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Category Archives: sydney

Suicide sparks stabilisation debate

A young Sydney man was found dead overnight in what appears to be an Australian first; an environmentally motivated suicide. Alex Greenwood, 23, a self-proclaimed ‘hippy’ and neo-Malthusian was found dead late last night at his home in Campbelltown. “He was very passionate; willing to go that extra mile for causes that he believed in” [...]

Repaying my debt to society

Today I repayed my debt to society. My temporary lack of propriety was noticed by an City of Sydney enforcement officer, and a penalty notice for offence code 9607 was issued to me: I am now $60 lighter, or to be more accurate, my credit card is $60 heavier. Certainly taught me a lesson, however, [...]

Christmas in pictures

Here is my belated Christmas ’06 run-through. I finally got around to getting the photos uploaded off of Bob’s camera, only to find that unfortunately it seems that I was unable to use his camera correctly (they look fine as thumbnails, but very blurry when viewed full-size): Our fantastically-decorated Christmas tree. This has to be [...]

Hard times in Tahoe^W^W^W^W^WSydney

Something I should have posted earlier: Bob has a nice (albeit old) post showing some of the tougher sides of life here in Sydney.

Arrival

Wow, so much has happened in the last month, it’s pretty astounding. I now live in Sydney with my older brother, his gf, their friend Bob, and a couple other flatmates. Currently looking for work also, I just applied for a C++ programming job (still have no idea what sort of programming work it is [...]