Those who check this site (if anyone does) somewhat occasionally, would notice a completely new design. This is my own design that I finally got to a working state on August 28th and am now currently beta testing. This is my first self‐designed drupal site (drupal is the community plumbing that powers this site) and my largest foray in using CSS for layout. I spent several weeks attempting to removing bugs that I ended up not being able find, so restarted the coding three times until, all of a sudden, it worked. So here is v1.0 beta. To provide an rss news feed — …

Today I started reading Douglas Coupland Generation X a Canadian friend passed it on to me. It followed a recent comment from another friend that you (generically) need to read books without bibliographies. I found this to be quite a succinct way of putting it, and as I was wanting to read non‐academic material quite a timely remark. Reading this book – where I obtained we spend our youth attaining wealth and our wealth attaining youth – has already provided for some deep and critical reflection on my own perspectives. I am only some 50 pages into t…

A friend included these inspiring and valuable words in a recent email: i don’t go through life with expectations. preferences maybe… but not expectations. In reflection of my outlooks to the world — and a specific aim of living prefiguratively (i.e. be the change) — I think this is quite prophetic. I do not personally think I can could remove all expectations from my life. I know when I meet new people, especially those who come across as progressive and aware I not only assume this awareness extends across to animals, it is an oft-unconscious expectation I have. This is not as in my saying t…

I find the rise of the ‘pentecostal‐style church’ in Australia as not only very scary, it is a phenomenon that has significant implications for society more generally. Given my explicit anarchist outlook, my rejection of hierarchy clearly indicates that I am not a believer in any notion of a ‘god’. It also indicates support for ‘freedom’ of opinion. The issue here lies not with its ‘religious’ basis per se, rather the societal implications of this phenomenon and a strong concern for those part of, or succumbing to, the machinations of it. Images of those now a part of …