Guide to pants off living
October 2005
Gigs... so many gigs. Wanna Come?
Monday, 31 October 2005
For the next six weeks or so, I'm an honourary Diddley Daddy and these guys are hot! I've got gigs comin' out of orifices that I didn't know I had. You must come along. Here are the dates;
Friday 4th November, Prince Albert Hotel, Williamstown
Saturday 5th November, Corner Hotel, Richmond Twisterama
Saturday 12th November, Manchester Lane, City
Saturday 26th November, Queenscliff Music Festival (12pm and 5pm)
Saturday 3rd December, Whittlesea
Friday 9th December, Prince Albert Hotel, Williamstown
Huge huh? In between all of this madness I'm also playing with Hey Gringo and they may have the odd date or two sneak in among these.
Posted by travo at 3:18:07 PM
Circus!
Wednesday, 26 October 2005
This is a public cervix announcement - get yourself down to see this years Women's Circus. My lil' sister Anne is performing in it this year and I'm damn proud of her efforts - she's been bustin' her ass, honin' her chops, and tumbling harder than a tumble-weed. This should be a lot of fun.
See you there.
Posted by travo at 1:26:00 PM
Pies?
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
This is great, it's a mad little piece of writing which attempts to explain the rules of cricket. Reminds me of this though...which is completely irrelevant.
Who ate all the pies?
Who ate all the pies?
You fat bastard, You fat bastard.
You ate all the pies.
Posted by travo at 12:57:49 PM
Cannon fodder.
Friday, 21 October 2005
Bruce Scheiner is writing for Wired and although I know who he is and my esteemed friends and colleagues acknowledge his importance in the field I wouldn't go looking to read his thoughts on security.
Fortunately though, his articles on Wired are well within my news radar and today his article has illustrated not something vitally important about security but rather something about how we are seen by lawyers and politicians : cannon fodder.
Howard Schmidt another security expert has suggested that software developers, individually should be responsible for ensuring that their work is free from vulnerabilities. Scheiner argues against this, rightly suggesting that it is the responsiblity of the companies who are hiring these individuals to create this software to have the process and dilligence to ensure the products they release are minimally defective (I'm sure this is / will become an industry term ;-).
The litigious activity of the RIAA illustrates how easy it is to go after individuals; they're poorly equipped to fight back - essentially an easy target. Popping an unlucky few will send a message back to the rest of you!
Going after a company though is tricky. They're evasive, much better equipped with both finance and resources to fight back if cornered so if you're going to go after them you better have your case nice and tight - and that's hard work.
Much easy to go after the smaller targets...
Posted by travo at 9:20:12 AM
John Doyle is my master now
Friday, 21 October 2005
If you missed it on the telly, get on over to the ABC and read or listen to John Doyle's speech given at the annual Andrew Ollie lecture.
I'm a big fan of John Doyle. Informally introduced through a friend of his, 'Rampaging' Roy Slaven I'm always entertained and moved by his strong grasp of what it is to be an Australian - in an historical context and also in current cultural climate.
Alongside his understanding of what it is to be an Australian is a clear sense of dignity, compassion, intelligence and wit.
His speech for Andew Ollie is a broad sweeping glance at the state of Australian media and there are critical moments when he highlights its many failings in a way that should make those involved feel ashamed - without attacking them, ranting and spitting violently. Johns words are strong and assured. Not a mild "How could you?" but more of a "Did you stop to consider...?"
Listen to the lecture. It's great.
Posted by travo at 8:49:08 AM
Is it getting hot in here?
Thursday, 20 October 2005
Just finished reading Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers and I'm now seeing my country, my city, my street, my house and my car with greener eyes.
There's plenty going on to encourage people to change their behaviour at a very localised level - change your energy provider, reduce your energy consumption, use public transport, maintain a compost heap, reduce your water usage - to decrease greenhouse gasses.
Meli and I went through the check list of stuff that we do to increase our contribution sustainability, and we're a good 8-9 out of ten.
But...
It's just looking at other people and wondering, what are you doing? Cause, mate, it really matters to all of us. Not just the pinko-lefty-commie-bastard-greenie-hippies anymore.
I've moved on from Flannery's book to Diamond's 'Collapse' and this too is providing to be a very enlightening and motivating read.
I almost flinched and said that these books had made me frightened, but no; I'm definitely motivated.
Posted by travo at 1:25:44 PM | Comments (2)
Wait a minute...
Tuesday, 11 October 2005
I'm back!
Yeah, sorry. It's been a while hasn't it. Since I last posted I've been to Hong Kong and China for a few weeks, shamefully, I've been back three weeks already and haven't friggin' posted.
Sorry to all who've been hanging out for my latest post. I'm sure that there are millions of you. Strangely though, I think there are more people reading my blog to post comment spam than there are reading my blog for my witty and incisive analysis of my freaky little world.
If you haven't been watching, check out my damn photo-blog, it's got heaps of photos from my holiday, and I'm still mo'blogging my phone cam stuff up there occasionally.
None, the less I'll post any way. I'm also going to post a couple of retrospective items about Hong Kong and China which I scribbled old school style into a journal; like with a pen - on paper and everything!
There is more exciting news to follow.
Posted by travo at 1:04:02 PM