http://www.kieranbennett.com/old Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:11:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is an archive, further comments on this blog have been disabled. If you want to read what I am writing currently, my personal blog can be found at www.kieranbennett.com and my local news blog can be found at www.borderjournal.com. http://www.kieranbennett.com/old/2008/12/03/this-is-an-archive/ Excellent, exciting, wondrous news! On Monday I made it to a geohash within the Albury Wodonga graticule! I've been waiting some time for one that would be within range. The location turned out to be on the railway line just behind Ettamoguh Sanctuary. Myself and another adventured made it to the ... http://www.kieranbennett.com/old/2008/10/02/successful-albury-wodonga-geohash/ This morning I woke up to a call from the producer of The Conversation Hour on one of the ABC local radio stations. I'll be having a chat at 10:10 about guerrilla gardening. Unfortunately I was still a bit groggy and I can't for the life of me remember which ... http://www.kieranbennett.com/old/2008/10/02/kieran-on-the-conversation-hour/ Controversial website Borderline is looking pretty defunct. It was last updated on the 30th of August, and promises that the next update will arrive on the 15th of September. Borderline was run by Paul Green, a friend and relative of 2008 Albury City Council candidate John Emmery. Myself and others long ... http://www.kieranbennett.com/old/2008/09/27/bye-bye-borderline/ I would dearly love to attend the first Wordcamp Australia, alas it will clash with my commitment to the Wodonga council election campaign. Wordpress creator Matt Mullenweg has confirmed he will be attending, along with a variety of big names in Australian blogging. The conference will be held on the ... http://www.kieranbennett.com/old/2008/09/27/wordcamp-australia-details/ As I write this, talks in Washington about the proposed bailout of "Wall St" appear to have failed. Hard line free market republicans talk about preferring to deregulate and let the market sort itself out. Ordinary Americans are disgusted at the idea of the federal government lumping generations of tax ... http://www.kieranbennett.com/old/2008/09/27/the-bailout/ Page Nine of today's Border Mail notes that Dennis Black and myself will be part of a Green push for a seat on Wodonga City Council. Dennis and I will be formally announcing more details of our vision for Wodonga on the 6th of October. Any Wodonga resident wanting more information, ... http://www.kieranbennett.com/old/2008/09/23/border-mail-article-on-greens-ticket/ Preference in the Albury Council elections have been distributed. The predictions I made on election night are pretty much confirmed, the nine people are (in the order of their election: Patricia GOULD Alice GLACHAN Paul WAREHAM Robert ANGUS Daryl BETTERIDGE Philomena SAWYER Henk VAN DE VAN Neville HULL Amanda DUNCAN-STRELEC So what does it all mean? Duncan Strelec and Wareham There was ... http://www.kieranbennett.com/old/2008/09/21/albury-council-election-final-result/ Albury Labor branch president, Chris Ryan, was not an endorsed Labor Party candidate in the recent Albury City council elections, but that didn't stop him from campaigning as "the Labor ticket". Karen Trenchard organised what she described as a "workers ticket", with the support of the newly formed Cross Border ... http://www.kieranbennett.com/old/2008/09/19/trenchard-labor-undermined-workers/ they are still there fighting valiantly for cheaper alcohol for teenage girls for the benefit of big distilling companies - (via Open Australia) That was finance minister Lindsay Tanner's attack on the Libs in yesterday's question time. Teenage girls. Tax pre-mixed drinks to protect "teenage girls". Don't worry about the teenage boys ... http://www.kieranbennett.com/old/2008/09/19/alcopops-sexism/