Ian Carmichael's Page

I'm just pondering the rise of twitter. And the hints, or suggestions that this is the networking of the future (ie, the next year or so) which will sideline blogs and forums.

The thought returns me to where I began a couple of years ago - on thinking and its objects. How much of a thought do we need, in order to be thinking? It seems to me that real thinking - reflective, processing, creative mental work which has as at least one of its outputs something new, something stronger, something fres… Continue

Connie asked me to say a little about the Australian bushfires. At my last news on the situation, there were some 126 confirmed deaths and about 700 destroyed properties through the hill regions in Victoria. The locations of the deaths are little-known placenames, even for Victorians

Kinglake - 33

St Andrews - 6

Callignee - 9

Kinglake West - 9

Marysville - 10

Location details not specific - 6

Steeles Creek - 7

Flowerdale - 3

Hazelwood - 4

Wandong - 4

Humevale - 4

Koornalla - 4

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G'day folks,

I was going to blog about 'label and destroy'. There's so much of it about - liberal, fundamentalist, extremist, right-wing, left-wing, fundy, pro-choice, pro-life...
It's such a distasteful, and dishonest way of putting people in a box and making them non-people, or putting ideas in a box labelled 'do not open' (or perhaps "Pandora")

...but it's lunch time, and I couldn't really be bothered. Maybe more later - but there's cricket on, I hope!

Yes, I admit it. I've just discovered how to get useful information from feeds through an aggregator. Great for finding out what's posted on FL without drilling into my emails. And I've learnt a whole heap of stuff by hooking into pages I thought I'd like to browse but never did; hence the various bits of curious information I've peppered here and there.
Ah, but then - for unknown reasons my aggregator began to fail - first, it failed to collect the feeds from the Guardian (not too bad, could li… Continue

I just been buffaloed by some acronyms today (have been a few times here) and thought it was time to raise the white flag. As a foreigner, there are mysterious terms to me - and I'd reckon for others too. I've found out about GPA's, I think there was one called AP or AD, but today I've hit GED from Ellen and LPN (?) from Ed, and.. who knows what else lurks for my confusion. (For acronym users, just one translation once would be nice to dispel my ignorance.)

Well, TTFN.

(Ah that's goodbye - Ta-… Continue