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Melbourne, Victoria has been having a spate of heat wave. For 5 days the forecast are top temperatures in the 40′s Celsius. It’s always bad to have these conditions, even worst when it happens as they are hosting the Australian Tennis Open. Here’s a photo emailed to us from our Melbourne Office today.

For the “Australia Day” long weekend, we went to the Illawarra Fly Tree Top Walk in Knights Hill, NSW. This new tourist attraction opened last year in March 2008. Its main feature is a 500m walk bridge nestled amongst the trees and provides spectacular views of the Illawarra Region. Here are my choice shots for the day.

The common reaction of friends when I tell them – “I bought this in eBay” is – “Is it safe?”, “How do you know – you’re not being duped?” – followed by “How do you do it?”. I bought my first professional saxophone off eBay – it took 3 months to arrive because it was [...]

The 1st of July 2003 marks the beginning of the end for my Canon AE-1 Program SLR Camera. I bought this camera in Hong Kong in 1985 from my first real job with Unisys (then Burroughs). There was nothing wrong with it, like many, we decided to stop using films in favour of the digital [...]

A good friend of mine asked my help to advice him on what PC to buy. He had the unfortunate experience of a triple hard disk failure this weekend. One disk is a new WD 500GB SATAII on a portable case, but the 2 are old IDEs which are probably just waiting to fail. But [...]

When parents envision their children getting married, they are wishing for a wedding like Graham and Clarina’s. Both of them are in their late twenties, have stable and productive jobs, well travelled, with good education. They had a good six years of friendship before they tied the knot. They seem to have done everything by [...]