A brand new discussion forum for Australian bloggers goes into soft launch (I hope, this is the timestamp speaking again...) today: Aussie Bloggers Forum. Of course it's not just for Australians, and everyone where ever you are, is welcome. So whether blogging is your major or your minor head along and say hello, network, and strut your stuff. How's that for an easy, not too demanding, way to spend New Year's Day?

APEC is coming to Sydney! As the above photo shows, the spin doctors are out in full force trying to put the best possible gloss on this "opportunity". So let's go over some of the opportunities. Lock downs in Sydney CBD, and restricted access to parts thereof, concrete barricades galore, apparently unlimited police powers of arrest, the closing ... Read full entry