Monthly Archives: April 2013

Calorie restriction and the San diet

I have a paunch. Not a big one, but a definite paunch. To add to it my blood pressure and cholesterol are a little higher than they should be for a man of my age. In fact that’s part of … Continue reading

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Foxes in Victoria

I’ve previously written about urban foxes in Canberra, and it comes as no surprise to find that foxes (both urban and rural) are pretty common in Victoria. Las week when we were driving from Daylesford to Queenscliff we were treated … Continue reading

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Driving to Daylesford

A long and unseasonably warm drive down the freeway to Victoria. We started just after seven and broke for a coffee at the bakery in Holbrook sometime after 10.30. The drive down had been uneventful though a dry yellowing autumn … Continue reading

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Padaek, garum and nam pla

One of the infuriating things about the Romans is that they didn’t do documentation, or if they did, an early medieval monk didn’t find it titillating enough, and used it to light the fire or worse. In very crude terms … Continue reading

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Orwell and Pyongyang

Orwellian. Anyone watching the pictures from North Korea must be immediately reminded of George Orwell’s 1984, with the chanting hate sessions and the screaming rhetoric. Orwell is of course for ever linked with 1984 and Animal Farm, both of which … Continue reading

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Proudlock and QueryPic

Following my playing with QueryPic and the Lincoln assasination I thought I’d have a quick experiment to see how the Proudlock murder case was reported. I’d originally thought about a ‘compare and contrast’ with Welsh Papers online but their corpus … Continue reading

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Newspaper logos and the British Empire

Newspaper brands and logos are much of a muchness, although you can pick out some memes – like the use of an Olde English style font for a bit of gravitas as seen in ‘proper papers’  like the SMH, Canberra … Continue reading

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