Or.. “your guide to private browsing” Its not really necessary to land in someone elses mail, social network, blog or online dating account when you jump on computers (fair enough if its their own usually..). It’s no wonder the jump in peoples emails getting hacked and spammed, log out of your accounts people ! Or… [Read more…]
July 28, 2011
How to learn a language when you’re ‘on the road’? I’m keen on the immersion method, surround yourself in the culture and get a general feel for the way the language works rather than memorising a few key words here and there (although that’s also useful). I say this being a boring one language person… [Read more…]
June 1, 2011
Well you certainly don’t need to pay for one. I cringe when I hear people saying that they’re paying someone or a techie friend of theirs is building them a website soon which will be useful for their enterprise, band, project, life etc – if they ever finish it. I went through the website alternatives… [Read more…]
May 23, 2011
This has been one of my favorite retrofits in terms of energy usage. Theres a few ways to convert an old chest freezer in to a super incredibly efficient fridge. One involves changing the internal thermostat to fridge temperatures and the other is a plug in version which interrupts the power supply to also maintain… [Read more…]
April 19, 2011
Over the weekend I took a trip into town and a break from wwoofing to go to the Reskilling Festival at Glandore in the south east of town. It was super lovely and I was facilitating a skills mapping exercise and a barter workshop which were pretty damn fun (thanks to the energetic participants i… [Read more…]
April 11, 2011
Laura Wills, a recent friend from here in adelaide town is quitting the duopoly. There’s a blog on it at molesandbullies.blogspot.com She put me onto a great visualisation of the situation which is below. whilst checking the creators out I found a few more great visualisations so here comes another rare video feast for this… [Read more…]
April 8, 2011
Ok so thats one of those sneaky titles but what I’m on about is that the urban wwoofing group on CouchSurfing has just clicked over 50 members, hooray!! I only know a handful of them so it’s slowly spreading nicely through the CouchSurfing community and perhaps a few other streams too. If you haven’t sussed… [Read more…]
April 3, 2011
At long last here is the mini podcast I was working on.. Originally recorded out of interest - then cut together for the live local project on ABC Radio National's '360 Documentaries' program. But we missed the deadline .. so its just up here.
February 28, 2011
Well I guess I was having a big blog break. Being in Melbourne after months of cycle tour home-staying has meant less time and energy for many things. But on the back of that healing coop post Ive made a great connection with a yoga centre here which has been a focus. d-yoga.org if you… [Read more…]
February 28, 2011
[declaration: So yes, once again I find myself in the amusing position of reviewing new products on a frugal blog. Ha! Ive been encouraged to review these bikes by Glow Worm Bicycles, whom I do some barter work for. They were very timely and useful loans for me, so I reckon it's more than fair… [Read more…]
December 17, 2010
In early ’08 I was guest on the “Out of the Box” program on fBi radio (a well-established local community station in Sydney). The program focuses on the life you lead, the music you love and how the they interact. Whilst on there I dropped this idea of a Healing Coop- here’s a 5min exerpt… [Read more…]
December 2, 2010
Was lucky to catch Kristin in the local town whilst on my 4wk wwoofing stint here in central Vic. Victorians, be sure to catch here on tour and come out and support a great artist doing amazing things (on and off the stage) Her album is also available as a $15 digital download below via… [Read more…]
December 1, 2010
As you may have noticed above, there is a little ‘updated’ word after the urban wwoofing page name above. Check it out, give me some feedback or get involved. enjoy.
November 21, 2010
Adbusters keep doing great stuff. The carnivalesque rebellion may or may not be up your alley but buy nothing day is for everybody ! Get into it. Other Adbusters related fun things.. Magazine Articles:The Logic of not Demanding – a great critique and suggestion for activism. In a perverse way our protests may actually be… [Read more…]
November 21, 2010
Future resource-depleted hip hop producers will totally sample this guy. [labrats style] Heres a little retrospective of his ABC media in the last few years, the man puts out a new book every little while. 22/08/2006 – Oil Depletion Protocol – Late night live ABC Radio National 19/06/2008 – The End of the Petroleum Age… [Read more…]
November 20, 2010
Well finally ive got to post some of my audio on here. This was a quick rec+ post last week which I tidied up today. (It’s ideally digested away from computer so have it on later or download it for your portable device of choice.) Enjoy.
