Author Archives: jb

>Why am I writing this?

Posted on 5 September, 2008 by jb

> First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting programs in the schools. If you google my name, you will find references … Continue reading →

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YES! YES! YES!

Posted on 4 September, 2008 by jb

Oh. It’s vapourware. Sod it. I was getting quite enthused there for a sec. John van der Nieuwenhuizen is an Aussie industrial designer at HP in San Francisco by way of Motorola in Milan and Chicago. He’s designed the Hidden … Continue reading →

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>Tunes for a Tuesday – 2 September 2008

Posted on 2 September, 2008 by jb

> Leon Russell  – Alcatraz from Leon Russell and the Shelter PeopleTorrez  – The Evening Sun Miranda Lambert  – Famous In A Small Town from Crazy Ex-GirlfriendDavid Thomas  – Fishing Blues from The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 2Avril Lavigne  … Continue reading →

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Mug of the month- August 2008

Posted on 31 August, 2008 by jb

>Sabine Kratzer is a porcelainist, if there’s such a word. Paper-thin to point of translucency, this piece gives an insight into her skill levels. Stunning. Not the sort of mug that you’d want to cup yout hands around on a … Continue reading →

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>Why is it….

Posted on 30 August, 2008 by jb

> ….that you can’t have fun anymore? The brainy looking chap in the middle with the funny black thing perched ill-fittingly on his head is Matthew, my cousin Dave’s youngest. And brainy he is too. MA in History and just … Continue reading →

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>Viel Llama um nichts

Posted on 29 August, 2008 by jb

> The New Zealand wine industry has its roots in the Dalmatian and Lebanese immigrants of the late 19th/early 20th centuries who brought their culture, vines and enjoyment of the products thereof to an exceptionally wowserish and puritanical New Zealand. … Continue reading →

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>People just don’t think…#3

Posted on 29 August, 2008 by jb

> ….as John Whatley would say. There’s all this hooha in Mainz about where you can ride a bike and where you can’t. They first proposed that you couldn’t ride anywhere in the pedestrian precincts, but the place has been … Continue reading →

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>"But he was such a nice chap…"

Posted on 28 August, 2008 by jb

> So I’m in Sao Paulo in the early 90s during a Revenue Management roadshow for the troops and I’m out on the town with Klaus Sandgathe (one of last months’ funerals) I’d worked with Klaus for a few years … Continue reading →

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>People just don’t think…#2

Posted on 27 August, 2008 by jb

> ….as John Whatley would say. Needed to replace one of these energy-saving bulbs the other day. They’re claimed to last a lifetime, but no-one’s defined whose lifespan. I’m guessing that of a butterfly. Given that the darn thing costs … Continue reading →

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>People just don’t think…

Posted on 26 August, 2008 by jb

> ….as John Whatley would say. Get a form to claim benefits as a cripple handicapped person mobility-challenged individual (I kid you not – over here, if you have a hip joint replacement, you’re a cripple er handicapped er mobility … Continue reading →

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