I am glad at last that the Australian Government has formally and completely apologised for it’s mistreatment of the indigenous population of this country. What it did to eradicate the alternative genetic strain of our heritage was nothing less than an ethnic cleansing, an attempt at least conducted between the 30’s and 70’s of the last century to dominate the country and enforce the anglo-saxon way.
I am glad it was a failure and that all these years later we are being held accountable for our actions, to say Sorry and to acknowledge what has been done.
I enjoyed seeing the country at an early age, venturing into central Australia and experiencing this alternative culture while I was young opened my eyes to the world at large, the vast differences in people that are among us and that deserve to be here. We are all visitors to this land, the land of this planet and the greater acceptance of people on a level playing field (albeit a ball in space) needs to be seen by each and every one of us.
So we say sorry, we apologise for the actions of our forefathers, the controlling and dominating forces elected as our representatives in the times past and we all should take this as a lesson that our actions may impact others forever more.
With reduced worry, but with no less humility I also say sorry for not posting things to my blog for a while. I got this site all started with good intentions and expected to have things to say almost on a daily basis. That’s not wrong, but I didn’t foresee all the time it would take to achieve. So for that reason alone, it’s not happening as often as I would like but I working on it and will endeavour to post more regular updates. On the other hand, I am also making a concerted effort to not be a complaining whinger, most of the things people post on blogs, and for that matter, things I want to get off my chest are just complaints anyway so I am avoiding posting that at the moment.
Stay tuned, good things will come of it all…
Well yeah, if you get good value, but is that a real value or a perceived value?
Given the opportunity, spending a little more can really make it better, the quality of some things can be determined by what you spend and where you buy it from.
This all came about a few years ago when my wife and I went on a holiday and used some available frequent flyer points to get nice business class tickets. My wife used to travel a lot and she is a princess so getting the upgrade for some extra luxury is a must. We got to the airport on the day and I naturally dragged myself toward the long(ish) queue at the check-in desk like all the other sheep. My darling wife then tapped me on the shoulder and reminded me of our
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Well I am getting on the bandwagon, as a fellow Australian, Corey is going to make me famous, or infamous or at least rich because just by including his name in my blog I will get hits. Watch the viewer traffic come in and the advertising links I have rake in the cash, for me, not for him. And just to prove it, (retraction)… feed me. Look I am wearing big funny 20c glasses (to hide my dish pan eyes) and I got no shirt on. I need clicking… There’s my ego, there’s my ego… (retraction, I am not allowed to provoke viewers into clicking my ads, so don’t, I plea with you…) and apologies, it wasnt intended…
So the web is abound with content, links news and info on the ultimate ‘Dickhead’ Corey Delaney. Hey gets his butt ugly head on the news for advertising a street address and party on Myspace, he gets on A Current Affair so that some blonde 22 year old chick can berate him like it’s his mother and ask him if he’s had a good look at himself. He then gets on Today Tonight, on Tuesday, as he hides from his parents, and um, from the world it seems, slumming it on
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I haven’t been asked or paid to do it, nor have I been coerced or suggestively steered toward doing this, for no other reason I gave this program a shot and so far I like it. So much so that I feel that I should be willing to say so.
Something made me come back to this and give it another try today, I had a quick look at it a while ago, but this particular program requires two parts. The application which for the most part is simple, and the other part, a web server end, a blog or a place for which it can publish to. Last time I didn’t really have a blog, now I do and now I find this new version is quite nice to use and surprisingly powerful. It found my blog, the type of blog and all the details from it quite quickly. Then I found the extra add-ins they have now and thought, “I should try them out and what better way but to use it, create with it and just go forth and blog about it”.
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I am getting older…
That’s no secret
And along this path I am encountering new things that I didnt experience before…
That’s no surpise.
Alcahol seems to have this strange effect the next day now, more specifically the next morning, this horrible thing called a hangover makes me all slow and sore after a night of fun. The older I get the more I experience of life, medical things, family things, generally life experiences to which I was previously oblivious, and now sometimes thankfull for it.
Unfortunatley, aside from my parents, I suddenly am experiencing the horrible issues of divorce, not myself thankfully, my friends and family seem to be venturing into this unfortunate and terrible process of seperation in their lives. I watch from the sides, not sure what to do, not sure even what to say, and totally at a loss as to be able to help.
So now a good friend has been told that he is about to get a divorce, it wasnt his idea you see, it came from left field (where his wife hangs out) and told him it was the case. These things are hard to recover from, almost impossible to retract, change or avoid once they are out there. So this is the start of something that I have seen before and know where its leading to.
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