Grafton to Inverell 2009
02 March 2009
Some photos over at Flickr. And some that Les took.
Mortimer est mort
22 January 2009
Missed this the other day, but John Mortimer died.
Rumpole remains one of my very favouritest creations, as played by the late Leo McKern.
Dude's a lefty
22 January 2009
I knew there was a good reason why I warmed to Obama.
Copyright violation from The Big Picture, which had some marvellous photos of the inauguration. We really are in a golden age of photography.
Coolest lawyer ever
20 December 2008
From ABC News online:
Michael Kirby addresses the Griffith Uni graduating law students.
The retiring judge said he did not want to be tedious, so he dived straight into what he said was the most important thing he had discovered in life.
"I refer to love. Love for one another. Love for our community. Love for others everywhere in the world.
"Love, you see, transcends even scholarship, cleverness and university degrees. It is greater than pride and it's greater than wealth. It endures when all worldly vanities fade."
He urged the graduates to take love into their future workplaces.
*****
I heard him on the radio saying this stuff, and it certainly made my heart glad. And then I thought, well what about William Deane with all the brave and wonderful stuff he did on reconciliation when he was G-G, and Brennan and Mason. And Ron Wilson. And Gibbs.
The High Court in the 80s and 90s was full of cool lawyers.
'Round the lake
11 December 2008
Still working on the briztreadley site design, so still inflicting ademack.com readers with cycling images. This is me riding around Lake Taupo the other week. Contrast with the 'After' shot below.
After
02 December 2008
On Saturday I rode the Lake Taupo Challenge. I know I said the cycling stuff would go on the new site, but I haven't got that ready yet, so this is maybe one last cycling post on this site.
Anyway, this is how I look when I take a self-portrait after riding 160km in 5 hours 40 minutes.
I haz a squeezebox
... lol
26 November 2008
Spent last night installing the Logitech Squeezebox that I snaffled on eBay recently. List price for one of these is A$450, which is too much to pay. But there was a batch of four up for auction on eBay and they went for $130 each.
I've always been impressed with the idea of the Squeezebox, and it has always scored very good reviews. It streams the music stored on your computer across a wireless network to your stereo. Suddenly you never need to find a CD again. At our place, listening to music in the lounge room had just about gone the way of the dodo, as the CDs are hidden away, and the DVD player/hard disk TV recorder was the only device attached to our stereo.
But now? All our (digital) music is only a snazzy black remote away. Plus there's the added bonus that the Squeezebox can stream internet radio stations ... just perfect for some classical or background jazz while reading.
And of course these days there's plenty of storage space for your music. Disk space is cheap.
The only remaining hurdle: digitising the record collection. Like that's ever going to happen! (Outsource it for $35 per LP!?! ... surely that's something you should send to Bangalore to be done for $5 per LP?)
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