Over the past few years, I've had a troubled relationship with my notebook. It's the double-handling. Writing by hand necessarily entails typing it all up; and I never have enough time to keep up with it; and it seems inefficient. So I've been chasing my tail, trying to set up computer-based systems to replace my […]
For quite some time now, I've been living with a television which had a screen the size of, oh, a postage stamp. This was never made clearer than when I attempted to watch a movie in widescreen, and the TV obligingly rendered it in letterbox format and I found myself watching a screen that was […]
Dear Telstra: Perhaps you genuinely have no idea. If so, let me enlighten you. You do not, in point of fact, offer value for money. Your plans are pretty much an offer to empty my bank account for me. 500MB data (which is only a temporary "bonus", and you normally offer 300MB), when every other […]
Yesterday, I popped in to a pre-auction inspection. As if I have the money to buy property!1 As if I have the money to buy this particular property! As if I could ever have the know-how to make a bid at an auction or negotiate the tangled thicket that is the purchasing of property — […]
Today, I admitted defeat. I've been getting up at 5 a.m. to get an hour's writing in before the dayjob takes over. It's been working okay (when I'm disciplined enough not to check my email, that is), but it's been chilly enough that I've been working from bed to keep warm. This morning, however,1 it […]
And the lord said let there be light Deb insisted, and dug in her heels, and got angry, and did the deadly calm trick, and finally got obstreperous and continuously demanded internet: and there was light until the telecommunications companies finally gave in just to shut her up, and there was internet. And it was […]
Dear Internets, I love you. In fact, it's fair to say I'm addicted to you. But — forgive me — I'm beginning to wonder whether even you are worth wading through the mires of the Australian telephone infrastructure system, not to mention all the accompanying so-called service providers feeding on its carcass. Additionally, I cannot […]
To properly celebrate the move south, I spent Easter…back home. One of the perks of this arrangement was spending some time with Spawn, who can't quite tell my two younger brothers apart. "This are Ben," she told me as I pointed out one younger brother (not Ben, in actual fact). I pointed out the real […]
Right. Back again. I'll spare you all the details, mainly because I don't want to live through them a second time. Suffice to say things looked bleak for a while there. Not everything has fallen back into place just yet, but I don't think the light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming […]
The signing sheets for Postscripts #18 have come and gone on their merry way and I can say this with certainty: I have no signature. Truly, every single one of those sheets is unique. I am currently sitting in my car, which is at the moment a very expensive sculpture, on account of the battery […]