Free software

http://www.jasonchen.com/free_software/

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers

“Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.” — Commonwealth, 1933 - G. K. Chesterton

Any man with eyes in his head, whatever the ideas in his head,

“Any man with eyes in his head, whatever the ideas in his head, who looks at the world as it is today, must know that the whole social substance of marriage has changed … Numbers of normal people are getting married, thinking already that they may be divorced … The Church was right to refuse even the exception. The world has admitted the exception; and the exception has become the rule … The Catholic Church, standing almost alone, declared that it would in fact lead to an anarchical position; and the Catholic Church was right.” — The Well and the Shallows, NY: Sheed & Ward, 1935, 42-43 - G. K. Chesterton

They have invented a phrase

“They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - “free love” - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word.” — The Defendant, NY: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1902, 23 - G. K. Chesterton

Emma

Tess 9
Theresa 8
Ang 8
JB 7
John -
AK 7
Kieran 6.5
Chris 5.5
Lucy 10
Matt 6.

Australia Day Jan 26 2007

Australia Day - we have a holiday and celebrate what it means to be Australian on January 26th. I'm hosting a small party with my sister Jude and encourage people to wear Australian stuff and compose a small poem... something possibly similar to the following:

Australia is big, The people are small
I'm having a party. You'll have a ball

We don't normally right poems, we don't really sing songs
We're famous for cricket and barbees and thongs (flipflops)
Our talent is friendship, our badge is our mates
We wish we had rain in all of our states

If a neighbour's in trouble we'll lend him a hand
When the bushfires come then so does the man
With the big firey hat to takes care of our woes
By sending the men with the watery hose

God is quite pleased with our ugg boots and doonas
His Spirit is seen in our scary faunas
His Son is most thanked by the ordinary folk
Who know light is his burden and easy his yolk

The time has now come to have a look how we're girt*
Come to my place, let's check out the dirt!!! ( and water and beaches and stuff )

* Girt, from our national anthemn. To encircle or bind. "Our land is girt by sea."

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship

Tom Stoppard

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."

Photos of Bro Mark

http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/111584.54bf56cb665/overview

William Wardell

William Wilkinson Wardell (1824-1899) was a friend and student of A.W.N. Pugin and a convert from Anglicanism in 1843. In 1858 he emigrated to Australia, where he built such notable churches as St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney and St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.

The personalised present - the personalised person

So you want to buy the perfect present for love of your life Lyndal.

Step1. Buy barbie in a box
Step 2. Print out "My Very First Lynda" on the front to cover the barbie name.
Step 3. On the back print out various pictures of Lyndal
Step 4. On the side, print out "Pull the string to hear Lyndal say 'Pass me another beer', 'I'd love to hear your point of view. Let me explain it to you'"

Woila. Step back and have fun.