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One Week in Japan

One Week In Japan from Mike Matas on Vimeo.

I, too, am suffering from electronic ennui…a first world problem

So here we are: I am bored with my iPhone. I find myself surfing sites with Android smartphones, even Windows Mobile units, and wondering what it would be like… This strange turn of events is an outgrowth of my recent holiday dalliance with Ubuntu – I am in a hacking frame of mind. No fun [...]

Christmas bustle in Melbourne Town

There is a good vibe in town today, it is really busy but not frantic, and people seem to be behaving decently. Makes a change for the Christmas period. Here are some men at work at David Jones, in the food court. I liked their hustle. Oh, and ignore the Youtube suggested videos that show [...]

Reverie

Memory is a strange thing. Just the other evening I had a sudden flash of remembrance, not of something profound, but of something more mundane. I remembered a cobwebbed string of brass bells, Indian in provenance, that I had tied up outside the window of my bedroom in Canberra, many years earlier. My father had [...]