Sam Wilson's Journal
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Is there anything more important in the landscape than a beautiful tree? Cutting one down should never be undertaken lightly, and should never be the sole decision of a land-owner; they effect everyone else’s amenity far too greatly. The ACT has a tree register — I’m not sure if Freo does (I was, oddly enough, [...]
[Keywords: Carrington Street, Fremantle, Hamilton Hill, landscape, nature, suburbia, trees] [No comments] [Permanent link]
The Fremantle Society AGM was held last night, at FTI. Always inspiring to talk to people (before and after the meeting) about why they care about Freo. Perhaps less so concerning some of the discussions (during the meeting) — that seem at times to be more about people airing their personal gripes than working for [...]
[Keywords: cafés, Fremantle, Fremantle Society, meetings] [No comments] [Permanent link]
There’s going to be a Freo Bloggers’ meetup in three weeks, at X-Wray cafe on August 2nd, from about 5:30PM. Photo by Pedro Figueiredo [CC-BY-SA-2.0] Partly inspired by the activity starting to happen on Freospace blogs (and the possibilities of disagreement therein!), but mainly just because it’s nice to have a beer after work and [...]
[Keywords: Blogging, FICRA, Fremantle, Freospace, Writing, X-Wray] [One comment] [Permanent link]
The OpenStreetMap of Hilton currently looks like this: [source] Which is pretty good, considering some parts of Perth; but it could be much better. So I’ve downloaded some Walking Papers (it’s rather an easy way to get a map printed on a grid of individual pages, along with an index page; here, there’s seventeen A4 [...]
[Keywords: Figo's, Fremantle, Hilton, mapping, Openstreetmap, revolution] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’ve just returned from the official launch of Freospace, the council’s new publishing platform for precincts (not to be too alliterative about it or anything), at the North Fremantle bowling club. It’s a collection of blogs, one for each precinct, to which precinct members can post news and whatnot—mostly minutes of meetings so far, but [...]
[Keywords: Blogging, Fremantle, Fremantle Council, Freospace, precincts] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Setting up a event calendar in FreoWiki: freo.org.au/wiki/Events.
[Keywords: calendar, Coming events, Fremantle, FreoWiki, Semantic MediaWiki] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Wasn’t there a sign there last week? Perhaps someone took Tilden’s fourth principle to heart? The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
[Keywords: Captains Lane, Fremantle, Heritage interpretation, Roundhouse, West End] [One comment] [Permanent link]
I am trying to get my head around all of the various places that Fremantle features (regularly, topically) on the Web. I want to figure out where the Fremantle Society’s website fits in, and what it might be used for (what might be missing from elsewhere). So I started from the outside, yesterday, and moved [...]
[Keywords: Blogging, community, Fremantle, Fremantle City Council, Fremantle Society, History, journalism, NaBloPoMo, recording, semantic web, websites, Wikimedia, Wikipedia] [One comment] [Permanent link]
I have recently started helping to maintain The Fremantle Society’s website (fremantlesociety.org.au), and it’s reminding me of why I work in IT and of how much I’ve been missing being part of any greater endevour (with people, I mean, and working together for some purpose — as I once did with the Coop, for instance). [...]
[Keywords: causes, collaboration, Fremantle, Fremantle Society, heritage, MediaWiki, technology, The Co-operative Food Shop, websites] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have been working again this morning down at the Local History Collection at the library. The newspaper clippings’ catalogue is progressing — up to a hundred and thirty clippings so far — and proving to be quite an interesting project. This morning I got up to the end of 1953, the beginning of ’54, [...]
[Keywords: archiving, cataloguing, Fremantle, indexing, local history, newspapers, volunteering, wikisource, world wide web] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Urban Adventure in Rotterdam Not that I’m bored today at work or anything, as you can see: not posting for a month, then here I am warbling on about urban exploration! But then I would really rather be out charting the course of a drain, or sketching the rust scars on a strange unknowable lump [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, Fremantle, how I write, Investigation, Place, Placeblogging, Railway] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Homeward Bound — August 26th, 2007, 6PM
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Every evening as I head home on the intertown, the view west from the bridge reminds me of all that I love most about Canberra. The sun setting behind Black Mountain, with the ANU tucked in amongst the trees and the lake there, all still and calm, and I wonder what more I could ask [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, dichotomy, Fremantle, Place, Placeblogging, Transport, University] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Dave Robertson at the Front — August 23rd, 2007, 3PM
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Dave Robertson has a gig at the Front in Lyneham.
[Keywords: Canberra, Coming events, Fremantle, People] [No comments] [Permanent link]
My Sandstone University — May 3rd, 2007, 12AM
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Well, look here, I really can’t think very well at this time of night, so I don’t think you should expect much of this post. I’m thinking of that cave just up from the Palm Tree Beach, the one who’s main enterance caved in a few years ago, leaving only the other more convoluted way [...]
[Keywords: Fremantle, Investigation, photography, Place, Posts written when drunk] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Spareparts Puppet Teatre; the now-ornamental crane at ‘E’ Shed; a line of billboards hiding much; and the corner of the railway station — these form the horizon of my view from here. There’s Norfolk Pines, this café’s umbrellas, and the awning above filling in most of the rest of the scene, and all framed by [...]
[Keywords: Fremantle, Investigation, Place, Railway, Things] [No comments] [Permanent link]
