• The Stranger..

    The Stranger..

    Returning home to a semblance of normality from a journey that rattles one’s bones takes very a long time indeed. In fact, I was in a Fitzroy bar the other night and a nice young chap, who claimed to be an expert on these things, suggested that it would take two years!  It has been…

  • The art of traveling with technology (or not)

    The art of traveling with technology (or not)

    The use of social software while traveling can either enhance travel or diminish it, depending on the meaning and frequency of the messages. It has become super-easy to send messages to friends or family from almost anywhere in the world, but this should not be similar to sending an everyday message from a cafe or…

  • What happens when a blog gets old?

    What happens when a blog gets old?

    As this blog is approaching its thirteenth birthday , I thought that it was about time that I purged some of the fluffy, ephemeral posts that really don’t need to travel with me any longer. The problem with much online media is that a post or comment, that possibly took ten seconds to write, may…

  • Digital Humanities Australasia Conference, Hobart 20-23 JUNE 2016

    Digital Humanities Australasia Conference, Hobart 20-23 JUNE 2016

    Registrations are now open for Digital Humanities Australasia, Hobart, 20-23 June 2016

  • The art of traveling with technology

    The art of traveling with technology

    The availability of inexpensive, digital communication devices has aided the lonely traveler on the long and absconding road to fresh perspectives in a myriad of ways, but then again, if used unwisely, they can diminish travel and make it yet another expression of day-to-day ordinariness (so leave grumpy cat at home!) That said, travel is…

  • Photos: Travels from Fitzroy to Fitz Roy 2015

    Photos: Travels from Fitzroy to Fitz Roy 2015

    I have placed all the photos I took during my travels in 2015 on Flickr. They are simply categorised in order of the countries that I visited but over coming months, I will add descriptions of the places they were taken and other ‘meta-data’. If you are curious about something, please do ask and I…