This
page will be mostly Australian, but with a few New Zealanders
thrown in for good luck. Mostly, it'll be links to point you in
the direction of Australian journals, but I'll also just throw
in stuff about Australia or NZ, as backdrop.
Older
stuff at the bottom.
July
19, 2001
Old
link but still worth a look; the 2000
Winners of the Australian Internet Awards. I'm less than impressed
with their main site,
the frames are hideous, they obscure rather than enhance the content,
which is my usual big problem with frames.
July
18, 2001
Been
remembering to read the Oz newpapers online, they're good sites
to go to if you want a close to insiders view of what makes the
news there. I tend to
blog the ones I want to comment on.
Sydney
Morning Herald
The
Age (Melbourne)
The
News (Australia wide, but covers the main rags in Adelaide)
A
comprehensive list of what Australian newspapers have an online
presence is nicely
provided by the National
Library of Australia. I'm a big fan of taxpayers dollars being
used for this!
July
17, 2001
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010716/80/by9xb.html
"While
107 people clog each square kilometre of Indonesia, in the archipelago's
neighbour to the south, Australians could easily build a giant
castle each as there are just 2.3 of them for every square kilometre."
When
I first got to the USA, and NJ in particular, I couldn't believe
the sheer numbers of people and cars and built up areas. I know
there are areas in the USA that have a small population density,
but I move from the one of the most sparsely populated countries
to one of the top 10 most densely populated States in the USA.
Culture shock for sure. People locally think the town we're in
is country, it's not densely populated. There's 30,000 people
in an area the same size as the town I grew up in. A town with
3000 people. Where I'm from is a reason the USA "heartland"
holds little appeal other than that of tourist visitor. The few
times I've lived away from water, it's been uncomfortable. We
Australians live mostly round the edges of our country, it shapes
us.
Nov
30, 2000
Very
few Americans would know (and until recently not many Australians
would recall it either) that the images beamed to Earth of Mr.
Armstrong's first great walk on the moon was brought to us via
the dish at Parkes.
I'm
quite impressed by this, and want to see this movie. Read the
entry in IE, cause it's got a nitfty little atmospheric sound
file that doesn't work in NN.
Nov
4, 2000
"I
propped myself up on my elbows for a while and watched the people
around me. Girls in groups of two and three in brightly coloured
bikini's. Two boys beside me with matching tans and bums in tight
speedo pants, rubbing lotion into each other and cooing. Parents
dipping their childrens feet in the water to pull them up again.
"
I
would have sliced
this , particularly Australian, but it's from March this year.
A trip to Coogee beach, been there, enjoyed that.
Nov
2, 2000
I am Australian too, and this
resonates. I've got my spellchecker trained, now for the rest
of the world.
October
30, 2000
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There's
a ring (*not a webring, cause Yahoo are bastards) here for joining
or reading through, and there's a mailing list.
Rules
for joining
the ring are here.
Rules
for joining
the list are here.
The
ring participants are listed
here. Go read, get a different world view.
October 30,
2000
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A direct
link to Diarist.net
registered Australian located journals.
A direct
link to Diarist.net
registered New Zealand located journals.
(Note,
these don't take into account expats living OS.)
October 30,
2000
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There's
a ring (*not a webring, cause Yahoo are still bastards) here for
joining or reading through.
Rules
for joining the ring
are here.
The
ring participants are listed
here. Go read, get a different world view.
October 30,
2000
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This
is my other home. Adelaide,
the capital city of South Australia, the State I was born in.
It's not the place of my birth, and it's not the place I curently
live in (also home, but in Southern New Jersey, USA), but this is
where I will one day live again.
Thanks
to Ransea for the link, he lives
in Adelaide, his is the flip side of me.
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