November 18, 2010
I was impressed to hear this coverage the other evening at a hosts house (a friendly Beaufort local who had taken me in from the grocery store whilst on my bike crawl of west VIC). Peak oil, or perhaps more appropriately, energy descent inspire both this blog and my lifestyle outlook. So it’s refreshing to… [Read more…]
November 12, 2010
I missed this one. But was all smiles when I saw it on a bedroom wall today. I say this as some muso friends have me actually considering the non-phone music player version as an audio edit and looping tool – in cycle touring bag friendly size. Hmmm. Mrrrrrhmph. Besides, im not allowed. Im on… [Read more…]
November 8, 2010
As you may know by now, making net time for blogging is not my forte. So I’m dropping in some simple quick posts over here to keep things rolling. Mark Boyle, who is one of few ‘role models’ or point of reference which ive been able to find in my own adventures with alternative currencies,… [Read more…]
November 6, 2010
Bike touring / barter homestays in west vic doesn’t seem to lead to much net access. But a friend over here revealed her approach to tackling the web. She builds up a list of net jobs and hits it out at the library for one “hour of power” a week. I’m jealous. I think im… [Read more…]
October 11, 2010
Call me the adblock evangelist, net nerd, whathaveyou.. but I feel there is a serious need for awareness of this gold little browser plugin. Ive enjoyed seeing firefox and other open source browsers come into the spotlight over the years but the awesome adblock plugin has not followed them. Ive been using it for years… [Read more…]
September 22, 2010
[an open letter to my dear little blog, whom I neglect so often. . sigh] Im sorry i forgot your birthday, I was umm doing stuff in the real world. You understand don’t you ? Wow one year old hey, you’re growing up big and strong! You’ll be able to handle things on your own… [Read more…]
September 12, 2010
For this little suburban project ive been lucky enough to have some generous contributions from a few of my barter ‘workplaces‘. At the end of my last shift at the suv (barter labour trade at an organic kitchen/grocer) before coming out here, to my surprise I was gifted a pretty special wellness water filter for… [Read more…]
August 31, 2010
[this post is in the suburban permi retrofit context, in short, a local living experiment in st clair, NSW AU for one month as a suburban wwoofing house-sit of my folks place.] We had a lovely little gathering round here on Sunday and the amaayzing food inspired me to whip up a little foodie post.… [Read more…]
August 30, 2010
My friend Maurice from Glow Worm Bicycles has recently posted up what is probably the definitive resource on sourcing secondhand bikes in Sydney. I’ve spent a bit of time helping out with the fit out of their retail shop in Marrickville recently as a barter trade and they have lent us an Ezee Cadence electric… [Read more…]
August 25, 2010
I was very pleased to receive a little package yesterday. It’s the next permi diary; why on earth am getting a diary in August? Well this diary, now in its third year, is usually pretty special with a mixture of normal diary pages and then stories/ photos interspersed throughout. The diary was one of the… [Read more…]
August 22, 2010
This post relates to these previous ones: Livelocal experiment : suburban immersion + A chilly taste of the ride out here.. : Immersion #1 Well, im certainly immersed that’s for sure. So immersed I haven’t been posting, perhaps you noticed . . After the flurry of activity finishing projects and collecting up all the things I was… [Read more…]
August 17, 2010
I guess i haven’t done much cross posting of other blogs thus far but this one left me so smiley that ive felt the need to share. Ive had my eye on these folks for a little while and this popped up the other day after their recent annual event. Hope you enjoy too. Unfortunately… [Read more…]
August 11, 2010
I thought i’d start the suburban immersion experiment posts off with a rough audio experiment i did with stuffing a little ”point and shoot” audio recorder. Not my usual tools or methods of choich but since I recorded the stuff I think i’ll just post it up here anyway. .. and since i already have… [Read more…]
August 9, 2010
Well since ive started the suburban immersion stint i should probably catch up on the post from last visit.. Heres the last of the ‘SPRU’ series for now.. We don’t have a camera at the moment as the family one is o/s with the folks. Hopefully we’ll find a decent used one on ebay for… [Read more…]
July 28, 2010
My folks are heading to Sri Lanka for a month and for the first time we have a veggie garden which needs looking after.. It will be a bit different to my recent main stay “The Barn” – a creative artist warehouse near Alexandria south of Sydney town. Im going to take the oppurtunity for… [Read more…]
July 18, 2010
My folks have one of those aluminium + glass table sets: y’know the obligatory one that goes with any pergola or backyard area which have emerged in the last few years.. I never liked the thing – i can’t put anything heavy on the glass top and its usually shrouded in a big tarp over… [Read more…]
June 23, 2010
This is the 7th update in the Suburban permi retrofit series. Well this is a belated update on the suburban permaculture-inspired retrofit project. There was a period of absolute lush-ness recently. After some strict taming the pumpkin vines are being productive.
June 17, 2010
Earlier this year whilst staying at a wonderful urban wwoofing property in Melbourne I helped out with a re-design of a compost loo and helped flesh it out into complete composting system. I had recently re-read the poo-bible: The Humanure Handbook which – more recently – has been made wonderfully and freely available by its… [Read more…]
May 29, 2010
This was my first blog post on 12/05/08 whilst I was deeply immersed in the land of figureight sustainable event production. I was trying to promote some of the community connections which our events enterprise was developing through the blog format on our fresh website. Since the original site content didn’t make it across to… [Read more…]
May 27, 2010
I have some sad news friends. You see, the back-end of this blog has a whole world of stats which shows how many people are reading and where they're coming from. Unfortunately for a frugal blog, a disturbing number of readers land here from searching for those bloody five finger shoes (ie: expensive, new, consumer product!). It's Ok, I won't get mad, but now just for you I'm doing a report back on these unusual pieces of footwear.
April 12, 2010
Just saw a little pic of me on the permaculture principles (PCP) site, I was aware that it was on a photo blog hosted there but just discovered it linked on the main page -nice. There has been growing interest in the Urban Wwoofing concept recently, im currently working on an article for the permi… [Read more…]
March 21, 2010
A friend passed on a Guardian article by Mark Boyle a few months ago, this character had spent a year living without money. He had previously studied economics, was a writer and hung onto his laptop during that time. His article late last year sparked a fury of interest – polarising the audience largely into… [Read more…]
some inspiration:Transition Network | Permaculture Diary|Permablitz | Live Local. DIY Frugalists throughout time..
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for now: Adblock them!
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August 23, 2011
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