TV promos – social history – with garish fashions!
I love TV – must be a child of the 80s thing and having parents that let us watch enough – but not too much
5 February 2011
Blog
A visit to the past – New York’s Tenement Museum
Social history fascinates me – from looking at the names of the men on the local honour rolls when I was a kid and wondering
30 January 2011
Reviewed
Reviewed – Given Up for Dead – America’s Heroic Stand at Wake Island
Wake Island sits alone, an atoll in Pacific Ocean, in the middle of the nowhere, unimportant – at least it was until the US foresaw
7 January 2011
Reviewed – ANZAC Fury
Peter Thompson’s work on the Battle of Crete in 1941 is simply excellent. If you find military / political history fascinating, this is the type
3 January 2011
Reviewed – The Lords of Discipline
It’s ironic that this book is the first of many I’ll be reviewing and writing on – sometimes New Year’s ideas have a habit of
2 January 2011
PowerPoint-less?
It’s not personal at all. I am a good Word for Windows person. Autocorrect and I have had a strong, close, mutually beneficial working relationship
21 December 2010
The village by the river
By any measure, it was just another small town, nestled below the hills, next to the Murray River. But to me a few weekends ago,
15 November 2010
Issues management
Twitter – just a modern-day town square. Or whatever you think it is.
Okay – here’s a suggestion, an idea, a challenge – something that’s sure to raise the ire of some people: There are no great secrets
30 October 2010
Why Whateley may be right; and an Ashes Test team – four years from now
This morning on ABC1’s Offsiders, Gerard Whateley made some comments on the need for generational change in the Australian Test team. He was right. This coming
17 October 2010