In the past 12 months… maybe a smidge more, I have trained probably close to a dozen people to be able to do my job. And, frankly, it is often boring and exhausting. Even though I love doing it. Doesn’t mean I can’t have a little fun with it once in a while. We’ve hired…
Autumn is passing here in Melbourne, and the golden leaves that began falling from our trees here a couple of months ago are now reduced to a handful of stayers that will last a few cold-snaps before succumbing to the winter air before falling off. I’ve been feeling aimless of late. I’ve got near 30,000…
Here I was, thousands of kilometres from home and standing in a darkened street digging through piles of trash in the back of Hong Kong looking for typewriters. It felt surreal. We arrived at Temple street market late in the evening after spending the day doing some shopping on the main island. This market is…
For reasons that are about to be obvious, my blogging activity will be curtailed for a while. But, I will be writing on! And now now a little video that I originally made for the facebook typewriter group. Hence the reference to photos being posted previously.
My fingers just weren’t hitting the right keys today. Never mind, if I wanted my typing to be perfect, I’d have used a word-processor. Anyway, I have decided to file my typing and travelling adventures under the new header seen above – titled ‘Filthy Wheels’, along side Filthy Labs for my repair experiments. Hope you…
I looked closely at my work ID on Tuesday, and noticed that it expires in a bit over a week. The ID is current for 5 years, and as this was my first ID issued by the hospital I work at, it meant that I was coming up to my 5th year anniversary. The ID…
It seems Microsoft have come up with something cool to do with a keyboard. This… cool thing.. is a merging of computer system controller and…. a keyboard. So someone down here in the Australian media has then seen it and which somehow led to them writing an article about alternative keyboards. The device itself is…
Steve and I woke up early again as we were eager to get into Sydney and through the traffic before it became difficult to drive on it’s consistently grid-locked roads. It was a cold morning in Scone, and my car was frosted from cold condensation that had dropped overnight as it hit the nearly 30…
The Filthy Platen 