Hybrid hails new age, but watch the price
MICHAEL MORRISSEY
News that Toyota will begin building a hybrid Camry at its Altona plant in Melbourne has been met enthusiastically by the company’s Maitland dealership.
The Burton Family Maitland Toyota coordinator Kim Burton told the Mercury that the business has seen a sharp rise in the number of people […]

Sydney is a truly magnificent city, blessed with friendly people, great restaurants and one of the most spectacular natural settings of any city in the world. But there’s one area that Sydney is well below par, and it’s even led the proud locals to admit - shock, horror - that they’re being beaten by rival […]

This is the start of a series of articles on services provided by the Australian Government for people with a disability and their carers.
There are many services available and it can seem like a maze when you are trying to find your way through them all; information can be confusing and difficult to understand. After […]

Today I finally braved the scales to weigh myself after the first week of the Go Smell the Flowers Weight Loss contest that has kick started my road to a healthier weight. I was expecting some loss, although I am sure I have gained some muscle mass. However, significant lifestyle changes have been […]

Here is a short interview with Lauri Apple, the creator of FoundClothing.
You run a site called FoundClothing, which basically is an online archive of clothing and accessories that you find in the trash or left on the streets, take home, wash and wear.
How and when did you come up with this whole idea?
I had the […]

Last year Viator offered its first private after-hours tour of the Vatican & Sistine Chapel in Rome. This is a private small-group tour of the Vatican and Sistine Chapel. Yes, you heard right — a private two-hour tour of the Vatican and Sistine Chapel, after the crowds go home, without hordes of people spoiling your […]

I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be facilitating the Social media and Government workshop as part of the Web Directions South: Government conference program on 20 May in Canberra.
From the official blurb:

Social media - blogs, wikis, social networking services, online communities, folksonomies/tagging, social search - are reshaping what citizens expect from government services. Areas of […]

Today I was playing with setting up RoundCube - the webmail / IMAP client which I’d just discovered.
It soon became apparent that I needed to setup a subdomain and mysql db, so I ran through doing that with the dreamhost control panel.
As I waited for dreamhost to do its thing, clicking refresh every 30 seconds […]

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern has announced over €100,000 in grants to several groups in Australia. The money is going to three Irish welfare centres and to Melbourne Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.
The Minister said:

The Welfare Centres in Sydney and Melbourne are now taking on staff to develop their services. I am delighted to […]