This place is hard on blogs. The last was hacked and the settings changed so I have built another. The data is archived elsewhere. Who needs to see old news and dusty thought processes? There are a few changes to the blog. It is a WordPress blog while the one that was hacked was a […]

The Fish is a large painting I have been working on for years. Now that I am feeling stronger the work seems to pass easily but the last couple of years I couldn’t even stand looking at it as it meant work I did not have the energy to face. It is all-but finished now […]

I bought the Soloman WS-622B Speakers online from Itsbits computers on Ebay. They are promoting a real world business and the delivery was pretty fast. Until I had these speakers I would have said there was no such thing as a three inch sub-woofer no matter what box it was built into or how much […]

For most of the people I know one of the constant unexpected costs are the size and composition of their mobile phone bill. My mother just got caught by entering an Optus competition. She had apparently subscribed to a service without understanding that it was going to cost her squillions every time she called to […]