Merry Xmas and Offline Hours
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
The machine which houses this blog will be switched off for the duration of my trip to Sydney, from the 27th December until the 6th January 2006.
PM racks up $524,000 travel bill
Utter cunt splurges tax money on the company jet
Prime Minister John Howard's globetrotting schedule for the first half of this year has cost taxpayers more than half a million dollars.
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Figures from the Finance Department on politicians' travel for the first six months of the year, show Mr Howard spent $524,000 on 31 days' overseas travel since January 1.
PM racks up $524,000 travel bill (SMH, registration required)
On Being Creative
Randy Thom on being creative
We operate in two worlds:
(1) reality, which contains profundities and comedy unimaginably wild and deep, but on the surface is mostly deadly boring and
(2) fiction, which isn't too hard to make superficially appealing, but is difficult as hell to make profound or deeply funny.
Another useful quote from the article:
A Craftsman knows how to avoid accidents -- an Artist knows how to use them
Randy Thom, On Being Creative