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“ONE of the so-called Gunns 20 legal-action activists has won the nation’s major environmental award. Louise Morris, 28, was named winner yesterday of the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Peter Rawlinson Conservation Award. She was honoured for her environmental activism and forest conservation work in WA and Tasmania. Ms Morris, of Fern Tree, is one of 20…

Keeping an eye on Google News as I do, it’s appeared to me that many stupid Australians are calling for a boycott of Bali due to Schapelle Corby being caught with 4.1kg of cannabis and imprisoned accordingly. I’d just like to say that if you’re one of them, you are a quite a stupid fool…

Hooray! My favourite domain registrar with whom all my domains are registered, RegisterFly.com, finally has an affiliate program, so now you can just click this little ad below and register your domains cheaply and easily. No more just recommending them to friends, now I can make 15% by you following one of my links! Great…

Well, it’s been a few days and I’m settling in nicely. It’s a damn shame Cat’s university commitments didn’t allow her to come with me, but I’ll survive. Pacung Indah‘s new menu is at the printers so i’ve been testing some of the new dishes and some of the new cocktails. Mmmm. Today (or maybe…

Wow – was that three weeks back in Melbourne? Anyhow, back off to Bali I go in the morning, Should be interesting. I won’t be available on my mobile (although Cat will) so email me if you need me!

Atomic bomb test, 25 May 1953, Nevada, USA. Codename: Grable Yield: 15 kilo ton (size of the Hiroshima bomb). Grable was an artillery test, fired from a 280mm cannon… and further contaminating land and air with many radioactive elements including plutonium 239 (half-life 24,400 years). This photo (US Dep of Energy) taken from 7 miles…

Pulp mill project gets Tas Budget support. 20/05/2005. ABC News Online: “Pulp mill project gets Tas Budget support More than $6 million over three years will be spent on initiatives supporting the Gunns Pulp Mill project proposed for Longreach, near Bell Bay in northern Tasmania. The funding announced in the state Budget includes $2 million…

A handy page for those times when you might not want to wake someone up on the other side of the world.

Time flies when you’re having fun – it feels like I’ve been in South Korea for ever. Now I’m at Incheon Airport in Seoul about to get on my plane back to Australia.   I miss all the wonderful friends I left behind in ‘Happy, Happy, Happy’ Jangsaengpo already, but I know we’ll meet again in…

Freaky stuff from the sea I’d only ever seen in doocumentaries. And plenty I hadn’t imagined.