Rash

I just caught Nicholas Hansen's film Rash, about street art in Melbourne. An excellent little film, with a good balance of opinions from various artists and councillors. Worth looking out for if you missed it.

The pier re-vitalised

St.Kilda Pier has been given a boost with the recent opening of the kiosk, re-built after the previous one was destroyed by fire in late 2003. With the kiosk open that means that the breakwater is now also accessible for that evening stroll. Look out for penguins, too!
I feel fortunate to live in this part of Melbourne, and those who know me may know that I have a large collection of photos taken down at the pier, during different seasons, different times of day, from various points of view. It's especially nice to visit late in an autumn afternoon, after a heavy rain.

Back after Easter, and time I posted on this blog. Emma from the UK was down in this this neck of the woods for a couple of weeks, so it was nice to show her around a bit of Melbourne. We also went down to Hobart for six days and visited Mt.Field, Richmond and Salamanca Market, among other places. Some bike riding along the Pipeline Track on a rainy Good Friday was also a welcome bit of outdoor adventure.
While in Hobart I visited my old school (The Friends' School) to sit in with Paul Radford's (a friend from a while back) music class - I had a listen to some of the students' recording projects. There was some good stuff there - it's great how computing has made high-quality recording so available to ordinary mortals.

Was just reading about fake iPods. I'm surprised these haven't been around sooner. Maybe they have. I've ordered a 12" Powerbook G4, which hopefully will arrive in the next day or so. The MacBooks with the Intel processors beckoned in a `sort-of' way, but I'm waiting for a smaller version to be released, and if the forums (fora for pedants?) are to be believed, Adobe Photoshop - which I use quite a bit - is some way off from being ready for the Intel system. I was reading a review of the MacBook Pro today in a prominent Australian PC magazine, and they said they liked the inclusion of a battery meter that didn't require the computer to be turned on. My Pismo G3 has that and it's six years old!

Jim Wallis in Melbourne

Sojourner's Jim Wallis will be speaking in Melbourne this Sunday at the Town Hall, along with Tim Costello from World Vision.