TabletPC – Toshiba M400
Blog:: Craig Pringle – Hands on Review of the M400
I am seriously interested in this machine! I like my M200 but would like an optical drive. Sounds like this one will be faster & have a better screen. Like the zoom factor thing. Also I have messed up a few things software wise & this machine needs a re-install. Upgrade?
My WordPress Blog
I set up this WordPress Blog in December 2005, but at that time found no way to import my Blogger posts from the old Psyberspace. Today that went like a breeze & I love this so far. I want to do more structured blogging. Having categories is a blessing. I will move ofer Kate’s News at some point but will want to know how to cutomise it a bit more first.
Comics & Movies
It’s not always who draws wins – Saturday entertainment – Times Online
Looks interesting. To read.
Robert Romanyshyne’s Papers at 2006 NZAP Conference
Robert Romanyshyne’s talks were inspiring. They can be accessed here
The Book of Ash – James Flint
I am really loving “The Book of Ash” by James Flint. Gripping, funny, provocative. The non-fiction novel (is that what it is?) has photos in it – which is in itself quirky like the whole project. On close examination (on the net) the photos are really quite exquisite, though they don’t reproduce well. I like his over the top language, in the way I like Tim Robbins.
The most I have enjoyed a book since “Snow Crash”. Highly recommended.
Wide brown land
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror �
The wide brown land for me!
We had to say this at school in the fifties – over and over and the imprinting sticks. I love the place. Went there recently for the Psychodrama Conference in Brisbane, spent a week in northern NSW, driving around, camping, the poem kept rolling through my head, especially when there were floods or sweeping pains. I saw plenty of both while there.
Australia
Great Southern Land Lyrics – Icehouse
Great Southern Land, in the sleeping sun
you walk alone with the ghost of time
they burned you black, black against the ground
and they make it work with rocks and sand
I hear the sound of the stanger’s voices
I see their hungry eyes, their hungry eyes
Great Southern Land, Great Southern Land
you walk alone, like a primitive man
you walk alone with the ghost of time
and they burned you black
yeah, they burned you black
Great Southern Land
I have roots in that land. I heard the author speak about the first long note in that song, listening to him talk bought me back for a look. It is inspired by the the vast width flying from Sydney to Perth. I have flown that a few times! Vast sunburnt. I am not sure I really get the words but I sense an awe of of the land intertwined with the original people.
Powerful Shadows
I just bought a book by Bettelheim, Freud and Man’s Soul. The appeal was to get a grasp on a better translated Freud. New to me & starkly present in the bio on the first page of the book is the fact of Bettleheim’s suicide, that shocked me. More research reveals a wikipedia entry and other references to lies and abuse that mar his life. His theories are “proven” to be wrong. The man sure had a big shadow, but the reviews linked to above, “Given His Tortured Sense of Inferiority, Did Bettelheim Want To Be Found Out?” by Christine Downing gives a fuller account, allowing the possibility of seeing value in his work, light & shadow. After reading that I still want to go on reading my new book!
The Early Days of Dr. Moreno’s Career in New York
The Early Days of Dr. Moreno’s Career in New YorkGilbert Laurence prompted by my webpage on Moreno, sent me an email telling me he had trained with Dr J. L. Moreno in the early days. In March 2005, Gilbert (then 88 years old) responded to my curiosity questions. I have collated his responses from our brief correspondence.
Thanks Gilbert Laurence!