* * Happy ’stralia day! * *

Richard Glover’s How do you tell if you are a true Aussie? is a fun read.

(My snag is girt by the gray background of the page??)

I have just revamped my entire website.

This is part of the move to integrate my design and consulting work into a meaningful entity.

Please have a look and let me know what you think!

These are a few slides from a talk I gave to a group of high school students on the media messages and their impact on our lives/body image last year, as part of the Eating Disorders Foundation of NSW’s annual Youth Forum.

Fashion designers work to a fantasy of what the human body looks like. They are taught how to draw human figures in …

While reading this article on the SMH on Amazon’s Kindle ebook device, the following quote caught my eye:

“It’s, I guess, the feel of holding a book that someone really put a lot of effort into writing, and you kind of lose that a little bit with a digital product,” said Katy Farina, 21, of Montgomery, New Jersey.

The underlying assumption seems to be that the physical nature …

2008 marks my tenth year of being my own boss. (And 16 years of professional practice!)

There will be new things a-happening on here when I get a breather.

A big thank you to everyone for all your support, encourage and custom over the years.

Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave
us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, an ill-adapted
nocturnal animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age. He passed around a
skull as he talked. We all took notes and later had a quiz.

When he returned my paper, I was shocked. There was a big red X through
each of my …

I joined the Boxing Day crowd today and caught The Golden Compass at the cinema. It was great. Loved it. I had read the books years ago and enjoyed them then too.

It had all the classic themes that makes for a good story. One that can be enjoyed on many levels. Good vs evil. Freedom vs oppression. What resonated most with me was how our individual choices make …

This thought sparked by a line in Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince:

There are two kinds of strengths.

The strength to do bold things, and the strength to suffer great hardship.

Stoicism may well be a virtue; but when does it become a draining source of misery?

Which are you stronger at? What are you suffering tight now that you have the power to remove?

About 400 years ago, some humans on the other side of the planet made this rude giant at Cerne Abbas.

A few days ago, some other humans near where I live made this in a carpark (not quite at the same scale).