CofFEE
For the moment I am fully occupied with my work at the Centre of Full Employment and Equity or CofFEE. That takes my time.
billy blog
You can now read my daily blog HERE! - which comments on economic events.
Pressure Drop update - June 2011
The Blues Box
To see what my blues band is doing go to http://www.thebluesbox.org.
DIY grey water system
In January 2009, I constructed an operational grey water system to feed the shower water out to the garden.
I had searched around for a while trying to get information about how to build a system and finally settled on my own
design. If you are interested go to the step by step instructions.
Fig tree up a wall!
If your garden is constrainted by: (a) available space; and/or (b) available sunlight you might be interested in this. To maximise the "farm space" in my suburban garden I had to balance the need to grow a self-sufficient crop of vegetables and yet have an orchard at the same time. One of the choices I made was to use a west-facing wall of the house to experiment with growing a fig tree up the wall using a fan-type strategy. Here is some information on my Fig Tree up a Wall! project.
Update: May 2010 - the project was successful but the tree came down with a disease and I have had to remove it. Sadly.
Getting Coldfusion MX7.02 to work with Apache 2.2 on Linux
Here is my step-by-step guide for anyone who is struggling with this problem. It took some work and some great help from several people to get it down.
Unemployment and underemployment - an act of state terrorism in Australia
The single most important source of insecurity faced by Australia individuals and their
families is the threat of unemployment. Unemployment is a choice made by the Federal Government.
The government can always use its fiscal power to ensure there are enough public sector jobs to absorb all those
workers who are unable to get jobs elsewhere. Failure to do so leads to persistently high unemployment which we have
had in Australia over the last 35 years. These failures of public policy are consistent with the
definition of a terrorist act against the
population by the state.