October 20, 2006 – 9:46 am
Christian article: are you hopeless enough?
October 20, 2006 – 9:30 am
Outsourcing high school tutoring to India (they’re even providing American accent training to the tutors).
October 19, 2006 – 10:55 pm
Let’s say you do something wrong in a relationship. You know it’s wrong, and the other person knows it’s wrong, but they let you get away with it. It’s wrong, but it benefits you somehow, at the cost of the other person.
There’s now a tiny window where this wrong thing is just a wrong thing: [...]
October 19, 2006 – 11:31 am
Barzura café, coogee
Primo coffee. Overlooking the beach, and with aeroguard on the tables, there’s something particularly aussie about this place. Seating for probably 60 inside, and another 20-30 outside with a mix of sun and shade. Staff are friendly and helpful, and the water is brought out un-summoned, always [...]
October 17, 2006 – 11:11 pm
moon jellyfish
Kel and I spent a few hours at Sydney Aquarium as part of her birthday celebrations - she’s been encouraging me to go for a long while, and it was a great thing to do together - and especially to go outside the school holidays.
God has made some [...]
October 16, 2006 – 11:09 am
I’m selling my old 17″ G4 powerbook; it has an 80GB hard-drive, 1GB of RAM, a 1.33GHz processor, and still has Applecare warranty until December… let me know (email to powerbook at cafedave.net) if you’re interested.
October 14, 2006 – 5:02 pm
When you’re having a conversation via email, there is a certain leisure about it: you put your ideas forth, and eventually (sometimes immediately, sometimes after a year or more), the response comes back. A long dormant conversation can easily be picked up again, if the other party is willing.
One of the strangest things about having [...]
October 14, 2006 – 2:15 pm
Movie: The Departed
A Martin Scorsese film, in my experience, is usually full of drugs and violence, and this is no exception. Indeed the violence has been toned down somewhat, so it’s not as graphic: you’re more likely to see the result of the event than the impact itself. An unusually high amount of bad language [...]
October 14, 2006 – 1:50 pm
berkelouw.cafe, leichhardt
Neoma coffee. Attached to the norton st bookshop of the same name, there’s a choice of outdoor / street frontage seating or indoor airconditioned seating. On this 37 degree day, we choose the latter. A little expensive compared to nearby coffee suburbs. Concrete floors, and the tables (order [...]
October 13, 2006 – 6:07 pm
Café bello, burwood
Piazza d’oro coffee. A burwood institution; fairly high prices, largely due to its burwood-road-but-in-westfield location. Normally i’m scared away by a breakfast menu where the meals include chips, and indeed this is a reflection of the target demographic - the whole family, including the older generation.
There are [...]
October 13, 2006 – 1:42 pm
Interview with a widow on grieving with those who grieve.
October 13, 2006 – 1:33 pm
M&M’s movie recognition game. Find the 50 films hidden in the painting
October 13, 2006 – 9:36 am
The phrase Cancer boy must now be politically correct - the SMH is using it.
October 12, 2006 – 11:00 pm
Granted, this is an ideal circus for talkback radio to immerse itself in - RSL rethinks flag idea after threats. I don’t want to try and say the offence that the person committed - in the height of the Cronulla riots - was justified, or acceptable. Burning or defacing an Australian flag is a bad [...]
October 12, 2006 – 1:22 pm
Dystopian short story: "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
October 12, 2006 – 12:59 pm
Mechanical Apple Peeler/Corer/Slicer
October 12, 2006 – 8:30 am
[jill] Earn $10 for blogging about your experience at McDonald’s
October 12, 2006 – 8:05 am
Balmoral sand bar, balmoral beach
La casa del caffe coffee. Concrete floor, furnishings that suit its beachside location. Friendly staff, once they take your order, which can be a while. Customers are mostly locals grabbing breakfast and some sun pre-work.
Coffee is pre-ground, sitting in the hopper for at least five [...]
October 11, 2006 – 9:53 am
Homiletics (a preaching magazine) interviews Getting-things-done guru David Allen.