To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
--Oscar Wilde
One and only sunny Liz, who really is the soul of the blogosphere in our times, deeply observes: I really like our country stores a lot. My life would be less without all of you What a privilege indeed to share stories with characters like Liz!
Ann Althouse's contribution to the Bloggership conference of bloggin' law professors is well worth downloading. Even though it's written to coax a specialized audience off its safe shore of stodginess, timidity and pomposity and into the fast-moving waters of blogging, it's one of the best all-round blogging manifesti yet, especially for any blogger who does other kinds of writing for a living and/or calling. If your previously otherwise configured brain has been bloggified, you'll savor observations like these: Blogging is life -- in writing, in public. It's not a job or a break from a job. It's everything you might think about. Blogging is art. Paean To / Theory Of Blogging
The Blog, The Press, The Media: From dirt to digital: love for laptops
Sometimes you cannot help dumb luck. With resource prices booming, Australia’s export economy is riding high on the commodities boom . But for all the Keating Government’s talk of Australia becoming a “clever country”, economically we remain resolutely stupid: still digging dirt and growing plants for an export buck
Australia got off to a running start in the computer era. With Federal Government backing, the CSIRO designed and built the world’s fifth electronic computer; CSIRVAC in 1949. This was a major technical achievement and saw Australian computer technology at the forefront of international development.
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