Blue Mauritius is the biography of the world's most famous and expensive stamps - the 1847 'Post Office' stamps of Mauritius.
Looking up for 2008
Originally uploaded by Genevieve Morgan.
My sister Genevieve took this photograph yesterday at Christmas lunch at our house. I don’t normally take a great photo, so this one is worth celebrating – I like it. Iris is wearing her new purple Bonds teeshirt, a gift from the Russos, and we are looking up [...]
Personal recordkeeping in the digital age is an interesting prospect. Take the text message. If you’re a mobile phone user and send text messages, do you intentionally save any you create or receive?
No? Perhaps your messages are all banal, along the lines of arranging meetings, pick ups from the station or fish and chip dinners. [...]
Tomorrow night is census night in Australia. We will again be asked, at question 60, whether we are happy for our name identified data to be kept by the National Archives of Australia for release in 2105 (99 years). Say yes!
I am surprised that little more than half of the people surveyed at the last [...]
Sigh, I don’t know what this blog is going to be about yet (well, unconsidered trifles…), so bear with me. I have no book news (hint, hint, publisher/distributor, ‘twould be nice to know when people can buy it in Australia – from a real bookshop, where one could indulge the thrill of seeing it on [...]