I had a coffee with Laurel Papworth yesterday to catch up on life in general, but also to tap her brain with regard to a project that I am putting together. The project is in regard to a possible infringement action on behalf of a songwriter that I signed back in 1979. The first song [...]
Eighteen Months ago, I bought a 1 Terrabyte Lacie Big Ethernet Drive from a reseller on eBay for $530.00 (advertised with a three year warranty). I purchased the Lacie because a friend of mine who was in the video production game told me, “You can’t go past the Lacie drives, they’re indestructible.” On [...]
I went into town this morning to get some new business cards printed at the local printer. He occupies an old building on the main street, narrow at the front, but incredibly long. He asked me what I wanted, and I told him that I had the artwork for the card on a flash drive. [...]
I was in Sydney yesterday for a meeting. In the car on the way up I had been listening to a BBC podcast and an author was interviewed about her new book (How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer). Pardon my ignorance but I had never [...]
The fastest growing and most successful Companies in the World are the proof against an increased attention by anyone to the importance of Copyright and Trademark. For sometime I have been lobbying hard against Australia’s involvement in ACTA. Lobbying Koltai? Is that what you call it? Well yes. I don’t have access in [...]
Sometimes you can read a paragraph and skip right over important words. It is not till later that something in the brain clicks and says “Whoa”! The other day I quoted a paragraph from wikileaks: In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a treaty-making process to create a new global [...]
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The latest craze (meme) on Facebook is co-op farming. The backbone mainstay of the communist co-operatives and Israeli Kibutzes, localized farms have proven to be vital when attempting to provide food for a decentralized population (more than 5 miles from the food growing establishment (farm, dairy, piggery, hatchery, etc) What about Coles, [...]
We start today, with a little wind-up. Just like a clockwork mechanism, a Blog should wind up the tension, to allow the bell to be struck with a clear ringing blow. So get a coffee, put your feet up, take a deep breath and… Why did God prohibit Adam and Eve from partaking of [...]
In today's Sydney Morning Herald there were two stories about music in live venues. The first story was in the main body of the paper on page 3 and titled “Music off the menu as licensing row heats up“. The second story was in the Good Living magazine section and subtitled “A suitable soundtrack can [...]