tonight’s sun set from my seat on the train. Boo. I could have used the cheering up.

Since I missed tonight’s sun set, here’s one I prepared earlier.

Took this a couple of weeks ago. I’m afraid I can’t say exactly when as the iPhone doesn’t make it easy to tell while using the device.

I nearly didn’t get this shot. I didn’t like how the overheard train wires were obscuring my view. I thought that the pedestrian overpass might offer a better shot.

I snapped off a couple of shots anyway. 2 minutes later I was on the overpass but the moment had passed. The cloudfire had burnt out and all that remained was a dull and dirty grey pile of fluff in the sky.

The best camera may indeed be the one you have on you, but the best shot is the that is in front of you, right now.

Keeping me honest

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:07:05 +1000

One of the problems with being only slighty disaffected with your career path (my job is fine, but I’m so over being a public servant more generally) is that although you know you need a change, you don’t know what you want.

I have a habit of making grand schemes in my brain. I don’t like to share my grand schemes and future plans until I have fleshed them out and made sure I knew my direction in great detail. This has the unfortunate side effect that it becomes very easy to wimp out of said schemes as I hadn’t told anyone about them in the first place.

This is something of a brain dump of things I want to achieve/learn/do/not suck at in 2010. It’s April, and I’ve already not done about 6 things I had meant to do by this time, so this is long overdue. I’m posting as a way of providing all (… counting …) 4 followers of this Tumblr the opportunity to call me out on my bullshit, hypocrisy, laziness and procrastination whenever they think I’m skiving way from what I want to do.

I want to:

read all of my unread interaction and web design, advertising, marketing, creative thought and copywriting books (dead tree and electronic variety - so many books)

sort out what it is I want to do, employment wise. I know that this year I want to start building up my freelance copywriting and web design work, focusing on improving the online presence of small to medium enterprises, but beyond that I am at a loss. I’m a skilled and experienced writer. I’m an experienced project manager used to the extreme scrutiny that is just a part of managing projects that expend public money (the biggest project I managed was worth over $2 million - you can imagine the accountability that surrounds that!). I’m a sociologist by training who specialised in the effects of globalisation (both positive and negative). I’m a technologist. I’m a trained thinker. I need to get out of the public service at some point and start making things again, and doing something that is more than just a small cog in a big machine. Yet all these skills don’t seem to add up to anything employable. Freelancing is fun, but there is something about working in a team that I really enjoy and I just wish I could do that in an environment that was digitally focused. More thought is required.
decide upon my next course of study. I finished 2009 with my Grad Dip in IT, but it after 4 years of part-time study, it doesn’t seem to have moved me any closer to my goal of breaking out of the bureaucracy. I need to decide if I want to spend the next 10-15 years writing, designing, specialising (eg interaction design, multimedia etc.) or trying to sell a complete package of services. Formal study helps to keep my focused so I need to settle on some more post-grad work.
I need to write more. A lot more. I enjoy writing but it’s a drawn out process for me. A blog post can take over a week from sketching out the idea to editing the first draft. I have a wide range of topics to choose from, whether it be my often neglected technology based blog, the often neglected parenting blog Helen and I maintain (largely just to ensure that family interstate has photos and videos of The Boy) and I want to launch a blog on writing, design and marketing issues related to the freelance work I want to turn up a couple of notches as mentioned earlier. Writing helps keep me focused and sharp. I need to find a way to turn it into a way that will pay the bills. All part of the challenge.

So that’s the big ticket things I want to do. There’s a lot of fuzzy thinking and undecided outcomes in there.

Please, feel free to call me on the bullshit, the time wasting and the procrastination. I might react at the time, but I can guarantee I will appreciate it later.

George, a hipster? But he was always my favourite. I feel so...

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:52:04 +1000

George, a hipster? But he was always my favourite. I feel so conflicted…

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