Sam Wilson's Journal

Triple Gripe: Eighteen buckets of water for A.'s garden. A cycle over to my new community garden plot in O'Connor. And now much grief caused by our bothersome host. It's fun carrying buckets, when one doesn't have to worry about getting sunburnt. I'm oh-so-e…
My very own garden plot: I've got a community garden plot at the COGS O'Connor garden. It's 9x5 metres, on an old tennis court, and has nothing but weeds growing on it at the moment (because I only picked up the key yesterday). A. and M. have also got plots there; we're al…
Untitled: It's a rainy old morning in Canberra. It's all dim and damp and cool, and all things are fairly happy. I've been to the garden this morning, as usual, and I've some photos of the garden, with Adele's plot in the foreground, and a bit of my plot.…
so cold: Why oh why does Tilley's not open until nine o'clock?! Doesn't anyone in Lyneham understand the joys of escaping first thing in the morning to a nice warm cafÃ©, a good book, and the ignoring of everything one's supposed to be doing for a few hour…
Placeblogging: I learnt a new word today: placeblog. (By saying that, I may be showing myself up to be rather behind the times; if that's the case, then I guess I am behind the times. Oh well.) Placeblogging is blogging about place (suprisingly), and generally…
auDA Community Geographic Domain Name Review: From auDA > Policy Reviews > CGDN Review - Aug 2007 auDA is conducting a 12 month review of the Policy Rules and Guidelines for Community Geographic Domain Names (CGDNs). Send your comments to Jo Lim (Chief Policy Officer, auDA) at jo.lim@auda.org…
How CGDNs might help build a sense of belonging.: My brain is feeling pretty groggy at the moment, so excuse any pointlessness in this post. Not that there's ever any point to my posts, but that's beside the point. I'm at work, almost thinking that the afternoon's nearly half-gone and so, well, wh…
Fake World DOES Contain Humans: All has gone well, since my last post, with my intra-office carlessness. My announcement ("I don't go in cars; don't ask me to.") has been met with near universal acceptance (or silence), to my great relief. I had wondered whether the conversations…
Blog Action Day: Bloggers unite. Today is blog action day, when we write about 'the environment' in order to 'save it'. Oh yeah. Tom Worthington calls for less emails; but I concur with Paul Kingsnorth, and say: smash your computer and lock on to the nearest air…
walk walk walk: [about walk walk walk] The above is about walking in a local urban area, and doing so to get to know where you live. A great idea, I think, and it's something that I'm very keen on. …
Turning Over an Old Leaf: So here I am, back in the office, and bored again. I have spent the morning trawling the Arts Full Text database; from the 'Notebooks' category, to 'Reading and Books', and thence to things about binding, I've been remembering that thrill of quiet…