Why? Why not?

Well, apparently Freeservers have changed the policy on their free sites. Now the total file size limit is 12Mb, but the individual file size limit is 256Kb. Which means no thesis online as long as I’m with freeservers.

Changing web hosts just went up another notch on the money-spending priority list.

Add this one to the engrish file [smh]:

Japan woos animation fans
In response to increasing interest around the world in Japanese animation films, Japan Travel Bureau (JTB), the nation’s largest travel agency, plans to offer tours next year in which foreigners will visit studios and meet in Tokyo with directors.
JTB said the first tour will be held in conjunction with the Tokyo International Animation Fair, which is scheduled to start on February 15 in Tokyo.
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The theme of the fair is “Animation can make everybody delight.”

Sounds tempting, though…
I know animation can make me delight…

Ah Satirewire I thank you for brightening my day with this:

U.S. “GROSSLY UNPREPARED” FOR UNLIKELY THREATS
No Plans in Place to Deal with Drying Up of Oceans, Giant Moon Explosion,
Or Potential for Everyone to Be Pecked to Death Like in “The Birds”

Read it. It’s funny.

Just looked over the archive, and noticed that my posts have all been wordy, high-falutin musings lately.

I apologise.

for the humour impaired:
This post = joke

Well, I’m back at work after a very nice holiday. A bit of battery-charging was just what I needed.

The thesis will be back online tomorrow. (This means you, Hugh!)

Read an interesting article in the SMH opinion section (again) about Noel Pearson’s stance on alcohol and welfare dependency in Aboriginal communities. Basically, he’s saying that there needs to be no alcohol or drugs, and the people need to be removed from their dependence on welfare.

I think it’s sad, and yet bleakly ironic. The Aboriginal way of life was systematically destroyed. Past tense. It’s done. And while I think that’s horrible, people need to have a framework, a system for fitting into society. The article notes that several prominent Aboriginal figures have said that ‘life was better when the churches were around’. For all the faults of organised religion, it at least gives people a framework, a system for living.

The most horribly ironic thing about all of this is that welfare agencies and churches, who could do the most to help, are reluctant to, because of the outcries about the stolen generation. Speaking about removing children from abusive parents, the article notes:

Carr encouraged welfare workers to use the same measures for Aboriginal kids as white kids, but added there was sometimes reluctance because we were victims of recent history. We had to be careful, he said.

That is, the release of information about the stolen generation has created another generation that won’t get what they need. Now that’s irony.

Alannis, are you listening?