The Book of Host Records.
When we were kids, we amused ourselves setting and
creating records. These are not World Records or even
Australian Records - just records among people that I
know. There's been a renewed interest in it from the next
generation, mostly from my nieces. So here it is.
Poetry. I've written some poetry. Here's some of it.
My Perfect Relationship. I've put a lot of thought into what makes a perfect marriage. Back in May of this year, I put those thoughts in writing. When I've shared those thoughts, it's sometimes produced tears, and most people ask me for a copy. So I thought, if I put it out on the Internet, maybe it will help someone.
Flying. Before the days of video cameras, we played with 8 millimetre movie film. Here's a short one from 1981.
Skiing Without Snow. I've always enjoyed stop-motion animation. As children, we spent many hours creating stop-motion animations using 8 millimetre movie film. More recently, computers have made stop-motion animation easier, and so Daniel and I have spent many hours following this pursuit. Here's a small sample.
Toastmasters Speeches
Here are some speeches I've made at Toastmasters.
Humorous Speech Contest 2008 (4.7 MB). I won the competition at the club and then went on to represent the club at the Area Contest, but there were much better speakers than me there.
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Links were last checked on June 17, 2006.
Evangelus - Some of my nieces sing. Jacqui, Katie and Christine have a page on MySpace, which includes some of their songs, one of which I have co-written.
Mark
Bryant has pictures of Luke from when he was a
baby.
Ralph
Online where you'll find one of the best
collections of Search Engines around, more about 'Yes,
What?', plus how to keep Giant Cockroaches as pets. Also
one of the Rarest Photographs in the world - and
more.
Audio Archives
I like to collect audio. This is just a small part of an unusual collection, which includes:
Bloopers: The Firestone Tyre Factory, A History of Rings, Macquarie News, with laughter, Orson Welles Findus Recording Session, Aluminium, Riding Roughshod, Shalamanov, Australasian Post - Yvonne and Yvette, and the entire 25 minutes of the 2SM 1980 Blooper Tape.
Radio 2SM Sales Presentation Tapes: 2SM Hot Winter Presentation 1979, 2SM News Presentation 1979, 2SM Presentation circa 1980, and A Normal Day at 2SM Sales Presentation circa 1981.
2SM
in the 1970s. Anyone who grew up in Sydney in
the 1970s, and enjoyed Rocktober, Concert of the Decade,
Macca and the Hon Nick, and everything else about the
premium music station of the 1970s should not miss Debbie
Kruger's extensive site.
Don't Touch That Dial - Hits 'n'
Memories of Australian Radio. This is the name
of a book by Wayne Mac. Wayne was a broadcaster for many
years. He says that there are many books about the
"Golden Era" of radio, the forties and fifties, but
precious little about the "modern" era. This is Wayne's
effort to rectify that situation.
Australian Old Time Radio.
Features a huge amount of information about Australian
radio from before 1960.
The
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. The official
BBC Radio web site. See video of the recording sessions
of the latest series, download trailers, and heaps
more.
Compact Discs and DVDs
CD-ROM Services. This is
where I work. We copy CDs and DVDs, quickly and
accurately.
IDDA - International Disc
Duplicating Association.
Yes Video Australia and
Yes Video USA. The best way
to have your videotapes converted to DVD. Old movie films
and slides can also be converted to DVD.
CD-R FAQ. Everything you ever wanted
to know about CDs and related technology. Lots of information
here.
Dynamic Drive. A great
source of DHTML scripts. The highlights in the menu
section of my site are created using a script from
Dynamic Drive. But there's heaps more.
Kali's
Web Shoppe. A useful list of CSS tags and
other useful information.
DiscusWare. Discussion
forum - free and Professional versions available.
Other pages of Interest
How Stuff Works. If you need information about things, this is
one of the best Web sites I've seen. Check it out. It's a bit harder to navigate around the site than it used to be, but it still remains a great resource.
GenDesigner - This is a
program which allows you to enter family tree data in an
intuitive and graphical way. It can output the standard
Gedcom file format and also output HTML.
The current version 3 is still Beta. But if for some
reason you want to use an old version of GenDesigner, you
can download GenDesigner version 1.5.3
(300 kB) from us. It is freeware and may be freely
distributed. GenDesigner
version 2 Beta is also available here (548 kB).
It is NOT freeware. It is shareware, and not being
supported by GenDesigner, because they're now on version
3. After trying version 2 Beta, you are required to
buy a license for US$29.95 from GenDesigner, but I'm not
sure if this is still possible.
Planetarium
- excellent freeware if you like star-gazing.
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"I would rather live my life as if there is a God,
And die to find out there isn't,
Than live my life as if there isn't,
And die to find out there is."