Out The Back of Kinglake West Hall…Six Months After Black Saturday

Download now or watch on posterous KinglakeWestHall.mov (6317 KB) The Hall at Kinglake West is very intact, with no sign of damage from February’s fires, sitting only a hundred metres or so from the local CFA. However, if you go out the back and look over to the left side, the trees tell an important [...]

Kinglake West Six Months After Black Saturday

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Returning to Kinglake

My start in social media began with relaying/retweeting important information on the #bushfires and #vicfires hashtags over on Twitter and I’ve already made visits to two of the affected areas from February’s Victorian bushfires…Flowerdale and Kinglake. Tomorrow, Sunday July 12, I’ll be out at Kinglake West assisting with a community event, so I’ll be seeing [...]

New Blog To Cover Major Topics…

I’ve been wanting to get back to major topics and issues here for a while, especially after getting some great practice doing posts for my other blog on social media/technology. Sadly, though, the WordPress.com site has some limits which make its competitor over at Google’s blogger/blogspot a better proposition in the short term. When I [...]

Marysville A Few Months Later…

I’ve just come away from watching tonight’s ABC Four Corners program about Marysville. It was a sharp reminder that, while some of us got through February with families intact and friends safe, those in the towns worst affected weren’t quite so fortunate. For Marysville’s CFA captain, Glen Fiske, there was the double blow of watching [...]

Catch Up Time…

It turned out a busy few weeks, not the least of which was because Victorian school holidays were in the middle.  But that didn’t mean the time didn’t produce some topics to blog about.  Far from it. There’s one topic I’m holding on, while I work to resolve an issue with it by myself:  the [...]

Corporate RESPONSIBILITY…

In recent weeks, a particular company called AIG has copped a fair bit of criticism for taking US Government bailout money, then turning around and using it to pay bonus to executives who didn’t even stay around. This past weekend, I read a couple of news items about how the reaction to that is getting. [...]