Author Archives: dchawcroft

No post here for a while. I’ve been thinking over the question: ‘What’s it all about?’ The blog, I mean. And that very soon leads into further questioning – computers generally, society generally, life generally… I see us all as … Continue reading →

There’s a most beautiful day out there… I can see it through the window from the kitchen.  Blue sky… couple of little fleecy white clouds just for good measure…  trees standing tall and quiet in the windless air… temperature mild, … Continue reading →

We can’t see the wood for the trees, can we? Given so much information, so many colourful, professionally, expensively produced information videos/movies/documentaries that in fact we learn nothing…. I’ve just been watching such videos on four different subjects: Education: the … Continue reading →

This is a joke. I have two children perforce attend a primary school that has displayed some unfortunate behaviour: demonising my child, coercing parents to put children in uniform, that sort of stuff. You can see: authoritarian. They have a … Continue reading →

Just learned something: ‘Boat People’ arriving in Australia since the ‘concerns’ began (not sure of that date, missed it) : about 20,000 Immigrants settled in Australia during that same time: 3,500,000 Yep.  Three and one half million against 20,000 That … Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to be upbeat and happy. Didn’t want to keep reiterating all the bad things…. But they are so  bad. I just keep finding out so much more.. Now  I have run into Noam Chomsky’s speech on ‘The … Continue reading →

Here I am..  20 years out of date, apparently…….. Go downtown the other day where they’re building a new shopping centre for us (? for ‘them’, really, of course) – a ‘mall’ – an enormous building. See lots of new … Continue reading →

They’re pouring concrete not far from where I live. New shopping centre to blight our lives.  Pouring slabs bigger than a football field. You can see them pouring wet concrete from a pipe at this end while in the background, … Continue reading →