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Supertramp

I’ve been trying to embed YouTube video but it isn’t working for me. Meh.

Anyhow this afternoon Bern talked about Supertramp on her Vault segment and I was suddenly back in 1984.

First year Uni. My boyfriend at the time had an old record player and a double album of Supertramp Paris – a live concert album which we played long and loud, in fact I do believe we shared our first kiss to this album… but I digress…

Later I can remember listening to the album on my cassette walkman as I tended to my baby banana plants, the subject of my fourth year project.  Don’t ask.  No, I’m not joking.

And when we broke up – I was listening to Free As A Bird.  Appropriate?
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I still have a The Very Best Of Supertramp in my car.

And my favourite song….oooh it’s so tough… 

{thinking music}

Hide in Your Shell

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Modern Life

What’s with soap?

In the news today: 

The full impact of the drought is sweeping through Perth’s supermarket shelves, with new figures showing prices of everyday foods have spiked 40 per cent over the past year.  Perth is now the most expensive capital city in the nation for a range of goods, from 2kg of flour to a frozen chook to a carton of low-alcohol beer, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. [The West] 

On the list – soap - up 39%.  What’s with that?  Surely it can’t be related to the drought!  Wouldn’t that mean there would be more soap around and therefore in an over-supply situation – wouldn’t you expect the price to drop?!!

So what is going on with soap?

Here are the ingredients of a common brand of soap:

Sodium Tallowate
Aqua (this is water – CB)  
Sodium Palm Kernelate
Glycerin
Parfum
Glycine Soja
Butyrospermum Parkii  
Tallow Acid
Palm Kernel Acid
Disodium Distyrylbiphenyl Disulfonate  
Sodium Chloride  
Tetrasodium EDTA  
Etidronic Acid  
Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone
Benzyl Salicylate  
Butylphenyl Methylpropional
Citronellol
Coumarin
Geraniol
Hexyl Cinnamal
Limonene
Linalool
CI 77891

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The second biggest ingredient in soap is water – and we know water is scarce. 

So the drought has affected the price of soap!

Yeah.  Right.

Beliefs, Current Affairs

A human rights bill for Western Australia

WA Attorney General Jim McGinty is expected to announce a plan to introduce a Bill of Rights in WA tomorrow. A panel led by well known human rights advocate and all round good guy Fred Chaney will tour the state in order to gather opinion. It’s an interesting idea.

Apparently we’re the only Western country in the world without one [1]Â or a national human rights act. In Australia, the ACT has had one in place for a few years and Victoria’s comes into effect in 2008.

So are our systems working as they are? Do we need a Commonwealth bill of rights? Plainly we don’t want one that gives us the right to bear arms – just look at how that’s worked or rather not worked in the US, but given we have a gap in longevity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous folk approaching 20 years, I think the answer could be yes.

But would a Bill of Rights lead to a reduction in that gap? And where does it leave our illegal immigrant policy? Does our anti-terrorism legislation need to be put through the filter of a human rights act? [2]Â Our record book has been blotted in recent years. [3]
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And is the Bill of Rights the way to go anyway? Professor James Allan from the University of Queensland has this to say:

I think the case against bills of rights is a moral case. You either prefer these decisions to be made by your fellow citizens, secretaries, plumbers, than you prefer them to be made by committees of ex-lawyers who used to be commercial lawyers or barristers. And no matter how you dress it up, I think it’s hard to justify handing these decisions over to lawyers. [4]

In my opinion – despite this – I lean toward putting in place a Bill of Rights. I believe having a legislative watchdog over what our parliamentarians will at the very least force them to put human rights on the table, and I’m not confident that it is there at the moment.

From the net, Modern Life

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Recipes

Beef Casserole

This is thanks to Roz.

Beef and Mushroom Casserole

1 kg Gravy Beef – diced, season with pepper and brown. Remove to bowl.
2/3 cup red wine – use to cook off the beef bits stuck to the pan then pour over beef.
Saute 2 medium onions, sliced and 1/2 celery stick, chopped.
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[from my old blog]

Yes I’m cooking it today.

From the net, Modern Life

Digital Pretender

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Modern Life, Work

Meeting Jimmy Wales

Weeks ago I put my hand up to attend a seminar featuring Jimmy Wales – the founder of Wikipedia – then promptly forgot about it.

Personally while I find wikis useful in terms of finding information I haven’t really felt the need to edit a page but I recognise that as a part of Web 2.0 we need to “get on board”. Also I’ve been questioning my career aspirations lately – is this the right role for me – could my skills be used better, or at least in a way that engages my interest better?

Anyway suffice to say I had no expectations when I showed up for the seminar this morning.

The seminar was presented by education.au and started with a welcome to country – a very personal account and quite accessable WTC, although I got the feeling the organisers thought it went on a bit.

Then we had Marget Collins from the WA Department of Education. From her introduction I discovered two new things. First – she used the term Digital Natives rather than Gen Y, which was interesting… I suspect to qualify you have to grow up with computers, which makes me a digital immigrant…and I’m not sure I like that term! And she said that the average age for teachers is 46.

At first I was horrified … 46!!!! That seems so old! But I guess if you consider teachers retire in their sixties, and don’t start teaching until they are 21ish… well maybe that’s just past the median point… They are unlikely to be digital natives though and that was her point.

Me and Jimmy WalesThen we met Jimmy Wales. Chairman, Wikia Inc. and founder of Wikipedia.

[for fashionistas out there he was wearing a velvet like pin-striped jacket over a laced up cream shirt over a black tee, black trousers and black rubber soled shoes]

Here are some interesting points from his speech:

Jimmy predicted the cost of textbooks and other learning materials (videos etc) would drop to zero, and that laptops would drop to $100, decreasing the digital divide.

He talked about the next billion users online – and how they would change the online community – being from places like Africa, South America, China and India.

He quoted a Nature article which said Wikipedia had an average of 4 errors per page, while Encyclopedia Brittanica had an average of 3. And their differences in reaction – EB threatened legal action, Wikipedia corrected the errors!

Monocultures are unsafe.

Jimmy said when you think of social networking software many think of all the bad things that can happen and design gatekeeper models.

A restaurant using this model would have each patron in a cage in case they stabbed eachother with the steak knives.

Rather developers need to use the accountability model.

To set up a Wiki community Jimmy recommends:

  • Have a simple, clear vision for what the wiki is about.
  • Have a core of people – 5-10 to impel it forward in the first instance.
  • Allow, as much as possible, the wiki community to come up with its own solutions.

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He said that neutrality was important. That disputes should be editorial rather than political or personal.

But what I liked most about his talk was that he said “the entire project is one of love”. How many projects can say that?

Then we had a forum with a number of education focussed bods, which was quite interesting and a workshop where we talked about how to implement a wiki in a work situation.. The bottom line for our group was that people had to feel safe to contribute – in terms of their IP, and their job – and that to get buy-in people needed to feel adding/using a wiki would value add to their work.

It was truly inspiring to meet someone with such an altruistic ideal as Jimmy.

Yep. I’m a fan.

And I love the fact his laptop is covered in stickers!